With his sleeve tattoos, backward baseball cap and penchant for oversized T-shirts, J Boog more resembles a member of Action Bronson's crew than a rising star of reggae. There's a strange kind of ...

A great reggae producer is a master of disguise: able to make listeners unaware that the 10 tunes they've just heard share a single beat. That's because the building block of dancehall and ...

Long Beach, California-born, Compton-raised reggae singer J Boog has announced a Feb. 16 show at the Knitting Factory as part of his “Rose Petals” winter tour. J Boog burst onto the scene in 2007 with ...

Reggae singer J Boog has just announced an Orlando show for early next year. He’s been booked for a date at the Social on Jan. 26, 2017. J Boog, an American of Samoan descent, is at the forefront of a ...

Terrible reggae passes for listenable reggae more often than its rock or hip-hop counterparts, and that shit needs to stop. Thankfully, artists like J Boog breathe life into the genre and we’re much ...

[ { "name": "GPT - Billboard - Slot Inline - Content - Labeled - No Desktop", "component": "16971022", "insertPoint": "2", "requiredCountToDisplay": "2" },{ "name ...

“I had no idea I was going to get into music,” says reggae/soul singer J Boog. “I thought I was going to work at the oil refinery my whole life, drinking every damn weekend, living check to check, ...

Not since Matisyahu has an American created a buzz in reggae music. J Boog (Jerry Afemata) brings an authentic Jamaican reggae sound to his music. I caught up with Boog, whose Feb. 5 show at Sound ...

Thirteen years after it was first released, the song Let’s Do it Again by Hawaiian reggae singer J Boog, has been certified platinum in America. The certification was issued on February 8 by the ...

It’s not every day you come across a Samoan gent from Compton who was born in Long Beach and later moved to Hawaii. Insert J Boog. When you think of reggae, you might shoot straight to artists like ...

It helped the Samoan American singer survive a childhood in rough-and-tumble Compton. It gave him a shot at a career as a professional musician. “We’re just honored to be in the category with heavy ...