DANCEHALL NICE AGAIN

Jamaican deejays Vybz Kartel and Aidonia are presently being questioned by investigators of Operation Kingfish in the presence of their lawyer Valerie Neita-Robertson, who is representing both artistes.

Last week Tuesday, Operation Kingfish had announced that they wanted to question both deejays with regard to a photo that showed them posing with high-powered weapons. However, the deejays’ lawyer Mrs. Neita-Robertson has questioned the authenticity of the photos and suggested that the photos were even taken outside of the jurisdiction of Jamaica.

Assistant Commissioner Glenmore Hinds, head of Operation Kingfish, is reportedly overseeing the questioning of the entertainers. 

Dancehall superstar Mavado has started the year where he left off; his “On The Rock” track has become an instant hit and coupled with winning several awards, 2008 has jumped off with a bang. Determined to put his charity - Connect Jamaica - to the forefront, Mavado gave away two computers to the Golden Spring Basic School and Stony Hill Junior High on Friday.

“I promised that I would use proceeds form my Real McKoy Birthday Bash in December to buy computers,” said the Alliance member. “The whole country knows what happened with the police conducting their operation that night, which cut the dance very short and caused us to lose a lot of money. However I had made my promise so I had to fulfill it, hence the computers and printers being given away in communities near to the venue in Temple Hall.”

Principal of Golden Spring Basic School, Marcia Mitchell, was over the moon with the donation by Mavado; “When I heard we were getting computers I really had to thank the Lord and know that he really answered my prayers,” she beamed upon receiving the computers and printers. “We have 165 children at the school and I don’t even have a computer in my office. I usually have to write everything in a book for administration so it will be good to come into the age of technology. The children will be using it also so Mavado’s donation will have double benefit. Not many people remember the little ones so for him to do this is truly special We are so thankful to him.”

The children of the Golden Spring school made a huge Thank You card for Mavado to show their appreciation.

Stony Hill Junior High Principal Earl Samuels ensured the whole school was assembled in the playground to show their appreciation to Mavado. As these children are of an older and more impressionable age group, Mavado gave them a motivational speech about the necessity of education and staying in school.

“We live in a world that is run by technology so make sure you are computer literate,” he urged. “Education is the key so stay in school and do you best to learn while you are here.”

Even though they consistently claim that they are not together. Beenie Man is notorious for his red-hot infatuations over the years: Carlene, former dancehall queen, Dancehall Queen Stacie, the African model girl, that high-profile politician’s daughter, his wife D’Angel, (former love of his nemesis Bounty Killer), and now it appears that it may be Barbee’s time for Beenie-fatuation. Wish dem all the best.

MILK AND LIQUID KETCH A FIRE
Is there love in the air again between Milk and Liquid? I accidentally caught them at the airport inna one big piece of hugging and touching. Are they back together? Maybe ah the braces pum pum ah draw him back? Or maybe we are just being naughty and this is just a very close friendship? All mi know is that old fire stick ketch quick, and mi see Milk ah big up Liquid pon her Valentine’s programme pon CVM, so wah really a gwaan? 

DJ FLAMES NEW HAIRDO
Why did DJ Flames change her do? That’s what the streets are asking. She cut off the locks and have in a mad new hairstyle. People ah talk say is because she ah go through a rough breakup, but mi no get the full story yet. You can see her new coif this weekend where she is gonna be emceeing “Red Rose Affair’ at the Bogue Industrial Center, Palm Estate, Mobay featuring Gregory Isaacs, Ken Boothe, Flourgon, Daddy Lizard and White Mice on Sat. Feb 16. It ah go mad.

NEGRIL SPRING BREAK LAUNCHED LAST NIGHT
Father Dozer looked pleased last night at the large industry-wide turnout for his Spring Break show in Negri. Ms. Kitty was the emcee for the night and she set the tone with her wit and verbal zingers. The guest speaker was talk show hot Ragashanti, and there were performances from artistes such as Sizzla, Capleton, Fyakin, Junie Platinum and Konshens. The Couture models were in the building and they wowed the men with some super-sexy oufiits that had them salivating on Valentine’s Eve.

