Alkaline (musician)

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Alkaline
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Alkaline in 2022
Background information
Birth nameEarlan Bartley
Also known as
  • Young Lawd
  • Vendetta Boss
  • ManHimselff
Born (1993-12-19) 19 December 1993 (age 31)
Kingston, Jamaica [1]
Genres Dancehall, reggae
Occupations
  • Musician
  • songwriter
InstrumentVocals
Years active2009–present
LabelsAutobamb Records
Website alkalinemusiq.com

Earlan Bartley (born 19 December 1993), better known as Alkaline, is a Jamaican dancehall and reggae musician from Kingston, Jamaica. [2] Known for entering the scene with an alluring perception heavily projected to his Jamaican audience and utilizing his stage name to represent the opposite principles of his personality correlating the dichotomy of positive and negative. [3] His music style captures the core of the dancehalls sound whilst incorporating his unique artistry.

Contents

Early life

Earlan was born in Kingston's Victoria Jubilee Hospital. [1] He attended Ardenne High School and studied Media and Communication at the University of the West Indies. [4] During his time in high school is when he started to have the determination for music. [2] With the support of his close friends he visited local recording studios after school whenever he had the chance. [3]

Career

2011–2014: Early career

Bartley began recording at the age of 16 and using the stage name Alkaline. When he was still in school, he made songs like "Proof", "Mi Love Woman", "Reflections" and "Missing You" creating long-term predictions and expressing his teenage experiences while making music videos on school grounds and in the streets of Jamaica with his close friends. [2] [5]

By 2013 he started to release a plethora of songs under the Cahban Rekords production. [6] He made his first appearance on the Reggae Sumfest stage as an opener on 25 July 2013. [7] In September of that year, he made a collaboration with dancehall artist Spice on the single "Only Ting Mi Want". Alkaline ended that year with a performance and first visit to Limón, Costa Rica on 15 December 2013. [8]

Alkaline began the year of 2014 with his "Live Mi Life" concert on 31 January at Constant Spring, Jamaica. [9] He eventually began working with Notnice Records, UIM Records and Zj Chrome becoming popular in Jamaica with a series of singles like "123", "High Suh", "Bruk Out", "Things Mi Love" and "Live Life" but the single he was very well known for was "Move Mountains", He went on to feature those singles on multiple EPs and Mixtapes. His early catalog propelled him to do consecutive shows around the Caribbean, North America, and Europe [10] [11]

2015–2016: Breakthrough with New Level Unlocked

In mid 2015 Alkaline pushed himself to the international market with his hit singles "On Fleek (Love Yuh Everything)" and "Ride on Me (Remix)" featuring Sean Kingston while consistently working on his debut album New Level Unlocked.

He released two other hit singles that year which was "ATM" on 30 September 2015, and "Champion Boy" on 30 October 2015, which were both featured on the New Level Unlocked Album. The album was released on 25 March 2016, under DJ Frass Records, going on to top the Billboard Reggae Charts in April which stood for 18 weeks, making him the first dancehall deejay to have a number one album on the charts in five years. [12] [13] [14] New Level Unlocked was selected at number 3 in Billboard's "10 Best Reggae Albums of 2016". [15] He also had multiple hit singles that year with "Formula", "My Side of The Story", "Block and Delete", "After All", "12 PM (Living Good), "Spoil You", "Extra Lesson" and "Badness It Name". [16] [17] In September 2016 he was nominated for a MOBO Award for the second time in the Best Reggae Act category. [18] His "Champion Boy" single was used in an advertising campaign for the Red Stripe Premier League. [19] With the crew name Vendetta which he uses to categorize his fans, made the launch of a clothing line considered as Detta Gear. [20] He was also featured on a remix of Shaggy's "That Love" on 11 November 2016. [21]

2017–2018: New Rules

Alkaline performing at Reggae Sumfest in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 2017 Alkaline in 2017.jpg
Alkaline performing at Reggae Sumfest in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 2017

