Razz & Biggy Assaulted Because of Kartel Connection

Well-known dancehall selection duo Razz & Biggy were assaulted after being being accused of running too many Movado tunes. The attack occurred at Prendy's on Sunday evening.

The Jamaica Star reports that three men approached Biggy, threw water on him, then warning him "Addi a di daddy and yuh cyan deh play so much Mavado" and that because of his (Biggy's) actions, "gunshot a go buss".

"Look at what is happening, where people send threats because of what I play. It's like the artistes take selectors for puppets," Biggy said.

When asked about the incident Vybz Kartel responded;

"There will be no tolerance for overzealous fans who physically harm any artiste or selector or rival fan to prove loyalty to their respective artiste, etc. Kartel and Mavado have no rivalry beyond the music and nothing physical within music. Love goes out to all musicians and players of instruments who seek to uphold clean and peaceful music for this year and beyond. Portmore Empire for life," Kartel said.

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Movado's And Idonia's Entourage Brawl Pon Stage

Last Tuesday saw the The Queen's School's Sports Day. Booked for the event were Leftside & Esco, Wayne Marshall, Movado & Idonia. Things went well until the selecta of the party, Foota Hype, ran the Drumline riddim... after that things seem to have gotten wild. YardFlex quotes a former student of the School who witnessed the incident;

"I saw Mavado grabbed a mike and proceeded onstage bellowing 'New name fi informer a Mr. Palmer', after which a huge bundle of both Idonia's entourage and Mavado's entourage starting throwing blows at each other. Due to the blows onstage the selector had to stop playing and throughout the fight it was Selector Foota Hype, who came with Mavado, threw derogatory words at Idonia's entourage."

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Sly Dunbar Assists On New UB40 Album

Sly Dunbar, one half of legendary reggae production duo Sly & Robbie, is recording material for "what appears to be a solo album" for Aly Campbell, the groups lead singer.

"Ally is doing some work with me, just a couple of tracks really on what appears to be a solo album. So I am just working on project laying tracks with that classic reggae sound. We're doing 10 tracks, just doing drum and bass, and he's taking it back to England with him to complete. Ally is great, I've worked with him before, on live shows, and other projects and he is on our Grammy album as well, so it is going well," Sly told One876Entertainment.com.

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Jamaican Top 20 (Feb 23rd 2007)

Busy chart this week - 11 up and 5 down, 2 non-movers and 2 new ones

1. Morgan Heritage - Brooklyn & Jamaica
2. Shaggy - Church Heathen
3. Gyptian - My Fadah Seh
4. Nanko - Loco Amor
5. Collie Buddz - Come Around
6. Movado - Last Night
7. DaVille - This Time I Promise
8. Chuck Fender & Cherine Anderson - Coming Over
9. Buju Banton - Driver A
10. Tesanne Chin - Hideaway
11. Vybz Kartel - Hot Fuck
12. Ras Ptah - Tell Everybody
13. Lutan Fyah - Save The Juvenile
14. Erup - Run Dem Head
15. Paul Elliot - The Real Thing
16. Mack Diamond - Hula Hoop
17. Chuck Fender - Judgement
18. Jah Selah - Lonely Girl
19. Shaggy - Reggae Vibes
20. Movado - Dreaming

Chuck Fender & Cherine Anderson - Not An Item

Chuck Fender has commented on rumours that himself and Cherine Anderson are anything more than a professional pair.

"Di only time mi si ar a when wi have a performance or when we have something to do pertaining to the song, but outside a dat wi nuh even really talk"

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Back Online

Jamdown Report is now back online.

Updates to follow!

Lack of Updates

No updates for a while now. In upgrading the line to an 8Mb/s line Orange have managed to completely balls up the connection and have left me without access to the internet.

Updates will resume once they have fixed it, apparently "very shortly" (8 days and counting...)

Elephant Man Phone Pictures: Ele Speaks

Further to this article and this articls, Elephant Man makes a public comment regarding the whole rumour involving him and the porn picture. Speaking to the Jamaica Star, Elephant Man says:

"Wi jus a mek di fans dem know, don't follow dem likkle bad mind people weh a try bring down mi career. Wah me a do pon phone? Dat's a bwoy from foreign weh a live freaky life," he said.

"Everybody know seh Ele a one a di yout dem weh keep it real, dem seh mi have AIDS an mi stay far from di war, but mi tell dem, when dem a dig hole, don't dig one, dig two," Elephant Man warned.

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Skatta: Aidnoia "the biggest baby"

One876Entertainment quotes former Aidonia associate 'Skatta' Burrell commenting on Aidonia's recent removal from Bounty Killer's Alliance group.

“I am not surprised, I knew from day one that he did not belong there, you can respect a man’s camp without joining that camp, him neva belong there and there was nothing on God’s green earth that would keep him there.

Now he is like a wandering sheep, he is not learning and that is because of his attitude that ‘mi no tek no talk from no man’. Why him go inna Busy organisation?

He claimed that the Alliance thing was working, so if it was working, why is he leaving?” Skatta tells One876Entertainment.

