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Entries from September 2007

Happy Birthday Mr. Vegas

September 30th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Happy Birthday Mr. Vegas

I spent Saturday trying to confirm if it was in fact Mr. Vegas’ birthday with no luck, but I checked yardflex.com and they are also saying it was his birthday so with two confirms, I’m going to chime in. Happy Birthday Mr. Vegas aka Clifford Brown (which also happens to be Method Man’s real name). [...]

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Forty Strong - Tornado Feat Wayne Marshall

September 29th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Forty Strong - Tornado Feat Wayne Marshall

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Geisha - China Wine (Wyclef, Elephant Man, Tony Matterhorn)

September 29th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Geisha - China Wine (Wyclef, Elephant Man, Tony Matterhorn)

OK, we went to Latin America….let’s go to China now!

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Richie Stephens ft Jigsy-Love Me Forever

September 29th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Richie Stephens ft Jigsy-Love Me Forever

A nice blend of dancehall and latin flavas! Richie singing in Spanish is muy caliente!

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Lady Saw Live in Concert Tonight in Dallas

September 29th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Lady Saw Live in Concert Tonight in Dallas

If you are in Dallas tonight then you can catch Mrs. Saw in concert. Check out the flier or reggaedallas for more details!

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Taxes and Corruption

September 28th, 2007 by mrsyfa | 1 Comment

Taxes and Corruption

There have been some pretty discouraging reports on Jamaica in the news lately, regarding business taxes and the perception of corruption in the country. According to a recent article on Jamaica Gleaner.com, the 2008 Doing Business Report published by the World Bank, cites that most companies in Jamaica are paying more than half of their [...]

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Jimmy Cozier-You

September 28th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Jimmy Cozier-You

Ok, this is the last video for today (unless I find something else:)). Anyway, I can’t remember what magazine I was reading (or maybe I was watching TV) but I remember Jimmy Cozier saying that he was no longer on J Records and was going to go back to his roots (I didn’t even know [...]

Tags: Did You Know They Were Jamaican? · Jamaica · Reggae · Video


Duane Stephenson-Fairy Tale

September 28th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Duane Stephenson-Fairy Tale

Wow, what a beautiful voice and video. Duane Stephenson is the writer of Jah Cure’s “True Reflections” and is a great singer in his own right. His latest album release is titled, From August Town and available now on VP Records:

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Beenie Man-These Streets/Mama Cry

September 28th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Beenie Man-These Streets/Mama Cry

I found this today while doing my normal “yawd research”. I’m not sure who it is that’s singing back-up, but she sounds great. In spite of it all, Beenie’s still putting in work, as is D’Angel, she’s featured on the remix of No One by Alicia Keys. As soon as I get wind of it, [...]

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Happy Birthday Robbie Shakespeare!

September 27th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Happy Birthday Robbie Shakespeare!

54 years ago today, the world welcomed one half of what would become one of the most influential reggae production teams ever, Sly & Robbie. Robert Shakespeare was born in Kingston, Jamaica on September 27, 1953. In the mid 70’s he began working with Lowell “Sly” Dunbar and together they rocked the landscape of reggae [...]

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She’s Royal-Tarrus Riley

September 26th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

She’s Royal-Tarrus Riley

If you haven’t seen this video or heard the song, shame on you! It is even in rotation on VH1 Soul’s Island Soul, which is one of the few new videos they play. I really like this song and the video is nice and makes me wish I were in JA right now. You can [...]

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The Afflicted Yard and Peter Dean Richards

September 26th, 2007 by mrsyfa | 1 Comment

The Afflicted Yard and Peter Dean Richards

Several weeks ago I was surfing the internet looking for Jamaican magazines when I stumbled upon (what I believe is the now defunct) First Magazine. I initially had two reactions: #1 I missed out what looked like a beautiful and culturally informative magazine and #2 The photography was breathtaking. I also got excited because this [...]

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Sean Kingston’s Freestyle on G4

September 26th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Sean Kingston’s Freestyle on G4

This has been floating around the internet, so I thought you guys might like to hear it:

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Foreva-Wayne Wonder pt II

September 25th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Foreva-Wayne Wonder pt II

So, I run out and take care of my errands and stop by Best Buy to pick up Jill Scott, Keyshia Cole, and of course Wayne Wonder. I ask the guy in the music section if they even have a reggae section because Best Buy has really scaled back on their reggae, so of course [...]

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Wayne Wonder-Foreva

September 25th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Wayne Wonder-Foreva

I’m excited today, there is a ton of hot music dropping! A couple of weeks ago, it was all about the 50 cent and Kanye face off, well for the rest of us who prefer something on a lighter lyrical note, today is the day. Just some of the albums dropping today include, Keyshia [...]

