In 2010, Shabba Ranks is mostly remembered outside dancehall circles not so much as a person or an artist, but as a cultural moment, like new jack swing or rave gear. He was a skit on In Living Color ...

Anyone who has ever been to Miami’s biggest reggae concert, Best of the Best, knows that it trades on nostalgia, featuring such acts as Lady Saw, Wayne Wonder and Shabba Ranks. To hear them, was to ...

A contingent of prominent New York City based Caribbean music promoters are banding together to stage the Caribbean Fever Irie Jamboree Music Fest at Brooklyn's Barclays Center Aug. 30-Sept. 1. The… ...

Shabba Ranks is a household name in the world of reggae and dancehall, and he is the subject of Part 2 of our Dean Meminger's Soul's Survivors series this year as we celebrate Black Music Month.

Better Than: The first day of Best of the Best! For those who braved both days of the mega Best of the Best weekend, one can easily say that the second day was much better on so many levels. First, ...

Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon (aka Shabba Ranks) deserves his title, The Emperor, due to his groundbreaking achievements. In 1991, he signed a recording deal with Epic Records which helped him ...

The annual Flashback Night has revived classic Caribbean sounds in South Florida for the past five years. After a packed edition last year at Cafe Iguana Pines, the event returns this year even bigger ...

This past weekend Montego Bay, Jamaica hosted the 20th anniversary staging of Reggae Sumfest, which has come to be known as "The Greatest Reggae Show on Earth." The festival kicked off with Thursday's ...

Jamaican dancehall greats Shabba Ranks and Super Cat will headline the 13th annual Best of the Best concert, taking place May 26th at Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Miami, Florida. This year’s event ...

It’s a special edition of the playlist, with Jamaican novelist Marlon James picking five songs to soundtrack his new book, A Brief History of Seven Killings Last week the Jamaican novelist Marlon ...