Toppa Top 10: Drake’s Most Dancehall Moments
All the ways October's Very Own has shown love to Jamaican culture.
Toppa Top 10: Junior Reid’s Best Cameos
The reggae ambassador has appeared on records by artists from Wu-Tang to the Soup Dragons. Here's some of our favorite JR cameos.
VIDEO: Busta, Tip, Yeezy + Weezy Get Grateful On “Thank You”
Words by Natalie Weiner —
Jamaica is bringing the heat to mainstream hip-hop this week—first there was Shabba Ranks' appearance on the remix of the A$AP Ferg track named for him, and now there's the video fo... Read More...
For Di Man Dem: Watch Nyla’s New Video “Stand Up”
Words by Emily Shapiro, Photo by Gary James—
In April, we had the pleasure of chatting with Nyla Thorbourne, one half of the Miami-based dancehall/pop sister duo, Brick & Lace. After changing the spe... Read More...
Toppa Top 10: Ten Haitian MCs Besides Wyclef
Words by Jesse Serwer—
As many Haitians who've grown up in the United States will tell you, there was life BTF and ATF—before the Fugees and after the Fugees. Prior to The Score and Wyclef dropping Kre... Read More...
We Ah Di Best: DJ Khaled x Mavado Medley Video + Khaled’s Reggae Roots
Words by Jesse Serwer—
As you may have heard, Mavado has joined DJ Khaled's We the Best Music Group and, by extension, the YMCMB empire. After releasing his first track through the new situation in Decem... Read More...
Double Selection: Sean Paul x Alexis Jordan + Rihanna x Wayne Marshall
Words by Eddie STATS Houghton
Not sure if dancehall is getting more island pop or all pop music is getting now mostly dancehall. Either way Sean Paul seems like he might be back in toppa pop 10 form with... Read More...
Bananas Clip: Lil Wayne x Harry Belafonte
Words by Eddie STATS Houghton
If you are on your rap grind you probably hearda this new-brand Weezy track which is burning up the webosphere but we couldn't let a weird interpolation of Caribbean folk mu... Read More...
Toppa Top 10: Pop Music Catches Reggae-itis 2000-2010
Words by Jason "J-Rockaz" Orford
Reggaeitus--it's contagious! In the last decade there has been a growing pattern of songs that included (or attempted to include) elements of reggae. A slice of reggae pi... Read More...
Demarco “Shows” Commercial Strength
Words by DJ Theory
Demarco's new video "Show It" (ft Craig from Voicemail) has broken through the tough outer skin of commercial Hip Hop/R&B (and god forbid reggae) in the states courtesy of its rece... Read More...
Jovi Rockwell x Puma Present: “Keep It Real” Music Video
Posted by DJ Gravy
Now that we're in the post CD consumer era, it has become clear that major brands with proper budgets ie; not record labels are the answer to artists looking for exposure and... well, ... Read More...
Untwisted: Jovi Rockwell, Flo Rida and Weezy “Fresh I Stay Pt. 2”
Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Photo by Martei Korley
In case you haven't caught the vapors streaming off the blogosphere, the Flo Rida and Lil Wayne collabo "Fresh I Stay Pt. 2" just leaked, featurin... Read More...