New Shaggy album: Summer in Kingston!
The summer has begun, as Shaggy’s newest album Summer in Kingston is being released today!! Get Summer in Kingston now for $2.99 on iTunes!
The album features eight awesome tracks. It’s already the number 1 album on the iTunes Reggae Albums Charts and its first single Sugarcane is the number 1 single on the iTunes Reggae Singles Charts! Get it now and enjoy the feel-good summer vibes of the album, you won’t regret it!
Summer in Kingston track list
1. Just Another Girl feat. Tarrus Riley
2. Sugarcane
3. Dame
4. Feeling Alive feat. Agent Sasco
5. End of the World (Drink Up)
6. Soldiers Story feat. Jaiden
7. Fired Up (F*ck The Rece$$ion!)
8. The Only One (Lie To Me) feat. Jaiden
The awesome, hilarious and beautiful video to the first single on the album, Sugarcane, premiered yesterday on MTV!
Jamaica Star’s Shaggy & Friends highlights
The Jamaica Star and Icey Jace uploaded live videos with the highlights of the Shaggy & Friends concert… here they are… enjoy!
Featured in the Jamaica Star video are among others Shaggy Bad Man Don’t Cry, Machel Montano & Shaggy Toro Toro (Mad Bull Fever), Shaggy Strength of a Woman and Beenie Man! The video by Icey Jace has Machel Montano & Shaggy (Toro Toro!), Baby Cham, Mario Winans, Beenie Man, Busy Signal, Mavado and Bounty Killer!
TEENage Shaggy interview
The Jamaica Observer’s TEENage spoke to Shaggy about his recent and upcoming endeavours, like his collaboration with Tessanne Chin on their new hot single Never Let Me Go. He also told them he has major things in the works, like a new video with fellow Big Yard artist Black-er and comedians Ity and Fancy Cat!
Shaggy’s also looking for a record label that wants to do business with him in the way he envisions it right for his music. Jamaica Observer article.
Bob Sinclar & Shaggy: 2010 collaboration
Bob Sinclar and Shaggy will release a song together in 2010! The new song will be featured on Bob Sinclar’s upcoming 2010 album. Télé Loisirs article and Pure People article.
Shaggy #1 on German 2009 Reggae Charts
The top song in the German Reggae Charts of 2009 is Long Time, Shaggy’s song on the Street Bullies Riddim! It is the overall #1 on the reggae charts. I Can’t Fight This Feeling, Shaggy’s song on the Baddaz Riddim, is at #11 in the year charts! Trend Charts.
UK end of the decade charts!
Shaggy and Rik Rok’s huge hit It Wasn’t Me is the #1 selling R&B single in the UK of the 2000s! It also is the highest selling non-tv shows single of the decade and the #1 selling single of 2001. The Shaggy & Rayvon single Angel is in the top selling singles of 2001 as well and comes in at #10. Wow, what an achievement!
Fly High dubplate
Shaggy recorded a Fly High dubplate for Fabrizio Miccoli, who currently plays soccer for Serie A team Palermo. You can listen to the dubplate here!
Angela and Friends Shaggy interview
The video of Shaggy on Angela & Friends at Sky1 is online now! Angela and Shaggy talk about Shaggy’s charity work for the Chain of Hope and the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation and how men and women lie and cheat – that is, according to Shaggy.
They also talked about Shaggy’s upcoming album, on which he’s currently working. After having released the Intoxication album for the underground, Shaggy’s new album will be a more mainstream album again. Hopefully with a lot of huge hits! Wanna see and hear more? You can watch the video here!
BMI Urban Awards 2009 Shaggy interview
Here’s an interview from the BMI Urban Awards earlier this year! Shaggy talks about the position of dancehall in the music industry and the freedom of having his own label. Video.
Shaggy at Pure Night Club photos
Shaggy performed at Pure Night Club in Las Vegas last night. Ari has a first photo, entitled “Shaggy at Pure is off the hook!”! IPhoto has a photo gallery of last night’s performance as well. Pure Night Club also has a review and photos: “electrifying performance”!
