DANCEHALL NICE AGAIN

(Los Angeles, CA/Kingston, Jamaica) BRICK & LACE the Dancehall flavored pop styled duo is re-emerging.  Having spent ample time during 2004 to 2005 in Jamaica focusing hard with promotions and recording on popular riddims, the former group underwent some changes reducing their members from the trio of sisters to the duo.  Further, they solidified a record deal with Geffen Records in America.  With their debut album “Love Is Wicked” completed the girls are ready to take on the world with their new material!  

Brick & Lace’s debut single “Get That Clear” is in the beginning stages of promotions.  It is already available for sale at iTunes. “Get That Clear” is starting to get some buzz going via placement in various regional mixtapes. The song was pre-released to Jamaica last week and is beginning to gain favor with local soundsystems and with some key radio personalities. 

Brick & Lace are also featured on hip hop artist OBIE TRICE’s song “Jamaican Girl”.  The girls are featured in the video which also premiered on BET’s NEW JOINT of the day for Monday, August 14th. The duo is also appearing on the JIMMY KIMMEL show this Wednesday, August 16th with Obie Trice performing the single “Jamaican Girl”. The Jimmy Kimmel show aires on ABC at midnight (check your local listings).

Brick & Lace’s debut album “Love Is Wicked” from Geffen Records is dropping this fall.  Their new website is currently in the works but you can visit and become a member of their myspace community:  http://www.myspace.com/briackandlace

Madhouse/Atlantic recording artist Cham has unveiled details of his eagerly awaited new album, “GHETTO STORY.” The Kingston, Jamaica native’s Atlantic debut hits stores nationwide August 15th.

Produced by Dave Kelly, “GHETTO STORY” is the follow-up to Cham’s debut album, “WOW… THE STORY,” released on Madhouse Records in 2000. Cham’s 2003 released buzz track, “Vitamin S,” was the reggae star’s first Billboard-charting single. Cham, one of the world’s greatest and most successful dancehall DJs, has been hailed a true superstar, a cutting-edge talent known around the world for his imaginative wordplay, creative sounds, and up-to-the-minute news reports of modern ghetto life.

The title track from “GHETTO STORY,” featuring Alicia Keys, saw a 33 percent rebound this week as it jumped back into Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart and bulleted to #22 in the Billboard Rap chart. “Ghetto Story” is also one of the top 5 researched records at both POWER 105 and HOT 97 radio stations in New York.

The music video for “Ghetto Story,” also featuring Keys, began official rotation last week on MTV and BET. Cham’s Makes A Video as well as an appearance on Sucker Free Countdown will air on MTV2 August 20th. He has also been named a “Discover and Download” artist on MTV and MTV2, and “Ghetto Story” is featured on The Leak on MTV2 and MTV Jams. Just last week, “Ghetto Story” aired as a New Joint on BET’s 106 & Park.

 

Radio stations around the country are buzzing about Beyonce’s latest single Ring The Alarm. But we managed to analyzed the song’s lyrics and discovered that Beyonce appears to be sending a message to her rival Rihanna - to stay away from Jay Z.

A few months ago we first reported that Beyonce was uncomfortable with the amount of time Jay Z was spending with Rihanna. Since then, both Beyonce and Rihanna have gone out of their way to publicly deny feuding over the DEF JAM president. But in Beyonce’s latest single, she explicitly warns the teenage diva to steer clear of her man.

In Ring the Alarm Beyonce sings about struggling with a cheating boyfriend. But Beyonce quickly turns her anger from her cheating boyfriend to the other woman. In the first recorded use of foul language by Beyonce, she sings “She’s sold half a million - Gold, She don’t love [you] - that sh@$ I know.” Both of Rihanna’s albums were certified gold (500,000 copies) in the U.S. - falling short of Beyonce’s multi-platinum status.

And this isn’t the first time that Beyonce has used music to lash out against her rivals. After the very public break up of Destiny’s Child, Beyonce (then a member of Destiny’s Child) released the hit song Survivor - attacking her former group members. Among the lyrics were, “You thought that I’d be broke without you, but I’m richer” and “You thought I wouldn’t sell without you, I sold 9 million.”

 Bounty Killer and Ninjaman have reportedly mended their strained musical relationship. “Me ah big man so me go down a Sumfest fi talk to Bounty and Sharon Burke about the foolishness that a gwaan. Mi surprise how him talk to me, him look pon me and say, ‘yu ah mi father, yu shoulden tek no side, yu fi just say what is wrong or right’ and him right. Mi shoulden get caught up in the whole controversy between Beenie and Bounty, Killa ah mi son, Beenie ah
mi nephew, mi nah tek no side inna dem argument.

But Killa fi know say when one woman gone, put on a smiling face because a prettier one out there waiting,” Ninjaman will be performing on August 3, Dancehall Night on Reggae Sunsplash 2006. “Right now, mi a try bring back the love and unity in the business and the return of Reggae