EVENT: Chronixx + Junior Reid at Central Park SummerStage
Chronixx delivers a message for his New York fans ahead of his Central Park Summerstage show with Junior Reid July 26.
CONTEST: Win A VIP Package For Chronixx + Junior Reid In Central Park!
Words by LargeUp Crew—
Planning a trip to Summerstage to see Chronixx, Junior Reid, and the Rice & Peas Crew in Central Park? The show is free of course, but enter our contest to win VIP passes for t... Read More...
EVENT: LargeUp + Federation Sound Present Chronixx at Central Park Summerstage (7/26)
Words by LargeUp Crew—
Here in New York, it's almost summer—a.k.a. the season of free outdoor concerts all day, everyday. The granddaddy of them all is SummerStage, the series that turns Central Park (and o... Read More...
Duppies and Vampires: A Haunted Reggae Top 10 For Halloween
Ten classic tunes from the dark side of reggae and dancehall covering vampires, ghosts and other undead themes.
AUDIO + VIDEO: Smif N Wessun x Junior Reid, “Solid Ground”
Words by Jesse Serwer, Illustration by Brian Finn—
If you've been reading LargeUp for a while— or if you came up on '90s rap—you know about Brooklyn rap duo Smif N Wessun's long history of dabbling in re... Read More...
Visual Culture: The Photographs of Pogus Caesar
Words and Interview by Jesse Serwer, Photos by Pogus Caesar—
St. Kitts-born Pogus Caesar has captured the heartbeat of the Caribbean community in the U.K.—and particularly in his hometown of Birmingham, ... Read More...
Seen: Heavy D Remembered in Photos
Words by Jesse Serwer—
A year ago today, the music business lost one of it's all-around good guys and unsung talents in the late Dwight Arrington Myers, a/k/a Heavy D. LargeUp remembered Heavy that day... Read More...
Toppa Top 10: Busta Rhymes’ Biggest Bashment Tunes
Words by Jesse Serwer, Photo via UpNorthTrips—
Here's something you didn't know about Busta Rhymes: back when he was a schoolkid, he used to impress his friends by telling them that he was the Trevor S... Read More...
Heds and Dreds: Bounty Killer’s Greatest Hip-Hoperas
Words by Jesse Serwer
Bounty Killer is dancehall's king of beef. It's fitting that the man who calls himself the Warlord (and who has recently revived his longstanding and somewhat career-defining feud w... Read More...
Throwback Thursdays: Omar, “There’s Nothing Like This”
Words by Martei Korley
Hearing Omar sing over the staccato yet laid-back bass lines of 'There's Nothing Like This" for the first time circa 1990, "This cat's got style" was the only thing that came to mi... Read More...
Toppa Top 10: Pop Music Catches Reggae-itis 2000-2010
Words by Jason "J-Rockaz" Orford
Reggaeitus--it's contagious! In the last decade there has been a growing pattern of songs that included (or attempted to include) elements of reggae. A slice of reggae pi... Read More...
Toppa Top 10: Spooky Reggae!
Words by Eddie STATS Houghton
This year Halloween fell on a weekend (sorry, it had to be said) and Subatomic Sound and J. Rockaz have inspired me to compile this top 10 list of spooky reggae jams to drop... Read More...