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Busta Rhymes took home the night’s biggest honour at the 2023 BET Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award, handed to him by Swizz Beatz. The 12-time Grammy Award nominated rapper, producer, and pioneering hip-hop figure is widely regarded as one of...

Keyshia Cole will relive her mother’s addiction and death in her new biopic. The 41-year-old singer makes her acting debut in the Lifetime movie, Keyshia Cole: This Is My Story, which will also share the story of her late mother’s death from an...

Blair Underwood has married Josie Hart. The 58-year-old star and his long-time friend tied the knot at the Casa de Campo Resort and Villas in the Dominican Republic on Saturday. Reflecting on their wedding day, Underwood told PEOPLE: “The first...

Considered by many to be a leading light in the gospel arena, Stronger singer Kevin Downswell has been working assiduously behind the scenes and is ready to unveil his album Grace, plus a bonus album, The Shift, on July 1. Last Wednesday, he...

Dukes of Roots, the new movement that celebrates roots reggae music, has teamed up with multi-award-winning country music star Darius Rucker for their new single John Punch. The song explores the story of the first slave in the United States and...

A rigorous getting-ready-for-the-Olympics type of training session is now an integral part of daily life for Freddie McGregor. But the veteran reggae singer is not complaining; in fact, his heart is full of gratitude to the Most High that he is in...

On Sunday, June 25, starting at 2 p.m., the Jamaica Music Museum will host a programme honouring the memory of the late Rastafari elder, leader and visionary Douglas ‘Dougie’ Mack at the Institute of Jamaica’s Lecture Hall, on East Street in...

LOS ANGELES (AP): Rapper-singer Doja Cat — the Grammy Award winner, fashion muse, and creator of many TikTok hits — is set to embark on a 2023 North American tour this fall. Doja Cat will be joined by song of the summer contender Ice Spice and up...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP): Rapper Kodak Black is facing another arrest in South Florida after a warrant claims he missed a drug test that was a condition of bail in a drug case. According to a warrant issued last week by the Broward Sheriff’s...

A former reggae music manager, Linda Smith Isaacs, who once managed reggae singer, Gregory Isaacs died at home in the United Kingdom last Wednesday, her business partner confirmed. She was 74 years old. “Linda passed away on June 21 at midday,”...

Veteran music promoter, Wayne ‘Lonesome’ Brown, is gearing up to organise his first ever two-day festival dubbed the Run Tings Festival, which will be held this weekend in Toronto, Canada. “We are trying to keep the music and the culture alive, it’...