Stone Love Movement

So then even, so then now you're doing all this voicing for Madhouse and stuff.

How did you end up over by Stone Love now to really now get the real super break with Gangalee?

All right.

Watch this now.

'Cause you see, I remember when that came out, the big song, okay, Capleton had tour-

Yes

... and dubplate for Stone Love-

They'd come to Toronto, Jamaica, whatever, stay at our house.

And I remember, uh, I don't remember, uh, if it was Stone Love or Soul II Soul, or both of them.

I can't, th- one of each where s- they came to my dad's house and they were practicing, and they were doing a show that night at, um, do you remember when it used to be Yuck Yuck's downtown?

Mm-hmm.

He's just, plays music and he [laughs] plays music very well.

Mm-hmm.

So I mean, that was, I looked up to him, and like, um, there was a couple of DJs that, like, he hung around with, like the Stone Loves and the Soul II Souls, and like, just, you know, the...

I would be at a lot of reggae shows, and I'd, I'd be like, "Man, I can't believe these guys can control a crowd like that."

And then by the mid-'80s, just to clarify, the mid-'80s is when they started voicing dubplates.

You know, Josie Wales voicing a dubplate for Stone Love to say, "Uh, down in the West Texas town of El Paso, Stone Love will play," and, and that would be how they would do it.

And that was like, oh, my gosh, these guys have got an acetate with their name in it, and the artist isn't here.

'Cause what used to happen is the artist would turn up at the dance and voice freestyle.

Renaissance played hip hop as well.

So they were bigger than Stone Love?

Renaissance? No.

[laughs] Stone Love was huge.

Stone Love was before Renaissance.

Yeah, 'cause I'm like I know Stone Love, 'cause Stone Love has been around.

Yeah, 'cause back Stone Love, when Stone Love came out, I was still young.

Mm-hmm.

And then, watch this now.

I remember Stone Love and Metro Media sent for that, and Dub played it.

And that's my first 200 US.

And I say, hold on.

And we'd say, are you ready? Because remember those times, you have to drop out rhythm and drop out bass.

So we'd go through all of those things.

Me and Kashif, and my first album was produced by me and Kashif, Where There's Love.

Oka? Yes man.