The gun culture in our music had taken hold and would have a negative influence on generations of young Jamaicans. Recently, a 50th birthday party was held for world-famous Jamaican DJ Bounty Killer.

Violent dancehall has a lot of profanity, glorifies guns and degrades women,” Morgan said. “Not all dancehall promotes violence, but it’s the songs with raunchy lyrics that get played.” ...

Dancehall and reggae music is in trouble as yet another one of its stars is doing battle with the law. As previously reported Buju Banton was arrested December 10 after police say he conspired to ...

Dancehall songs can roughly be divided into two self explanatory categories, gun tunes and gyal tunes, and gun tunes dominate the tap-dancehall style that’s reigned since Kartel’s been away.

This kind of personal animosity among dancehall artistes exacerbates the violence that encompasses dancehall. The degeneration of reggae music that began in the 1980s and plunged to nadir depths ...

Brigadier Jerry is a Jamaican Dancehall icon. He's been caught up in a mess of gun and robbery charges after a card game in Connecticut, where he lives. He's been arrested and there is some ...

General Secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Glynis Beaton is sounding a warning about the normalising of violence through music, saying dancehall has been preaching the ...

Reggae/Dancehall Fresh Picks of the Month: Hector Roots Lewis, Nailah Blackman, Jahshii, Adam O & More. Listen to 10 new must-hear reggae, dancehall and soca songs by Yung Bredda and Lu City.

But the saga of dancehall’s self-proclaimed “Worl’ Boss” might not be over yet. Michael Dawson, a business associate who co-authored Kartel’s 2012 book The Voice of the Ghetto and has ...