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I did a feature story on Beenie Man at Hip Hop Lives Online, check it out here.

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I want to say thanks to Wordpress expert Mahtab Ali, who has helped me SO much this past couple of weeks to get my site up and going. I’d made some coding errors and couldn’t fix them and he stepped right in and fixed them all, plus some. So, if you have a Wordpress site [...]

The Royals recently visited the Caribbean and Jamaica was one of their stops, they visited Falmouth, Kingston, and Montego Bay amongst other Jamaican cities while there.

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Although Rita Marley is the executive producer of the biopic that will highlight her life with Bob Marley, the family is refusing the production company, the Weinstein Company, access to Bob Marley’s catalog of music. Why? It’s reported that a competing documentary on Marley’s life, which will be directed by Martin Scorsese, is the source [...]

I did a feature story on Mavado on Hip Hop Lives Online at HHLO.net. Check it out here.

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Michael Campbell, aka Mikey Dread died on Saturday, March 15th, 2008 in Connecticut. Mikey Dread had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2007 and is survived by 6 children.
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The recent downfall of Audiomaxxx (not familiar with this scandalous site, then click here) brings to the forefront a common issue for all recording artists alike, but especially reggae artists. How can artists “eat a food” when their music is being copied and bootlegged at home and around the world with no credit or profits [...]

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Alburn Edward Blake, the suspect who shot five people including himself on last Monday, was born in Jamaica according to reports by several media outlets. 60-year-old Blake walked into a West Palm Beach Wendy’s fast food restaurant, and began to open fire on patrons at random, killing a paramedic and finally himself. Blake was [...]

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The NY Daily News is reporting that 8 members of a Bronx gang that sold an alleged $1 million in marijuana every week were convicted on Wednesday in federal court. It is reported that the gang used the money from their marijuana sales to fund John Shop Records, a reggae record label that featured artists [...]

The Bronx apartment building where Clive Campbell, aka DJ Kool Herc, moved to in 1973 after immigrating from Jamaica and the official “Birth Place of Hip Hop”, has been saved from being sold to real estate investors. The deal to sell the 100-unit apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue was rejected by the Department of [...]

Leader of the Nation of Islam, and one of the most charismatic and controversial black leaders of our times, The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is a full-blooded West Indian. Louis Eugene Walcott was born on May 11, 1933 in the Bronx, NY to a mother who was a native of St. Kitts and Nevis and [...]

I wrote a piece on Jamaica’s struggle with various social and economic issues at The Coup Magazine this week, you can check it out here.

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Alex of the group TOK (featured on the left in the picture above), lost his father this week. After suffering a stroke and a subsequent heart attack Derrick McCalla died on Saturday. This is the third recent loss for Alex, his brother Gavin was murdered and his death was the motivation for TOK’s most successful [...]

Both artists visited Houston this month, visit SoulRebelProductions.com for more pics.

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