Nah Let Go: Gyptian Takes a MOBO Award

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Thought you should know: our boy Gyptian just received his first international award since busting in a big way with "Hold Yuh," taking the  ceremonial statuette of stacked ... Read More...

El Juidero: New Rita Indiana LP & Video

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Dutty Artz Speaking of the Dominican invasion, remember when we put you up on Rita Indiana? Well she just dropped an a new full length album called El Juidero and it is... 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...
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Purple Craze: Vashtie Kola x Air Jordan

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Trinidad's trendiest daughter, Vashtie Kola just unveiled her official redesign of the Air Jordan Retro 2 in a gal-friendly lavender shade with metallic silver details--in t... Read More...
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2000Tone: Wayne Lotek x Prince Jammy

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Seen Wayne Lotek--Australia-based rudie, Roots Manuva collaborator, producer of 2009 Mercury prize winner Speech Debelle and the evil genius behind the recent Dead Rast... Read More...
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Top Honors: Alan “Skilly” Cole

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Former Jamaican footballer Alan Cole, better known as Skill or Skilly, was honored by the Jamaican Football Federation last week on the occasion of FIFA president Joseph Sep... Read More...

Outposted: Chris Blackwell’s Jamaica

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via The New York Times Just in case the news caused you to frown up on Jamaica lately, the boss of all news bosses (the NY Times) ran this travel feature last week, trailin... Read More...