QUESTION TIME
What a way Julia Braham and producer Casper tight? Dem go everywhere together, mi see dem lock up at Special Delivery last year. The way dem close, not even air coulda pass through them and mi feel say a special delivery from the stork could be in store before 2000 and love end.

Which big female artiste ah fly in fi spend Valentine’s wid Courtney John?

Is there any chance that Sidonie and Ele will get back together? And what happen Sushana? And Tamara?

Ah true say Red Rat and Stacious deh?

When will the White Gadd and Toya tie the knot? Him love her bad, yu shoulda see how she mash up over Stone Love the other night pon the stage inna one black pon the river, yu shoulda see her ah wine, mad. Ah da wine de get her the PT Cruiser.

How Killa have so much girl? If Valentine’s was his day, him woulda go bruk, as the man leave one session, him put a girl pon a taxi and go meet a next one at a session. If him de Asylum and him see a girl him like, him send home the one him did a par wid and log onto the new one. Killa ah the man!

MADE FOR EACH OTHER BIG UPS
Big up Addi and Shorty, almost a decade and still going strong. Big up Ninjaman and Wendy Brown, oonu define real love. Da’Ville and Baby Blue. Liquid and Milk, the sparks are flying again. Wayne Marshall and Tami Chynn, when is the wedding? Raz and Rudie the singer. Lady Saw and John John, a love for the ages. Buju Banton and Lorna. Sean Paul and Jinx, bootie got him hooked after a chance encounter at the airport five years ago. Mad Michelle and Toddler still going strong.

Deejay Vybz Kartel and his daughter, Adi-anna did a DNA test on Tuesday of this week to determine the paternity of the child. Kartel and his estranged babymother, Sherika Todd reconcile their differences on Monday and agreed to conduct the test which was done at a private lab. The couple had been at loggerheads for the past two weeks, with their argument spilling over into the daily papers.

For her part, Ms. Todd is looking forward to clearing her name once the DNA test results are produced within three to four weeks.

“Then he had better apologize to his daughter and to me,” she said in an interview with One876Entertainment.com.  “If Adi-anna is a jacket, he is going to have to wear it till it squeeze him.”

In the meantime, Vybz Kartel, in a statement issued through his publicists, said a DNA test would provide conclusive evidence whether he had fathered Addi-anna, and erase any lingering doubts.

“I have three sons and I love them so much I would rather die than allow them to suffer and I am willing to accept Adi-anna with open arms, but as in any lifetime commitment, one has to be as certain as possible as to the validity of such a commitment before embarking on that path. An example of this is marriage so Sherika and I spoke and she has agreed to let the accuracy of science determine the outcome,” Kartel said.

“After which, if the results are in the positive I will fully and gladly accept my duties as a father to my daughter. Everyone and their friend knows that I am a very loving, kind, caring father and very protective of my children and I would never leave them wanting or allow them to grow like bastards. I just want to be certain and I’m saying this presumptuously on behalf of every man on the planet…except Michael Jackson.”

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the record store… here comes Greensleeves Rhythm album 87- the Airwaves Rhythm.
 
Brought to you by Dane “Fire Links” Johnson - one of the biggest sound system selectors in Jamaica - who has previous hit rhythms with `Mad Instruments’, `Chakka Chakka’ and `Government’.
 
`Airwaves’ rhythm built by Daseca, the hit making squad responsible for the Anger Management rhythm, and hits like Mavado “Dying” and Busy Signal “These Are The Days”
 
`Airwaves’ has been one of the biggest rhythms in recent times, with hits like Beenie Man “Product Of The Ghetto” and Bounty Killer “Nuthing Nuh Change”. Also featuring cuts by Buju Banton, Busy Signal, Elephant Man, Perfect, Macka Diamond and many more…19 killer cuts of dancehall mayhem.

