“We actually wanted to bring Skerrit Bwoy [on the road], but he’s kind of involved in this whole daggering movement that our sponsors didn’t feel was very suitable for our tour.” When Diplo and Switch ...

Having both worked as producers for M.I.A., Diplo and Switch combined forces under the Major Lazer moniker, a name inspired by a fictional Jamaican commando who fought in a secret zombie war of 1984 ...

Back in 2007, Diplo and Switch were ready to launch the music they’d been working on together; they just needed to figure out what to call themselves. They each chose a bunch of words at random, wrote ...

There are only a handful of groups in electronic music with a cultural grip as firm as Major Lazer‘s. Nearly two decades in, the trio-turned-collective has gone from underground dancehall experiments ...

AllHipHop had the pleasure of speaking with Walshy at Diplo’s house in Malibu. Read below as we discuss his Florida project in the works, roots in Jamaica and Florida, working with Koffee, KYLE, and ...