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Producer Claims to Already Know the Winner of Best Reggae Album for the 67th GRAMMY Awards

Best Reggae Album winner at the 66th Annual Awards, Alexx Antaeus stated that he already knew who would win the award at the 67th annual, owing to the fact he predicted his

14/08/2024

Grammy News

Billboard Reggae Albums Chart: Vybz Kartel Earns 9th Chart Entry, Bob Marley Extends Lead

Vybz Kartel’s compilation album “First Week Out” released by Hapilos 21 has debuts at No. 8 on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart. The 12 track set was released on July 31, the

13/08/2024

Charts

Tems, Tyla, Skillibeng, Bob Marley and More Make Barack Obama’s 2024 Summer Playlist

Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) by Bob Marley and The Wailers (1974) and “Jump “ by Tyla, Gunna and Skillibeng (2024) are among the songs on Barack Obama’s Summer Playlist. The

12/08/2024

Music·News

Drake “Blue Green Red” Interpolates “When” By Dancehall Legend Tiger

Last week (August 6), Toronto rapper Drake leaked 100 gigabytes of content on the decoy website 100gigs.org and the Instagram page @plottttwistttttt. Among the rubble of now deleted files was a song titled

11/08/2024

News

Snoop Dogg, performs the Coup de Baton ceremony prior to the Breaking Competition on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place de la Concorde on Aug. 9, 2024 in Paris, France. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

Snoop Dogg Kicks Off the 2024 Summer Olympics’ First-Ever Breakdancing Event

West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg kicked off the 2024 Summer Olympics’ first-ever breakdancing competition in Paris on Friday August 9, 2024. The legendary rapper performed the Coup de Baton ceremony at Place

09/08/2024

News

The Rise And Fall Of Rude Boy Ninjaman

Dancehall’s Original Lyrical Assassin Desmond Balentine, better known as the improvisational dancehall artist Ninjaman, almost signed with Columbia Records in the 1990s, according to former label executive Maxine Isis Stowe. Despite winning

08/08/2024

Features

Chronixx Drops Three New Song Teasers

Reggae revival artist Chronixx dropped teasers for three new songs on Wednesday, but still no sign of new music. The first he captioned “No night” singing the lyrics “There is no night

07/08/2024

Features

Buju Banton on Drink Champs with N.O.R.E and DJ EFN

Buju Banton Criticizes Streaming Era On Drink Champs: “Modern Day Slavery”

“I went from a stage of owning my music and playing it anytime I Bl**dcl**t want to a stage where if I don’t subscribe, I can’t hear my Bl**dcl**t music,” Reggae legend

06/08/2024

News

Donald Trump Says Young Thug Is Being Treated Unfairly

Former President in the United States Donald Trump has spoken on behalf of rapper Young Thug who is currently fighting charges of racketeering in Georgia. Donald Trump, Adin Ross Speaking with YouTube

05/08/2024

Politics and Culture

Paris Summer Olympics 2024: Influence of Social Media Stars on Viewer Engagement

“When you’re the Olympic broadcaster, your audience is everybody. And, it’s young and old. It’s multigenerational, multicultural”, said Gary Zenkel, president of NBC Olympics.

03/08/2024

News·Sports

Lauryn Hill was surprised at an intimate dinner in New York to tell her that The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was No. 1 on our 100 Best Albums list.

Exclusive: Lauryn Hill To Release Her Second Studio Album Under New Label Deal

8x Grammy Award winner Lauryn Hill is set to release her second studio album twenty-six years after signing with Columbia Records and releasing her iconic debut solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

02/08/2024

Exclusives·News

Vybz Kartel Free Along With His Three Co-accused

No retrial for Vybz Kartel as the Jamaica Court of Appeal has acquitted the deejay real name Adidja Azim Palmer and his three co-accused—Shawn Storm Campbell, Kahira Jones, and Andre St. John—

31/07/2024

News

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