Posts Tagged ‘Gaza’

Kartel did write an open letter to Carolyn Cooper, “Dear Ms. Cooper, Good day to you and i hope you are in the best of health and the highest of spirits, but I am not. “Ms Cooper as you know i am in jail on numerous charges and i’d like to tell you that i [...]

Chromatic Sound just released their second All Popcaan Mix called YIY Change and it’s kinda, uhm, raw? Strange? Different? Anyway, Popcaan seems to be one of this artists that you love or hate. Nothing inbetween, just like Root Beer. If you sure you want to check out this mix, you can download the single track [...]

(pic by Peter Dean Rickards) Rob Kenner did a nice feature about Poppy in the latest issue of Complex Magazine. Wha gwaan Popcaan?” The first words uttered on the 2010 smash hit “Clarks” introduced the world to Vybz Kartel’s top protégé. Those same three words can be read as both a question (“What’s going on?”) [...]

Join Popcaan in the kitchen cooking some curry chicken and rice.

Wow, now here’s the real deal, after the ganja charge. Investigators from the Major Investigation Taskforce (MIT) this evening charged dancehall deejay Vybz Kartel with murder, conspiracy to murder and illegal possession of firearm. A news release from the police said that the charges against the deejay, whose real name is Adijah Palmer, were made [...]

Vybz Kartel’s feature  in The Fader. “Bleaching, in Jamaica, can mean one of two things. 1. Applying prescription-only steroid cream for extremely off-label use, leaching the pigment out of your skin cells to create a whiter complexion, or 2. Staying awake until daylight. In the 48 hours I spend chasing Vybz Kartel—who for the last [...]

Every Massive haffi come along!

Jeez, looks like Kartel going real big time now! After his feature in the latest Rolling Stone Issue, his Fader and his Dazed & Confuzed piece, he’s even the topic of a NYTimes article. Over the last few years Vybz Kartel (pronounced Vibes Cartel) has become the most talked about figure in dancehall, a genre [...]