Alkaline was considered one of the young hot acts in the dancehall space, not only because of his extreme talent but his huge controversial relevancy. For a certain period of time, he was very distant from Jamaica focusing more on the international scene. Over time there were critics claiming that he switched up on Jamaica given the fact that he didn't perform for a long time in his home country. [22] [23]

After his album tour, on 25 March 2017, Alkaline decided to prove the critics wrong by creating his own show called New Rules Festival which he brought to his home country. [24] It quickly became one of the most anticipated shows of the year with artists like Mavado, Shaggy, I-Octane, Tarrus Riley, Jahmiel and many more at Jamaica's national stadium car park. It boasted one of the biggest turnouts on a Jamaican stage show and many attendees would go on to say "New Rules" was one of dancehall's greatest shows ever and would definitely go down in history. [25] [26] [27] [28]

In July of that year, Alkaline attended Jamaica's Biggest annual stage show, Reggae Sumfest at which he hadn't performed since 2014; making a huge come back as one of the main performers as he featured the legendary Dean Fraser. [29]

On 10 August 2018 Alkaline made an appearance on FOX 5 News New York promoting the 13th annual Caribbean concert as the headline act interviewed by morning host Rosanna Scotto. [30] [31] The performance was held in Jackson, New Jersey at Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park 12 August 2018. [32]

On 8 September 2018, Alkaline brought his second New Rules show to Queens, New York, in Amazura. [33]

2019–2022: iFruit Radio, Top Prize, Givenchy Feature, New Rules Festival's and The Ripple EFFX

In early December Alkaline's 2019 single "With the Thing" was featured on the Video game Grand Theft Auto V with the "iFruit Radio" soundtrack. [34] He made his first appearance on the Afro Nation festival in Accra, Ghana 30 December 2019. [35] [36]

On 12 February 2021, Alkaline announced his second studio album Top Prize. [37] With the announcement of his sophomore album, he made an appearance on Audiomack making him the first Jamaican dancehall artist to be featured on the Fine Tuned series. [38] [39] The album was published on 14 May 2021, with the lead single "Ocean Wave" which was publish on 6 March 2020. [40] After the first week the album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard ’s Reggae Albums Charts, [41] No. 19 on the Heat Seekers Albums Charts for sale ranks [42] and No. 56 on Top Current Album Sales [43] which gained him a spot at No. 37 on Billboard's Emerging Artists that seeks to highlight the top performing and rising acts. [44] [45]

On 27 March 2022, Alkaline headlined his third New Rules Festival at the Miramar Regional Amphitheater in Miami, Florida, with featuring acts like Mavado, Kranium and Wayne Wonder. [46]

On 22 June 2022, Alkaline had his music featured on Givenchy's Men's Spring Summer 2023 RTW Show in Paris, France, which was directed by fashion designer Matthew M. Williams. [47] [48] In the same year on 2 July 2022, Alkaline returned his New Rules Festival to Kingston, Jamaica at the national stadium car park featuring performances from Macka Diamond, Aidonia, Skeng and many more. [49] [50]

His fifth EP The Ripple EFFX was released on 9 December 2022 and went on to win EP of the Year at the very first annual Caribbean Music Awards on 31 August 2023. [51] [52]

2023–present: Givenchy Campaign, New Rules Festival's

Alkaline performing in 2025 at Wembley Arena in the United Kingdom, London Alkaline in 2025.jpg
Alkaline performing in 2025 at Wembley Arena in the United Kingdom, London

On 9 January 2023, Alkaline was partnered on Givenchy's spring-summer 2023 men's global advertising campaign wearing the latest collection with photography from Matthew M. Williams. [53] [54] It was announced that Alkaline will serve as the face of the SS23 campaign. [55]

The fifth staging of the New Rules Festival returned to New York in the city of Mount Vernon on 3 September 2023, with featured performing acts like Mavado, Charly Black, Skinny Fabulous and Libianca. [56]

