December 2016

Plenty of discussion has ensued about dancehall in 2016, as the genre has been drawn upon by everyone from Justin Bieber to Drake to Rihanna and every non-Jamaican in between. Over the years, more than a few catchy tunes have arisen from the moments when dancehall meets pop—from Beyoncé’s 2003 “Baby Boy” to Sia’s 2016 “Cheap Thrills,” which both called upon Dutty…

  Every year, a representative from the Recording Academy walks onto the Grammys stage to plead for your money, advocating the basic but nonetheless accurate argument is that musicians deserve to be paid. The Recording Academy has decided to take their fight from the brief charity segment by addressing a letter to president-elect Donald Trump. On November…