Damian "Keywee" Morgan is a Jamaican Dancehall Reggae artist from Old Harbour, Jamaica, who has been making rounds in the underground Dancehall Reggae scene for several years. He has been featured on ...

In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...

Over the last year, Caribbean music has made a return to mainstream U.S. radio in a way that hasn’t been seen since the mid-2000s. Though loyal fans of dancehall, reggae, and soca will assure you that ...

Ever since Kool Herc brought Jamaican sound system culture to the Bronx and birthed a billion-dollar industry called hip-hop, dancehall reggae has been the ghost in the American urban music machine.

Jamaica was a slave-operated plantation island for two centuries beginning in around the mid-1600s. The island then became a British colony until Jamaica gained its independence in the 1960s. Within ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Rastafarian group spent months making the weapons of a cultural crusade--1,200 brooms to symbolically whisk the sex and violence of American gangsta rap out of the pure “One Love ...

“I would really like for the artists to come in and make connections and understand the game and not get fucked like the old ones did,” said Shaggy of the third annual confab. By Janeé Bolden Artists, ...

Mr. Vegas hears Jamaican dancehall music in plenty of mainstream hits, from Rihanna's "Work" to Justin Bieber's "Sorry." But Vegas said he wants musicians who specialize in dancehall to share the ...

In the first week of May, the American music industry commenced a semi-annual tradition: singling out a lone piece of Jamaican music and sending it up the charts. 2018’s lucky winner is “Walking ...

Jamaica is one of the epicenters of music and culture. With more artists emerging on the scene, it’s important to note the names of the Jamaican music producers who have pushed artists into newer, and ...