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Who would have thought? As it turns out, Colombia’s top rapper is giant, unrepentant nerd. You won’t see Jiggy Drama rocking shiny chains and big jeans – he favors oversize glasses, sweaters over collared shirts, and even the occasional bow tie. But...

How Connecticut gentry Elizabeth Grant reinvented herself as the gangster Nancy Sinatra is a good example of how the pop star game is played. Bae Young June of rising Korean electronic poppers W&Whale is another case in point. The veteran Korean pop...

The charges against Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel keep piling up. Yesterday, the artist was remanded (again) by Jamaican authorities for "attempting to pervert the course of justice" according to...

Sure, roots reggae was born in Jamaica, but if you want to see where its really flourishing today, check out French Guiana, where artists Prince Koloni and Little Guerrier and keeping it irie.

In 2011, The Obedient Wives Club made headlines throughout southeast Asia. It sounded like an Internet hoax, but was in fact a very existent, very small conservative Islamic group that reportedly ordered...

Laza Morgan makes the kind of reggae jams you could almost take home to meet your mom. Almost. His tracks like "Crank It Out" have the gleaming surfaces and clean, thumping beats required to seduce...

At the outset, Iyadede sounds like your typical Brooklynite. She makes and sells her own line of jewelry. She appears on an MTV show. She records hybridized, cutting-edge pop with a hint of soul. She's...

We can say this with confidence: in 2012, no song will be safe from a moombahton remix. And that’s not a bad thing. Over the last few years, moombahton has blasted out of Washington DC, ricocheted...

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