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Four more murders in the past 24 hours have pushed Jamaica’s murder total for the year above the 300 mark. With 74 days gone since the start of the year, the police have reported 303 murders across the island. This is 16 more, or six per cent above the same period last year. The crime-plagued […]
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A mother allegedly used explicit deepfake photos and videos to try to get her teenage daughter’s cheerleading rivals kicked off the team. Raffaela Spone from Pennsylvania, US, reportedly sent the content – which showed members of the Victory Vipers team “naked, drinking and smoking” – to the coach. Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to doctor images […]
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Six months after legendary Maytals frontman, Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert died from complications of COVID-19, Toots and The Maytals won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album with ‘Got to be Tough’ today. The announcement was made from the Staples Center where the 63rd Grammys were held virtually. Got to be Tough was released in August by Trojan […]
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Dancehall artiste Serebral is generating a buzz on the local dancehall scene with his ultra-sexy debut song, ‘Whine Slow’. “It surprise me a bit how well it is doing in markets such as London and countries in Africa. The feedback has been amazing in Jamaica, and every selector on the New York dancehall scene is […]
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In the year 2003, reggae singer Joseph Velvet was on the verge of releasing two singles when tragedy struck. He had a major motor vehicle accident that left him with serious spinal injuries, halting his music career. “It was a really tough time for me,” the artiste whose real name is Joseph Jordan Jones, said. […]
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American singer/rapper YK Osiris has been vacationing in Jamaica since last Monday, and has posted photos of himself having fun at a Sandals resort. On his Instagram account, he posted a video of himself singing along to Wayne Wonder’s No Letting Go. In another clip, he sang bits of singer Jahvinci’s Baby Girl. “We living […]
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Trench Town is a community steeped in the tradition of Jamaican music artforms and culture. Branded as the birthplace of reggae, a widespread belief commemorated in several songs by Bob Marley and The Wailers such as ‘No Woman No Cry’ and ‘Trench Town Rock’ among others, the community has been dubbed the ‘cradle of Jamaican […]
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The black-owned fashion Black, Gorgeous and Rich (BGAR) is at the forefront of a movement of black-owned businesses pushing to generate national attention and access via national retailers in a marketplace that has not always been receptive towards ethnicity in the United States. “We reject negative self hatred programming of black people. Never give anyone […]
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Talented producer-turned-artiste Blizzi is amping up promotion on his new ‘God Complex’ EP, his second body of work that includes eight diverse and well-produced tracks that are set to ignite the dancehall industry. “This is my favourite project so far. The God Complex Project embodies the level of confidence and creativity I emit as a […]
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Dancehall superstar Demarco is ecstatic that his latest video, ‘Bunx Pon It’ which was released last week has racked up over a million views on social media sharing platform, YouTube, since its release on September 11th. Since being released, the video, which was directed by Demarco and Sean Coleman, has already received more than 864,000 […]
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