This winter proved to be an unseasonably hot one on the Billboard charts. Dancehall reggae stars Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder blazed their way into the American pop mainstream with authentic, sizzling ...

Compiling a guide to all of dancehall and picking only a few songs is a hard a task for mortal men, so I decided instead to focus on dancehall rhythms. A rhythm—or “riddim”—is an instrumental track ...

This is the eighth in a 10-part series looking at the impact of dancehall/reggae culture around the world. ANDREAS Nilson has produced a number of hit songs and ‘riddims’ which have impacted dancehall ...

The FADER's longstanding series GEN F profiles emerging artists to know now. Dense heat rose through a strobe-lit warehouse in downtown Mexico City this October, fusing denim jeans to skin and dotting ...

Jamaicans often say to each other, “Jamaica is not a real place,” as we shake our heads at the beauty and madness of our birthplace. On last week’s episode of Jamaica Is Not a Real Place, a day before ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A development of reggae in the late '70s, but really coming into its own in the '80s with the ...

International dancehall artiste Shaggy is not a fan of how much dancehall is changing. According to the It Wasn’t Me hitmaker, “We’ve tried to fix something that is not broken”. He made the comments ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bodies moving together, floating on water, bouncing to a dancehall beat: that’s the illusion Argentine ...