WATCH THIS: Ace Hood ft. Mavado “Buss Guns” Official Music Video
Bravado Like Mavado and Hood—They’re That Gully Since linking up as fellow DJ Khaled signees, Ace Hood and Mavado have developed some genuine chemistry since linking up as We The Best foot soliders a couple of years ago. They recently stopped through Popcaan’s video shoot. Check them out in this new video of the latest […]
Diplo and The Clash Talk “Paper Planes,” Reggae Music
The Seminal UK Punk Band and the Producer Reason with The Reggae Girl About Town Combat Rock was the last studio album by seminal UK punk band The Clash. Released in 1982, the disc contained two of the band’s biggest hit, “Rock the Casbah” and “Should I Stay Or Should I Go.” But 25 years later another cut from the […]
Miley Cyrus Inna Dancehall Style
When Pop Culture Gets Down and Dirty, Dancehall Doubles Down Who can forget the most provocative performance of 2013? Miley Cyrus at the MTV Video Music Awards, fully equipped with a foam finger, wagging tongue and twerking dancers in oversized teddy bears costumes. Robin Thicke wore black and white pin stripes which became “Blurred Lines” […]
Top 10 Philip Smart Selections
Click On The Image Above To Start The Countdown Childhood friends with Augustus Pablo, teenage apprentice to King Tubbys, “Prince” Philip Smart would later move from Kington to New York and establish the most important reggae recording studio in the USA. The very first song produced at HC&F Studios was a crossover hit for the […]
WATCH THIS: Major Lazer feat RDX & Moska – Lose Yourself (Behind The Scenes)
Take A Behind The Scenes Look At The New Major Lazer Video “Lose Yourself” Diplo steps behind the lens to direct the new Major Lazer video for “Lose Yourself” featuring RDX and Moska in Jamaica with the Karmaloop Media crew. It’s a family affair with the ML dancers, Walshy, Jillionaire and…a goat. Or two. Take […]
HEAR THIS: I-Octane “Trendsetta”
Octane Flips Drake and Solja Boy’s Turnt-Up Anthem Earlier this week, I-Octane revealed the track listing for his next album, My Journey, which can best be described as an evolution of his sound towards straight-up roots & culture reggae music. But lest we forget the dancehall flair that made Octane’s name, he’s just dropped an […]
WATCH THIS: Spankers Feat. Machel Montano & Fatman Scoop “Party Time (Lyric Video)”
Spankers Takes Soca Music Global With This One Paolo Ortelli and Luke Degree, collectively known as Spankers are an Italian DJ group set to put dance music on tilt. For their first single Paolo and Luke grabbed Soca King Machel Montano and “The Voice Of The Clubs” Fatman Scoop for an appropriately titled “Party Time.” […]
HEAR THIS: Major Lazer Feat. Pharrell Williams “Aerosol Can”
Skateboard P Coasts Over Slick Lazer Production The Major pegs recent Grammy winner Pharrell Williams for their latest offering. The infectious track entitled “Aerosol Can” is part of Major Lazer’s “Apocalypse Soon” EP set to drop February 25th. The song earns its namesake from the sample of an aerosol can being shaken and sprayed, now […]
HEAR THIS: IBC (Island Boy Cartel) Feat. Kardinal, Assassin, And Raekwon “Pretty Paper (Primo mix)”
Some Will Kill Dem Neighbour For That Pretty Pretty Paper Kardinal Offishall taps Raekwon and Assassin (Agent Sasco) for “Pretty Paper.” The dancehall tune weaves in boom-bap where both Raekwon and Assassin flex their lyrical muscle over Premier’s signature blends. “Money talk, stop the bag a long chatting.” Tune After The Jump…
HEAR THIS: Green Lantern & Craze “Rocket Launcher”
The Evil Genius Links With Craze On A Mad Reggae Refix NYC’s own DJ Green Lantern links with Miami’s Dj Craze on a well, crazy reggae refix. Green and Craze combine the sounds of Dancehall, Trap, Moombah under samples of Cutty Ranks’ Who Seh Me Dun” and “Limb By Limb” into a track they call […]
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Major Lazer Feat. Lexxus & Santigold “Hold The Line”
Lazer, Lexxus & Santi Make Yuh Just Shake Like A Nokia It’s undeniable that 2013 was a huge year for Major Lazer, selling out show after show and being on the production credits of many huge albums their name and fan base has definitely grown. There was a time however when only a select few […]
WATCH THIS: Snoop Lion Feat. Major Lazer “Get Away”
Snoop Lion And The Major Join Forces Against The Evil Sound Snoop pays homage to the early days of Pokémon in his latest visual, only this time he isn’t battling the evil Team Rocket. Instead (after a brief test of might) he and Major Lazer hop on their hover board and flying lowrider respectively and […]