November 2026

Elphaba is heading to Death Row. Cynthia Erivo has signed on to play Afeni Shakur, Tupac’s mother, in Snoop, the Universal biopic about Snoop Dogg’s rise.

Nicki Minaj spent election day posing outside a New Hampshire polling station, and at almost the same moment her old legal team was asking a Los Angeles judge to make her pay up.

Turn on any pop playlist and you will hear Kingston somewhere in the mix: a lazy, rolling bassline, a syncopated snare, a melody that sways rather than marches.

Every hip-hop origin story eventually lands in a Bronx rec room in the summer of 1973.

Walk down Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston and you pass a building that holds more Jamaican music history than most countries hold in their national archives.

Internationally recognised reggae band Big Mountain helped turn “Baby, I Love Your Way” into a global singalong.

Music star Tessanne Chin had barely conquered American television before giving Jamaica’s roads an unflattering international review that was broadcast directly into living rooms all across the island.

Jamaican music producer Jahreme “J-Man” Shelton faces a further wait to answer double-murder charges in Florida, with his trial postponed until April 2027 following a scheduling conflict raised by his public defender.

Beenie Man has never hidden the rough edges of his story, and one of the roughest came before the hits.

Mr. Vegas has taken aim at one of the most revered names in Jamaican music, accusing Buju Banton of spreading a false statistic about missing children on the world stage.