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The Bob Marley: One Love - Music Inspired By the Film album has won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album

Presenter Queen Sheba announced the winner during the 67th Annual Grammy Awards premiere ceremony, which was held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 2.

The soundtrack album came out ahead of Collie Buddz' Take It Easy, Shenseea's Never Gets Late Here, Vybz Kartel's Party With Me, and The Wailers' Evolution.

Released in February 2024 via Tuff Gong and Island Records, the 10-track album featured fresh interpretations of Marley's iconic songs, performed by artists like Daniel Caesar, Kacey Musgraves, Wizkid, Leon Bridges, Shenseea, Farruko, Jessie Reyez, Mystic Marley, Bloody Civilian, and Skip Marley

Dancehall artist Vybz Kartel and his co-accused Shawn 'Storm' Campbell, Kahira Jones, and Andre St. John will not face a new trial for the murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams, the Court Of Appeal has ruled in a unanimous decision

On Wednesday, Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop, who leads the three-judge panel with Paulette Williams and David Fraser, announced that their decision was based on 12 factors. The Justice said that while the seriousness and prevalence of the crime weighed in favor of a retrial, there were "several, equally powerful factors, which, when combined, militate against ordering a new trial."

These included:

"the insufficient and inadequate account by the prosecution for the availability of its witnesses and trial exhibits"
"...the time, financial costs, expense and impact on the Court's resources as well as other cases in the queue awaiting trial. We find that this is significant and it militates against a new trial"
"the psychological, financial and medical effect that a new trial would likely have on the appellants"
"the unjustifiable interference with the appellant


constitutional rights to a fair hearing within a reasonable tim

Following the resounding success of two sold-out shows, with over 36,000 concertgoers at the UBS arena in Long Island, New York, Grammy award-winning reggae artist Buju Banton has announced his inaugural Arena Tour, "The Overcomer."

Tour Dates

Aug 23- Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Amerant Bank Arena
Aug 25- Tampa, FL - Amalie Arena
Aug 27- Washington, DC - Capital One Arena
Aug 30 - Boston, MA - TD Garden
Sep 1- Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
Sep 6- Hartford, CT - XL Center
Sep 8- Atlanta, GA - State Farm Arena
Sep 12- Houston, TX - Toyota Center
Sep 13- Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
Sep 15- Phoenix, AZ - Footprint Center
Sep 18 - Inglewood, CA - Intuit Dome
Sep 23 - San Jose, CA - SAP Center
Sep 29 - Chicago, IL - All State Arena
Nov 17 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Cente

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Canadian rapper Drake is the latest to voice his support for incarcerated Dancehall star Vybz Kartel, as Gaza fans eagerly await the Jamaica Court of Appeal's decision on a possible retrial after his conviction was overturned last month.

On Tuesday (April 2), the Passionfruit rapper showed support for Kartel by boasting his very own "Free Kartel" t-shirt with his 146 million Instagram followers.

The shirt, which was hung up on display during a studio session, shows an illustration of Kartel sitting like royalty on a throne with a barely clad female perched at his feet. The slogans, "Free Kartel", "Free World Boss," and "Up 2 Di Time" are also printed on the front - the latter was the name of Kartel's 2003 debut album, which gave us early classics such as Sen On, New Millennium, Sweet To The Belly, Pv$$y Jaw, Why You Doing It, Buss It Off among others

Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel''s conviction for murder has been overturned.The 48-year-old was given a life sentence in 2014 for the killing of Clive "Lizard" Williams on the Caribbean island.His successful appeal, heard by the Privy Council in London, argued that a juror accused of trying to bribe others should have been thrown off his trial.Authorities in Jamaica will decide whether the case should be retried.The musician, real name Adidja Palmer, is one of the country''s most popular artists and has collaborated with performers such as Jay-Z and Rihanna.His 64-day trial was one of the longest in Jamaican history, and ended with Kartel being ordered to serve a minimum of 35 years in jail.This was later reduced to 32-and-a-half years.The trial heard that victim Clive Williams and another man, Lamar Chow, were given two unlicensed firearms belonging to Kartel for safekeeping

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Sean Paul's 2016 song No Lie with English singer Dua Lipa surpassed 1 billion plays on Spotify on Friday (October 6).

This marks his first billion-play track as a lead artist on Spotify, and the fifth Jamaican-led song overall to hit this milestone on the platform.

Paul told DancehallMag that he's humbled by the career achievement. "I've always tried to emulate the greats in the genre. We all learn from our elders. So all I can say is thank you to them for showing me the way. And thanks to the fans, it is really humbling," he said.

Clean Bandit's Rockabye (2018), on which he was featured alongside Anne-Marie, is currently at 1.4 billion plays on Spotify, while his solo hits
Temperature (2005) and Get Busy (2002) are at 712 million and 449 million plays, respectively

Bounty Killer has voiced concern about the quality of the mixing and production of much of the new music being recorded in Jamaica and the mushrooming of "disposable" songs.

Speaking in an interview on CVM Television on Wednesday morning, about his new collaborative Time Bomb EP with producer Dave Kelly and fellow artist Cham, Bounty said it was time for Dancehall to rise to the occasion, especially in light of widespread talk, that the genre is 'leaning on death's door'.

"At this stage of the game, we have to move to another level. Because we are having a lot of disposable music, and people are saying the music deteriorating, and we don't have a stance on the global stage anymore and Afrobeats take Dancehall
spot... We have to make our presence felt right
now. We need to step up to the plate," the Warlord

In October last year, producer JonFX had argued that the advent of the internet had caused experienced producers to be excluded from the music production process, which, in turn, has led to the songs coming out of Jamaica, for the most part being sub-par.

"Social media gave us a lot of ego. That's one. There was a time when artiste use to be humble, wait at the studio. Now you have a guy send them a speaker with a laptop, they have a studio. That's another issue that we have. We have to get into the humility," he said.

The award-winning producer's comments had come while discussing the state of Jamaican music production, in an interview with veteran entertainment journalist Anthony Miller on Television Jamaica's The Entertainment Report, this after Miller suggested that "new artistes will tell you they not going back to where the producers call the shots and tell us what to do."

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