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Sting might be on everybody's lips but Mavado and Serani are making their marks on the Billboard Hot R&B Hip-Hop Airplay chart. Mavado's So Special is in its fourth week on the chart at number 53, while Serani is playing No Games at number 55. Previously, the two songs, which are on TJ Records' 'Unfinished Business' rhythm, enjoyed heavy rotation on New York's Hot 97. The artistes' manager, Julian Jones-Griffith, said a lot of promotion was done to help get […]

Growing up without a father didn't impact negatively on the life of 23-year-old Okeefe Aarons. He, however, developed a special bond with his mother despite having to relocate from Kingston to St Elizabeth at an early age. "My mother built a house in St Elizabeth and we moved there when I was young. My mother wanted to leave the garrison because of the violence. During that time I developed a special bond with my mother. Right now she's my biggest […]

Time magazine has just named their Person of the Year, and it's not surprising that President-elect Barack Obama takes the prize, after becoming the first African-American to win the oval office. The magazine's managing editor, Rick Stengel, made the announcement during Wednesday's "Today" show. "He hit the American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order," Time reports in its cover story. If Time wasn't enough, Obama graced […]

Maino is the underdog everyone in New York wants to win. He has the street cred, he's done jail time, and he's smacked a few different rappers. Overall, he's a guy you don't wanna mess with. He's one of the new guys in New York, but as he says in a recent interview with Complex, he's not trying to bring the city back. Maino wants to usher in new faces. "There's no representation of the new New York -- it's […]