In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...

Sean Paul has been running reggae and dancehall since the early 2000s, charting with hits like "Get Busy" and "Temperature" while solidifying his spot as one of the best artists of his era. After ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — In 2016, the cover of the Yellow Pages brought Jamaica to a standstill. For the Kingston and St. Andrews editions of the directory, three artists were commissioned to create ...

Daddy Yankee credited Biggie and dancehall on Track Star and said he coined reggaeton's name in 1992, revisiting its roots.

Jamaica was a slave-operated plantation island for two centuries beginning in around the mid-1600s. The island then became a British colony until Jamaica gained its independence in the 1960s. Within ...

New York-based dancehall artiste Kkrytical has thrown his support behind emerging entertainer Fliippaendz, whose debut single ...

“I would really like for the artists to come in and make connections and understand the game and not get fucked like the old ones did,” said Shaggy of the third annual confab. By Janeé Bolden Artists, ...

A dive into the dynamic 1980s Jamaican dancehall scene, Beth Lesser’s Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture looks at the influential movement that was largely unseen by those not involved.

In the first week of May, the American music industry commenced a semi-annual tradition: singling out a lone piece of Jamaican music and sending it up the charts. 2018’s lucky winner is “Walking ...

Grammy® Award-Nominated, chart-topping, global superstar Spice, is lighting up the Summer with the arrival of her highly anticipated third studio album, ‘Mirror 25’ which released on Friday, August 9, ...

In the cultural spaces from which dancehall music gets its name, women are usually the center of attention. The Jamaican genre’s digital rhythms are calibrated to inspire female bodies to wine, as the ...

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