Passa Passa Turns Six

Dancers showing Their Moves

Dancers Show Their Moves In the Street

The popular street dance ‘Passa Passa’, is celebrating six years of entertaining patrons on Spanish Town Road in Kingston Jamaica. Originally started to ease the violence between neighboring communities of Denham town and Tivoli Gardens, Passa Passa has grown to be one of the must “attend” Party for everyone who is an avid party lover whilst in Jamaica.

Passa Passa is held every Wednesday and attracts dancehall fans from all walks of life. On any given Wednesday you could see artist like Shaggy, Macka Diamond, BeenieMan, Movado or anyone who is anybody from the dancehall fraternity. On February 26th Spanish Town Road was jammed with “Passanians” reveling in the festivities celebrating the milestone. The ‘Gully God’ Movado, was given the honor has the main act when he took the microphone to deliver some of his crowd pleasing lyrics which erupted the massive in a screaming frenzy. There was an invasion of artists on hand who also showed their appreciation to their respective fans, which included the likes of Macka Diamond, D’Angel, Assassin among others.

The resident dancers were “in de building” to partake in the celebrations and to showoff their latest creations in dancing. Awards were given out to a number of dancers and dance groups, which are actually the main ingredients of Passa Passa itself.
The night also afforded the patrons to show off their best outfits. The night was another colorful and successful one, and from the look of things there are a lot more Wednesday nights to come.

Kartel And Movado as one?

VYBES KARTEL & MOVADO

Popular DJs and Arch rivals Vybes Kartel and Movado, the ‘Gully God’, have teamed up, not literally, to fight the banning of ‘Daggerin’ lyrics by the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica. In separate incidents, the two have recorded songs to ‘voice’ their disgust at the commission for the banning.

Kartel said that the purpose of his anti-ban song was to express his disagreement with the commissions’ hasty decision. He also said it is an infringement on the public’s civil rights to choose what to listen to and an artist’s choice to express. Julian Jones- Griffith, manager for Movado said that the song truly expresses the DJ’s thoughts about the commissions and that “they can’t stop him”. We at Dancehall 360 Degrees hope that out of this situation some good can come, one way or the other.

Jamaican designs for Miami Fashion Week

Exclusive designs from Jamaican and American designers will be on parade at ‘Fashion on The Beach’, at the 11th annual Miami Fashion Week, on Friday March 20th.

The show will highlight swimwear, fall and winter fashions and eveningwear by Kaneea Linton Designs, who has produced wardrobe for Miss Jamaica Universe and Miss Jamaica World 2008. Posche Designs from Jamaica will also be displaying fashions.

The event is will be spearheaded by Maurice ‘Kelly’ Tucker, CEO and President of Syngen Magazine and vibezz Television. Mr. Tucker said the displays promises to be elegant and exciting.

Female DJ Spice plans to close down the “Rompin’ Shop”.

Female DJ Spice


Ace female DJ Spice is pondering with the M word. No not that one, its marriage. She was recently proposed to by the father of her child, Nicholas Lall, in which she ecstatically accepted by repeating the expression ‘Oh my God’ over and over.
But there are two obstacles in her way. One is the choice of having a private wedding or the fairy tail wedding she dreamed about long before she became famous. Two is the reaction from her male fan base.
Of the two choices the latter is the harder because of her status of the new sex symbol of dancehall for male fans. She has received tons of emails from her male fans expressing their disappointment in her decision. She has declared that a date has not been set as yet but it’s a definite. The DJ has a very busy schedule ahead of her with appearance in the Bronx on the 20th March, England on April 4th, St. Lucia on April 11th then back to Jamaica on April 12th. So with that kind of hectic work schedule I don’t think a wedding will be anytime soon.

Clashes reign at Follow The Arrow 10

Ninjaman and The Monster Empire were some of the casualties at the recent staging of the 10th anniversary of ‘Follow Di Arrow’ stageshow at James Bond Beach in St. Mary on Saturday February 28th. Merciless is once again proclaiming himself as ‘king of Clashes’ and is “ready fi Murder any DJ who tink him have the lyrics to compete”.

The clash started out with NinjaMan being the aggressor, having put Merciless’ back against the wall with his usual high energy performance and riling the crowd to shower him with ‘forwords’. But he dug his own grave by leaving and going back stage to celebrate early by drinking champagne with his entourage.

With the crowd hungry for more Merciless stood his ground and pounded NinjaMan (in his absence) with lyrics after lyrics. When the momentum shifted Merciless’ way, Ninjaman returned to the stage to try and reclaim the upper hand but to no avail. With songs like ‘Fifty Gun Questions’ and ‘Sayonara’, Merciless never turn down the pressure. Ninjaman was eventually booed off stage.

Kiprich showed The Monster Empire That ratio is not always correct. The three to one situation was never a problem for the lone DJ, who dismantled the empire with little effort. With lyrics like “valentines day Yu buy Roundhead brassiere and buy Ghost underwear wid di back part tear”, the trio was no match for the St. Catherine DJ. There were also good performances from Queen Paula, Movado, Assassin, Macka Diamond, Bounty Killa, DJ Roach (former road manager to Vybes Kartel), Black Queen and Stacious.

Tifa: Ready For 2009

Tifa - Dancehall Sensation


2009 is the year for Latifa Brown, aka Tifa. After being nominated for awards from the Excellence in Music & Entertainment, Youth View Awards and the RETV MVP Awards. She is ready to take the world by storm. She recently performed with the TNT crew, which also include Natalie Storm and Timberlee. The event was a sold out affair.



Tifa will be on tour across Jamaica with the RJR Cross Country Invasion along side artists like Koshens, Stacious, Cameal Davis, Laden, Kip Rich, Nesbeth among others.
She will also be performing in Canada at the Dancehall Cares concert in aid of the Bustamante Hospitol for Children.