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Big Daddy Spragga: Official “Shotta Culture” Video

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Roughly one million years after we broke the news, the next Spragga and Salaam Remi collaboration from the Shotta Culture project has leaked to the inna-net in the form of t... Read More...

Fear of a Black China: Exclusive SupaDups Interview!

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton If you passed him on the street, you might not recognize Dwayne Quin-Chee as the founder of Black Chiney Soundsystem and one of the most influential DJs and producers to eve... Read More...

Kingston Hot: Eve and Biggy Interview

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Seen Our cohorts over at Seen beat us to the draw AGAIN when they posted this great double-selection interview with Eve Manning and Biggy Biggz, creators of the recentl... Read More...

Addis Calling: Reggae from Ethiopia

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton The good people at Addis Tunes--a great resource for EthioJazz and afrofunk of all stripes--just put out the word on a new album project aptly titled Ethiopia Calling from S... Read More...

Surra de Bunda: Brazil Daggers Backward?

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Always our dude for spotting Latin-culture trends as they wing their way northward via the ultimate trans-shipment point of Miami, Walshy Fire was the first to put us up on ... Read More...

Demarco “Shows” Commercial Strength

Words by DJ Theory Demarco's new video "Show It" (ft Craig from Voicemail) has broken through the tough outer skin of commercial Hip Hop/R&B (and god forbid reggae) in the states courtesy of its rece... Read More...

Hipster Homecoming: Vashtie and Theophilus in Trinidad

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, Images by Vashtie Kola Two of our favorite trendsetting trinis, downtown ranking sweetheart Vashtie Kola and avant MC Theophilus London got in touch with their roots recent... Read More...

Cari-Pop Worldwide

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton It's true you reap what you sow; a few months back I gave homie and AfroPop Worldwide producer Wills Glasspiegel some game on dub pioneers who were still amongst the living,... Read More...

Gyptian, “Nah Let Go” Video (Hold Yuh pt. 2)

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton A lot of people have been quietly saying that Gyptian didn't have a record in him worthy to follow-up "Hold Yuh," clearly positioned to be the Caribbean crossover jam of the... Read More...

D.R. to Cannes: Filmmaker Albert Xavier Makes History

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Friends We Love New York-raised Dominican auteur Albert Xavier just made film history by getting his new flick Hermafrodita accepted to screen at the world-renowned Can... Read More...

Kreyol Connection: Mr. OK Raps from Haiti to Montreal

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton One of the (tiny) upsides to the earthquake in Haiti early this year has been an increased awareness of Haitian art and culture and doubly so in the Francophone world. It ma... Read More...

Black Nicaragua: Bluefields Sound Documentary

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton What do pirates, Iran-Contra and reggae music have in common? A Caribbean coastal town in Nicaragua called Bluefields, apparently. Our intrepid Miami correspondent Walshy Fi... Read More...