Boomshots

Category: Outernational

Crossover and outside of core

  • HEAR THIS: Wyclef & Mavado “Hold On” (Crossroads)

    Refugee Warrior And Gully Gaad Link Up To Make Conscious Thug Music

    Wyclef and Mavado have been building for a while now & this mournful yet uplifting tune is the best thing they’ve done together so far. Pree this… (more…)

  • Jimmy Cliff Up For The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

    15 Years After Bob Marley, A Second Reggae Artist Is In The Running

    “Very few single albums can be said to have changed music forever,” reads the official Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot entry for Jimmy Cliff, who’s in the running to be inducted in 2009, the 25th year of the Hall’s existence. “Jimmy Cliff’s The Harder They Come is one. The album—and the movie that spawned it—introduced reggae to a worldwide audience and changed the image of the genre from a cruise ship soundtrack to music of inspiration and rebellion.” (more…)

  • WATCH THIS: Heavy D “No Matter What”

    The Overweight Lover Inna Rub a Dub Style—Big, Bad, and Broad

    Yes big man—run things fe years without tears and fears. (more…)

  • “I’ve Got The Handle, You’ve Got The Blade”

    Neighborly Dispute in BK Becomes A Case of Mackerel vs Machete

    Major Mackerel, dancehall’s undisputed champion of bugged-out sound effects, wound up on the wrong end a swinging sword yesterday morning in Brooklyn. (more…)

  • EXCLUSIVE: Vivian Blake Speaks

    Back In Jamaica, The Former Shower Posse Boss Is Making Movies.

    “No interviews please” Vivian Blake returning to Jamaica on January 29, 2009.

    After spending eight years in U.S. prison on federal racketeering and drug charges, Vivian Blake was escorted back to the land of his birth by U.S. Marshalls along with 51 other deportees just over seven months ago. The former Shower Posse Boss spent his time behind bars developing his skills as a writer, and plans to tell his stories on the big screen. In his first interview since coming home, he tells Boomshots.com about his plans for the future. (more…)

  • WATCH THIS: Sean Paul “Press It Up”

    New Single From Imperial Blaze Is All About Dutty Dancing

    Sean Paul’s latest video just dropped and this one’s all about the fatulous buffulous eye candy on display… (more…)

  • HEAR THIS: Steely & Clevie Top 12

    From Studio One To Studio 2000, Dancehall’s Dynamic Duo Did It All


    Steely’s untimely death this week leaves an enormous void that can only be filled by more tunes. At times like these all we can do is say a prayer for the man’s family and loved ones, and honor his legacy by returning again and again to the music he loved so deeply. (more…)

  • WATCH THIS: Major Lazer “Pon De Floor”

    Skerrit Bwoy Stars In a Dazzling Digital Daggering Dramarama.

    First time we heard it on the Major Lazer album, we thought it was a Kartel tune called “Bestest Wine,” but looks like Di Teacha nah represent for da one yah. So them send for the one Skerrit Bwoy. Him well fit and flexible, but mad, sick, head no good. (more…)

  • Tarrus Riley Spreads The Reggae Virus

    “Much Better Than The Swine Flu” says Tarrus, a Singer On A Mission

    Today’s Sunday New York Times calls Tarrus Riley a “Reggae Singer With A Legacy, A Following, And A Mission.” I know this because I wrote the blasted piece. (more…)

  • Mr. Cee Says Squash The Beef

    A Hip Hop Legend says “Caribbean Music Can Be A Monster,” However…

    I got a chance to reason with a Hip Hop Legend last Friday, the one and only Mr. Cee. Depending on the depth of your knowledge of hip hop culture, you may know Cee as Big Daddy Kane’s DJ, or as the man who recorded the demo tape that got Biggie Smalls his deal with Puff Daddy. Or you may just know him as the influential radio personality at New York’s #1 radio station, Hot 97 FM. Besides playing great hip hop and R&B, Cee has been influential in helping break many dancehall records on the international market. Hot 97 plays more reggae than most of the urban format stations in America. So I had to ask him the $64,000 question:

    You were involved in hip hop before it was a major major money industry. Do you feel like reggae can ever reach that same level of prosperity internationally? It seems like it always stays in the grassroots and in the underground moreso than rap.

    AND THIS IS WHAT HE SAID. “I know that reggae probably can be just as lucrative or just as successful as hip hop is, or maybe even beyond. I know that it could. But the one thing that’s the biggest downfall for reggae right now…

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  • WATCH THIS: Reasoning with Sean Paul

    The Dutty Don speaks about his latest album, Imperial Blaze.

    Another Boomshots.com Xclusive. Sean Paul on artists fighting against artists: “This little sticks and stones shit with music,” says the multiplatinum, chart-topping, Grammy-winning DJ. “I don’t cater for it.” (more…)

  • DUNGLOAD: Elephant Man & Drake “Worst I Ever Had”

    Elly & Black Chiney flip Drizzy Drake’s girls anthem in a different stylee.

    The ladies are loving Drake’s tender summer banger “Best I Ever Had.” But now Elly’s taken the tune to a whole other place.

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