Bigger Than the Numbers? Dancehall’s Crown Debate Is Really About Who Gets Counted
By Dante Jackson, Entertainment Editor The latest debate over who stands tallest in Jamaican music has all the ingredients of a social media storm: a bold claim, a sharp clapback and Bob Marley’s name pulled into the conversation. But beneath the back-and-forth between Shaggy and Vybz Kartel is a more complicated question: when we call an artist “bigger,” whose definition of success are we using—and whose audience are we seeing? In a recent interview, Shaggy argued that dancehall has produced...
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By Dante Jackson, Entertainment Editor The latest debate over who stands tallest in Jamaican music has all the ingredients of a social media storm: a bold claim, a sharp clapback and Bob Marley’s name pulled into the conversation. But beneath the back-and-forth between Shaggy and Vybz Kartel is a more complicated question: when we call an artist “bigger,” whose definition of success are we using—and whose audience are we seeing? In a recent interview, Shaggy argued that dancehall has produced...
