Beres Hammond & Cocoa Tea Headline 10th Annual Best of the Best Music Fest 2016
Miami’s Premiere Reggae Festival Celebrates Its 10-Year Anniversary For the past decade, Best of the Best has been transforming Miami’s Bayfront Park into a massive party. Although the early years were characterized by a wide-ranging blend of reggae, dancehall, soca, hip hop and R&B, in more recent years the promoters have focused on Caribbean sounds. […]
HEAR THIS: Stephen “Ragga” Marley
ft. Waka Flocka “Scars on my Feet”
Ragga x Flocka Connect and Reflect If you’re paying attention you already know that the long-awaited final chapter of Ragga Marley’s two-album epic is set to arrive July 22nd. Today team Ragga revealed the full track listing of Revelation Part 2: The Fruit of Life and offered these thoughts about the overall project: “The Fruit […]
HEAR THIS: Jahmiel “Different Eyes” PREMIERE
The Powerful Title Cut From Pure Music’s “Different Eyes” Juggling Hailing from Portmore, Jahmiel Foster found his musical calling from early out, and has since carved out a niche as one of modern reggae’s most exciting new voices. Building on the success of his 2015 breakthrough “Gain The World,” Jahmiel and the Quantanium camp are […]
HEAR THIS: Falcons & Juelz “Gyal Dem Move”
Something For The Bike Back Hot on the heels of the Terra EP—cosigned by the likes of Q-Tip and Virgil Abloh—Fool’s Gold signee Falcons teams up with young Canadian producer Juelz on the scorching hot “Gyal Dem Move.” Arriving the first day of Summer-like weather in New York, the hazed-out beat, strewn with hyperventilated Sean Paul samples, hits the spot. Audio After The Jump…
WATCH THIS: Shanique Marie ft. Cali P “Coconut Jelly Man” Official Music Video
An Ode to the Coconut Jelly Man Shanique Marie is preparing for relaunch of her debut EP Uno in a deluxe edition this summer and is excited about the possibilities. Her incendiary single, “Coconut Jelly Man” featuring Cali P, first released in November 2015, is seeing another steep rise in popularity as the warm weather approaches […]
Super Cat Remembers “Dolly My Baby” Collab With Biggie Smalls, Sends a Message To Puffy
A Dialog With The Don Dada Today we celebrate what would have been the 44th birthday of hip hop’s G.O.A.T., Christopher George Latore Wallace, better known as The Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls. (The day is now an official holiday in Brooklyn.) One of the first big looks for the fledgling rapper came in 1993 […]
WATCH THIS: Adahzeh “Island Girl” Official Music Video
Rocking With Jamaica’s First All-Female Reggae Ensemble From the Maroon heroine Nanny to Louise Bennett and Grace Jones, Jamaican history is filled with powerful women. Still, the reggae music industry has remained a largely male-dominated field—which may explain why keyboardist and vocalist Karissa Palmer always wanted to be part of a reggae band made up […]
WATCH THIS: Jus D “Give It To Me” Crop Over Video
Free Up Yourself For The Crop Over Although Trinidad’s carnival is renowned as one of the wickedest parties throughout the Caribbean, Crop Over in Barbados is no joke. Just ask Rihanna, who rarely misses the bacchanal in her home island. The Mega Cavalcade is going down tonight, with a crazy lineup of soca acts ready […]
Tune For Tune: Battle of the UK “Panda” Refixes
Who Flipped The “Panda” Beat Better: Gappy Ranks or Lady Leshur? All this week we’ve been deluged with a Desiigner media blitz since the 19-year-old Barbados-by-way-of-Brooklyn eccentric dropped the Tidal-exclusive video for his chart-topping smash “Panda.” Though he spends most of the tune talking about Atlanta—and sounding a whole lot like Future sippin’ on some […]
WATCH THIS: Vybz Kartel “I’ll Take You There” Official Music Video
What’s Your Favorite Way To Cure Pain? The Vybz Kartel Vevo channel sure is poppin’ these days. With Kartel’s highly anticipated King of the Dancehall album set to drop next week, the “Fever” video has been burning up the place, approaching the million-view mark after just two weeks. And then, early this morning, another set of visuals dropped for the World Boss’s track […]
HEAR THIS: Fadda Fox ft. Runtown “All Day All Night”
From Lagos to Bridgetown Comes A Cross-Cultural Collab For Cropover These are exciting times for open-minded music lovers, as genre distinctions break down and the unifying forces of tempo and technology work their magic around the globe. No matter what name you choose to call them, certain songs have the power to move the crowd. […]
WATCH THIS: Kimié Miner “Trouble” Official Music Video PREMIERE
“We’ve All Been In Trouble Before” Born in Hawaii, Kimié Miner fell in love with music at an early age. Inspired by the likes of Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and India Arie, she learned to play guitar and wound up on tour with Barrington Levy at the age of 19. After the tour ended she […]