Rex Invictus
words by Eddie STATS Houghton
Fans of Jamaican music: please take a second to set aside twitter drama and negativity to remember the legacy of Rex Nettleford, who passed away in a Washington, DC hospital... Read More...
Grammy Family?
Words by Jesse Serwer
Burning Spear accepting the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2009
Pumped for the Grammy Awards tonight? I'm not. Year after year, Grammy voters continue to prove themselves ou... Read More...
LargeUp TV: Skateboarding in Jamaica with Nurdz Republic
Words by DJ Gravy
At an Anthony B session in January of 2008, I met a Rasta youth with a skateboard in hand. I was intrigued and started talking to him about it. He explained to me that he and his crew, ... Read More...
Horsemouth in Snow: Vice Revisits Classic Rockers Material
words by Tassos Brekoulakis, photos by Theodoros Bafaloukos, via Viceland
Vice mag just did a nice piece on Rockers director Theo Bafaloukos, including a mumma-lode of stills taken on-set and some be... Read More...
Blood of Haiti Mixtape
Words by Eddie STATS Houghton
When terrible shit jumps off in some other part of the world, the mind automatically goes to the people you know who are there or are somehow connected to it. For many of us... Read More...
Yabby You, 1946-2010
Words By Jesse Serwer
Had it happened any other week, more might have been said about the passing of '70s reggae pioneer Yabby You last Tuesday. But that was the same day the earthquake hit Haiti. News o... Read More...
Haiti steals some space in the Art world
Words by Eddie STATS Houghton
StolenSpace Gallery in London is linking up with war-photographer Jeff Antebi (who shot the beautiful pic on our Yardies for Haiti post) to raise money and awareness in the ... Read More...
Samuel Dalembert steps up for Haiti
Words by Jesse Serwer
As Large Up's resident basketball head, Gravy asked me to speak a little piece about Samuel Dalembert, the Haitian hoops star who's stepped up MASSIVELY for his homeland these last ... Read More...
Bring a mattress to the party! Skerrit Bwoy gets his spot blown up on Jimmy Kimmel Live…
Words by DJ Gravy
So about a year ago (January 09), I ran into Diplo at Santos Party House, he told me about his project, Major Lazer, that was almost complete. but they still needed a few more songs for... Read More...
Yardies for Haiti
Words by Eddie STATS Houghton. Photo by Jeff Antebi
In case you’ve been off the grid, Port au Prince experienced a 7.0 quake on the richter scale yesterday (January 12th), devastating the most populated ... Read More...
Comedian Russel Peters on Growing Up With Jamaicans
Move your Bumboclatt !... Read More...