Referring to Aidonia's attempts to portray himself in a badman way, Skatta had this to say:

“Aidonia have the badman image but him is not a real ghetto yute, him play football fi him church, him used to go Meadowbrook High school, him no face no hardship, him have the bad man image but him a the biggest baby, him no know nothing ‘bout badness or garrison living.”

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Aidonia Cut From Alliance

It is official, deejay Aidonia has been booted from the Bounty Killer-led Alliance.

Although Aidonia was unavailable for a comment because he was in studio, his Road Manager, Kurt says the artiste wants to make it clear that he did not switch from the Alliance, but was kicked out.

"Well wi get a call still, the morning after Spectrum, saying Aidonia is disrespecting too much members of the Alliance and a meeting was held and they said they would rather that he leaves," Kurt said.

Kurt says, "the main problem stems from just one song, December's Deadline about stuff that happened to Aidonia during that time. An a really one line weh say, Mi neva call him name, but Busy dead a Sting, di people dem seh boo, instead a fling, a dah one line deh a di problem."

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Idonia'a Manager Clears Up Rumours of Spectrum Gig

Carrying on from the reported bottle-throwing at the recent Spectrum gig, Aidonia's manger, Kirk Roberts, has spoken regarding the incident.

"The single bottle was thrown towards Icon direction, and Idonia point to his people, and say nobody nuh move, dem fi memba when other artistes were onstage, they were bottled as well, ah just politics why dem say is Idonia and Sunshine alone. Him do him whole set, him even do the song 'Bushkash' and then him exit, as Idonia finish work, we mek one big motion from backstage, parking lot, car, and drive gone, people ah tell lie say a Skatta fling bottle, that is not true, Skatta never do that, a just lie...we hear it was planned by persons who we will not name." Roberts told YardFlex.

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Buju Banton Live At Guiness Sting 2006

Here's Buju Banton's performance at Sting 2k6. Its a classic Sting set, one that will go down as one of the best. Video and audio is ripped "as is" from the bootleg DVD I have, though I've used the XVid codec and a multipass encode (2-pass) to get it the best I can (for the file size).

buju_banton-live_at_sting_2K6-XVID-NTSC-496px-jdr.avi
(170MB)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/q7kozf

Enjoy

Jamaican Top 20 Chart, Feb 2nd 2007

Presented by Richie B, Hot102 FM's "Hot Mix" host.

1. Chuck Fender & Cherine Anderson - Coming Over Tonight
2. Nanko - Loco Amor
3. Morgan Heritage - Brooklyn & Jamaica
4. Collie Buddz - Come Around
5. Buju Banton - Driver A
6. Gytpain - My Fadah Seh
7. Tesanne Chin - Hideaway
8. Shaggy - Reggae Vibes
9. Sizzla - No Way
10. Shaggy - Church Heathen
11. Movado - Last Night
12. Daville - This Time I Promise
13. Elephant Man ft Champagne - Hot Love
14. Jah Cure - As Long As I Live
15. Ras Ptah - Tell Everybody
16. Mr Vegas - Hot Wuk
17. Lutan Fyah - Save The Juvenile
18. Noddy Virtue - Love Jah
19. Chuck Fender - Judgement
20. Paul ELliot - The Real Thing

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Rips from the bootleg Sting 2006 DVD

Here's some rips of a bootleg DVD that is floating around Kingston / Internet. The video was taken by an audience member with a handcam so no fancy angles/quality and a lot of artists are missing but its the best I can find until the retail DVDs hit the streets. All vids are "as is" on the DVD.

Chuck Fender - Medley


Chuck Fender ft Cherine Anderson - Coming Over


Bounty Killer


Vybz Kartel and Beenie Man


Tony Matterhorn ft Mr Easy - Wickedest Ride


Tony Matterhorn - Goodas Fi Dem / Dutty Wine


Lutan Fyah


Movado


The long Buju Banton performance will be ripped & posted later.

Movado Fined For Ganja Possession

Dancehall artist Movado was fined JA$100 for marijuana possession by Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Friday.

The artist pleaded guilty to the charge of possession and the offence was then noted on his record.

Movado, real name David Brooks, arrested January 18th 2007, was found to be in possession of a small amount of ganja after police conducted a search.

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1xtra Dancehall Chart Feb 1st 2007

Everything what's hot from JA to UK with Robbo Ranx every Thursday live on BBC 1Xtra.

1. Stephen Marley & Damian Marley - Traffic Jam
2. Collie Buddz - Come Around
3. Busy Signal - Right Place, Wrong Time
4. Mr Vegas - Hot Wuk
5. Elephant Man - Bring It
6. Beenie Man - Bad From Birth
7. Chuck Fender - Gash Dem
8. Movado - Dreaming
9. Busy Signal - Power Cut
10. Assassin - Don't Dis No Man

Since last week Busy has dropped 1, Collie Buddz has climbed 2, and Assassin is down a massive 7 places.

Movado Gives Money To School

Movado has made a significant donation to Lalyce Gray Basic School, in the Cassava Piece district of Kingston. The deejay pledged J$150,000 as well as computers for the school.

"Dem ting yah is not so much about giving money alone, a fi mek di yout dem stay inna school too, cause mi sing bout di gangsta part a life an bout di real tings in life."

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