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Caribbean’s Best Dance Crew?

By Jesse Serwer Photo: Martei Korley Dance crews have played an undeniably massive role in dancehall music for a while now. No Tek Weh Yuh Self, no "Tek Weh Yuh Self," no Gully Creepa, ... Read More...

The Promised Land: From Aswad to Nas

Words by Jesse Serwer As STRONG supporters of the exchange between hip-hop and reggae, we've been eagerly anticipating the arrival of Nas and Damian Marley's Distant Relatives. Proper MC/deejay collabora... 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...

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...

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...

The Bobby Konders Story

Words by Jesse Serwer Bobby Konders could probably be the subject of his own full-length documentary one day. In the meantime, the homey Dan Bruun (director of the Skerrit Bwoy doc, Temporary Sanity) recen... Read More...