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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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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