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Fashion Fridays: Rihanna Lets Her Caribbean Colors Fly at Crop Over

Words by Mikaila Brown— This week Rihanna made headlines while attending Crop Over, Barbados's annual carnival festivities. At first the media attributed her silver, glitter leotard and on-all-fours wuk ... Read More...

Throwback Thursdays: Square One’s “Top Class Bubbler”

Words by Jesse Serwer— Crop Over is just about to kick into full swing, so it only makes sense to take our weekly journey into Caribbean music (video) history down to Barbados. Before she was a solo a... Read More...

Black Gold: Mount Gay’s Black Barrel Rum

Words by Jesse Serwer— Mount Gay Rum, as you may already know, is the oldest documented rum producer in the world. The "Rum that Invented Rum" has operated continuously out of Barbados since—at least—170... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: The 10 Best Caribbean Beers

From the Bahamas to Barbados, here's the best island-made brews.

Blood Runs Deep: Barbados Soca Legend Anderson Armstrong Remixed

Words by Jesse Serwer— Faluma Records, the Carnival Carnival music-focused German label, has returned with an EP featuring remixes of a pair of recent tunes by Bajan soca legend Anderson Armstrong, bette... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: The Best Caribbean Carnivals

Words by Steve Bennett, Erin MacLeod, Jesse Serwer and Jillionaire— It's officially, unequivocally carnival season. Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Dominica, Martinique and Rio de Janeiro are just a few ... Read More...

Combination Style: Beer Meets Rum in Barbados

Words by Jesse Serwer— People have been drinking their beer and whiskey together for years. If you spend time in pubs, surely you've tried or at least heard of an Irish car bomb. These days, there's even... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: The Caribbean’s Best Rum Creams

Hold the egg nog. Nobody does liquor + cream like the islands.

Impressions: The Styles of Miami Broward Carnival

Photos by Jesse Serwer and Simone Serwer— Visitors from New York are a huge contingent at Miami Carnival weekend but the October event (or the Miami Broward One Carnival, as it's known in full) is a whol... Read More...

Check It Deeply: Caribbean Music’s New Dark Side

Words by Jesse Serwer— Haleek Maul is a 16-year-old kid making some of the grimmest rap we've ever heard from a yute. Notably, he's from sunny Barbados, home of Alison Hinds, Ri-Ri and Cropover. Maul was... Read More...

Video: Mr. Vegas x Alison Hinds, “Bruk It Down (Remix)”

Words by Jesse Serwer— If all the be-spandexed Jamaican behinds brukking it down in Mr. Vegas' original "Bruk it Down" video weren't enough for you, Vegas has got you covered in his second video for 2012... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Ten Summer Coolers + Cocktails

Words by LargeUp Crew— Summer never really ends in the Caribbean but, in the rest of the Northern hemisphere, the season officially begins today. Here's 10 refreshing drinks from the islands to keep yo... Read More...

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