Claude Mills LOUD MUSIC. Dance. Dramatic interpretations. All of this battened onto a religious superstructure means Sunday service has never been this loud, this dramatic — this hip. While anguished shouts of praise the Lord, tambourine, organ and piano music have always filled Jamaican Sunday mornings, church leaders today are enticing the young with more […]
Read MoreOswald Spence lost 17 years of life without being charged with a crime
Claude Mills, THE COLD, rotten floor-boards are his bed each night, and his pillow, a rolled up suit of dirty clothes. In his tiny room, which is bare of furniture, there is only a truck engine that has been converted into a coal stove, an axe, two lumps of wood, a pair of old sneakers […]
Read MoreMother Goose is a violent old bat
Who knew that Mother Goose was such a violent old bat? As my daughter gets older, I have been dusting off my childhood favourites to read to her, so you can imagine my consternation when I discovered through the unfiltered light of adulthood that Old Mother Goose nursery rhymes are actually ghastly tales of random […]
Read MorePETER KING LAWYER STABBED, BEATEN TO DEATH
PETER KING LAWYER STABBED, BEATEN TO DEATH Blackmail, extortion of ‘closetted men’ in the cards Sean Wordsworth Freelance Writer Attorney-at-law Berry Bryan, who represented the accused Sheldon Pusey in the murder case of former trade ambassador Peter King, was killed on Monday of this week at his Stony Hill residence in upper St. Andrew. The […]
Read MoreTEN BOUNTY KILLER AND BEENIE MAN SINGLES ON REGGAE ITUNES 100
After their historic performance on the first reggae and in-person Verzuz battle on Instagram Live, both Beenie Man and Bounty Killer have seen a fillip in terms of the sales of their individual singles as ten of their songs now occupy positions on the iTunes 100 reggae charts. Since the climax of the the clash […]
Read MoreChikie Grainz is ‘Hypnotized’
Talented dancehall artiste Chikie Grainz is ecstatic about the enthusiastic social media response to her latest single, ‘Hypnotized’ which was produced by Badbad Citizens and released on the Grainz Records label a month ago. “A lot a promotion been done around ‘Hypnotized’, people are saying it is hot on social media, the track itself has […]
Read MorePALACE AMUSEMENT POSTS $49.2 million loss in second quarter
Palace Amusement registered a major loss in the second quarter as shuttered cinemas caused a nosedive in its stock price and the company’s market value. The cinema operator posted a loss of $49.2 million against a profit $43.7 million for the similar quarter of 2019, while core sales declined by 10 per cent to $229 […]
Read MoreNEW MUSIC REVIEW
It’s easier than ever for artistes to make their own music, and that means a lot of aspiring artists are making and sharing music right now. A lot of it is half-baked and unoriginal, but every now and then we come across something really cool, and there’s still nothing as satisfying as hearing something early, […]
Read MoreRIP Bobby Digital
Robert “Bobby Digital” Dixon, one of dancehall/reggae’s most successful music producers, died on Thursday at age 59. He reportedly succumbed to a kidney-related illness after he had gone to do his weekly dialysis treatment at the hospital. Reports are that Dixon began to feel ill and was eventually admitted and later died. Reggae music has […]
Read MoreToilet Paper Bounty – Vybz Kartel diss song
Bounty Killer Diss][Intro:] NotNice Di pussy do three song But we a kill it with one Come and mek up thing pan tacks But me a talk facts Yuh seh me chat shit But yuh nyam shit from county to county Dats why di toilet paper name Bounty Kick me kick down Ninja Man But […]
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