Wycliffe Johnson, 47, a keyboardist and producer known as "Steely" who helped steer Jamaican music for nearly two decades and modernize the dancehall genre, died Sept. 1 at a hospital in Patchogue, ...

Dancehall style has a controversial history in its native Jamaica. It began in the 1980s as an underground trend, not long after rap began growing in the United States. Then minibuses and other forms ...

“Top ranking” is a phrase so common in the lexicon of dancehall reggae, it could almost be punctuation. That’s not to mention related terms like “highly rated,” “strictly the best,” and “tougher than ...

Dancehall – reggae’s spazzed-out (yet still spliffed-out) little brother. The evolution of reggae has been as extensive as that of rock, with nearly as many distinct sub-genres. Dancehall was spawned ...