While much of the lore around Studio One has to do with its fabled releases during the 1960s, there's a lot to be said about what Coxsone Dodd and co were cooking up in Kingston during the 1970s too.
TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-old founder of Jamaicansmusic.com Alex Morrissey today announced the launch of his new online dancehall/reggae game called Songwrita. Featuring lyrics from top Jamaican ...
"This is the first official mixtape project by both parties and lovers of reggae / dancehall music should be expecting more. The main idea behind this Uppaclass Fix tape Mix is to showcase our talent ...
If rap music is the CNN of black America, dancehall reggae is the equivalent for ghetto youth in Jamaica. Since first emerging in the late ’60s, Jamaican DJs (the reggae version of hip-hop’s MCs) have ...
Queen of Dancehall Spice jumped back onto the Billboard Reggae Albums chart with her 2021 debut full-length studio album 10.
All real hip-hop heds know that the roots of the genre lie in the Caribbean; that is, in dancehall and reggae. From the moment DJ Kool Herc first ran it back at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Jamaican music ...
I honestly couldn’t tell you how many reggae and dancehall mixtapes I listened to during my childhood years. The burned CDs—with their sometimes glitchy skips, boisterous sound effects between ...