Popular dancehall artiste Moses 'Beenie Man' Davis will have to wait a while longer to find out the outcome of his tax evasion trial as it was put off again, yesterday. Three witnesses testified in the case yesterday. Two of whom were from the Inland Revenue Dept., while the third was the person who served the summons. However, no major breakthroughs have yet been made in the case and only basic procedures to bring the matter to trial were addressed. […]
Dancehall's ace female deejay, Marion 'Lady Saw' Hall, recently apologised to her local fans for her absence this year from the premier reggae festival, Sumfest. Saw will be taking the summer to explore Europe, where she will be on a month-long promotional tour. "We will be hitting the ground running," she said. "It will be three and a half weeks of promotion for a project I am working on, and I am really looking forward to it," she said. Saw […]
The Associated Press reports the rapper (born Earl Simmons) was picked up about 1:30 p.m. on Monday (June 23) by Miami Dade County Police. Authorities, who had an arrest warrant for Simmons for not having a valid driver's license, took the Yonkers, NY entertainer to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Institute. According to a spokeswoman, Simmons remained behind bars at about 5:30 p.m. The rapper's bond was set at $500. The arrest is but one of a string of recent encounters […]
Artists: Nas and DJ Green Lantern Representing: Queens Mixtape: The N----- Tape 411: "This sh-- is gonna have the streets right [and] have the streets ready for the album." 'Nuff said about Nas' new mixtape, The N----- Tape. Nas and DJ Green Lantern recently forged one of the best street CDs this year. Nas had to go through his vault and give up some rare and unused vocals to the Evil Genius, who created soundscapes around the words for soil-burning […]
There was a lot of 50 Cent drama last week. You had his legal woes with his ex over the amount of 50's fortunate she feels she's entitled to, and the war of words with former G-Unit member Young Buck. After addressing the leaked phone conversation on Hot 97, 50 took it upon himself to record a video, via ThisIs50.com, to explain the situation even further. In the video, upped to the internet over the weekend, the G-Unit founder reveals […]
Earthy empress Etana got it right when she dubbed her newly released debut album The Strong One. For, while the title aptly speaks to the twenty-something's moniker which means 'strong' in Swahili, it also says loads about her musical prowess. Born Shauna McKenzie, the singer was introduced to the local stage as a background vocalist for Richie Spice before taking her 5th Element affiliation a step further in 2005 when she recorded the breakout single Wrong Address (track 15). But […]
The police have refused to grant the promoters of Finish Line a permit because violent clashes they say may develop between headliners Mavado and Vybz Kartel or their supporters. Finish Line: The Summer Edition, was scheduled for today at the Palisadoes Go-Kart Track. However, Superintendent Assan Thompson of the Kingston Eastern Police Division said he had not granted permission for the event to be held in the division. "I have received intelligence that persons appearing on the event are likely […]
Singer Bar-Bee, who was yesterday (Thursday) released from hospital, says as soon as she gets some rest, she will be returning to Jamaica. The singer spoke with THE STAR in a telephone interview shortly after her release from a private hospital in New York. "I got out of the hospital this morning (Friday), but they (doctors) were really concerned about the hit to my head on the windshield - but I'm okay now and happy to be out. The hardest […]
Singer Bar-bee is now in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a New York hospital after being involved in a motor vehicle accident on Friday. Bar-Bee was in a coma for two hours after the accident. Her Mercedes-Benz car was totalled. Reports are that the singer was in the passenger seat of the vehicle, being driven by a female friend, travelling along the Taconi Parkway en route to the Jamrock Reggae Fest at the Hammerstein Ballroom, NY, where she was […]
A MEMBER of Mavado's almost 30-strong entourage who travelled with the popular dancehall artiste to Saturday's Digicel Jamaica Derby at Caymanas Park is now behind bars after assaulting a policeman in the racetrack's official car park. Fans were ecstatic throughout the artiste's performance, some lighting newspapers in the stand on a day of record turnout at the racetrack in Portmore, St Catherine. However, it was while Mavado and his entourage were leaving the track that things got really heated. Reports […]
