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It is a well-documented fact that men have sometimes opted to use sex as aweapon, with sometimes terrible consequences. One, men do this through the commission of rape which is a violent crimethat uses sex as a weapon of power and control. Rape is a weapon of war. Afew years ago, in Africa, Ugandan soldiers […]
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Claude Mills is a news journalist for DancehallMag based in Jamaica. In 1998, Claude Mills won his first Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) award for an article he wrote about his experience flying into the eye of Hurricane George in a military plane, alongside scientists measuring the force of the storm as it hit the […]
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The Jamaica Constabulary Force may lay charges against Bounty Killer for the use of profanity at a St. Thomas Jerk Fest event in St. Thomas over the weekend. “The last time oonu try lock me up ya fi bad word, oonu fi go weh wid oonu fuckery!” an irate Bounty Killer said before exiting the […]
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US-based reggae artiste Marquis Melody is banking on his new single “Work Is Done” which was released with charming visuals on July 16th. The track is a celebratory track expressing the universal desire to enjoy some down-time at the end of a tough working day. “Think my work is done … feel like playing in […]
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Montego Bay-based artiste Unknown Gringo recently shot the visuals for his latest single, ‘Struggles’. The song is a departure from the artiste’s usual fare of trap-dancehall songs which revolve around themes of trigger-pulling, hustling and girls. “The song is getting a lot of airplay on IRIE FM, Zip and other radio stations. The audio is […]
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Dancehall entertainers are dropping like flies. St. Elizabeth-based artiste EleganceGad was shot and killed by an unknown assailant on Wednesday morning in the parish of Manchester. Some anecdotal reports say he was shot ten times. The entertainer, real name is Orlando Smith, and a woman were in a Benz sedan motorcar shortly after 3:00 am […]
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The ‘informer culture’ in Jamaica may be dying a quick death as there was a marked increase in the number of calls to share intel on gangsters on Crime Stop over the past year. The calls jumped from 679 in 2020, to 685 in 2021, however the ratio of success remained the same, a lethargic […]
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Comedian Negus Imara shared a video of himself impersonating the Warlord, in a tirade dubbed “Bounty’s Diaries”. Check out her Dutty Berry interview. CLICK LINK BELOW FOR NEGUS’ TAKE ON ISHAWNA’S PERFORMANCE. https://www.instagram.com/p/CgXozC2FZai/
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So Bounty Killer got hopping mad this week when Ishawna sat down on his face, oops, a cardboard cutout of his face while onstage at Reggae Sumfest this weekend. Bounty Killer, and others, when it was first released in 2017. Killer had threatened to ‘rush’ (interrupt) Ishawna if she performed the song at a concert […]
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Is there a lady in the house? Woman was God’s second mistake – Nietzsche CLAUDE MILLS/ONE876 EDITOR I love a good catfight. Remember the Linda Evans and Joan Collinshair-pulling, nail-scratching, thigh-exposing fights on the ’80s soap,Dynasty? I got a real charge out of watching those fights during mysex-starved early adolescence, especially one famous one that […]
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