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In 2001, if you were near a sound system, a car stereo or a radio in Kingston, you heard riddims.

The year 2000 did not arrive quietly in Kingston. Sound systems rang in the new millennium on fresh riddims, Greensleeves was boxing up whole rhythms for record shops…

Every family reunion has a playlist, but only one family’s playlist has won a cabinet full of Grammys.

Long before he collected eight Grammys, Ziggy Marley was a Catholic schoolboy picking fights with Jesuit priests.

Every May, Jamaican radio does something sweet. Selectors who spent the year spinning badman tunes and gyal anthems suddenly turn soft, and the airwaves fill with tributes to…

Before there was a global reggae industry, there was a chant, a drum and a people giving thanks to the Most High.

Reggae has always belonged to the yard and the street, but it beats loudest when it sings about chains and the breaking of them.