Tracklisting:

01. Beenie Man - Product Of The Ghetto

02. Idonia - Di Sound

03. Busy Signal - Borderline

04. Assassin - Bout K

05. Zumjay - War Fa

06. Anthony B - Informer

07. Vybz Kartel - Knock It

08. New Kidz - One Way

09. Kiprich - Long Talk

10. Macka Diamond - Hot Gal

11. Firelinks - Up Inna Di Video

12. Perfect - Hand Up

13. Tina - Curious

14. Bling Dawg - Network

15. Buju Banton - Promotion

16. Elephant Man - Buss It Up

17. Spragga Benz - The Order

18. Bounty Killer - Nothing Nuh Change

19. Daseca - Airwaves Rhythm

Portmore Empire artiste, Deva Bratt, is currently in police custody after he was held last Monday evening on carnal abuse charges. The Waterford police has confirmed that the Portmore-based deejay, whose real name is Sheldon Smith, was taken into custody in connection with an alleged case of carnal abuse, committed against a 14-year-old girl.

 

Dancehall quartet TOK’s European tour continues to go great guns as they have been packing venues and thrilling female fans by the thousands as they make their musical trek across the continent.

“Ah murdah,  we have been totally demolishing the place Thursday night in Milan we had the gils in the crowd so hot they were throwing their underwear on stage to us we performed at the live club to a capacity audience,” group leader Craigy T told  REPORTERS via email over the weekend.

“It was an open air venue and the sound was still magnificent. We had to stop the show for about ten minutes just until the girls stopped screaming and taking pics, they could not control themselves. After about an hour into the show, we started seeing things being thrown on stage we just thought it was a new way fi bawl forward until we noticed that they were thongs.”

The group’s opening act, Monster Twinz, performed their own set for the first time on tour.

“The people fell in love with their stage energy and shouted back waves of ‘forward’,” Craigy T wrote.

Afterwards, TOK hit the stage, and performed for 2 1/2 hours and then left for a high-energy ‘after party’ session.

“Bass Odyssey buss off the new single ‘represent’ and dem haffi pull it up round ten time the way di forward did big,” he said.

TOK next headed for Leche in the south of Italy.

 

Easily one of the most “in-demand” artistes on the music scene, Munga Honorable has been busy all summer. Whether it is that he is travelling all over the island or he is flying overseas to “buss it make the earth shake” Munga is making his presence felt everywhere.

He has some major upcoming dates including: Red Stripe Reggae Sumfest - Montego Bay, Jamaica (Thursday, July 19), All Spice 2007 (Saturday, July 28) Fully Loaded - James Bond Beach, Oracabessa (Sunday, July 29), A St. Mary Mi Come From, Gray’s Inn Sports Complex, St. Mary (Sunday, August 5); Irie Jamboree - Roy Wilkins Park, Queens, NY (Sunday, September 2) to name a few

 

 

 

01 2 8 Back It Up - Beenie Man-357 Records(1wk@#1) U-1

02 1 16 Bad From Mi Born-Munga - Don Corleon(1wk@#1) D-1

03 4 11 Tease Her-Anthony B-Trinity 7 Records U-1

04 3 14 Board House-Nesbeth-No Doubt Records (2wks@#1) D-1

05 7 10 She’s Royal-Tarrus Riley - Cannon U-2

06 6 11 Dance-RDX featuring Jigsy-Apt 19 NM

07 9 6 Gully Side - Mavado-Firelinks U-2

08 5 17 Wine Pon Yuh-Vybz Kartel- Don Corleon(3wks@#1) D-3

09 11 12 People’s Choice - Ray Darwin-Tad’s International U-2

10 8 12 Baby Father-Vybz Kartel/D’Angel-Free Willy D-2

 

 

What’s a girl to do when she’s not only a beautiful and talented singer, but a straight-A college student as well? In the case of Shontelle Layne, it looks like the law career will have to wait — her musical star is on the rise and cannot be stopped.

Gifted as both a writer and performer, this 23 year-old Barbadian has already carved a reputation in the Caribbean music world over the last several years by crafting hit songs for a number of top artists, all while pursuing her degree at the University of the West Indies. But it was only a matter of time before she unleashed her talents as an artist and performer on the world stage, with the upcoming release of her debut album, “Shontelligence” (Universal), and its first smash single, “Roll”. Shontelle’s music is an infectious blend of dancehall, reggae and hip-hop, with unstoppable grooves and thought-provoking lyrics that will find fans in every corner of the world.

The oldest of 3 sisters, Shontelle was born in Bridgetown, Barbados. At school she was a first class academic student. On the sports field she was highly competitive too. “I did track and field, lawn tennis and represented my school and Barbados at swimming”, she recalls.