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Call Me Shams: Slap-Chop and Sham-Wow, Flatbush Style

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton and Jason "J-Rockaz" Orford, photo via The Smoking Gun Quite possibly you have seen the Sham-Wow or Slap-Chop promo spots starring motormouth pitchman Vince Schlomi--picture... Read More...

Cockney & Yardie: Heatwave 2010 UK Bashment Update

Words by Gabriel Heatwave with additional reporting by Dan Bean After Notting Hill Carnival post-game breakdown and a successful NYC jaunt, our UK lime experts from the Heatwave crew have graciously agreed... Read More...

Stocking Stuffers: Dennis Brown & La Lupe

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton We got to figure that if you're even reading this on Christmas Eve, you are most likely in a mad search for last minute gift ideas. If chocolate is not enough, may we sugges... Read More...

Stocking Stuffer: Rum n’ Raisin Candy Bar Bliss

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We Small Kings: New Passa Passa Book, Exclusive Anicee Gaddis Interview

Words by Erin MacLeod, photos by Allessandro Zuek Simonetti. Last year, just before New Year’s, writer Anicée Gaddis and photographer Alessandro Zuek Simonetti spent an evening at Passa Passa, Swatch Int... Read More...

Grind Mode: Marley Coffee x DeScribe

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton In the past few months we have blogged about the emergence of Marley Organic Coffee and the distinctive mix of Rasta and Hasidic Jewish culture that gives Crown Heights (hel... Read More...

H.I.M. Story: New ‘Holding Onto Jah’ Rastamentary

Words by Jason "J-Rockaz" Orford A little more than a month ago, I caught a stageshow in my home town of East Flatbush, Brooklyn held at Nazareth High School (Go Kingsmen!) and organized by CPR (The Coa... Read More...

Free Up: Natalie Storm Goes Soca on “Nuh Watch Me”

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Good morning! In case you hadn't noticed, Natalie Storm has been killing it this week, taking North America by um, you know. Last Friday she and fellow badda gal Tifa stole ... Read More...

Rookie of the Year: Exclusive Gappy Ranks Interview & Music

Words by Jonathan Cunningham Yes, we're launching a new series of LARGE UP profiles, this time focusing on freshman (and freshgal) artists coming up in the ranks of dancehall, soca and all the other sphe... 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...

Tis The Season: Caribbean Cold and Flu Fixes

Words by J-Rockaz Cold season is upon us and it is high time for some Caribbean holistic remedies for the common cold. If you thought that stuff was all mystical hocus pocus--you were almost right. I mea... Read More...

Visual Culture: Animated “Bad Influence” From Mental Chung

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Jamaicans.com West Indian animator Reinardo "Mental" Chung of Mental Chung Creative Lab has been generating lots of attention in the past month or so with the release o... Read More...

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