Dancehall News

Yaksta, the St Mary artiste whose name has long been tied to motivational lyrics and social commentary, just dropped a song about what happens behind closed doors.

Day two of the AKA murder trial didn’t end with testimony. It ended with the public being cleared out of a Durban courtroom after reports that someone had slipped a cellphone to one of the seven men accused of killing the rapper.

Long before most rap fans knew his name, they were already hearing Freddie Jackson. His silky melodies sat under verses from AZ, Mack 10, DMX and Nipsey Hussle, and now the singer behind them has died at 69.

A $350 haircut for a toddler is one of the line items now sitting in a Los Angeles court file with Chris Brown’s name on it.

Tony Forbes isn’t sure the full truth about his son’s killing will ever come out. That was the striking admission from AKA’s father as the murder trial finally got underway at the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Monday, October 5.

When the tracklist for Kid Rock’s upcoming Christian rock album first surfaced, a lot of Eminem fans assumed it was a fake.

Before the Oscar, before the Grammys, before he even dropped half his name, Common was a hungry Chicago MC with a spot in The Source’s Unsigned Hype column.

Stylo G isn’t giving much away, and that seems to be the point. His latest Instagram post is barely a sentence, “Likkle miss 🇬🇧…..Loading,”

Elephant Man didn’t bother with a big press rollout for his latest visual. The dancehall veteran went to Instagram, announced that the official video for “Eyelash” is out now, and stacked eighteen fire emojis underneath like an exclamation point.

Christopher Martin isn’t making a big production out of the rollout. His announcement for the “Ova Yah Suh” video arrived as a short Instagram post with five fire emojis and a caption that simply reads “Ova Yah Suh Good.”