Bounty Killer

Bounty Killer , by his real name Rodney Basil Price, was born in 1972 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was interested in music from an early age because his father had a sound system. He thus took advantage of the bounty, trying to deejaying at the age of nine and nicknamed himself Bounty Hunter. At the age of 14, he was hit by a lost bullet on his way to school. As soon as he left the hospital, he got back to music, performing on several sound systems in the neighborhood and becoming more interested in recording. He also changed his name to Bounty Killer , a more aggressive name according to him. Initially, Bounty Killer and a few friends from the neighborhood hang out at King Jammy's studios and recorded several titles. Jammy would have liked to have published his first composition, but at the time he was not excited by the "gun songs". Conscious of the young man's potential, it was finally Uncle T who produced his titles, including one of his first hits, Coppershot. His texts are clearly influenced by the harsh lifestyle in this part of the world. Flinguistic, accounting, girls, ganja, poverty, injustice and poverty are the main themes. Combined with its serious, fast and aggressive flow, its first singles quickly become hits in his country, but also in some New York neighborhoods. Soon he became a youth spokesman for the ghettos and acquired the nickname Poor People's Governor. At the end of 1993, he went to the Sting Festival in Portmore to give a concert alongside several local artists, including Beenie Man, another young deejay, who offered a style very similar to that of Bounty Killer. Indubitably, a conflict broke out between him and Beenie Man, one accusing him of having plagiarized the very particular flow of the other. The conflict will continue for several years, although attempts to reconcile have been made several times in the course of their respective careers without necessarily succeeding. A few days later, in 1994, the Poor Peoples Governor released its first album via the English label Greensleeves Records. First explicitly titled Jamaica's Most Wanted, the record was clumsyly changed to Roots, Reality And Culture by VP Records, the parent company of Greensleeves in the United States, for its international release. Following the conflict with Beenie Man , the Greensleeves label offers an album with clash songs between the two deejays. The album is composed of six songs by Bounty Killer and six by Beenie Man and is titled Guns Out. Again, VP Records changes the title, the title Face To Face for image reasons. Also the same year, Bounty Killer, nicknamed The Warlord since the release of the album, released his second real album, Down In The Ghetto, then his third, in 1995, No Argument. . He also decided to set his own label, Priceless Records and create the Scare Dem Crew, a collective at Nitty Kutchie base, Boom Dandimite, and later Harry Toddler and Elephant Man. Bounty Killer became known in Europe and the United States. This fame allowed him to count on many guests for his new opus, My Xperience, in 1996. In the guest lot we find among others, Raekwon ( Wu-Tang Clan), Jeru The Damaja, Busta Rhymes or the Fugees. The album cartons and Jamaican is gaining popularity in the world. He is invited by many groups, including Hip-Hop such as Mobb Deep or Wu-Tang Clan, although he expresses disdain for commercial rap. In 1997, Bounty Killer released his fifth album, Ghetto Gramma' . The following year, he released Next Millennium, an album that merged Rap and Dancehall. It is published by the former American label TVT ( Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM , Aphex Twin ), followed in 1999 by 5th Element . In 2001, he appeared as a guest on the hit single Hey Baby of No Doubt. In 2002, Bounty Killer produced two two-part concept albums, named Ghetto Dictionary including The Mystery, and The Art Of War, which made it even more popular around the world. At the same time, he tried to reunite his protected youth ( Wayne Marshall , Baby Cham , Elephant Man , Mavado , Busy Signal or Vybz Kartel ) at the top of the Dancehall scene by creating the Alliance, a group of young artists. But conflicts between young people are frequent and it is therefore difficult for all to work properly. In 2006, he released his latest album, Nah No Mercy - The Warlord Scrolls . Although he has already marked the history of Jamaican music, the Poor People!Governor continues to make talk about him, both through his music and texts, through his misguided conduct, and through his support for charity. He is currently one of Jamaica's most popular musicians.
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