For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

Before Kartel, Lila Iké, Keznamdi, Jesse Royal and Mortimer face off for the 2026 best reggae album Grammy, check out Billboard’s ranking of the 10 Best Caribbean Albums of 2025.

In our newly minted FADER Five column, we ask the artists and producers orbiting our universe to riff on a theme and serve up five gems of their choosing. Gyptian is a figurehead of the roots revival ...

The announcement is accompanied by a new video for her latest single, “Romantic,” featuring another popular Jamaican upstart, dancehall star Masicka. Produced by Jamaica’s Dunw3ll and British-Ghanaian ...

It is a strange thing to be a Jamaican artist trying to break into the American music scene in 2017. For many American listeners, their knowledge of reggae begins (and ends) with the name Marley ...

Since the release of his 2017 project Good Life, Collie Buddz has been steadily gearing up to drop his upcoming third studio album Hybrid. This year, Buddz has shared "Legal Now," an ode to legalizing ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The reggae world is mourning the loss of one of its most cherished voices—Cocoa Tea—who passed away at the age of 65. Known for his smooth voice, uplifting messages, and undeniable ...

In 1966, the Maytals won the first Jamaican Independence Festival Popular Song Competition (which they won again in 1969 and 1972) with Toots’ breakthrough song, “Bam Bam.” The song, later reprised as ...

Pop-music history is filled with dreamers who came and went, leaving behind just enough to scramble a latter-day listener’s sense of what was once possible. In 1967, the Jamaican record label Sunshine ...