Alkaline attended his first show in the year of 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts on 30 March where he was awarded by Liz Miranda, a representative of the State Senate honoring him with a citation in contributions to Jamaican music and culture while recognizing his global influence within the Dancehall genre. [57] [58]

While concluding an eight-year hiatus, Alkaline held the sixth staging of his New Rules Festival in the United Kingdom, London making its debut in the country at Wembley Arena on April 17, 2025. The show featured young dancehall acts such as Rajahwild and Armanii with a surprise performance by the West London collective group WSTRN. [59] [60] [61]

The seventh staging of his New Rules Festival made its debut in Toronto, Canada on 21 June 2025 at the Rebel Entertainment complex. [62] [63] The eighth staging of New Rules Festival made its way back to Jamaica for the third time in the Trelawny Parish at the Trelawny Multi-purpose stadium on July 5, 2025. [64] [65] [66] [67]

Philanthropy

In May 2014, Alkaline donated $200,000 JMD each to two financially impoverished female cancer patients in Jamaica to further progress their treatments from the tumorous disease. [68] [69]

In March 2020 During the COVID-19 pandemic, Alkaline and New Era Productions team donated cleaning agents and disinfectant to the Maxfield Park Children's Home in Kingston, Jamaica. [70] [71]

On 23 June 2022 Alkaline and New Era Productions donated $1 million JMD to the Jamaica Society for the blind at the media launch for the second staging of the New Rules Festival in Kingston, Jamaica. [72]

On 24 June 2025 Alkaline and his New Era Production team partnered with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to create a workshop with the Jamaica 4-H Clubs in Trelawny attracting more young people to agriculture and making an innovative approach to youth engagement. [73]

Controversies

Corneal Tattoo

Alkaline in 2014 performing live at the Grugahalle arena in Essen, Germany. Alkaline in 2014.jpg
Alkaline in 2014 performing live at the Grugahalle arena in Essen, Germany.

When Alkaline first appeared on the Jamaican dancehall scene in 2013 he became known for his distinctive look and style, with the bleached skin and blond dreadlocks but the most controversial was his alleged tattooed eyes, which prompted others to follow suit. [74] He caused quite the stir as he claimed to have Corneal tattooing in his eyeballs. [75] Lauded as a publicity stunt by the Jamaican public, Alkaline received much backlash for the controversial move but also gained a heavy music following. An ongoing theme in much of his breakout music was the year "2016", which generated much intrigue as he never explicitly stated the year's meaning or significance. [76] He would keep up the charade for about 3 years, until he finally revealed the "tattoos" to be nothing more than a stunt. [77] As the Jamaican public ushered in the year of 2016. He soon revealed that the significance of 2016 lay in the fact that he was giving himself until that year to have his music speak for itself and no longer require publicity stunts for any form of media coverage. This prompted the release of his debut album, New Level Unlocked. [13] He has since halted wearing the black contact lenses that would cover his cornea.

On May 14, 2025, Alkaline made an appearance on BET UK for an interview appearing back on scene with his infamous contact lenses which he hasn't worn for a decade, once again creating a controversial buzz in the media. [78] In a sit-down interview with Nationwide 90FM on July 2, 2025, He explained that the image was made for public relations and an expression of himself as an entertainer. [79]

Discography

Albums

List of studio albums, with selected details and chart positions
TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
US Reggae

[13]

US Heat.

[42]

US Sale.

[43]

New Level Unlocked
  • Released: 25 March 2016
  • Label: DJ Frass Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download, Streaming
1
Top Prize
  • Released: 14 May 2021
  • Label: Autobamb Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
21956
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Mixtapes

TitleMixtape details
Mixtape
  • Released: 29 July 2014
  • Format: Digital download, CD
  • Label: Tad's Record
Raw as Eva
  • Released: 6 August 2014
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
  • Label: Notnice Records
Showcase
  • Released: 20 January 2015
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
  • Label: Tad's Record

