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Mavado lose travel documents in Canada
2007-09-25 08:53:00
According to sources, David Brooks, more popularly known as Jamaican dancehall artiste Mavado somehow managed to lose his travel documents in Canada over the weekend. (more…)
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Busy Signal hot again, still number one
2007-09-25 08:47:00
Busy Signal ’s monster hit The Days produced by DASECA, has maintained its position as the number one single on the Jamaica Music Countdown dancehall charts. (more…)
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Inga takes third prize
2007-09-25 08:41:00
The question of who will stay and who will go home was the big question last Friday night at the 2007 Digicel Rising Stars Results Show, as the final three contestants, Romain Virgo, Inga Stewart and Jodian Pantry were all nerves. (more…)
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Abijah launches ‘Moving 2 the Top’
2007-09-25 08:36:00
Abijah’s broad smile, natty attire of striped suit with matching hat and red vest, as well as brief but slick dance moves, spoke volumes about his happiness on Friday evening. And it was well that they did, as his voice could not at the launch of his second album, ‘Moving 2 the Top’, held at the Comfitanya Lounge, Crieffe Road, St. Andrew. (more…)

Assassin promotes album aggressively overseas
2007-09-22 08:56:00
Ah One876 we name and we nah apologize to nobody, we nuh fraida people. Wha do some people inna second hand SUV and a try hype pon we? New York, we hot, wah do some gal weh a hype and dem bed de pon four block and as little rain fall, dem ah sweep out water wid dem broom. (more…)
More About: Album , Assassin , Seas , Overseas , Romo

Chino reveals what caused Big Ship/Munga battle
2007-09-22 08:48:00
Son of Reggae star, Freddie McGregor, Chino took time out to address the simmering Munga-Big Ship feud that heated up when Munga dropped the ‘buss my gun, dem Ship sink’ line that most people think triggered the feud. But according to Chino, there’s more going on behind the friction. (more…)
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No female Rising Star Who’s to blame?
2007-09-22 08:44:00
Will a female win Digicel’s Rising Star s? This seems to be the big question as Rising Stars got its biggest upset in history last Friday night when St. Catherine favourite Lenya Wilks was voted off the show at the TVJ studios in Kingston. (more…)
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QQ clear to perform again
2007-09-22 08:35:00
Dancehall child star Kareem Dawkins, more popularly known as QQ, has been given the go-ahead to start performing again as a special permit has now been granted by the Jamaican Government. (more…)
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Hardcore Assassin
2007-09-22 08:28:00
New album Gully Sit’n looks at ghetto life Half-a-bread, ‘beigey’ kites and the other less superficial trappings of ghetto life are the stuff that inspire rough-cut deejay Assassin . (more…)
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Computer Paul sells platinum with Akon
2007-09-20 02:14:00
Special props to Computer Paul who collected a platinum disc last week - his first - for certified sales of two million for work done on Akon ’s ultra-successful ‘Konvicted’ album. Computer Paul produced the Mama Africa track. (more…)
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Wednesday Tea - Ninja Man mashes up NJ Reggae Fest
2007-09-20 02:11:00
NINJA MASHES UP NJ REGGAE FEST What a way Ninja mash up NJ Reggae Fest the other day inna the Newark Terrace Complex, the man class up Angel, Beenie, Bounty inna wicked way, the man get the most forward fi the night, one time, the way the man a gwaan, yu coulda hardly hear what him was saying the way the crowd just a cheer him on. (more…)
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Tastee Talent Trail hits Portmore
2007-09-20 02:07:00
An army of talent scouts in the form of the Tastee Talent Trail encamped at the Tastee outlet in Portmore, St. Catherine last Saturday on their second of four stops on the journey to find the next top performer. (more…)
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‘Bun Him’ like hot bread! - Macka says book is addictive
2007-09-20 02:02:00
It has not even been 24 hours since Macka Diamond launched her first ever book, ‘Bun Him’ at the Weekenz Bar and Bistro on Constant Spring Road on Monday evening and already, she is being flooded with text messages and phone calls. (more…)
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DaVille in Japan
2007-09-20 01:56:00
Dancehall artiste DaVille during a recent performance at the Ageha Club in Tokyo, Japan . The local singer’s set included In Heaven, Can’t Get Over You, This Time I Promise, On My Mind, as well as his two most recent singles, Give Thanks For What You’ve Got and Fling It Up Pon Mi. He also performed in other Japanese cities - Okinowa and Nagoya. (more…)

Tarrus Riley for Heroes’ Reggae Splash
2007-09-13 08:00:00
Reggae fans are eagerly anticipating the inaugral Heroes Reggae Splash , a virtual tour de force of culture and sweet reggae music. (more…)
More About: Reggae , Riley

