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So, Canada Can Dance: SYTYCD x Dancehall

Words by Erin MacLeod So You Think You Can Dance is not a TV show. It's a global phenomenon. With twenty versions of the contest airing worldwide, the program has showcased a huge range of different styl... Read More...

Cockney & Yardie: Heatwave’s UK Runnings, July 2011

Words by Gabriel Heatwave Gappy Ranks is continuing to lead the way for UK dancehall reggae acts around the world. His world tour has been blazing up everywhere from San Francisco to Sydney and Miami to ... Read More...

Throwback Thursdays: Snagga Puss, “Tatie”

Words by Jesse Serwer Ralph McDaniels' Video Music Box gets its due credit (especially from me) for being the first hip-hop video show but it was also the only place in New York (and, as such, probably a... Read More...

Lime Time: Jamaican TV Goes “In The Dance”

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton— Next month the Jamaican network TVJ will premier their new show In The Dance--shot at Kingston's famous Quad nightclub--which adapts a Soul Train-like format to the ever-fl... Read More...

Bus Can Dance: BlackGold Crew Demonstrate the “Nobody Canna Cross It”

Words by DJ Gravy, Photo by Georgia Blake If you go to dancehall parties in New York City, you've surely noticed this dance crew called BlackGold. They're seriously out repping their squad like nobody's ... Read More...

Video: Clifton Brown, “Nobody Canna Cross It (Di Bus Can Swim)”

Words by Matei Korley and Jesse Serwer Clifton Brown has the most talked about tune in Jamaica right now but we doubt his name rings too many bells. You see, Brown isn't actually an artist but a rural w... Read More...

Behind The Seen: Vybz Kartel x Dre Skull’s “Go Go Wine” Video Shoot

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Mixpak I don't want to boast (much) but I was just in Jamaica, parring with Vybz Kartel and Brooklyn producer Dre Skull as they prepared to release their summer album p... Read More...

Bashment Alert: Rice & Peas 4-Year Anniversary

Words by LargeUp Crew It's hard to believe time's gone by this quickly but tonight marks the fourth anniversary of New York's Rice & Peas bashment. We're not just saying this because R&P mastermi... Read More...

Bruk Up: Reggae Dancing Workshop X History Lesson

Words by Jesse Serwer When the earliest B-boys were first getting busy on the linoleum floors of the Bronx in the 1970s, no one would have imagined that "hip-hop dance" would one day be offered at every ... Read More...

LargeUp Exclusive: Preview of New Natalie Storm Single, “Hotta”

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton The newest member of the LargeUp extended editorial family, Natalie Storm is clearly not planning to give up her day-job as a dancehall queen and become a full-time garrison... Read More...

Post-Game: Trinidad Carnival Roundup

Words by Eddie STATS Houghon and Jillionaire, via The Guardian UK Through the kind links of our UK correspondent Gabriel Heatwave of the London-based Heatwave crew Jillionaire and myself were tapped to p... Read More...

Post-Game: The Sights & Sounds of Haiti Kanaval

Words by Erin MacLeod and Etienne Côté-Paluck It’s Mardi Gras, but Haiti’s been partying for quite sometime. From mid-January, every Sunday there have been pre-Carnival—or Kanaval—parades. Marching bands... Read More...