Now Things: Listen To The Best New Caribbean Sounds on Apple Music
Our weekly guide to the best new island jams features fresh sounds from Stefflon Don, Tifa + Rygin King
Double Barrel: Reggae Samples and Hip Hop Classics with DJ Gravy + Corey Chase (Mixtape)
The history of hip-hop is deep with sounds borrowed from Jamaica.
Heds & Dreds: Six Rap Tracks Featuring Sizzla
Words by Jesse Serwer—
Mavado's appearance on Rick Ross' latest, Mastermind, is hardly surprising. Now based primarily in Florida, the Gully Gad is signed to Ross affiliate DJ Khaled's We The Best stable, ... Read More...
Three The Hard Way: Sizzla, Capleton + Anthony B. Find “The Formula”
Words by Kieran K. Meadows—
This has been a pretty good year for music from Sizzla Kalonji. This spring, he dropped his latest LP, The Messiah, which included the stand-out lovers tune "Good Love", which... Read More...
Pose Off: The Story of Screechy Dan
Words by Jesse Serwer, Photos by Mark Dixon—
"Prospect Park is like a home away from home," Robert "Screechy Dan" Stephens says of the massive park at the center of Brooklyn, ground zero of New York's ... Read More...
Murder Dem: 50 Cent Channels Ninjaman on “Murder One”
Words by Spliffington—
A reinvigorated 50 Cent hopped back to life yesterday, reverting back to the old cross hangry miserable 50 we know and love with the new mixtape, The Lost Tape. One track in particul... Read More...
Toppa Top 10: Ten Trini Rappers Besides Nicki Minaj
Words by Jesse Serwer and Rishi Bonneville—
Without a doubt, Saint James, Trinidad native Nicki Minaj is the most influential and accomplished Caribbean-born rapper to come along in many years. But Nic... Read More...
Toppa Top 10: Ten Reggae Make-Up Songs
Words by Jesse Serwer and Sherman Escoffery
Earlier today, we brought you a Toppa Top 10 with some of our favorite reggae/dancehall tunes about breaking up. Well now that you've got all those tears out... Read More...
Throwback Thursdays: DJ Autograph on Foxy Brown and Baby Cham’s “Tables Will Turn”
Words by DJ Autograph—
During the 90s Dave Kelly's Madhouse records and its sub labels dominated the dancehall scene with hit riddims such as Showtime, Bruckout and Stink. Cham, then going by Baby Cham, ... Read More...
Toppa Top 10: Rapper/Deejay Collabos
By Jesse Serwer
With Nas and Damian Marley's Distant Relatives set to drop on Tuesday, it only seems right at this moment to look back at all of the important reggae artist/rapper summits that have com... Read More...
Toppa Top 10: Reggae Samples In Rap Songs
Words by Jesse Serwer
Hip-hop's been borrowing from reggae since Jamaican-born Kool Herc updated the soundsystem throwdown for his new home in the Bronx. But the reggae references, both sonic and other... Read More...
Double Download: Nikki Minaj x Cam’Ron x Foxy Brown x Gyptian
words by Eddie STATS Houghton
Right after new rap sensation Nikki Minaj jumped on the Gyptian's "Hol' Yuh"--fast shaping up to be the Brooklyn anthem for summer 2010--old rap sensation Cam'Ron jumped on ... Read More...