Patra isn’t keeping this one to herself. The dancehall veteran took to Instagram to announce she’s been recognized by the Caribbean Music Awards, and she framed the win as a shared victory with the fans who’ve stuck around since her rise.[#item_full_content]
Kranium is calling himself “a walking documentary,” and he has a fresh stack of hardware to back it up.[#item_full_content]
Before there was a global reggae industry, there was a chant, a drum and a people giving thanks to the Most High.[#item_full_content]
Reggae has always belonged to the yard and the street, but it beats loudest when it sings about chains and the breaking of them.[#item_full_content]
Every May, Jamaican radio does something sweet. Selectors who spent the year spinning badman tunes and gyal anthems suddenly turn soft, and the airwaves fill with tributes to the women who raised the island’s hardest deejays.[#item_full_content]
Beenie Man isn’t relying on the reggae field for his latest Grammy push. The dancehall veteran says “For You,” a posse cut from his album Eminence, has been submitted for consideration in Best Global Music Performance.[#item_full_content]
Cutty Ranks didn’t drop his Beres Hammond collaboration quietly. He took it straight to BBC 1Xtra and sat down with David Rodigan to play “Way to Go,” the new single from his album Blacklist.[#item_full_content]
Sean “Diddy” Combs wants a judge to put “guardrails” on Clayton Howard. In an October 19 court brief, Diddy and two companies asked Judge Anne Hwang to block the former male escort from filing any more emergency applications, or at least have the court screen them before the defense is forced to respond.[#item_full_content]
The title says it all before a single bar plays. “305/876” pairs Miami’s area code with Jamaica’s, and Funk Flex just gave the collaboration between Beenie Man, Rènata and Rick Ross its New York radio debut on HOT 97.[#item_full_content]
Busy Signal picked a pointed moment to spotlight his latest project. On National Heroes Day, he shared “Mi Come From,” track two from his EP “Songs From My TapeDeck,” and made clear you won’t find it in the usual places.[#item_full_content]