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Sly & Robbie and The Legacy of Drum and Bass

Drum and Bass are one of the most important sections of any band. A sound so important that it itself has become a musical sub-genre, it is often the mastery of this section that determines what is a memorable hit and what just passes by failing to leave its mark. With Sly & Robbie, Jamaica has one of the world’s most famous and sought after (drum and bass) rhythm sections working

Open Circuit: FIGHTERZ Brawl Round 1

Ready? FIGHTERZ Brawl, Area 51 Gaming Lounge in Kingston was the battle ground for eSports Jamaica’s most recent fighting game tournament. Toting a whopping prize pool of $100,000 JMD shared across 3 games, as well as being sponsored by Pizza Hut the fighting game circuit showed out

2020

Being a young Jamaican in an ever-changing world , an ever interactive world allows us to see many viewpoints that fracture our mindset as negativity comes in different forms of mediums within this digital landscape that we call our life. Positive actions comes around as a refreshing morsel of golden curried chicken

Ras-I – Jab, Jab; finding the right hook.

“You have to think like a boxer. Dis man ya bigga dan you and stronga dan you but, unuh still in the same weight class. Weh yaw go do. Pick my punches. Im gonna jab here, and move, but I’m gonna make sure that every punch I throw does damage. So every song I drop, must be powerful. Can’t drop weak music.”

BACKAYARD congratulates Koffee on her landmark victory

The Backayard team is especially happy to congratulate Koffee as she became the first female winner of the Reggae Grammy in addition to being one of the youngest to receive this honour. Being the people we are the team decided to try and to share our own personal views on what this accolade now means for the starlet and the Jamaican music in general.