Shaggy to Switzerland
Shaggy’s official MySpace confirms Shaggy will perform at the Glow Club in St. Gallen, Switzerland on October 31!
Article
En el Show has an article about Shaggy’s career, which also has something new to say about Shaggy’s new album! It states that Shaggy will promote the first three singles off his upcoming album during his US tour dates. One of them is Fly High, which has been a big summer hit in among others Europe.
Crown Jugglaz Dancehall Singers Mix
Shaggy is one of the artist mixed by Mighty Crown on their latest Crown Jugglaz release, the Dacehall Singers Mix. If the tracklist is correct the song is called Soundboy Gonna Die, which is a dubplate. More info. Special Delivery also features an untitled dubplate.
Shaggy at the Reeds Neva Ends Fest
Here’s a video of Shaggy at the Reeds Neva End Fest in Switzerland July 2009! In the video Shaggy sings the new 2009 tune Long Time live! He also sings part of Church Heathen and he presents tunes by among others Elephant Man and Beenie Man and new riddims and other hot tunes.
Shaggy MCs and sings Long Time live at Reeds Reggae Festival afterparty by rigah
New music video clip: Fligh High
Shaggy was in Miami last week, where he either prepared for or shot a new music video: Fligh High!!
Fligh High his is the successor of the chart topping Bad Man Don’t Cry. One Source Talent has a photo of one of its clients who is in the video as a party goer extra.
Ja Rule and Shaggy on stage in Mansion, Miami
Shaggy also joined Ja Rule on stage at Mansion in Miami on Wednesday, here’s the video!
Shaggy’s Planet Rock Profile Planet Rock profile video of Shaggy: a candid interview and video clips from Oh Carolina to Boombastic and from Luv Me Luv Me to It Wasnt Me and beyond.
2001 and 2007 videos Diane Ele interviewed Shaggy at the red carpet of the Z100 Zootopia concert in 2001 video (Shaggy is at 2:50 minutes in the video). IBN Live interviewed Shaggy in about his participation in the official world cricket cup video and single. They also play part of The Game of Love and Unity, the ICC World Cup song by Rupee, Shaggy and Faye-Ann in this video.
Shaggy Parrot & the Reggae Band gets global sign of approval The National Parenting Center, the world’s biggest parenting advocacy group, has awarded the Seal of Approval 2009 to Shaggy Parrot & the Reggae Band, the CD storybook which features Shaggy. The TNPC reviews, tests and evaluates children’s products from manufacturers worldwide and will promote its approval winners. Jamaica Gleaner.
Shaggy donates blood to the blood bank of Jamaica (with picture)
Shaggy donated blood to the Jamaican Blood Bank! The Jamaica Gleaner now has a picture.
Jamaica Gleaner: Shaggy’s 10 best looks
The Jamaica Gleaner put up a list and pictures of Shaggy’s 10 best looks as an international superstar artist, a philantropist and a stylish ambassador for his country. For more, go read the article. Jamaica Observer photos and article.
Shaggy’s new video Bad Man Nuh Cry has arrived! It’s an ultrahot video to a very hot song by none other than Shaggy, featuring big names such as Josey Wales, D’Angel, Bounty Killer, Olympic champion Usain Bolt, Mavado and many more, produced by Jay Will and Hype Williams. First here on shaggy.v3x.biz, enjoy!
Bad Man Nuh Cry: the video!!
The video features Josey Wales, D’Angel, Milk, Sky Juice, Renato Adams, Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Bounty Killer, Mavado, Chris Martin, Jigzagula, Iceman, Alozade, Cezar, Danny Champagne, D’Major, Barbee, Ribby Chung, Carlos Max Brown, Too Tall, Early Samuels, Drummy, JB, DLynx, Foota, Jay Will, Kanhai, Brooklyn, Mark Reid, Tony T and Tony Morrison and was created by Jay Will from Game Over, Robert Livingston, Carleene Samuels, Derek Edwards, Joel Burke and Smokey.
