Toppa Top 10: Soca Jams of 2010

Compiled by Rishi Bonneville, DJ Gravy, Jillionaire and Eddie STATS Houghton It is the end of year that ends in '10, so you can forgive us if we go Toppa Top 10 mad and just post Top 10s from now til 201... Read More...

One Pop: Rihanna & Robyn Go Yardie

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton As Jamaican artists combine their auto-tune production values and post-BET influences into a sound that is increasingly JA rap or Island Pop, it seems like the rest of the w... Read More...

Crop Over: Win a Trip to Barbados!

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Caribbean Fever You have read the headline correctly. Caribbean music Icon (and my Brooklyn neighbor) Davhed Levy is offering you the chance at a free trip to Barbados ... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Caribbean Footballers

Words by Jesse Serwer Four years ago, the hype in this part of the world—Brooklyn—was all about Trinidad's Soca Warriors, then making their first ever World Cup run. T&T didn't qualify this year, n... Read More...

Top Rum: Top 10 Caribbean Rums

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton— Fools have been making moonshine from different forms of sugar since caveman days but the particular process of fermenting molasses--making alcoholic gold from the by-p... Read More...

Rihanna Licks A Shot Like Brap!

Posted by Dwane Rich & DJ Gravy Barbados born pop star, Rihanna, first debuted on Def Jam with her Dancehall meets Pop hit, "Pon De Replay" about 5 years ago. The song referenced several dancehall cr... Read More...

Matzah For I

Words by Martei Korley Synagogue in Bridgeport, Barbados. We at Large Up are by no means the first to recognize the feast of the Passover. However, we definitely wanted to do so, LU-style, with a sele... Read More...