After dancehall emerged as reggae’s rowdier, raunchier kin in the late ‘70s, the genre experienced intermittent cycles of popularity within the U.S. mainstream. The first occurred in the early ‘90s, ...

“You ready?” Beyoncé Knowles asks to kick off the lead single from her first solo offering, Dangerously in Love. What fools we were to shrug it off as a throwaway line, when it really was a ...