Natural Breeze medley released
2007-09-13 07:55:00
The Natur al Breeze Medley video was recently released and is getting steady rotation on all major local television stations. The video was done by reknowned music video director Ras Kassa and features rising dancehall sensation Munga Honorable with his song called Rise, Delly Ranks with Girlfriend, Chino with All Night and Esco with God is Love. The concept of the video is that a businessman, a couple and three girls leaving the mall are all seeing the video through a viewmaster. (more…)
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Curefest moves to Trelawy and Montego Bay
2007-09-13 07:50:00
Due to the overwhelming response for Curefest since Jah Cure’s release, the promoters have decided to move the 3-day event to three separate locations to enhance the individual experience of each night to include Jah Cure’s hometown and to facilitate the crowd expected to attend Longing For. (more…)
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Crazy mix - Dancer ‘choreographs’ new group
2007-09-13 07:46:00
Dancing has always been a big part of the entertainment culture in Jamaica and with Crazy Hype set to add another group to the mix, it can only get bigger. (more…)
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Rising Stars season closes with Mas Camp concert
2007-09-13 07:41:00
Plans are once again afoot to stage the second annual Rising Stars concert at the Mas Camp on September 28, 2007. The party, which like the TV-reality series, is sponsored by mobile phone giant Digicel, will put a wrap on the 2007 season of Rising Stars. (more…)
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Tribute to Peter Tosh returns
2007-09-12 01:19:00
After a one-year break, the annual Tribute to Peter Tosh concert and a symposium that looks at the life and works of the reggae icon are set to return with the concert on the anniversary of his birth, October 19. (more…)
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Happy birthday Elephant Man and Terry Ganzie
2007-09-12 01:18:00
While hundreds of thousands of Americans make pledges to memorialize those killed on 9/11 by doing something good for others, Jamaicans in the dancehall fraternity are gearing up for Elephant Man ’s Birthday Bash tonight. (more…)
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Threat to Barbee reported to the police
2007-09-12 01:16:00
The Constant Spring Police in Jamaica have confirmed that their investigators have received a statement from the management team of Faith ‘Barbee ’ Jackson-Eselebor regarding a telephone death threat issued on the life of the young singer two weeks ago. (more…)
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CeCile drops Bad Gyal
2007-09-12 01:13:00
The long anticipated launch of Ce’Cile’s Bad Gyal album on the Japanese label outfit ‘Avex’ took place in Tokyo on September 5th. The album is the first for Ce’Cile on the Japanese label and after a successful tour of Europe Japan was ready for her debut. (more…)
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Don Mafia forms own ‘World’
2007-09-12 01:11:00
After being forced out of his ‘Mafia House’ company he claimed to have formed, Don Mafia says he has now decided to finally pick up the pieces and move on. Now, he has formed and registered a new company called ‘Mafia World ’. (more…)
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Mavado teams up with Stephen McGregor
2007-09-09 17:50:00
Ultra-talented teen producer Stephen ‘Di Genius’ McGreg or , arguably one of the hottest producers in the biz, has recorded a single, Road Model with singer Mavado on a brand new hip hop-influenced dancehall rhythm. (more…)
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LUTAN FYAH HOSTS TREAT
2007-09-09 17:45:00
LUTAN FYAH HOSTS TREAT A suh artiste fi represent and give back to dem fans. Das why Spanish Town and Portmore love how Luta n Fyah ah gwaan. The man give back to the community by hosting a treat fi the kids dem inna the Spanish Town area. Memba wen unno give it will come back to unno suh wen unno naah mek it a cuz unno di mean wen unno deh pon top. Big up di new video weh yuh shoot St. Jago Dela Vega it ago tek off trust mi. (more…)
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Fender’s fans want to know ‘Who Dem’?
2007-09-09 17:43:00
Deejay Chuck Fender has penned a new song entitled ‘Who Dem?’ in response to his attack in The Bahamas recently, as he says his fans are ready to defend him. (more…)
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Deejays go for degrees
2007-09-09 17:39:00
Artistes inspire their listeners through their music, but it is few of them who inspire through their actions. Having aspired to higher education, deejays Tanya Stephens and Jeffrey Campbell, aka Assassin, are opening the eyes of others to the value of education. (more…)
More About: Rees , Jays , Deejay , Degrees

Sean Kingston hits from United States
2007-09-09 17:37:00
The name Sean Anderson means very little to most people, but bet your bottom dollar Sean Kingston does. The fact is they are the same person. Sean Kingston is the performer who topped the charts with his breakout single Beautiful Girls, while Sean Anderson is a partially Jamaican raised humble person. (more…)
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Rasta/Patois Dictionary
2007-09-07 17:05:00
========================================= ======================================= Rasta /Pato is Dictionary . ========================================= ======================================= Compiled by Mike Pawka 12/92 Added Phrases Section 11/28/95 Sources moved to the back 01/19/96 Last Update 11/10/06 ----------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- A : prep. to as in "go a shop," from Spanish (7) A GO : aux w/v. going to do, as in "Me a go tell him" (7) A DOOR : outdoors. (5) ACCOMPONG : n. name of Maroon warrior, Capt. Accompong, brother of Cudjo; also name of town. From the Twi name for the supreme dei...