In 1974, a 32-year-old Jamaican singer called Carl Douglas was hoping to release a single called I Wanna Give You My Everything. One afternoon, his label’s head of A&R announced that the single could come out as soon as it had a B-side, and asked his colleagues to sift through Douglas’s recordings for suitable candidates. He went to lunch, came back an hour later and was greeted by a defiantly absurd disco banger by the name of Kung Fu Fighting.
Read MoreVegas’ mother to be buried today @one876
THE funeral service for Lucille Ellis Maitland, mother of dancehall singjay Mr Vegas and singer Carlton Smith from the reggae vocal group The Tamlins, is scheduled for the Pembroke Hall Methodist Church in St Andrew, today, at 10:00 am.
Read MoreRob Ford gives up!!! No more crack mayors in theT Dot @one876
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s move ends a campaign he had pursued despite a stint in rehab and persistent calls for him to quit amid drug and alcohol scandals.
Read MoreALKALINE FREAK OUT AND LEAK OUT #bullet @grunggaadzilla @one876 @bounce876
Alkaline ah lose the plot right now. The man bleach out, and a straighten him hair and a wear jumper from the 1980s. Him ah behave like a real DANCEHALL DRAG QUEEN. As Bounty Killer say, him leak out and freak out #bullet. Guess that’s why Notnice decide fi avoid him because him a use the Vybz Kartel playbook but him just don’t have the hits fi back it up. Him de pon the FREAK charts, but him music nah PEAK on the charts. KABOOM!!!!
Read MoreKranium hits Billboard’s Next Big Sound charts @one876 @therealkranium
Kranium is on the verge of a major breakthrough as his minor hit, Nobody Has to Know, has entered Billboard’s Next Big Sound, Emerging Artistes and Trending 140 charts.
Read MoreIS ISHAWNA DISSING FOOTA HYPE ON ‘CRY BABY’? @one876 @michieboo101
Ishawna has found her voice and it is a savage, beautiful one. Listen to her as she delivers the best liberated woman anthem dancehall has heard in a generation.
Read MoreAduka impresses with ‘Rasta Dawta’ @one876 @crisopolis01
Alkaline ah fish up dancehall!!! KABOOM, Bounty Killer did warn oonu @grunggaadzilla @one876
Wah kinda fishy tattoo that Alkaline have on pon him skin wid him cream hair? Him look like him trying to be a white girl, perhaps Arianne Grande, or Miley Cyrus or one ah dem. KABOOM
Read MoreRoach’s son Dami to release tribute to ROACH next week @justusja @one876 @bounce876
The dancehall-reggae world is bracing for the debut effort from Dami, the son of the late producer Patrick ‘Roach’ Samuels. The youngster’s first song will be a tribute song, released in rememberance of his father who was brutally slain by persons unknown almost a year ago on September 15th, 2013.
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