Dancehall News

Busy Signal has been named global ambassador for Tape Deck, a new music streaming platform built around direct sales to fans and an 80/20 revenue split in the artist’s favor.

Rap superstar Cardi B’s planned Kingston takeover is off. The rap superstar will no longer headline BZR WKND Jamaica on October 18, her representative told Billboard on Thursday.

Rihanna just measured her unreleased music in lip gloss. At a recent Fenty Beauty event, she was asked how many songs she’s sitting on, and she answered by pointing to the Gloss Bomb Vault on display.

Former inmates say Sean “Diddy” Combs has been living a pretty comfortable life inside Fort Dix, paying other prisoners to cook his meals, do his laundry, make his bed and even give him massages.

Diddy just lost 41 more days of freedom, and the timing is hard to ignore. His release date from Fort Dix has shifted for the ninth time, landing right after NBC aired a report detailing what his former unit mates described as a pretty comfortable life behind bars.

Drake’s team already shut it down, and now Keshia Chanté is backing them up. The Canadian singer says the rapper is not the father of the son she’s expecting, and she sounds a little puzzled that anyone thought otherwise.

Sean “Diddy” Combs went after $100 million from the people behind Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.

Macka Diamond is walking away from dancehall, and she isn’t leaving quietly. The veteran deejay says the music business pushed her out because of her age, and she’s done fighting to stay in a room where she feels unwanted.

Lil Wayne apparently spends his downtime digging through old Drake sessions, re-editing them, and texting the new versions straight to Drizzy’s phone.

In a street culture where cooperating with law enforcement can cost you everything, Devonte “Dirt Rock” Lee is talking openly about doing exactly that.