Kranium Talks Ty Dolla $ign Collab, Major Label Deal, and Repping JA from NYC
Everybody Haffi Know Bout Kranium The rising dancehall star responsible for the worldwide smash “Nobody Has To Know” chats with the Reggae Girl About Town shortly after his performance at the RBMA Yardcore show. They discuss his signing to major label Atlantic Records, his collab with L.A. rapper Ty Dolla $ign, what he learned from […]
Boris Gardiner Is A Star
The First Voice Heard on Kendrick Lamar’s New Album Is An Old-School Jamaican Legend When Kendrick Lamar’s eagerly anticipated album To Pimp A Butterfly dropped unexpectedly last weekend, it was streamed 9.6 million times the first day alone, breaking the record for the most streams per day in Spotify history. The first voice all those […]
Reasoning with Assassin aka Agent Sasco—Rap’s Best Kept Secret Weapon
First Kardinal, Then Kanye and Kendrick—Assassin Is the Go-To DJ for Dancehall Features. He’s your favorite rapper’s favorite dancehall artist. But chances are you’ve never heard his name. That’s because Assassin aka Agent Sasco — his secret-agent alter-ego — has basically gone undercover for his two biggest records: Kanye West’s “I’m In It” off the […]
“Do Owl Shit Stank?” K-Dot Drops Bomb Pon Instagram
Grappling With Kendrick’s Enigmatic Imagery & Quarrelsome Queries Just before 1 a.m. Wednesday morning Kendrick Lamar set all of hip-hop social media ablaze by uploading an image to his official IG account. The black-and-white photograph depicts K-Dot standing on the White House lawn surrounded by his peoples, a happy throng of young, shirtless black men […]
Legalize it! Wiz Khalifa, Queen Ifrica, Jr. Gong, Chronixx, Sizzla, Tarrus Riley and Lee “Scratch” Perry Chat ‘Bout Ganja Legalization and the Healing of the Nation
Could Legalizing Ganja Really Make It The Healing of The Nation At Last? Four decades ago Peter Tosh sang “Legalize It” and countless Rastafarians have suffered at the hands of the law for the sake of the holy sacremental herb. Now the Jamaican government is taking steps to decriminalize ganja with an eye to full […]
Royalty In NYC: Jesse Royal and The King Suns at SOBs
The Palace Pickney Delivers An Emancipation Message During Bob Marley EarthStrong Weekend Not many artists can fill SOBs on a snowy winter night with temperatures in the twenties. But Jesse Royal is not just any artist. So this past Monday night, his first time performing at the legendary night club he had a toe-to-toe, overflowing […]
HEAR THIS: Kendrick Lamar ft. Assassin “The Blacker The Berry”
K Dot Links Sasco On A Revolutionary Record Assassin aka Agent Sasco is your favorite rapper’s favorite dancehall star. First Kanye West enlisted him to drop bars on the standout Yeezus track, “I’m In It.” Yesterday the consensus pick for best rapper alive dropped a new track from the forthcoming (and highly anticipated) follow-up to […]
Reggae Got The World Loctite!
Adhesive Company Uses Reggae to Market Its Brand to 110 million viewers! The most entertaining commercials come on during the Superbowl and the Loctite Superglue Company wins, using reggae music to market its brand in 2015. Loctite spent 4.5 million for a 30 second, first-time, advertising slot during Superbowl XLIX. This is more than the […]
HEAR THIS: Mavado ft. Future & Ace Hood “I Ain’t Going Back Broke”
Real Talk From The Gully Gad The timing of Mavado’s latest “We The Best” banger is truly uncanny. Just days after the news broke that somebody posted a petition on the White House website demanding that he be deported to Jamaica, the dancehall superstar drops a song called “I Ain’t Going Back Broke.” Although Mavado […]
Mystic Reflections with Hempress Sativa
Kerida Chaka Johnson aka Hempress Sativa, followed in the path of her father, Albert “Ilawi” Johnson’s (original selector for Jah Love Muzik) musical footsteps to become a singer/songwriter. However, she’s clearly her own entity, with a deeply spiritual mind and focus. More After The Jump…
Busy Signal In Beast Mode
Busy Signal’s “All In One,” stands as the only dancehall freestyle fused over 12 classic hip hop beats. In this 2014 song, Busy chops it up vocally and lyrically over each beat, as if competiting for a black belt. The song trending heavily on social media, a year later, really highlights Busy Signal’s talent. He […]
HEAR THIS: Spragga Benz ft. Bobby Shmurda & Red Square Crew “Switch It Up”
When It Comes To Bad Man Ting, Real Recognize Real This tune arrived in our inbox with the following message from the Red Square crew, which we are reprinting here verbatim: “ITS HARD TO BE FROM THE INNERCITY AND SING ABOUT LAYING IN SUNRAYS ON DAFFODIL FIELDS”….EVERYTHING DO HAPPEN ACCORDING TO THE SUPREME DESIGN…. ‘AT […]