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Media Watch: Musical Youth on TV One’s ‘Unsung’

Words by Jesse Serwer Most everyone knows Musical Youth's "Pass the Dutchie" (even Homer Simpson's referenced it) but few have any idea what happened to the British-Jamaican kid group after their 1982 sm... Read More...

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...

Nightlife Stulla: Mavado’s New Venture

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, Photos via KingstonStyle Dancehall star Mavado stepped into a new role as nightlife mogul this week, launching the new weekly bashment Stulla Wednesdays at New Quad with sp... Read More...

Major Lazer’s Diplo and Skerrit featured in new Blackberry Commercial

Words by DJ Gravy While Diplo was known as one of the most influential DJs a few years back, the success of his Reggae / Dancehall / Electro hybrid project, Major Lazer, has definitely put him and its me... Read More...

Free Download: RepJA x Kardinal Offishall x Dre-Money

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton RepJA, our other favorite purveyors of yard couture, have been making big moves since we caught the vapors with their fresh Girls Dem Sugar and Nuh Behavior tees (repped by ... Read More...

Foundation Tune: TOK’s Guardian Angel Program

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, photo by Martei Korley Though ghetto musicians have a longstanding tradition of giving back to the communities they come from, lately the bar for philanthropy has been rais... Read More...

Visual Culture: Wax Poetics Reggae Issue

Words by Jesse Serwer Our friends at Wax Poetics have focused their attention on reggae before but for the first time they've devoted an entire issue to Jamaican music from the front page to the back. I... Read More...

Rapper Metis returns with Demarco for Round II

Words by DJ Theory We recently premiered the new Metis single "The Grind" f. Busy Signal here on Largeup, which got some good feedback from our readers. For those who wanted more and for those just catc... Read More...

Mighty Arrow, 1949-2010

Words by Jesse Serwer As the Jamaica Observer and other outlets have reported, the great Montserrat calypsonian Alphonsus "Arrow" Cassell, a/k/a Mighty Arrow, passed away Wednesday following a battle wit... Read More...

Belle Kingston: New JA Women’s Line!

Words by Erin Hansen ::: photos courtesy of BaseKingston Despite the sometimes overtly male-dominated styles of the dancehall, until recently, Jamaica was lacking a proper men’s boutique, causing most st... Read More...

MJB meets Gyptian inna Jerry Wonda style

Words by Jesse Serwer Considering the grip that "Hold Yuh" has had on urban radio the last few months, it was only a matter of time before R&B artists and rappers began tapping Gyptian for cameos. Ac... Read More...

Burton x Bob Marley Snowboard

Words by DJ Gravy We've known for a long time that reggae, dreads, and the island lifestyle are a tremendous part of the skateboard, surf and snowboard culture. While hip hop and rock genres have dominated t... Read More...