This Day in Jamaican Music

May 21

On May 21 in Jamaican music: 3 albums dated to this day, including As Raw as Ever by Shabba Ranks (1991) and 6 stories from the news archive.

Releases

Released on this day

3

Albums and singles in the Listen library dated to this day — press play from any title.

  1. 1991 As Raw as EverAlbum

    Shabba Ranks

  2. 2001 Divine Madness... DefinitelyAlbum

    Lee 'Scratch' Perry

  3. 2013 The MessiahAlbum

    Sizzla

News archive

Stories published on this day

6

From the JamaicansMusic newsroom, going back to 2008.

  1. 2023 Boom Dandimite of Scare Dem Crew Dies in a US Hospital After Car-Crash Complications

    Music

  2. 2015 The Future Is In The Past...

    Music

  3. 2014 D-Major releases debut album 'It's Major'

    Music

  4. 2013 Jesse Royal releases his sophomore mixtape

    Music

  5. 2012 Bears A Yawd

    Interviews

  6. 1981 Robert Nesta Marley, O.M., 1945–1981: Jamaica Buries Its Cultural Ambassador at Nine Mile After a State Funeral in the National Arena

    Music

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