Posts Tagged ‘Vybz Kartel’

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 [...]

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 has been jailed by the Criminal Investigation Branch on friday, after a certain amount of ganja was found in his raided St Andrew Hotelroom. FOLLOWING THE arrest yesterday of dancehall star Adidja Palmer, who goes by the stage name ‘Vybz Kartel’, head of the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), Assistant Commissioner Ealan Powell, has [...]

Everyones favorite Radio-Voice, Journalist, Dubplate-Engineer and Dancehallqueen Ursula “Munchy Münch did an Interview with Adde Instrumentals from Sweden, the man behind such big Kartel tunes like Summer Time, Bike Back and Open Up, for reggaeville.com. He’s also known from the group Stockholm Highgrades. How did you get to work with Vybz Kartel? I sent two [...]

Dre Skull, Mastermind behind my favorite Dancehall-Album since, uhmm, forever, gets interviewed by MTV Iggy’s Jesse Serwer. Kartel being such a master of self-promotion, what did you learn from him making this album? Just watching him as a songwriter was pretty interesting. I don’t know that it’s a type of learning that I can apply [...]

Lol, Kartel steppin’ in the footsteps of Flava Flav.

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 [...]