Dancehall News

When Bounty Killer calls someone a general, it lands differently. The self-styled Warlord of dancehall doesn’t hand out military rank lightly, so his Instagram tribute to Mikie Bennett, newly honoured with Jamaica’s Order of Distinction at the rank of Officer, carries real weight.

Somewhere there’s apparently a locked vault with Rihanna’s name on it, and the songs inside might finally be heading our way.

The senator who helped push a bill to stop unauthorized digital copies of people’s voices and faces is now defending a video that dropped her into Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show.

Cardi B, the first solo woman ever to win the Grammy for Best Rap Album, is about to trade arena production for a cramped office desk.

Burna Boy has played stadiums across the globe, but he has never once performed in India.

The man who built the low end of Bob Marley’s sound walked out of a London courtroom owing money, not collecting it.

Sean Combs’s own lawyers say they haven’t seen a dime from him in more than seven months, and they want to hang onto his files until they do.

Police say Kodak Black wanted the cash but not the bag it came in. According to an Orange County Sheriff’s Office report, the rapper repeatedly tried to get money found during a search handed over to him, calling it business money, while refusing to claim the bag or anything else inside it.

Dancehall has always had two faces. One is the session at full tilt: slackness, gun talk, bravado bouncing off the speaker boxes.

Every dancehall session reaches a moment when the selector stops playing for the chest and starts playing for the waist.