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Jay Z samples Sizzla on Magna Carta Holy Grail album
Sizzla Kalonji’s Solid As A Rock has been sampled for the third time by an American rapper. The song, released in 2002 on Sizzla’s EP entitled Da Real Thing, was first sampled by Jah Rule on his 50 Cent diss song called The Crown. The song was sampled again in 2012, this time ironically by…
Kanye West Yeezus album samples Capleton, Beenie Man, Assasin & Popcaan
Kanye released his sixth studio album, Yeezus, on June 18 – a project best categorized as techno hip-hop fuelled by synth/rock with maelstrom hints of Jamaican Dancehall, and a handful of soulful samples by Capleton, Beenie Man, Assasin & Popcaan. CAPLETON – FORWARD INNA DEM CLOTHES I’m In It features Assassin/ Agent Sasco; Send It…
Snoop Dogg drops reggae album “Reincarnated”
Snoop Lion, formerly known as Snoop Dogg, announced his embracement of the Rastafarian way of life following a visit to Jamaica in 2012. While there he took part in reasoning sessions with Rastafarian elders, among them The Wailers’ sole living founding member Bunny Wailer. The elders’ insights prompted Snoop to bury the Dogg and take…
Dancehall Icon “Junie Ranks” ready to release new album produced by Ed Robinson E2 Records
JUNIE RANKS made her mark in the dance hall years ago. After recording her first single “Counteraction” for Techniques on the stalag riddim, she gained many hit singles like “Gimmie Di Buddy”, “ Cry Fe Me Boops”, “Big and Ready” and “Dibby Dibby Man”. During the days of real dancehall music she was one of…
Woman in Reggae Spotlight: Michelle Arthurton
Being In Total Control of Herself. I AM MY OWN BEST FRIEND. Lesson learned. Thank youuuuuuu God. Muah! MICHELLE E. ARTHURTON President and C.E.O. of E2 Recordings (and all its subsidiaries), Ms. MICHELLE E. ARTHURTON has carved her way in mainstream media and has solidified her role as a trailblazer in online/internet radio, as E2…
Shane Brown appointed new manager of Tarrus Riley and Romain Virgo!
Prominent producer, Shane Brown has now joined the team of highly-acclaimed Reggae singer, Tarrus Riley. Brown will now co-manage Riley alongside fellow manager and renowned saxophonist, Dean Fraser. The arrangement was announced on Wednesday. Riley and Brown re no strangers they have enjoyed success together before as they teamed for Riley’s hit single, Start Anew…
E2 Recording Studios undergoes upgrade!
E2 Recordings, Inc., a/k/a E2 Studios works with everything that has to do with sound and is getting a 2013 make over with better space, equipment and softwares. We do dubs, voicing, audio clips, voiceovers for short films or just regular films or TV commercials, radio commercials, anything that needs to be professionally recorded, edited,…
Who is JOJO MAC?
JoJo Mac, beautiful and talented singer and songwriter, adds to the copious Talents, which hail from the parish of Clarendon in Jamaica West Indies. She has lived in the United States (U.S.) for most of her life, and can tackle any music genre; however, she will admit that she has never strayed from her reggae…
Beres Hammond wins key to the city of Miami
Veteran reggae star Beres Hammond will be honoured by the City Of Miami with the key to the city, which will be presented by Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, at this year’s Best Of The Best music festival May 26, 2013. Read more: Source
Jimmy Cliff wins Grammy
REGGAE veteran Jimmy Cliff yesterday won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album with the album Rebirth. The artiste, who has been enjoying a wave of popularity thanks to a controversial Super Bowl Volkswagen television advertisement, trumped four other nominees in the category to take the golden gramophone in a ceremony at the Staples Center…