Dancehall News

Nicki Minaj’s own legal team says it can’t keep working with her. In a filing that has now frozen a $275,000 lawsuit over her 2023 Jingle Ball run, attorney Bruce W.

The photos that were supposed to help build the case against Rick Ross ended up at the center of his lawyer’s argument for knocking it down.

Chris Brown walked out of Southwark Crown Court a free man, but the judge made sure he knew the door to a cell is still open.

Dancehall artiste Lynx Unruly is demanding recognition and threatening to pursue a copyright complaint over claims that Byron Messia borrowed lyrics from his 2021 recording, ‘Dat Bad’.

Malie Donn’s toughest competition on Jamaica’s Apple Music chart is himself. The dancehall artist has claimed the top three spots with his “Van Cleef” trilogy, turning a hit single into a series with serious staying power.

Mystic Marley did not set out to write a tidy love song. Her new single, In Love, sits in the uncomfortable space where people keep returning to each other even after things have gotten hard, and she sounds perfectly at home there.

Dexta Daps is quoting scripture over a loaded barrel. His new single “Cross Pon Nozzle” opens with the line “Put a cross pon the nozzle ah di matic and knock it in the name of god,” and the rest of the snippet he posted keeps that same blend of church language and gun talk.

Marcia Griffiths has set the record straight on the origins of the I-Threes, making clear that the celebrated harmony trio was her idea and existed before Bob Marley brought Judy Mowatt, Rita Marley and herself into his orbit.

Ask anyone who has spent a night at a sound system dance or a slow afternoon on a Negril beach, and they will tell you the same thing: some words do not translate so much as glow.

Few words travel as far, or hit as hard, as bumbaclot. You hear it bark out of a sound system speaker box, explode across a Kingston street when a taxi cuts too close, and float through TikTok captions from people who have never set foot on the island.