Drake’s fight over “Not Like Us” has picked up some unexpected opponents along the way. Outside legal scholars and social scientists have filed briefs backing Universal Music Group, weighing in on artistic expression and how rap lyrics should be read.[#item_full_content]
For a record that spent most of the last decade missing from streaming services, Greetings From California has had a strange afterlife.[#item_full_content]
Bermuda, St Lucia and the Turks and Caicos Islands have something in common this autumn. All three put Malie Donn’s debut studio album, The Golden Child, at No.[#item_full_content]
Two words are doing a lot of heavy lifting in Jamaica right now. Cardi B has pulled out of her headline slot at BZR WKND, and the only reason on record is “unresolved arrangements,” a phrase that tells ticket holders almost nothing about what actually went wrong.[#item_full_content]
Cardi B says she would have been in Kingston on October 18 if things had come together, and she wants Jamaican fans to know the collapse wasn’t her doing.[#item_full_content]
Asake has skipped the crowded streets and dance crews for his latest video. The new visual for “Oba,” pulled from his M$NEY album, drops viewers into a dim, late-night recording session where the only choreography is a bass player locking into a groove and engineers riding the faders.[#item_full_content]
Few artists have carried a surname as heavy as Marley and still built a sound that is entirely their own.[#item_full_content]
Two days ago Jamar McNaughton turned 34. More than a decade has passed since a skinny youth from Spanish Town, son of the singer Chronicle, started making roots reggae feel urgent again.[#item_full_content]
Few Jamaican careers have caught fire as fast as Koffee’s. A teenager from Spanish Town went from posting an acoustic Usain Bolt tribute online to holding a Grammy in barely two years.[#item_full_content]
The Unruly Boss has a new door open—and American fans could finally get their moment.Jamaican dancehall star Popcaan has secured his U.S.[#item_full_content]