Category — Reggae News

Elephant Man demonstrates the tribute dance for Usain Bolt, The Lightining Bolt Dance.

The tributes are still coming in:

Coco Tea’s Olympic Tribute

ELEPHANT MAN - USAIN BOLT NAH LINGA

KONSHENS - WINNER [OLYMPICS 2008]

Previously: Do Di Usain - Sheldon Senior

Busy Signal is featured on the cover of the latest issue of The Fader.

Free Download : The Fader issue #56

Busy Signal is set to release his new album on VP Records, “LOADED” on September 23rd.

VP Records is proud to announce the release of Busy Signal, arguably the hottest and most versatile lyricists currently in dancehall. On his groundbreaking sophomore album Loaded, in stores September 23rd, the leading Jamaican deejay unleashes an arsenal of progressive hits that could ultimately redefine dancehall.

This eagerly awaited landmark contains #1 smashes like “Jail”, “These Are The Days”, “Unknown Number” and “Wine Pon Di Edge” that are dominating the dancehall scene worldwide despite their obvious difference in style. This is one of Busy’s trademarks and displayed throughout Loaded. His sense of fun and mischief is allowed full rein on tunes like “Wine Pon Di Edge,” “Hey Girl”, hip hop/dancehall hybrid “Tic Toc” and “Cool It Baby,” which Busy programmed himself.  Yet it’s his powerful commentaries on the ghetto lifestyle, like “These Are The Days” that have lent Busy Signal’s art its raw edge, and made him into such a potent mouthpiece for the disenfranchised youth of Jamaica and beyond. “Knocking At Your Door”, “People So Evil” and “Curfew”, are the latest examples of this, whereupon real life and his talent for storytelling combine to often spine-chilling effect.

Download:

Tic Toc - Busy Signal

Hear the album sampler:

Loaded - Busy Signal

Jah Cure has a new album on the way through Danger Zone and Sobe Music.  

Siccaturie Alcock, better known as roots singer Jah Cure, drops his anticipated new album, The Universal Cure, September 9 on Danger Zone/SoBe. The album is his first recorded work since his release from prison in 2007 and includes collaborations with Sean Paul, Busta Rhymes, Enrique Iglesias, and others. Album track “Journey” is also on the Journey Riddim compilation, available via iTunes on August 19.

Via Pon Di Wire

You can check out his latest single “Journey” via The Fader

When Buju Banton came to Madison Square Garden a couple weeks back, he had me shaking my head when he said that black people around the world don’t own anything of importance. So nods go out to Buju for putting out his own music on his own label:

Gargamel Music is very proud to announce that our newest compilation, Buju Banton Presents: Jamrock Classics Vol. 1 (GGM 0164), will be available in stores and online in the US and Canada tomorrow — Tuesday June 3rd.

Produced by Banton at his Gargamel Music studio in Kingston, Jamrock Classics Vol. 1, features stellar guest turns from the legendary Pinchers, George Nooks, Terror Fabulous, Ghost, Jah Cure, Yami Bolo, Tony Curtis and Lutan Fyah. The boss actually blesses the album twice - with Gargamel artist New Kidz on the deadly combo “Curfew” and also with the timely anti-gun tune “Cowboys,” which has been receiving outstanding reviews at home and abroad.

Jamrock Classics Vol. 1 is the third compilation from Buju Banton’s blossoming Gargamel Music label. The project will be officially released on June 30th in Jamaica and the Caribbean, the UK and Europe. Hear tracks from the album @ www.myspace.com/gargamelmusicinc