Dancehall News

Davido didn’t just show up to Kirk Franklin’s album listening session in Atlanta on October 12.

Dancehall star Squash is out of federal prison—but the 6ix Boss isn’t heading back to the dancehall just yet.

Pops YG is accustomed to commanding attention online. The flamboyant dancehall entertainer is now back in police custody in Trelawny, where detectives are reportedly investigating allegations that he engaged in sexual activity with a minor.

A lot of Jamaican viewers first knew her as Mel from Trabass TV. Now she goes by SEWELL, and her latest single puts her on a track with a Marley.

A former child actor isn’t just suing Sean “Diddy” Combs. He’s also going after the agents who were supposed to be looking out for him, claiming they left him alone with adult industry figures at a Hollywood Hills networking event in May 2007.

Picture a sound system in the summer of 2017. The selector pulls up a German-made bounce, a whole dance floor drops its shoulder on cue, and somewhere in the crowd a man in a suit is trying the move he saw at the office party.

Some years in dancehall arrive quietly. 2018 did not. Popcaan finally delivered his long-promised album, Jada Kingdom turned a piece of fruit into a talking point, Sean Paul was trading verses with EDM royalty, and a teenager from Spanish Town was about to rewrite what a breakout looked like.

Cast your mind back to 2019 and you can almost hear it: a teenager from Spanish Town toasting her way onto the world stage, a deejay behind bars still running the streets, and every dance from Kingston to London moving to a fresh crop of bad man anthems and fashion tunes.

Five years after Burna Boy and Wizkid turned the Ballon d’Or into a byword for success on their 2021 collaboration, Burna Boy finally stood on the actual stage.

Nobody had an Atlanta snap classic getting a Kingston makeover on their bingo card, but here we are.