Dancehall News

The best reggae festivals on the planet span six continents, unite hundreds of thousands of fans, and carry a genre that UNESCO recognised as part of Jamaica’s intangible cultural heritage.

The reggae sumfest guide you need before booking your flight to Jamaica starts here. Reggae Sumfest is the largest music festival in Jamaica and the Caribbean, taking place each year in mid-July in Montego Bay.

Project Pat’s son, Patrick Houston Jr., was 21 years old when he was shot and killed, and now two women are facing serious charges in connection with his death.

Gerald “Bogle” Levy is the single most important figure in the history of dancehall dance. As the original Bogle dancer, he invented more moves than any other individual in the genre, gave an entire culture its physical vocabulary, and proved that a choreographer from Kingston’s inner city could change the way the world moves.

Forget the usual selector battles, this one is going straight at the catalogues. On Friday, September 18, Bounty Killer and Beenie Man go head-to-head in a 30-songs-each showdown streaming live on YouTube through Fiwi Reggae Dancehall TV, and the dancehall internet is already picking sides hard.

Chronic Law is looking at a serious stretch of legal uncertainty after his federal gun trial was locked in for October 2026, with a pre-trial hearing scheduled for September 30.

Prosecutors couldn’t prove the MDMA was his, and that was enough. Kodak Black walked away from a potential drug trafficking charge after Orange County officials decided the evidence linking him to 25 grams of MDMA found in a pink bag inside a Lamborghini SUV just didn’t clear the bar needed to prosecute.

Six years is a long time in Afrobeats, but Rema and Rvssian are picking up right where they left off.

Dub music is one of recorded music’s most consequential inventions, and yet it remains one of the least understood.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Shane “Gaza Tussan” Williams, a familiar name from one of the most sensational chapters in Jamaica’s dancehall and criminal-court history, was reportedly killed during an alleged confrontation with police in Portmore, St Catherine, on Saturday.