This winter proved to be an unseasonably hot one on the Billboard charts. Dancehall reggae stars Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder blazed their way into the American pop mainstream with authentic, sizzling ...

This is the eighth in a 10-part series looking at the impact of dancehall/reggae culture around the world. ANDREAS Nilson has produced a number of hit songs and ‘riddims’ which have impacted dancehall ...

After several false starts, summer finally seems to have settled in. That means music festivals, various carnival celebrations, and the search for a song of the summer are in full effect. “Vybz Kartel ...

HIP HOP was bursting at the seams during the 1990s when Lady Cee became a teenager in Washington DC. Biggie Smalls, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Doggy Dogg (as he was known then) were some of the acts who ...

A decade after he defined the genre in the 2000s, the Jamaican artist is having another moment. He explains how he plans to take dancehall back to its roots I will have some of dat green juice.” Sean ...

“Top ranking” is a phrase so common in the lexicon of dancehall reggae, it could almost be punctuation. That’s not to mention related terms like “highly rated,” “strictly the best,” and “tougher than ...

Compiling a guide to all of dancehall and picking only a few songs is a hard a task for mortal men, so I decided instead to focus on dancehall rhythms. A rhythm—or “riddim”—is an instrumental track ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A development of reggae in the late '70s, but really coming into its own in the '80s with the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bodies moving together, floating on water, bouncing to a dancehall beat: that’s the illusion Argentine ...