After a loooong hiatus, the Queen of dancehall is back with her fiery personal, salacious lyrics and cattitude! Patra recently teamed up with Delus to release her new single titled “Come Ova”produced by Dameon Gayle of Warrior Musick Productions. With explicit lyrics and a wicked beat, this Delus and Patra concoction is sure to be [...]
Snoop Dogg is currently recording a reggae album with high-profile producer Diplo, of Major Lazer. Diplo, who has worked with big names like Beyoncé, MIA and Usher, is now collaborating on an 18-track album with Snoop Dogg. And get this…there will be no rapping but straight reggae vibes and even singing on this project! “Snoop [...]
Kevin Jackson, popularly known as reggae crooner Sanchez, has embarked on a different musical journey. “I’m a full-time producer now,” Sanchez told the Sunday Observer. Sanchez said his producing projects have led him to cross paths with American-based Jamaican Rodnie ‘Tenor’ Lyon. “He is a brilliant kid, so it’s a blessing,” said Sanchez. The singer, [...]
A Brooklyn man‘s three day journey through New York‘s central booking jail system, infamously known as “The Tombs” and the interesting personalities he encounters while locked up. The primary functions of Central Booking are the processing, admission, and cellblock lodging of persons under arrest where prisoner intake is conducted and photographs & fingerprints are taken. [...]
Winston Riley, an innovative reggae musician and producer, has died of complications from a gunshot wound to the head. He was 65. Riley died Thursday at University Hospital of the West Indies, where he had been a patient since November, when he was shot at his house in an upscale neighborhood in the capital of [...]
Soca artiste Black Jaguar has released an official music video for his hit single Take Control featuring LookOut. From his second album Man From Strat (released November 2011), Take Control is a fusion of reggae and soca accompanied by lyrics that tells a story of sexiness and attraction. The music video was shot in California [...]
Basketball Wives heavy weight Tami Roman recently sat down with Egypt Said So to dish on BBW, her pending lawsuit with former manager, Jerry Silverhardt, the ladies of BBW and everything in between. But it was her discussion on her Haitian boo Jerry Lamothe that got our attention. What did she have to say about [...]
Jamaica heavyweight Stephen DiGenius recently produced his latest dancehall riddim, Iron Belt. The official medley video features songs on from Singing Sweet,Laden ft O.C., Chino, Bramma and producer Stephen DiGenius. Check out the video below:
, Grammy-award winning percussionist, songwriter and producer and Trinbagonian Ralph MacDonald has died. MacDonald is best known as the songwriter of legendary hits “Where Is The Love” and “Just The Two Of Us.” MacDonald died yesterday morning in his hometown in Connecticut, USA, after ailing for some time, having suffered a stroke and battling lung [...]
NY based Caribbean Lifestyle Media (CLM TV) which made its debut on the Caribbean International Network (CIN), channel 73 (WNYC-TV) in Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island and Queens on Sunday, January 7, 2007, recently aired its last program on the network. CLM TV co-producer Clement Hume said the executive team was informed that its contract [...]
Producer Arif Cooper’s Fresh Ear label is proving to be fertile ground for delicious ear candy. The label has scored hits with the Guardian Angel and Ready and Willing rhythms. His latest project is the all-female song Beautiful Sista which features Alaine, Tami Chynn, Tessanne Chin and Queen Ifrica. According to Cooper, he has always [...]
Philip ‘Fattis’ Burrell, CEO of Xterminator Records, has died. Fattis, as he was called by most persons in the music business, made his transition on Saturday evening, December 3, after slipping into a coma early that morning. The legendary producer and artiste manager had been a patient at the University Hospital of the West Indies [...]
Two months ago, astute businesswoman and fashionista Lena British caused quite a stir when she announced that she had decided to spend some time in the studio. She quickly pointed out, however, that her focus would be on the production side of the business, not as an artiste. Now, Lena, has made what could very [...]
Trinidad and Tobago singer/radio personality Devon Matthews just gave life to a classic hit. Matthews just released his new revamped version of the legendary calypsonian Lord Nelson‘s “La La.” Check out the Neil Bernard produced single. What do you think? Leave a comment.
Well yes…..this might just might be the new women’s anthem for the season….that’s if they have a boyfriend named “Dick!” Dancehall diva Spice has just released her newest single, a salacious (just had to use this word) ode to her boyfriend. No, it’s not Tom nor Harry but Dick that has Spice head over heels [...]
After successful runs in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, the independent film ‘Out the Gate’ will finally make its Jamaican debut November 2nd. The urban action picture starring Paul Campbell (Shottas, Third World Cop, Lunatic) and Oliver Samuels (Oliver at Large) tells the story of Everton Dennis (played by himself) his dream to make [...]
GRAMMY Award-winning pop star Sinead O’Connor recorded a new single with famed roots-reggae producer Kemar ‘Flava’ McGregor in Dublin, Ireland. The single, a feminist dance-club reggae anthem, will be released shortly and is to be included on McGregor’s Club Dance riddim album this fall. Reminiscent of her 2005 smash album Throw Down Your Arms, O’Connor’s [...]
You got to hear the vocals of the newest Soca songstress on the scene, Gabrielle! Check out her new soca hit Dutty, wriiten by herself and fellow soca star, & Erphaan Alves. Produced & Mixed By Precision Productions. Listen and download here: Gabrielle – Dutty *NEW SOCA* by Jayblessed.com
In case you missed Estelle’s new single, “Thank You,” we got it right here! Half-Grenadian Estelle did her thing on this laid-back track written by Akon and produced by Jerry Wonder. Are we feeling it?
The latest drama in Jamaica is centered around the death of a man allegedly stemming from an altercation between a popular Jamaican entertainer and a producer. Monday afternoon saw the tragic shooting and death of a man following an argument that developed between Dancehall/Reggae superstar, Gyptian and Dancehall producer, DJ Frass at Steven “Supa Hype” [...]
Check out this infectious techno and pop infused Soca club banger with the hit monster RoboMan featuring Cherise Ransome in “RoboMan Say” on the Space Junk Carnival Refix. With bated breath the city has been waiting for the heralded return of the soca made machine…and finally it is here! And this time Roboman, with the [...]
REGGAE mega label VP Records is in mourning, following the murder of Joel Chin, grandson of the company’s founders, Pat and Vincent Chin. The 35-year-old producer and head of VP’s A&R department, was shot and killed as he drove into the driveway of his Stony Hill apartment in St Andrew on Tuesday night. There was [...]
Check out Star Bwoy Mavado’s new remix to his hit, Delilah, done by superstar American DJ and producer Diplo. #FUNFACT: Diplo together with his friend Switch make up the group Major Lazer. Their track “Pon De Floor” from Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do was sampled for Beyonce‘s single “Rule the World (Girls).”
Sean Paul is a Grammy winning internationally successful reggae/dancehall artist. In 200o he released his first album entitled, “Stage One.” His 2002 album “Dutty Rock” sold 6 million copies worldwide. In 2009, his “Imperial Blaze” album featured the single “So Fine” and it was the first Jamaican album to top the Billboard Rap Charts. Sean [...]
Who would forget one of the biggest and raunchiest dancehall songs “Rampin’ Shop?” Or the single Jim Screechie? Well, the Jamaica dancehall diva Spice has teamed up with American hip-hop star and producer Missy Eliott for her latest single “Fun” on the Wash Belly Riddim. “Fun is a summer song, I know everyone will love [...]