For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

The Kingston, Jamaica native's music speaks to his life journey, while prioritizing messages over melody and rhyme schemes ...

Dancehall is a Jamaican genre of music with deep roots in reggae. Sean Paul, one of the world's most popular dancehall artists, breaks down some of his favorite tracks to ever come out of the genre.

Ghanaian dancehall heavyweight Stonebwoy has once again proven why he remains the undisputed king of reggae and dancehall in ...

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 ...

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Appearing via a nifty sample (a fairly uncommon practice for Lorde) of his 2014 single, “Morning Love,” Daps’ voice ethereally ...

Jamaican media personality and cultural expert Fae Ellington is condemning several dancehall artistes for what she described ...

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 ...

Dancehall artiste Caboowie is expressing concern about the frequent incidents of violence among school children. “You see how ...

Ewart "U-Roy" Beckford, who transformed the Jamaican art of toasting, or deejaying, from a sound system phenomenon into a hit-making art form that deeply influenced generations of dancehall artists as ...