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Paid Not Played

September 25th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Paid Not Played

After a day of hard work improving the site, I felt like traveling down memory lane with Buju, ’cause we all want to get paid and not played!

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The Salt-n- Pepa Show

September 24th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

The Salt-n- Pepa Show

Salt-n-Pepa have re-united for their new upcoming series on Vh1, the Salt-n-Pepa Show. Salt-n-Pepa was the first all female rap group and stayed on the charts during the late 80’s and early 90’s with hits like Push It, Shoop, and What A Man. The group disbanded in 2002 and both ladies admit that they have [...]

Tags: Did You Know They Were Jamaican?


Kim Gottlieb-Walker

September 22nd, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Kim Gottlieb-Walker

I am a very visual person and love photography which is why I always try to include some form of multi-media in my posts. With that being said, Kim Gottlieb-Walker is a photographer based in LA who takes some awesome photos and has photographed everyone in reggae from Bob Marley to Lee Perry (and has [...]

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Happy Biirthday Shari Belafonte

September 22nd, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Happy Biirthday Shari Belafonte

A renowned actress and the daughter of Harry Belafonte turns 53 today. (Her paternal great grandmother is from Aboukir, St. Ann) Happy Birthday!

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Bun Him- The Novel

September 22nd, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Bun Him- The Novel

My husband hated when I used to sing this song (I mean what man does like it?),but I couldn’t help it, it was so catchy and Blacker in the background combined with Macka’s pleas just cracked me up. Well, for those who loved the song, enter now… what is being deemed the first “dancehall novel”, [...]

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Jerk Chicken Friday’s

September 21st, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Jerk Chicken Friday’s

OK, so when I’m in JA I always look forward to Fridays because in the little area where my husband is from there is this guy named Buta, and he makes the best jerk chicken ever and he always hooks me up with the best pieces (I like to think it’s because I’m special but [...]

Tags: Culture · Food · Jamaica


Alaine-Rise in Love (the official video)

September 21st, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Alaine-Rise in Love (the official video)

OK, I guess I didn’t look too well for this video the other day, ’cause I was able to easily locate it today. Here’s the official video, but I’m leaving the other one up too ’cause I like the pictures in it.Enjoy!

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Sean Kingston’s Me Love

September 20th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Sean Kingston’s Me Love

Congratulations to the 2007 MOBO Best Reggae Artist winner Sean Kingston, here is the latest release from his self-titled debut album, Me Love:

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The 2007 MOBO Awards

September 20th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

The 2007 MOBO Awards

The 2007 Mobo Awards took place last night in London at the Oz Arena and Jamaicans ran the place (as the hosts anyway). The show was hosted by reggae star Shaggy and London R&B artist Jamelia (also of Jamaican descent). The MOBO’s are under the radar for most of us Americans (which is truely a [...]

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The Bob Marley Estate vs Verizon-No Permission, No Redemption!

September 20th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

The Bob Marley Estate vs Verizon-No Permission, No Redemption!

Verizon wireless struck a deal with Universal last month to become the sole provider of ring tones from the Marley catalog, the Marley estate was instantly up in arms over what they perceived to be trademark infringement and an effort on Verizon’s part to work around them. On Thursday September 13 both Verizon and the [...]

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Alaine- Rise In Love

September 19th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

Alaine- Rise In Love

I’m a big fan of Alaine Laughton, after years of having only Fiona in my female singer’s repertoire I was ecstatic to discover this beautiful new voice some time ago. Alaine first appeared on the entertainment radar in the US when she appeared in the 1998 movie, Clara’s Heart alongside Whoppi Goldberg. While working by [...]

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"Dat mus be Delephant, not Elephant." (Elephant vs Diddy??)

September 19th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

"Dat mus be Delephant, not Elephant." (Elephant vs Diddy??)

I can’t belive this mess has even been floating around cyberspace all week, but since it is let me weigh in with the truth of the matter, straight from the Elephant’s mouth. A popular US gossip website reported that Elephant Man got the better of Diddy during a recent altercation at Bad Boy headquarters over [...]

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First Come, First Losers

September 19th, 2007 by mrsyfa | No Comments

First Come, First Losers

I think this is so apropos concerning yesterday’s blog:

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Anything you can do, wi can do better.

September 17th, 2007 by mrsyfa | 1 Comment

Anything you can do, wi can do better.

The Jamaica Star reports that Andrew Melbourne, a local merchant in Trelawny has “hacked” the iPhone and enabled it to now be used on a local network. Mr. Melbourne reports that it only took him two days to accomplish the feat, which in comparison to the hundreds of hours that teen George Hotz of the [...]

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Favorite Sites

September 12th, 2007 by mrsyfa | 1 Comment

Favorite Sites

JamaicaStarYardFlexMuzikMediaJamaicaGleanerOutaroadAfflictedYard

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