Mavado Archives - Page 6 of 7

Storm Front: New Video for Daseca’s Category 5 Riddim

Words by Jesse Serwer YouTube has been a blessing and a curse for dancehall videos, enhancing their quantity and visibility but rarely their quality. Director Winston Mayhew's visually stimulating work f... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Reggae-Inspired Kicks

Words by Jason "J-Rockaz" Orford Spring is here! Which means Summer will be hotstepping around the corner any minute. While we here at LargeUp have kept our Clarks on for what seems like all winter, we d... Read More...

Cockney & Yardie: Heatwave’s UK Update, March 2011

Words by Gabriel Heatwave First up this month is the tragic news that Smiley Culture, UK dancehall icon and a key inspiration for this column, has died, aged 48. In fact, we're dedicating the whole of th... Read More...

Spring Bruk: Drake and Mavado Onstage at BritJam

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton via Octobers Very Own We TOLD YOU Drake was on some dancehall shit (and then we told you again). Everybody's favorite child-actor turnt rapper turnt singer gave full vent to... Read More...

Pass The Dutch: Federation Sound in Amsterdam

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton The culture snobs over at High Snobiety just posted this lovely black and white Afflicted Yard footage of our doopses from Federation Sound on their recent trip to Amsterdam... Read More...

LARGE UP Exclusive: Drake Threatens to Drop a Dancehall Record

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton So apparently at 5am the day after New Year's your dude and mine Drake sat down with the host of Much Music's Rapcity for the first interview of the relaunched show (please ... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Top Reggae Singles of 2010

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Vado x Mavado = “M.O.V.A.D.O.”

Words by Jesse Serwer Image jacked from The Fader "Vado!" "Huhhhhhhhh" "No, I mean Mavado." We can only imagine how confusing the session for "M.O.V.A.D.O.," Harlem rapper Vado's new collaboration wi... 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...

Sweden’s own Junior Natural and The Uppsala Reggae Festival

Words by j-RockaZ Yes, yes... it's true that Scandinavia is known for that double horned metal hat that Flava Flav won't stop rocking along with some pretty harsh winters. But, the ice-cold peninsula is... Read More...

Wayne Marshall featuring Mavado in “My Heart”

Words by DJ Gravy Back in mid April, we brought the exclusive story on Drake's trip to Jamaica to shoot the music video for "Find Your Love", in which Mavado plays the badman who wants to shoot Drake over on... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Rapper/Deejay Collabos

By Jesse Serwer With Nas and Damian Marley's Distant Relatives set to drop on Tuesday, it only seems right at this moment to look back at all of the important reggae artist/rapper summits that have com... Read More...

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