Malie Donn was sitting alone in his living room, his baby mother pregnant in the next room, when he recorded “V6,” the song that would eventually go viral across TikTok and introduce the world to one of dancehall’s most promising new voices.
One month after Owen “Fantan Mojah” Moncrieffe died of heart complications at the University Hospital of the West Indies, the dancehall and reggae community is gathering this week to say a proper goodbye.
For most people, summer is a season.
For reggae singer Roe Summerz, it’s a state of mind.
Sixty-four years after Derrick Morgan told a newly independent Jamaica to “Forward March,” the King of Ska is still moving forward — and collecting his flowers along the way.
The last-minute lineup swap at Reggae on the River is already dividing fans. Bambaata Marley, son of Ziggy Marley, has been announced as a replacement for his cousin Mystic Marley, daughter of Stephen Marley, at the annual festival held at County Line Ranch in Piercy, California.
The phrase “you’ve heard the song, now step inside the story” is doing a lot of work here and honestly, it’s got people curious.
Ziggy Marley says Jimmy Kimmel Live is the only show in the US that agreed to let him perform “Racism Is a Killa” on national television.
Gramps Morgan is spending Halloween in San Diego, and he’s not coming alone. The self-proclaimed King of Country Reggae is set to share the stage with UB40 on October 31st, and he made sure to announce it himself directly to fans on Twitter.
The moment that dancehall fans had been waiting for did not come with much warning, but it landed hard when it did.
Shaggy just put Lithuania on notice. The dancehall legend took to Facebook to announce he’s bringing the show to Zalgirio Arena, and the message was classic Shaggy short, direct, and in full patois: “Lithuania wah gwann??!