Vybz Kartel releases Living in Miami, a new dancehall single that arrived on Friday, November 6, 2026, through Vybz Kartel Muzik and Silver Birds Records. DancehallMag’s release report confirms the single is out now on Spotify and Apple Music, and the official audio runs 2 minutes and 44 seconds, a short, direct record with no featured artist.
For Toronto’s Caribbean diaspora, Kartel is not an island story with no local hook. His music has anchored dancehall in this city for two decades, and his Canadian run this fall is a matter of record: his song Fever earned a double platinum certification in Canada this month, a milestone iimiTV covered on November 9. A new Kartel single lands in Toronto first among the cities outside Jamaica that have always carried his catalogue.
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Vybz Kartel Living in Miami, announced in emojis
The rollout tells you the song’s subject before the first verse. DancehallMag reports that Kartel’s Instagram announcement carried a beach, an island, a hotel, a car, a money bag and a plane, followed by the line that mattered:
OUT NOW ON SPOTIFY AND APPLE MUSIC.
Sun, travel, cash and leisure: the post is the tracklist of the song’s world in miniature. Living in Miami is a lifestyle record, the dancehall tradition of the freedom flex, sung by an artist for whom movement itself is the headline. The official audio sits on the Vybz Kartel Topic channel on YouTube, provided by Zojak World Wide, and the visuals stay in house through his own camp’s video channel.
One single inside a two album year
The context is the pace. Living in Miami follows God and Time, Kartel’s 2026 album released June 5, a 14 track set featuring Wizkid, Mavado, Spice, Farruko, Shenseea and Skillibeng, as stupidDOPE’s single report sets out. And it points forward as well: his next album, The Sun, is announced for December 18, 2026. A standalone single in November, between a June album and a December album, is how an artist keeps the calendar his own. The single does not belong to a larger announced project, and Kartel has not said whether it opens the road to The Sun or simply holds the season.
Why this record travels in Toronto
Canadian hip hop and dancehall share rooms in this city, from sound system culture to the arena shows that bring Jamaican headliners to Scotiabank Arena. Kartel’s catalogue is part of that shared memory, and a double platinum Canadian certification for Fever this month proves the audience is not living on nostalgia. Living in Miami is out now on Vybz Kartel Muzik and Silver Birds Records, 2 minutes and 44 seconds long, with The Sun set to follow on December 18.
