Portland Parish

Because the sad irony, it's not irony at all, but the sad thing which struck me was I got some cocoa beans from a lady who worked for us as a cleaner.

I was like, do you know where we can get cocoa beans from? She's like, yeah, I know someone in Portland, which is interestingly a parish which has some of the best cocoa in Jamaica easily.

So it was pure luck and that they were well fermented.

And she got some beans from someone she knew who traveled in to Kingston and we roasted a batch.

Money, money, money, money, money, money, money.

you have a lot of business and every title you man have a proper business when you see your period take a holiday and me a pig out in the sun Jones Avenue, Tel Aviva, Fort Morgans, Dunn, Mauvea, Westmoreland, Portland you can't make me

from outside you can't make me from outside you can't make me from outside bring a crew and come in Shame, I nah get fishy like me a sand grain Cause I'm not frightened in no champagne Everybody don't know where me done name So me big up every youth where me know from scale Tell Cali 9's here so we won't fame Life another the house and no ring game One check money so till me unpaying Paying, paying, paying Fire one way Me no go in the enemy's zone, where you feel like? Me no go in the enemy's zone, where you feel like? Me no go in the enemy's zone,

where me sit there and break me Meet me at the corner

No mind your nationality, you have got the identity of an African.

Cause if you come from Clarendon, and if you come from Portland, and if you come from Westmoreland, you're an African.

I don't care where you come from As long as you're a black man So don't care where you come from As long as you're a black man You're an African No mind your complexion There is no rejection You're an African Cause if your flexion high, high If your flexion low And if your flexion in between Where you come from, as long as you're a black man, you're an African.

No mind denomination, that is only segregation, you're an African.

These aren't like British actors talking in Patois.

In the case of our little kid, he's a young kid from Portland, Jamaica, you know.

And I wanted that authenticity, but I was like, OK, that might relate to an audience in Brixton or an audience in London who have had 60 years of context of the of Patois and how Caribbean people speak.

But how would that relate to someone in like mainland Europe or how would that relate to someone in California or somewhere in a random place in the US or wherever else? I was a little bit nervous with how that would sit.

So one day, Pork Board needs to come to Jamaica with me.

We're going to go to Portland, Jamaica.

Okay.

Where jerk pork or jerk seasoning was pretty much originated.

Yeah.

Yeah, he's a young kid from Portland, Jamaica, which is a, like, a couple hours outside Kingston, and he's, like, 12.

I think, like, 12 or 13.

But he's, like, a real...