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Rookie of the Year: Exclusive Gappy Ranks Interview & Music

Words by Jonathan Cunningham Yes, we're launching a new series of LARGE UP profiles, this time focusing on freshman (and freshgal) artists coming up in the ranks of dancehall, soca and all the other sphe... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Natalie Storm, 77Klash, Red Rat, Kevin Lyttle, Shinehead + More

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Happy Monday. Ugh. We wish we could upload a steaming mug of Blue Mountain coffee and link it to you but that technology is still being tested. We can, however, beam out a f... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Caribbean Artists Nicki Minaj Should Collaborate With

Words By Jesse Serwer Not on the list After much anticipation, female-rapper-of-the-moment Nicki Minaj dropped her debut LP Pink Friday last week to mixed reviews and brisk sales. We couldn't help but not... Read More...

Hotel Microphonia: Irie Life x New Era

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton When you were a kid did you ever imagine living in your own dream-hotel? You know kind of like The Shining, except instead of being almost empty (except for weird twins, Sca... Read More...

Menage a Quois? Rihanna x Nicki Minaj x American Music Awards

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, photos via FADER In case you missed the American Music Awards Sunday night, not only did our favorite Bajan gal done good Rihanna take the trophy in a category which put he... Read More...

Visual Culture: Animated “Bad Influence” From Mental Chung

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Jamaicans.com West Indian animator Reinardo "Mental" Chung of Mental Chung Creative Lab has been generating lots of attention in the past month or so with the release o... Read More...

Erupisode: Rolling with Mr. ‘Click Mi Finger’

A LargeUp Exclusive Webisode - Words by Jesse Serwer, Photos and Video by Martei Korley, Edited by Perry Levy Erup emerged seemingly out of nowhere (actually he had the backing of some key players in Tru... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Jillionaire, Walshy Fire & More

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton We get laced with so much good music around here that sometimes we forget to share. And then sometimes we have to tie a package of music into a bundle and post it just to ma... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Diwali Rhythms!

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton and Rishi Bonneville That's right. We are hitting you with a one-two Indo-Caribbean combination of boomshots, in recognition of the fact that today millions (billions?) of p... Read More...

Wingless Angels: Exclusive Keith Richards Interview

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton About the time that Germany was trouncing England out of the FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa this past summer, Sir Keith Richards hit me up via cellphone and told me a... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Spooky Reggae!

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton This year Halloween fell on a weekend (sorry, it had to be said) and Subatomic Sound and J. Rockaz have inspired me to compile this top 10 list of spooky reggae jams to drop... Read More...

LargeUp TV: Now Things with Maluca

A LargeUp Exclusive Webisode - Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, photos by Martei Korley. Video by Martei Korley, edited by Noah Workman. We decided to launch our new Now Things series--focusing on cutting ... Read More...