Lila Ike is closing one chapter before she opens the next, and she’s doing it with a bigger version of the record that introduced her as an album artist.[#item_full_content]
“So I’m not sure it’s a leak.” That was Roger Goodell’s answer when reporters asked the NFL commissioner about a Puck report claiming Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl halftime show.[#item_full_content]
Few years in dancehall burned as hot as 2007. Mavado was turning gully pain into hymns, Vybz Kartel had broken from the Alliance and was firing back at his former bredren over every big riddim, and a Bermudian newcomer was crossing over to radio stations far beyond Kingston.[#item_full_content]
Some years in dancehall drift by. 2006 did not. A Jamaican deejay sat at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, a dance with whirling hair took over every street session from Kingston to Brooklyn, and a teenage producer named Stephen “Di Genius” McGregor started building the riddims that would soundtrack a generation.[#item_full_content]
2005 was the year dancehall seemed to be everywhere at once. Sean Paul was cooking up the biggest single of his career, a Marley son was carrying Kingston’s harsh truths to the Grammys, and a teenager from Barbados was riding a riddim-style clap onto American radio.[#item_full_content]
The voice behind “It Wasn’t Me” was shaped in the US Marine Corps. Shaggy, born Orville Richard Burrell in Kingston on October 22, 1968, spent four years in the Marines before music became his job.[#item_full_content]
Tems wrote “What You Need” seven years ago while getting through a breakup. On October 21, 2026, that same song logged its 30th week on the Billboard Hot 100.[#item_full_content]
Spice went back to school dressed in blue from head to toe. The dancehall star wore St Catherine High School’s colours when she returned to collect a Philanthropist Award from her alma mater, a nod to the place where she says her story really started.[#item_full_content]
The most unexpected moment on Yung Miami’s debut solo album comes right at the very end.[#item_full_content]
Rygin King’s long wait behind detention walls is over. The dancehall star just landed in Jamaica on the afternoonn of Thursday, October 22, choosing home over continued US immigration detention amid concerns about his health, according to sources close to the entertainer.[#item_full_content]