Vibes, flavour and dancehall energy lit up Reggae Sumfest Festival Night One as patrons filled the Catherine Hall ...

This rise was captured in the movies. Babymother (1998) — known as the first Black British musical — and Dancehall Queen (1997), lay bare the struggles of dancehall queens.

Listen to 10 new must-hear reggae, dancehall and soca songs by A!MS, Ding Dong and Collie Buddz. By Kyle Denis After several false starts, summer finally seems to have settled in. That means music ...

If rap music is the CNN of black America, dancehall reggae is the equivalent for ghetto youth in Jamaica. Since first emerging in the late '60s, Jamaican DJs (the reggae version of hip-hop's MCs ...

But I feel dancehall in the UK isn’t what it was back in the '90s. I think there are elements of dancehall you hear in all forms of UK music, especially jungle, grime, and garage as it is heavily ...

Blender doesn't see the difference between dancehall and roots reggae as a battle of fighters versus peace lovers but a matter of generational taste. "Dancehall style is really for a younger type.

The dance element of dancehall shouldn’t be overlooked, with dance crazes playing just as important a role as the riddims themselves (and often being directly linked to each other). Cited by Beenie ...

The King of Dancehall wants y’all to put some respect on the genre’s name. Beenie Man has taken issue with the tendency that some people have of referring to dancehall as “bashment”.

Discover great music, picked just for you. Updated every Wednesday. While it sounds somewhat similar to the “New Release Mix,” Discover and its odd number of songs (49) is mostly focussed on ...

Even if it wasn’t directly dancehall, acts like Top Cat lent that bashment flava to the genres of the time like Jungle and Garage. But in the 2000s I personally believe there was a lull.