The most valuable reggae records are not simply old records that happen to be Jamaican.
They are specific pressings, on specific labels, in specific conditions, backed by a global collector community that has pushed verified sale prices into the thousands of dollars.[#item_full_content
The ceremony formerly known as the Grammy Certificate Ceremony is getting a new name and a packed guest list this year.[#item_full_content
Dancehall subgenres do not follow a neat evolutionary line. Each wave of the music redefined production, vocabulary, and cultural posture while remaining tethered to a single organizing principle: the riddim as a shared platform on which artists compete, innovate, and survive.[#item_full_content
Reggae is a distinctive music genre that originated in Jamaica during the 1960s, evolving from the earlier ska genre.[#item_full_content
Lil Durk walked out of a murder-for-hire trial as a free man, and the first thing he did was go straight to Instagram to celebrate.[#item_full_content
A$AP Rocky spent months publicly wishing for a daughter, and now he’s got one who just turned one.[#item_full_content
Nobody expected Vybz Kartel and Mavado to be sharing a stage in Malta, let alone bigging up the very artists who have dominated dancehall in their absence.[#item_full_content
The most telling detail in Eminem’s ongoing music theft case is not the charges themselves, it is what the paperwork suggests is coming next.[#item_full_content
Six gunmen, two cars, and over 50 rounds fired. That is the brutal reality of how 22-year-old Chicago rapper BloodHound Q50 lost his life in the early hours of Sunday morning at a Fuller Park gas station on the city’s south side.[#item_full_content
LaShawnda Woodard did not hold back. Lil Durk’s mother sat down on “If You Knew Better with Amber Grimes” and said something that most parents in her position would keep private, that she blames herself for everything that has happened to her family.[#item_full_content