Dancehall News

For most of four decades, while the rest of Jamaica slept off Christmas dinner, dancehall’s hardest heads made their way to Portmore to watch artistes try to end each other’s careers with a microphone.

A WhatsApp group is now at the centre of the latest chapter in the Mohbad saga, and Davido’s team wants everyone to know he never sanctioned it.

Long before grime MCs were spitting over 140bpm beats on pirate radio, a selector named Duke Vin was stringing up speakers in London basements.

Picture a Kingston lawn in 1985, the speaker boxes stacked high and the Sleng Teng bassline rolling through the crowd, and a man in a wool diamond sweater and tweed cap standing in tropical heat like it is the most natural thing in the world.

If anyone on Nicki Minaj’s team really was plotting a quiet political rebrand, nobody told Nicki.

The newest Fugees music isn’t on a streaming service. It’s waiting at the other end of a phone call, and Selah Marley is the voice that picks up.

Kanye West showing up for Lil Durk was supposed to look like loyalty. Federal prosecutors now say it was something closer to stagecraft.

Federal prosecutors fighting to keep Lil Durk locked up have a new allegation, and it’s a strange one.

Nicki Minaj’s own legal team can’t seem to get a stack of paperwork into her hands.