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Dancehall artiste Rickey Teetz is knocking on the door of becoming a household name with his breakthrough single, Tip Yuh which has almost 400,000 views on youtube.

Reggae artiste Aduka is generating a buzz with his latest single and video, Rasta Dawta’.

Reggae artiste R Embassida is getting a lot of radio play with his breakout hit, Why’, which asks tough questions of the political directorate, and the wider Jamaican society.

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.

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.

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.

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!!!!

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.

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.

Reggae artiste Aduka is generating a buzz with his latest single and video, Rasta Dawta’.