Dem Bow: How One Dancehall Riddim Built Reggaeton
The dancehall influence on reggaeton is not a matter of stylistic borrowing or vague cultural osmosis.[#item_full_content
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Lil Durk Beat the Murder-for-Hire Case—But When Is He Coming Home?
A federal jury in Los Angeles just found Lil Durk not guilty on all charges tied to the 2022 shooting that prosecutors claimed was a revenge plot targeting Quando Rondo.[#item_full_content
2 Chainz Turns Another Year Older and Rap Twitter Cannot Agree on His Best Verse
Here is a fun thing to argue about on a Tuesday: which 2 Chainz verse actually goes the hardest.[#item_full_content
NBA Ben10 and OG 3Three Among Six Arrested by FBI Over Houston Shooting
The FBI’s Houston office has confirmed the arrest of six individuals connected to a shooting, with rap artists NBA Ben10 and OG 3Three among those taken into custody.[#item_full_content
Kodak Black Walks Free as Orlando Prosecutors Decline MDMA Trafficking Charge
Prosecutors in Orange County quietly dropped the MDMA trafficking case against Kodak Black, and the reason they gave was pretty straightforward: they just didn’t have enough to make it stick.[#item_full_content
Lil Durk Found Not Guilty in Federal Quando Rondo Plot and Lul Pab Murder Case
The jury did not buy the government’s case. After three days of deliberations in U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald’s courtroom, Lil Durk walked out of federal court on Friday acquitted of every single charge against him.[#item_full_content
Women in Dancehall History: From Sister Nancy to Shenseea
The history of women in dancehall is a story of persistence against structural resistance, of voices that carved space where none was offered, and of a lineage that stretches from Kingston’s sound-system yards in the late 1970s to the global streaming charts of 2026.[#item_full_content
Grammy Best Reggae Album History: Every Winner, Ranked
The Grammy Best Reggae Album history spans more than four decades, forty-plus trophies, and a staggering cast of musicians who collectively define what reggae means to the world.[#item_full_content
40 Dancehall Dance Moves Everyone Should Know
Dancehall dance moves are not mere party tricks. They are a living archive of Jamaican culture, a coded language developed in the yards and sound-system dances of Kingston and broadcast to every corner of the world through music videos, the internet, and the bodies of athletes, pop stars, and everyday party-goers.[#item_full_content
Inside the Sarkodie–Stonebwoy Social Media Clash: What We Know
The whole thing started with what looked like a peace message. On September 7, Sarkodie posted a note to his SarkNation fanbase asking them to support his music without going after other artists, warning against the kind of toxic fan wars that have long plagued Ghanaian music Twitter and beyond.[#item_full_content