Buju Banton

Miami New Times Best Investigations of 2012: A Wrongly Charged Boxer, Corrupt Mayors and Bogus Pot Busts

Here at Riptide we do plenty of joking about mugshots and celebrating the sheer insanity that is life in the Sunshine State. But Miami New Times' staff writers also spend months investigating the kinds of stories that daily newspapers just don't have the time or resources to focus on any more.In 201 ... More >>

Reader Mail: Democrats Steal Votes Too

Buju Banton: Five More Years in Jail

Reader mail: Gay-bashing Buju Banton needs to make peace with the Lord

Buju Banton is innocent

Buju Banton Received Ten Years in Prison Thanks to a Shady Snitch With Money Woes

Seven months after a judge sentenced Grammy-winning reggae artist Buju Banton to ten years in Miami's Federal Correctional Institution on drug charges, an appeal by Buju is raising concerns that the feds entrapped the iconic and controversial performer. In this week's New Times, an investigatio ... More >>

Buju Banton Gets Ten Years in Federal Prison on Drug Convictions

Buju Banton's mug shot.​Reggae superstar Buju Banton will spend the next decade in federal lockup, a judge in Tampa ruled this morning. The sentence comes after Banton -- who played to a packed crowd at Bayfront in January and won a Grammy this year -- was convicted of trying to engineer a cocaine ... More >>

Buju Banton Found Guilty in Cocaine Case

​Despite a triumphant concert in Miami and a Grammy win within the last few months, Buju Banton's dark days are not behind him. After an initial trial on drug charges was declared a mistrial, Banton has been found guilty of conspiring to set up a Florida cocaine deal back in 2009.

Letters from the issue of January 20, 2011

Ten Photos of Buju Banton and Friends at Bayfront Park Amphitheater

Photo by David MuirWelcome back, Buju.​In just a few weeks, Buju Banton will be back in court, battling those federal cocaine conspiracy charges for a second time. But this past Sunday, dancehall's bad boy and a bunch of his best friends brought some serious Rasta righteousness to Bayfront Park ... More >>

Buju Banton plays Bayfront Park Amphitheater January 16

Miami's dirty dozen of 2010

Buju Banton: Dirty Dozen 2010

​Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We're releasing the names one by one ahead of next week's issue, which comes with a full-page illustr ... More >>

Buju Banton Is (Sorta) Back! The Dancehall Bad Boy Hits Bayfront January 16

Buju cries for freedom!​When discussing dancehall, there are certain names that come to mind, all coincidentally starting with the letter B, like Beanie Man, Bounty Killer, Buju Banton. For some, those names are sacred. For others, they're curse words. And Buju Banton has definitely experienced h ... More >>

Buju Banton Wins Ruling For Release

​Reggae star Buju Banton, who faces a February retrial on a criminal charge of conspiring to buy cocaine from an undercover police officer, could soon be released from Tampa jail. He has been locked up for the past 11 months. On November 4, Federal Judge James S. Moody Jr. denied assistant U.S. At ... More >>

Buju Banton Rides Drug Trial Up the Charts As Fans Demand His Release

​Just ask Tupac, Lil' Wayne, or, hell, even Jim Morrison: sometimes a good stint behind bars is just what the spin doctor ordered for selling a ton of records. You may as well add Buju Banton to that list, because even as the reggae star languishes in a Tampa-area jail awaiting retrial on federal ... More >>

Mistrial Declared in Buju Banton Case

Reggae star Buju Banton's trial on cocaine charges has ended in a mistrial after the 12-person jury sent a second notice to the judge saying they couldn't reach a decision. The jury had been deliberating since Thursday following a four-day trial.

Buju Banton Trial Starts As Singer Testifies He Didn't Mean To Visit Warehouse Full of Coke

​Buju Banton, it seems, has a gaping, cavernous mineshaft of a hole to dig out of in federal court in Tampa: the feds have hours of taped conversations with the reggae star talking about cocaine, quoting detailed worldwide prices for cocaine, and even visiting a warehouse and sampling a few kilos ... More >>

Best of the Best of the Best

George Rekers Has Company: The Top Ten Outed Right-Wing Homophobes

George Alan Rekers, latest in a long line of closeted homophobes.Unless you've spent the last 48 hours holed up in a French B&B humping the homosexuality right out of your rent-a-boy, you've probably heard about Miami New Times' exposé of gay-bashing evangelist George Alan Rekers' European trys ... More >>

Concert Review: Steel Pulse at Revolution March 10

Photo by Jack Burt​Steel Pulse with Fourth Dimension Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Revolution, Fort Lauderdale The Review: There is nothing like being in the presence of a vintage Rasta man, and David Hinds, Steel Pulse's frontman, is an especially potent one. He's been the driving, spliff-cheefing ... More >>

Top picks for the 17th annual Marley Fest

News Roundup: City Commission Gets It Dunn

After an epically long city commission meeting, commissioners chose the Rev. Richard Dunn to replace Michelle Spence-Jones after he pledged not to run for the seat in November. [Herald]Crime rates in unincorporated Dade County are down. [Herald]Sad Ponzi clown Scott Rothstein is going to p ... More >>

Get Overheated With Your Morons of the Week

We've been hit with a cold front, and if you're like Riptide, your office is about as cozy as a gulag right now. But that's OK, because this week's batch of morons has a MWQ (Moronic Wattage Quotient) powerful enough to heat a three-story building. Throw on a Christmas sweater and rub your hands in ... More >>

Buju Banton Busted for Trying to Buy Cocaine

via MTV News​Last Thursday, controversial reggae star Buju Banton (aka Mark Anthony Myrie) was busted for trying to buy nearly 15 7 kilos of cocaine from an undercover DEA informant. Myrie is as notorious for unapologetic, anti-gay lyrics as he is for his wine-worthy music, but accordin ... More >>

News Roundup: One Epic Hotel Guest Dead, 400 Relocated

The Epic Hotel, in its quest to be fancy, has killed a man and hospitalized two others. It installed a powerful water filtration system that actually filtered out chlorine and caused the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires' disease to grow. Four hundred guests were evacuated while the ho ... More >>

Rastaman Vibration

This year’s Caribbean Fest returns to its roots.

Do the Reggay

And groove with the man who helped invent the genre.

Last Night: Best of the Best at Bicentennial Park

5 Reasons Not to Miss Best of the Best

iTunes Tells Buju Banton to "Boom Bye Bye"

Last Night: Second Annual Jamaican Vintage Music Festival

Back in Black

A Star Is Buddz

Dancehall darling Collie Buddz has a hit single, an album ready to drop, and a lot of very confused fans

Various artists

Strictly the Best 35/36 (VP)

Positive Vibrations

Target Demographic

Buju Banton is dead wrong, but he’s hatin’ anyway

Hurry Up and Come

Memorial Fest will be the best reggae concert in years

Miami Extra-Loaded

Caribbean Swingin'

BEST REGGAE RADIO PROGRAM

96 Mixx (MIXX-FM 96.1)

Lord of the Dancehall

You may not have heard of Tony Kelly, but you have probably heard him

The Year in Caribbean Music

Dancehall, soca, and protests

Boom Times

In 2003 reggae and dancehall ruled the roost

Sound Clappas

Today's producers specialize in digital dancehall

Singjay Stylee

Deejays have nowhere left to go but into song

Winding and Long

If Babylon isn't ready to embrace Buju Banton yet, give it time

No Fassy Ting

Wayne Wonder has never let go

Reverb

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