In May, 2017, I attended Jive Zimbabwe’s online music sales event at the Jameson Hotel. This was hosted by The Jive Zimbabwe director, Benjamin Nyandoro who brought Soul Musaka aka Soul Jah Love. Jah ...

Since the late nineteen-seventies, the streets of Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, have been decorated with ad-hoc placards promising quick, transformative thrills. The signs—hand-painted on ...

If you’ve never been to a sweaty dancehall and witnessed daggering, well, you’re in for a treat. Insight traveled to Jamaica to capture the crazy dance craze first hand. Titled “Split Your Jeans, But ...

Reading the Jamaica Gleaner this week, I fell upon an article announcing the fact that six of the 10 records in the Billboard Reggae chart are by non-Jamaicans. Nothing against Matisyahu, but given ...

Dancehall artist Kalado made an already extreme dance way more extreme. Watch him go so hard daggering this woman that she gets KO’d.

The genius of Sister Ignatius was to embrace rather than moralise about the culture of Jamaica's streets. Picture a group of Jamaican teenage boys standing around a pair of speaker towers, taking ...

Writer Attillah Springer blogs her most recent newspaper column, comparing the Trinidad and Tobago government's annual budget presentation with the violent “daggering” trend in dancehall music. Global ...