PURRREEE HEART ooh oooh ooh ooooh!!!! I dont want this song to end. The Black Keys kill this shit, this is music I can listen to any day of the week!!!

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Did you see the Documentary award on the Oscars, Sunday? A film producer, Elinor Burkett, ran up on her former co-worker and director of the documentary, Roger Williams, and took over the acceptance speech. Apparantly, she used to be a part of the production but Williams shut her out before they had finished. Here’s more about it:

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This video was posted on a dancehall forum in response to a fewKartel haters. Some people really take the ‘fan’ thing too far and end up being more of a groupie, so far are they for one side that they would wish death on the other. Everyone who follows any type of music where clashes or battles are involved has seen or knows a fan like this. Come dead wid laugh afta dem:

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Nearly every part of the world is exposed to reggae music but dancehall on the major global radar is still an upcoming practice. Here is a dancehall party that you missed if you were in Poland these past weeks. The show starred the touted “Pimps of Dancehall 2010″ – Splendid Sound, Jasna Liryka, Silesian, Junior Stress, Dreadsquad

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Badu at Jazz Fest was Hit or Miss… Either you were screaming for her or shouting for her to come off the stage. One of the most intense experiences for me!! Her music is so powerful and her performance was really the sultry, woman-around-the-microphone-with-her-drink, jazz experience that I love her for!!!

The people up front loved her!!!! And her liquid leather leggings, stiletto booties, top hat and slogan tee had them going crazy. Erykah Badu has a real big bumper and by the time the crowd (mostly women) recognized they were shouting “Erykah tun roun mek wi see yuh batty!!!!!!”, TURN AROUNDDD!!!!!”for the last 10 minutes of her set. I dont think she recognized that whole time that the crowd was so interested in her body.

Great one for Jazz and Blues Fest!!

Billy Ocean at Jazz n Blues 2010

Legendary Pop Star Billy Ocean wooed all the Caribbean Queens in the audience with his timeless hits. Ocean was born in Trinidad to Grenadian parents and grew up in England, but as of Jazzfest he became an honorary Jamaican and apologized for taking so long to return.

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Lisa Hyper and Queen Paula clash onstage at the Settlement held in St Thomas, Jamaica this weekend. Who do you give the win to

No one can do it like Ms Adu and her band

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Sade stopped by “Late Show with David Letterman” Tuesday to promote her new album “Soldier of Love” with a performance of its title track.

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Watch this interview and performance of Sade on the Today Show recently.  She jokes about staying out of trouble which refers to her 1997 arrest in Jamaica for speeding away from the cops.

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Damon Williams is still a teenager and has already learned how to invest and collect return on his money. A great example of how young men can be wrongfully stereotyped because of the way they look or how they dress; he is not a sneakerhead flossing for material wealth, he’s learned how to turn that into making himself a shareholder in Nike’s company and now he’s worth more thousands of US dollars than even most 18 year olds.

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This song is no doubt BET and MTV2 ready!!!! ‘Vado and Stacious can take this one global mainstream if dem have the means and the teams to shub it out. And seeing that it has the mark of Big Ship records (yes, Freddie McGregor’s big ship is still sailing on the ocean with his children Shema, Chino & Steven as the prodigious fresh faces of dancehall/reggae 2.0) I think they can get some proper airplay in the states. All if dem remix it and throw a hot rapper or 2 on it… MAAAAAD!!!!

Amidst talk of Mavado being robbed a second time in Canada (while in studio recording dub plates in Scarborough, Ontario), he and Stacious put on this blazin performance

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Sade, who turns 50 on Jan. 16, will embark on her first tour in nearly a decade to promote the Feb. 8 release of “Soldier of Love,” her sixth album and first new disc since 2000’s “Lover’s Rock.”

So far, the singer will roll through Europe in March, then, head to the States in April and May, reports Live Daily. More details are to be announced in the coming weeks.

The title track of “Soldier of Love” has already been released to radio and online, and its music video has just premiered at Amazon.com and other video outlets.

The clip is filled with images of mysterious dancing commandos, swirling red smoke and racing clouds overhead. Watch:

Big Up to my bredrin Howie who put me on to this short documentary on the Jamaican dancehall and how it is the one space where uptown meets downtown. Watch it and then check out the straw that broke the camels back with dancehall deejay Spice herself

CVM had this to say about Buju

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I thought this was kinda funny. Seeing that it almost 2010! Big up to dude for being this brave!

You know rugby- that sport that kinda like American football but more European; fashion folks will know Ralph Lauren has been making a lot of money from clothes inspired by rugby gear these past couple seasons.

A Reggae singer is getting some flack in South Africa and France for singing the South African anthem off-key at a Rugby event.

South African flag

The performance of the singer, Ras Dumisani, ahead of a Nov. 13 rugby match between the South African and French national teams, was criticized by the South African Rugby Union, players, the national coach, political parties and newspapers. The embassy said it had the name of only one South African singer in France and forwarded this to France’s rugby union. The South African Rugby Union said it was “shocked and horrified” by the rendition, in a statement on its Web site.

The South African flag was also displayed the wrong way around, an error noticed too late to be rectified, it added.Dumisani, who lives in France, was born in Durban, South Africa

Dumisani is now giving interviews all over South African radio to prove that he knows the words to the anthem, can sing and is a reputable artist.

Here’s the video of the Ras singing the anthem at the game. Check out the faces of the players Some are trying not to laugh, others are mad, some are just like WTF??? Then the commentator pulls that snide remark as Dumisani is shoutin “RAAAAASTAFARIIII!!!”

(Antony Sguazzin)

Have a Laugh! Check out big mama here shakin it up to some Kartel. Unfortunately the chair was shaking too and eventually…. well you know the rest

Check out this video I came  across while listening to ‘Vado “Shi Beat Him”

This girl was gunnin’ for all of these dudes! He found her bent over but she’s wrong and strong. Homegirl was ready to take on 3 or 4 men at once.  The internet is now calling her the ’Trini Rihanna’, but I thought Rihanna was the abused and not the abuser… hmmmmmmm?????

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