Dancehall News

The meaning of “Ghetto Story” is simple: Baby Cham tells the story of how he survived a poor, violent childhood in Kingston and made it out.

The meaning of “Fever” is simple: it is an explicit, playful dancehall song about sex, desire and dancing.

For anyone looking up the meaning of “Clarks,” Vybz Kartel’s 2010 song is a tribute to the British shoe brand, which Jamaicans have worn for generations.

The meaning of “Summer Time” is simple. It is Vybz Kartel’s celebration of the Jamaican summer holidays: the heat, pool and beach parties, and the island’s best-known summer party events.

The “Romping Shop” meaning comes from Jamaican slang. The phrase is a slang expression for a bedroom or a place where you have sexual intercourse, and the literal translation is “playing shop.”

Shenseea has spent years as dancehall’s ultimate Bad Gal, all confidence and swagger. On her new single “Vulnerability,” she drops the armor completely and talks about a father she never met.

For ten years, Young Jonn was barred from the UK. On the same day he finally headlined London’s OVO Arena Wembley, he dropped a seven track EP named after the city that kept him waiting.

Vybz Kartel just called Shaggy a “manufactured pop star with little talent and no influence on the culture,” and he didn’t even need a diss track to do it.

Lieutenant Stitchie’s church family is being asked to roll up their sleeves. The veteran deejay is at Kingston Public Hospital receiving blood after his count dropped, and his wife Sophia Laing says friends, relatives and fellow congregants have been called on to donate.

The man who became the voice of Trinidad and Tobago’s calypso scene wasn’t actually born there.