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Grammy Award-Winning Recording Artist, Actor and Reality Television Star, Bobby Brown is set to launch his first solo album, The Masterpiece in 15 years, this spring. Brown will perform his new single, Get Out The Way for the first time on network television, Monday, March 7th as the Musical Guest for ABC-TV’s The View.

Brown is ready to return to take his rightful place among today’s top R&B artists with his upcoming album, The Masterpiece, set to be released May 2011.

Brown recently suffered the loss of his beloved mother, Carole...

VP Records unleashes the hottest dancehall tracks to blaze the airwaves from the genre's top shottas on RAGGA RAGGA RAGGA 2011, dropping on March 29, 2011. This trend-setting compilation is known for breaking the latest tracks and featuring the biggest names currently in dancehall, and is a definitive compilation for fans on the cutting edge of this genre.

Featuring red-hot hits from the dancehall's biggest hit makers including Gyptian, Vybz Kartel , Buju Banton, I-Octane , Mavado, Di Genius, Chino, Spice, Elephant Man, Bounty Killer and more, RAGGA RAGGA...

Third World Music Group and VP Records recently joined forces to distribute Third World's 23rd album, Patriots. The new album is set to hit stores on April 5, 2011.

With Patriots, Third World Music Group has teamed up with VP Records' global distribution network. The pairing adds to the growing repertoire of major releases through the newly formed VP Associated Labels Group (VPAL), which includes digital and physical distribution as well as marketing services through VP Record's label services.

The 13-track album, which was executive produced by Third...

A pair of Royal Caribbean International crewmembers were busted for drug possession on Thursday Feb. 24 2011 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The crewmembers were both Jamaican nationals working on the 1,950-passenger Grandeur of the Seas

The bust was confirmed by Royal Caribbean, which said that while the Grandeur was docked in Montego Bay on Feb. 24, Jamaican authorities detained a crewmember and found that he was in possession of 18 kilos of cocaine. Authorities then boarded the ship and found an additional 15 kilos in the cabin of a different crewmember

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Rapper Terius "Juvenile" Gray was arrested on Saturday night in Louisiana for marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license.

Apparently, the rapper was pulled over for speeding, the rapper was doing 75 in a 65 speed zone. The Officer said after he stopped the 35-year-old rapper, he smelled marijuana and Gray handed over small bag of it when asked. The suspended license appeared when police checked his name with law enforcement records. Both charges are misdemeanors.

He was taken in and released on a $750 bond. The court date has been set for April 1.

Growing up "Dolla Bill" always had his pulse on music. Not in the conventional ways of singing and performing, but rather of bringing it to the airwaves.

At a young age his parents brought him to Jamaica where he fell in love with the people, culture, food and music, and made Jamaica his home in his heart! He often says that the first time the beat and rhythm hit his hears, he finally became alive, and the rest was history.

"Dolla Bill" was given his nickname for his generosity traveling the world. He needed to find a way to not only help those less...

Follow Di Arrow, which throughout its promotion encouraged everyone to 'keep the unity', had that sentiment shattered to pieces when during Bounty Killer's performance, bottles and stones started to rain on the stage.

The event, which was held at the James Bond Beach in St Mary, came to a grinding halt this morning when Killer took centre stage and started to make a comment on a story which was carried in a newspaper. He did not get to finish whatever he was about to say as at that point all hell broke loose.

Bottles and stones rained down and sounds of...

American: Porch
Jamaican: Varanda

American: Bathe, Shower
Jamaican: Bade, Hol' A Fresh

American: Collard Greens, Spinach
Jamaican: Callaloo

American: Stick Shift (Car)
Jamaican: Standard

American: Charge It
Jamaican: Trus' It

American: Can You Give Me A Lift To The Corner
Jamaican: Beg Yu A Ride Go Dung Di Street Noh Sah

American: Oh My God!
Jamaican: Lawd A Mercy

American: Excuse Me
Jamaican: Beg Yu Pardon

American: "You Wanna Fight?", Or "You Want A Piece Of Me"
Jamaican: "Touch A Button!" "Touch A Button"

American: Where Are...

Buju Banton has been found guilty Tuesday afternoon on drug charges after many thought the artist would beat the odds after an earlier mistrial in the fall of 2010.

Buju was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and using the wires to facilitate a drug trafficking offense. One charge of attempted possession with the intent to distribute cocaine was dropped.

Buju’s bail was revoked and he was led away by U.S. Marshals to await sentencing. Banton’s...

Haiti is angry over the treatment of their children from their young soccer team by Jamaica authorities after two players became ill.

The Under-17 soccer squad was forced to withdraw from the competition after Jamaican authorities were pressured to send them home because several members became ill with a fever that was later determined to be malaria.

The Haitian team was told that everyone would have to undergo testing. The team members were later placed in quarantine with armed guards.

The Jamaican government confirmed that its ministry of health...

A Jamaican man, who recently went to Trinidad was shot dead in Barataria, Trinidad over the weekend.

The victim have been identified as Vincent Powell, 41, a fisherman of Montego Bay, Jamaica. Powell was shot in the chest area and tossed out of a vehicle near Low Cost Supermarket, Eastern Main Road, Barataria shortly before 9 a.m. on Friday.

Powell was taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, where he died while undergoing surgery.

Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas has become the first ship to stop at the Historic Falmouth port in Jamaica. The port, which is between Ochos Rios and Montego Bay, is the first themed port and has 60 excursions available for cruise passengers.

Senior vice president of land operations at Royal Caribbean Craig Milan said,

We are delighted to see Voyager of the Seas make the first-ever ship call at Historic Falmouth. By partnering with the Port Authority of Jamaica, we are working to deliver our shared vision of Falmouth’s rebirth. Together, we are...

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Police in Albuquerque investigates a yogurt case. A woman claims that the yogurt distributed in a mall tasted like sperm. The woman spat out the yogurt and immediately went to the police.

The yogurt was scraped from the floor and taken away for examination. Tests in the laboratory will show wether the food is indeed mixed with male reproductive fluids.

The employee who handed out the yogurts, 31-year-old Anthony Garcia, is arrested. He was a wanted man, because he had two outstanding bench warrants, including two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor.

Closing arguments in the second drug trial of Grammy-winning reggae singer Buju Banton ended Thursday afternoon, setting the stage for jurors to deliberate on his fate.

The 37-year-old Banton is accused of conspiring with two other men in setting up a drug deal in December of 2009. His album "Before the Dawn" won a Grammy for best reggae album this week, and he remains wildly popular in his native Jamaica.

A jury deadlocked in his first trial last year. If convicted of all the charges, he faces up to life in prison.

Every seat in the federal courtroom in...

Michael Jackson's estate has generated $310 million in revenue from album sales, movie profits, licensing arrangements and lucrative deals for Cirque du Soleil shows since the singer died in 2009.

His estate's administrators have used $159 million to pay down the pop star's debt, which when Jackson died amounted to more than $400 million, court records show.

Among the projects making money for Jackson's estate are the new album "Michael," which contains previously unreleased songs, and the concert movie "This Is It," which compiled videotaped rehearsals for...