Nomad Carlos drops ‘Aww Snap!’ video

Nomad Carlos trades bars and verses with fellow Jamaican hip-hop artiste Five Steez at different locations in Downtown Kingston in the fresh new video for his joint “Aww Snap!”, which was directed by The Board and released online on Monday, March 4. Produced by Poland-based The Patents, the song is one of the tracks off [...]

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‘The Best Hip-hop Show Ever!’

“The best hip-hop show in Jamaica ever!” That was the general sentiment expressed by patrons at the end of The Takeover at Funky Munky Bistro & Bar, 17 Holborn Road, on Saturday, December 15, 2012. The live music event featured homegrown talents Nomad Carlos, Five Steez, The Sickest Drama and Kabaka Pyramid, and their performances [...]

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Jamaican hip-hop readies for ‘The Takeover’

Four of the finest from Jamaica’s surging hip-hop scene are set to showcase their class and lyrical prowess at The Takeover on Saturday, December 15 at the Funky Munky Bistro & Bar on Holborn Road in New Kingston. Five Steez, Kabaka Pyramid, The Sickest Drama (TSD) and Nomad Carlos are the headliners who will take [...]

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‘#PayAttention!’ – The New Musical Experience

After a successful launch in April, the second staging of the local hip-hop party and showcase #PayAttention will be held on Saturday, May 19, at the Heather’s Garden Restaurant, 9 Haining Road, starting at 8:00 p.m. The event will feature performances by local R&B artiste Tari Prime and hip-hop artistes Shermon Dadz and Five Steez. [...]

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Positive vibrations at Manifesto Jamaica

The second staging of the Manifesto | Jamaica annual Festival of ART’ical Empowerment from November 18 – 20 at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) was filled with honest, earnest and moving expressions of Jamaican creativity, which was fittingly complemented by host of activities undertaken by the non-profit, youth-led organisation [...]

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Verse – The Art of Rhyming

On the night of July 26, the amphitheatre of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) was transformed into the Colosseum for a few hours, as Jamaican hip-hop gladiators Kabaka Pyramid, Five Steez and Shaq The MC put in solid work at the event titled “Verse – The Art of Rhyming”, [...]

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Hip-hop Manifesto

Whoever said that live hip-hop music was dead in the land of reggae needed to have been present at the premises of Bookophilia on Hope Road on the night of September 10 to witness some of the illest MCs on the Rock in action at Manifesto|Jamaica’s third and final instalment of the ART’ical Exposure series, [...]

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