British Police Try To Ban Bashment
Cops In Croydon Claim Sean Paul’s Music Causes Crime Police in Croydon have reportedly instituted a ban on dancehall music—known in the UK as “bashment”—claiming that it causes crime and disorder. The latest Clash Music Reggae and Dancehall column reports that police in the London borough wrote a letter criticizing at least one nightclub for playing […]
WATCH THIS: Keznamdi “Herbs” Official Music Video
Kez & Keida Work The Ital Steamer Ever since RiRi and Drizzy touched up the Pot O Gold “Sail Away” riddim with the chart-topping tune “Work,” Jamaican artists have been inspired to reimagine the tune in their own style and pattern. The latest “reworking” is a wicked ganja tune called “Herbs” by the rootical DJ […]
Dre Island “M-16” Video Shoot Behind-The-Scenes
The Official Music Video Premieres Tomorrow on Mass Appeal Named one of Mass Appeal’s “16 Artists To Watch in 2016,” the Jamaican artist and producer Dre Island is known for a lyrical attack that’s both “hard and heartical, streetwise and sensible.” On “M-16,” the first track from his highly anticipated Now I Rise project, Dre […]
WATCH THIS: Jahmiel “Where Were You” x “Great Man” Official Music Video PREMIERE
Oh Why Oh Why? You Get a Fight When You Start Try The road to “overnight success” is usually longer than it seems, and it’s not without pitfalls and stumbling blocks along the way. Just ask Jamiel Foster, aka Jahmiel, a youth known to true dancehall fans as one of the music’s most promising new […]
WATCH THIS: Mighty Mystic “How Many Miles” Official Music Video PREMIERE
The Never-Ending Journey of Love and Loss “This song symbolizes that there is no length of time, distance or space one is willing to travel to get back to or find the person they love—no matter the cost,” says Mighty Mystic, the Jamaica-born, Boston-based reggae singer who released his third album The Art of Balance […]
HEAR THIS: Drake ft. Popcaan “Controlla!”
The Long Awaited 6 God x Unruly Boss Collab Is Here At Last Popcaan and Drake have been bigging each other up for so long it feels like this tune—which leaked today—is long overdue. First Drake started dropping “Y Pree” in his lyrics. Then Drizzy’s boys shot a music video for Poppy up in Toronto. […]
Reasoning with Popcaan:
“We Godly, But we Unruly Same Way”
EXCLUSIVE: The Unruly Boss Kicks It With Boomshots Long before Andrae Sutherland was known as Popcaan, back in primary school—the Jamaican equivalent of elementary—he wrote a letter to God. He asked the Lord to “open my brain in school” and to let him prosper in life. Moreover he asked God to allow his parents and […]
HEAR THIS: Kanye West ft. Rihanna & Swizz Beatz “Famous”
Don’t Watch The Swift Diss—Watch The Beat. What a Bam Bam! Before anybody knew anything about Kanye’s remarkable TLOP album they heard that he had dissed Taylor Swift. Then the news was all about how you couldn’t find the album anywhere except on Tidal. Well, now that “Famous” is finally available on Apple Music and […]
WATCH THIS: Jimmy Riley “Rougher Yet”
Live in Tivoli Gardens 2008
Rest In Power Jimmy Riley (1954–2016) Music Alone Shall Live Martin James Norman Riley, a distinguished singer and songwriter known to music lovers the world over as Jimmy Riley passed away around the dawning of March 23rd. Mr. Riley grew up in the musically blessed and economically stressed Waterhouse section of Western Kingston, and attended […]
Phife Dawg’s Dopest Reggae & Dancehall Quotables
Man Like Mutty Ranks Inna The Area I woke up this morning in a pretty good mood until I heard the news that Phife Dawg had passed away. Although we all knew the 45-year-old “funky diabetic” had been battling health issues for years—he even addressed the fact in his touching music video “Dear Dilla”—the news […]
WATCH THIS: I-Voltage “Hustler” Official Music Video
Video After The Jump… Rising reggae singer I-Voltage livicates this tune to all the hard-working people who hustle every day to put food on the table and support their families. The ones who create their own job, cause they know they’re not gonna tief and rob. From the bag juice man to the high grade […]
HEAR THIS: The Movement “Golden”
ft. Elliot Martin PREMIERE
Peep The Poetic Title Track From The American Reggae Ensemble’s Forthcoming Album “This is the life for me,” proclaimed Joshua Swain on the bouncy single “Set Sail,”, backed by the rhythm section of Jason “Smiles” Schmidt on bass and Gary Jackson on drums—who together comprise The Movement. The members of the band, who hail from […]