Vybz Kartel’sfirstconcert in Toronto had a special guest — and performance. During the dancehall musician’s show at Scotiabank Arena Sunday night, hometown hero Drake appeared onstage to play an eight-song set in the middle of Kartel’s show. Drake was spotted on a lower-level balcony, speaking to Kartel on the mainstage …
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Drake headlined the three-day Wireless Festival at Finsbury Park in London over the weekend and it was a star-studded, surprise guest-filled affair. Lauryn Hill, 21 Savage, Rema, Vanessa Carlton, and more joined the rapper throughout the weekend. On Friday, Drake set the theme for the night. “This is the first …
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I t’s New Year’s Eve, and the roads that lead to Jamaica’s National Stadium are filled with food vendors manning their oil-drum grills. Some sell orange bandannas like the pair Vybz Kartel wore when he walked out of the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre five months earlier, on July 31, …
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Vybz Kartel is in a celebratory mood. As he prepares for the 2025 Grammys this Sunday where he is nominated for his first Grammy award, the self-proclaimed “king of dancehall” is releasing Viking (Vybz Is King) 10th Year Anniversary to celebrate his influential 2015 album. The deluxe will arrive this …
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Major Lazer are readying a deluxe reissue of their debut album Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do, dropping a previously unreleased collaboration with Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel on Friday as the project’s lead single. “Nobody Move” comes about three months after Kartel was freed from prison after his decade-old …
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A Jamaican court of appeals declined Wednesday to retry Vybz Kartel after the dancehall star’s 2014 murder conviction was overturned earlier this year, making Kartel a free man after a decade in prison. In March, the United Kingdom-based Privy Council overturned the conviction against Kartel — who in 2014 was …
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Exactly a decade after Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel was found guilty of murder for the killing of Clive “Lizard” Williams, the musician’s conviction was overturned on Thursday, according to a report from Reuters. Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, appealed his conviction to the Privy Council in London …
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