Making music while in prison is nothing new. Mac Dre, T.I., former Dipset member Hell Rell and a few others have managed to drop bars from behind bars. Vybz Kartel, the dancehall legend who was ...

NEW YORK - The Jamaica Court of Appeal ordered Vybz Kartel and his three codefendants to be freed after the ailing dancehall star spent years behind bars. In a unanimous decision Wednesday, the court ...

The Jamaican dancehall star was released from prison in July after 13 years Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...

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According to Rolling Stone, the Jamaican dancehall artist is “a free man after a decade in prison” after “a Jamaican court of appeals declined Wednesday to retry Vybz Kartel after the dancehall star’s ...

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Vybz Kartel is celebrating his release from prison and so are his fellow artists who took to social media to welcome him home. Celebrations rang out worldwide after the Jamaican dancehall artiste and ...

People are curious about why Vybz Kartel was in jail and if he’s has been set free. The Jamaican dancehall deejay was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014, following his arrest in 2011 for the ...

Jamaican artist Vybz Kartel stopped by Hot 97 on April 9 to reflect on his skin bleaching and how his views on the controversial beauty trend have changed now that he’s “fully melanated” again. “I ...

Vybz Kartel is in a celebratory mood. As he prepares for the 2025 Grammys this Sunday where he is nominated for his first Grammy award, the self-proclaimed “king of dancehall” is releasing Viking ...

This weekend, New Yorkers celebrated Jamaican artist Vybz Kartel’s historic comeback performance at the Barclays Center. Leading up to his first show in the U.S. in over 20 years, the “Worl Boss” ...

Dancehall king Vybz Kartel received his first legal win in years after getting his murder conviction overturned. Dancehall king Vybz Kartel received his first legal win in years, after getting his ...