In this week’s Village Voice, our cover is Baz Dreisinger on reggae’s civil war: Why Mavado and Vybz Kartel might be the Biggie and Tupac of Dancehall. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla watches John Mayer shut ...
The morning of December 27, 2008 was a date that most individuals presumed to conclude the end of the greatest rivalry in contemporary dancehall history, which was Vybz Kartel versus Mavado. This feud ...
Jamaicans often say to each other, “Jamaica is not a real place,” as we shake our heads at the beauty and madness of our birthplace. On last week’s episode of Jamaica Is Not a Real Place, a day before ...