Dubs, riddims, Selectors, Toasters. Throughout the ’70s, one of the most exciting and foreign new sounds was literally miles from disco. Jamaica was vibrating with the new sound of the people. Fusing ...

While Sean Paul and other DJs are quick to capitalize on the lucrative potential for overlap with hip-hop, if anything, current dancehall’s debt to American pop is shrinking. Whereas a few years ago ...