EPs

TitleEP details
123 EP
  • Released: 25 February 2014
  • Format: Digital download
  • Label: Tad's Record
Gone Away - EP
  • Released: 1 April 2014
  • Format: Digital download
  • Label: Tad's Record
F*ck You
  • Released: 8 July 2014
  • Format: Digital download
  • Label: Tad's Record
Ride or Die
  • Released: 20 January 2015
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
  • Label: DJ Frass Records
The Ripple EFFX - EP
  • Released: 9 December 2022
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
  • Label: Autobamb Records
List of singles as featured artist, with selected certifications, showing year released and album name
YearSingleAlbumCertifications
2014"Press Play" (Remix)

(Rkade ft. Beenie Man & Alkaline)

Non-album singles
2016"That Love" (Remix)

(Shaggy ft. Alkaline)

2017"Formula" (Remix)

(French Montana ft. Alkaline)

Jungle Rules
"Txtin’"
(WSTRN ft. Alkaline)
Non-album single
2018"Nonchalant"
(A Boogie wit da Hoodie ft. Alkaline)
International Artist
"Fuego"
(Keith Sweat ft. Roi Chip Anthony, Ray Fade, Alkaline & Akon)
Playing For Keeps
"My Girl Remix"
(Chip ft. Alkaline, Red Rat & Stefflon Don)
Non-album single
2019"Just The Style"

(Kranium ft. Alkaline)

Midnight Sparks
"Rich N Comfortable"

(Star Captyn ft. Alkaline)

Non-album single
"No Negative Vibes"
(Walshy Fire ft. Alkaline & Runtown)
Walshy Fire Presents: ABENG
2020"Incognito"

(Stalk Ashley ft. Alkaline)

Non-album single

As lead artist

List of singles as lead artist, showing year released and album name
YearSingleAlbum
2013"Only Thing Mi Want" (with Spice)Non-album singles
2014"Gyal Bruk Out (Remix)" (Featuring Japanese)
"Love Doctor" (with Anju Blaxx)
"Queng Dem" (with Anju Blaxx)
2015"Above Dem"

(with Mavado & I-Octane)

"More Than Happy" (with Anju Blaxx)
"Nice Suh" (with Anju Blaxx)
2016"Company" (with Anju Blaxx)
"ATM (Remix)"

(Featuring Shatta Wale)

"Farewell" (with Mavado)
2017"Gyalis Pro"

(with Sean Paul)

"Extra Lesson (Remix)" (Featuring Chip & Kojo Funds)
2018"Mamacita"

(Featuring Justin Quiles)

Road to Success
"Fine Whine"

(with Black Shadow)

Non-album singles
"Black Heart"

(with Black Shadow)

2019"Eva High"

(with Black Shadow)

"Fulla Vibez"

(with Black Shadow)

"Jealousy"

(with Mavado & Jahmiel)

2020"Riches"

(Featuring Knaxx, Sashie Cool & Star Captyn)

"Gladdest Night"

(with Black Shadow)

"Overseas"

(with Serena Rigacci) (Featuring Famous Dex)

2022"Static" (with Black Shadow)
"Profile" (with Black Shadow)
2023"First Touch"

(with Black Shadow)

2024"Wul Mine" (with Knaxx)
2025"My Choice"

(with Di Genius)

"Millions" (with Intence)

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2014 MOBO Awards Best Reggae ActHimselfNominated [81]
2016 21st Hapilos Digital Music Awards Song of The Year"On Fleek (Love Yuh Everything)"Won [82]
MOBO Awards Best Reggae ActHimselfNominated [18]
2017 21st Hapilos Digital Music Awards Top Male ArtistWon [83]
Most Streamed ArtistWon
Most Downloaded ArtistWon
Most Streamed Single"Afterall"Won
MOBO Awards Best Reggae ActHimselfNominated [81]
2018International Reggae and World Music AwardsEntertainer of the YearWon [84]
Best Song"Afterall"Won
Best Male Dancehall ArtistHimselfWon
2023Caribbean Music AwardsEP of the Year (Dancehall)The Ripple EFFX - EPWon [51]
2024Video of the Year (Dancehall)"Boss"Nominated [85]

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