In this essay, entertainment news editor Kaitlyn McNab recounts her transformative experience playing mas for the first time as a participant in Grenada’s Spicemas, the island’s annual Carnival ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man plays Jab in the town of Paraclete in Grenada. (Natasha S. Alford/TheGrio) Grio Green Book: “Playing Jab” at J’ouvert in ...

If you’ve ever found yourself on the streets of St. George, Grenada, during Spicemas, you know it isn’t just a carnival. The oil, the horns, the rumbling bass from passing trucks, and the call of a ...

CHAGUANAS— Negus Entertainment signals the start of mud and oil mas with the release of the Dutty Jab Riddim, a jab-driven, multi-artiste project rooted in the ritual, movement, and raw expression of ...

It’s a sight that will stop you dead in your tracks. Brown bodies covered in black oil from head to toe. Shining like onyx stones in the sun. Helmets adorned with horns curved upward, sometimes ...