Dancehall and Reggae Hits for Jamaican Independence Day — vogue.com

Chronixx is a 21-year-old artist who’s being credited with leading a full-on classic Rastafarian reggae revival. A U.S. television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and a performance at Central Park’s SummerStage has helped him have one of the biggest albums of the season. Popcaan has pretty much been crowned king of dancehall since his controversial mentor Vybz Kartel went to jail, and his latest album, which came out this summer, is pushing the genre to innovative new frontiers. “Everything Nice” is a perfect distillation of his fresh, hopeful new take on the ever-important Jamaican sound.

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