Church wants lewdness stopped
The Jamaica Council of Churches has become the latest addition to the ongoing debate surrounding the purification of Jamaican dancehall music, with the organisation calling for a further ban to be placed on street and community dances, which perpetuate the playing of sexually crude and explicit songs.

The umbrella church agency has further […]

Jamaican prof ’sounds like he has a vendetta’
St Vincent soca crooner Kevin Lyttle and Bermudan reggae act Colin “Collie Buddz” Harper have both come out in support of soca music, following recent controversy over statements made by Jamaican lecturer Dr Kwame Nantambu during an interview on a Jamaican radio station.
Speaking to the Express from […]

San Diego Reggae Sound Systems and Culture

Reggae music and culture in San Diego doesn’t stop with the Tribute to the Reggae Legends concert. It continues with the sound systems spinning the tunes, the restaurants creating the Jamaican cuisine and specialty shops providing the culture.
A little history, during the 1950s in Jamaica, a speaker box, […]

Rapper Lil Jon goes soca

Lil Jon is known to the hip-hop world as the King of Crunk, a hit-making rapper and producer. What they probably don’t know is that his musical journey began as a dancehall selector on the now disbanded Four Seasons sound system in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.

Now, the entertainer whose real […]

A Tribute to The Reggae Legends

For 28 years San Diego reggae fans have embraced, nurtured and grown the Tribute to the Reggae Legends Festival (formerly Bob Marley Festival). They co-exist as one, united.

Reggae concerts were once rare in San Diego, as artists preformed only in major cities populated with West Indian people. Makeda Dread Cheatom […]