Sade Gardner

Kingston

Journalist at Freelance

Bald-headed entertainment journalist and pro at burning eggs.

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Articles

Dancehall Artist Tifa Is Engaged

Sep 3, 2024 | dancehallmag.com | Sade Gardner

Dancehall artist Tifa is engaged. The Sweet So singjay shared the video clip of her surprise engagement with fans on social media on Tuesday, after recently revealing the face of her “emoji man” boyfriend. “I said yes!💍because the way you love me feels right to my soul❤️‍🩹,” her adoring caption started.
Dancehall Artist Tifa Is Engaged

Sep 3, 2024 | flipboard.com | Sade Gardner

3 days ago"It suddenly started to hurt not to talk about it, but I had no vocabulary to communicate what I was going through. I felt like an impostor." Sitting in a dusty field surrounded by inebriated, sunburned festivalgoers dancing in thong bikinis and assless denim chaps to “Temperature” by Sean Paul, I …
Shawn Storm Talks Living Without Sex While Behind Bars

Aug 31, 2024 | dancehallmag.com | Sade Gardner

Twelve years and 10 months – that’s exactly how long Shawn Storm went without having sex while incarcerated for a now-overturned murder conviction. But as he tells it, it was really mind over matter. “Yuh haffi just manage,” he shared on The Fix this week. “It’s not case where you can put it pon your mind. Yuh haffi just tek dat off of your mind.”He further shut down assumptions that he could have simply bribed a correctional officer to get some intimate time.
Blak Ryno: "Don't Mistake Fear For Loyalty"

Aug 31, 2024 | dancehallmag.com | Sade Gardner

Ex Gaza Empire member Blak Ryno is moving past his dust-up with Shawn Storm, but not before airing his thoughts on dancehall’s current buzzword: loyalty. “Moving forward!!!” the Real Stinga singer wrote in an Instagram post on Friday. “Don’t mistake fear for loyalty!!!”Storm has been touted as the most loyal figure in dancehall for his allegiance to Vybz Kartel, with whom he served 13 years behind bars for a since-overturned murder conviction.
Blak Ryno: “Don’t Mistake Fear For Loyalty”

Aug 31, 2024 | flipboard.com | Sade Gardner

Pop Culture7 hours agoI Lived With A Secret For Years. Then I Heard Chappell Roan's Music And My Life Changed. HuffPost - Abby Hassler • 7h"It suddenly started to hurt not to talk about it, but I had no vocabulary to communicate what I was going through.
Joe Bogdanovich Donates To Gaza Fan Who Launched GoFundMe For Kartel Concert

Aug 30, 2024 | dancehallmag.com | Sade Gardner

Joe Bogdanovich, organiser of Vybz Kartel’s first post-prison concert, is helping a fan get a frontstage view of the highly-anticipated event at the National Stadium on December 31. The fan, Shadz Dadz, created a GoFundMe campaign on Friday after the tier-one ticket prices were announced. “Just a long time Gaza Girl trying to get her centre stage ticket for Freedom Street!!” her description reads.
Joe Bogdanovich Donates To Gaza Fan Who Launched GoFundMe For Kartel Concert

Aug 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | Sade Gardner

15 hours agoDuring the recent Democratic National Convention protestors gathered outside, demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza and US support of Israel. After protestors interrupted her more recent speech in Georgia, Harris addressed those concerns once again. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
Vybz Kartel's Ex 'Shorty' Rubbishes Claims She Tampered With Her Son's Paternity Test

Aug 30, 2024 | dancehallmag.com | Sade Gardner

Tanesha ‘Shorty’ Johnson is tired of accusations that she tampered with the paternity results of her son’s ex-girlfriend’s child. The young woman, Chyna, first made the claim on Tea Time With Shelly-Ann Curran last year, and trolls won’t let Johnson forget it. Though Chyna produced positive results using DNA from Likkle Addi’s hair brush, she said tests conducted through Johnson returned negative.
Shawn Storm Says He Wasn’t Offended By '#FreeKartel' Campaign

Aug 30, 2024 | dancehallmag.com | Sade Gardner

From Zebra to Ninjaman, Dancehall has seen its fair share of artists hitting the slammer, but the outcry for freedom has never been louder than that for Vybz Kartel. The Bail For Me artist had people at home and abroad chanting “free World Boss” for 13 years as he fought his way to an overturned murder conviction and freedom. The phrase became so popular that it evolved into a hashtag, and even a sure way selectors and artists could evoke forwards from patrons at events.
Blak Ryno Claps Back After Shawn Storm Accuses Him Of Clout-Chasing

Aug 29, 2024 | dancehallmag.com | Sade Gardner

Former Gaza Empire member Blak Ryno is rubbishing Shawn Storm’s claims that he’s a clout-chaser. In a recent The Fix interview, Storm said the Real Stinga singjay has been trying to attach himself to the excitement surrounding his and Vybz Kartel’s prison release last month. “You cya understand people sometimes bredda, because weh yaa try do? Ride off a wave? Off a momentum bredda?” the My Life deejay asked. “Mi nuh like dem ting deh.