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Jamaican dancehall artist Popcaan has returned with his long-awaited fifth studio album, Great Is He. His second-full-length project through Drake’s OVO Sound imprint, Great Is He sees Popcaan deliver the goods across 17 new tracks. While most of the release is a solo affair, it also features appearances from Drizzy, Burna Boy, Toni-Ann Singh, and Chronic Law. With […]

Popcaan and Drake have teamed up for another long-awaited collaboration with “We Caa Done.” It also arrives with a video, above, directed by Theo Skudra and featuring appearances by Lil Yachty and Kevin Durant. The last time Drizzy and Popcaan joined forces was on two songs, “Twist & Turn” and “All I Need,” from the Jamaican artist’s last studio […]

Though it arrived a little later than expected, Burna Boy’s sixth studio album is finally here. On Friday, the Nigerian singer-songwriter came through with Love, Damini, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2020’s Twice as Tall. Burna—birth name Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu—announced the project back in April and later confirmed his plans to release it on July 2 in celebration of […]

It’s been a long fight. The music industry has been upended, and our lives along with it. But in the most challenging of years, some voices still managed to stand out, either lifting us out of the darkness or resonating with us during a time of unrest. Good music really hit different in 2020. And in Canada, […]

Megan Thee Stallion has revealed the tracklist for her highly-anticipated debut album Good News. The forthcoming project boasts a star-studded set of features, including DaBaby, Beyoncé, City Girls, SZA, Lil Durk, Popcaan, 2 Chainz, Big Sean, and more. Good News is slated to drop on Nov. 20. Meg shared details about her album last week […]

October is turning out to be a big month for new music. In the first week, we received new releases from 21 Savage and Metro Boomin, who finally dropped their highly-anticipated project Savage Mode II. After a four-year hiatus, Bryson Tiller is back with his third studio album, Anniversary, which arrives on the fifth anniversary of […]

Dave East has shared his new mixtape Karma 3, which is the latest installment to his Karma tape series that he started back in 2017. This is also the first longer-form tape the East has dropped in 2020. He originally announced the release of the project at the beginning of August, then revealed the tracklist to fans on Twitter […]

The beef between Drake and Mavado is beginning to sizzle.  After being accused of appropriating dancehall culture by Jamaican artist Mavado, Drake appeared to fire back with quite the gordian knot. During one of Popcaan’s Instagram Live streams, Aubrey seemed to address Mavados’ recent diss, writing, “Some bwoy love chat about yaad man and some next fuckery […]

Popcaan has just unleashed his new project Fixtape featuring French Montana, Stylo G, Masicka, Tommy Lee, and his OVO colleagues Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR. Dropping the project the day after Jamaican Independence Day, Popcaan has always been an artist who’s stayed in touch with his roots, and he makes sure to let that show in his music. “Is not a bloodclath mixtape!!!” he […]

Grime star Kano takes us on a journey exploring the creative process and concepts behind his outstanding sixth album, Hoodies All Summer. The 13-minute short film follows one of British music’s most coherent storytellers as he pieces together one of last year’s best album releases. Hoodies All Summer, released in August 2019, saw Kano talk about the love […]