What's up, pay attention.
Welcome to Jamaica.
Welcome to Chenstone.
We're here in Jamaica.
We're in Chenstone, you know what I'm saying?
This is where we'll come from.
For Arte, Rock and the City, these are the artists who take the dust of the city.
To capture the tempo and rhythm, they take off from a mythical place in a closed club.
Kingston is the dark side of Jamaica, located on the south coast of the country, here is a capital that travel agencies don't necessarily advise tourists.
It's a urban monster, hot and dense, where a third of the country's population lives.
There are 800,000 people gathered on a small perimeter between the hills and the sea.
The ghettos cover the entire base part of the city.
It is in the heart of these popular districts, especially in Chenstone, that Jamaican music has played a part in the 60s.
We are the select after the community.
We're going to do a gang video, and I'm going to show you how to select the mix on the elements.
Welcome to Chenrock.
I'm a star. I'm about to come to you.
Let's see.
Let's go, look at this.
Wow.
It's a Morgl himself.
It's a walkie-talkie.
It's not bad.
It's nice to see you here.
Let's enter.
Let's check.
Trench Town was the main stage
of Kingston's musical creation
in the middle of the last century.
It's hard to believe that the neighbourhood
then focused on several theatres
and large concert halls.
Today, there is only one city building
made of carpets and tons of milk.
Trench Town started now.
It started from a land where
all the people from the country
came to look for opportunities.
And in the long time,
Trench Town was the place.
And still is the place,
but through a violent kind of step.
So people just came here
and step off and make a name here.
Marcus Giavi came to Trench Town first
when he came from the country.
Bob Morales, a young youth,
came from the country
and then came to Trench Town
because Trench Town is a place
of opportunity in those times.
Here's where reggae music started.
Ski, rock study in Trench Town
that's where it started.
But a lot of people don't know
the old scenery, yes, son,
because Jacob Miller is from Dongyur,
Kenboot, Frankipal,
Delroy, Wilson.
If you check out the wailing souls,
Peter Touch, all of them.
The man who taught Bob Morales to play
guitar, tata.
It's Kingston Town.
It's Kingston Town.
On First Street,
Bob Morales lived in the 1960s
with his mother and his cousins
and remained intact.
These are the inhabitants of the neighborhood
that hold the places.
They are proud to preserve
the memory of the hurricane.
Yeah, well, I don't know,
so I went into writing and culture.
I don't know.
If you notice, it's the first Muslim
Bob Morales used to have the first vehicle.
You don't know.
And this is where the music said
Georgia used to light the fire
and cook the carbine porridge.
And you see that, right now,
it still goes on.
It never stops.
And different men who have cooked
the porridge, you know,
Georgia, then they are writing,
but it's a Georgia song.
Yeah, son.
Yeah, son, it's a look at Georgia.
Still cook them.
What were you cooking today?
Many were some cabbage and
cauliflower and vegetable thing,
you know.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
Some pork dumping and things.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
So this is Bob Morale.
Oh, snow.
We're finding better than thing there.
See that?
Bob Morale made it.
Still there now.
They still preserve it.
A lot of people come from all over the world
to pay 100 tozer US for it,
but change some people and selling up
Bob Morale heritage.
So it's still there.
So when they hear him saying,
man, Bob Morale is a sleeper.
A man, Rita Morale is a sleeper.
A single man.
This is it.
This is where Ziggy Morale was created.
Yeah, son.
This is where Ziggy Morale jumped on.
This is Bob Morale's first guitar.
This is the guitar that made the song
Exodus.
Yeah, son.
And all of those itunes that the
Air Bob Morale come out with first.
So this is where Bob Morale was
the real, started the real rebel.
This is before he took up the rest
starting 100%.
This is when Bob Morale came.
Bob Morale is also a gangster,
but not either gangster,
a real good, good gangster.
A revolution is for people.
Yes, son.
So as you see, this is in Trench Town.
This is Bob Morale eating him
dumping on mackerel.
Yes, son.
This is the van that they see out there.
So this is Bob Morale's first van.
In the east of Trench Town,
on Marcus Garvey Drive,
is the studio Teuf Gong.
They were talking about this
property at the end of the 60s.
This is where they record their most beautiful
albums.
The posters and gold records
hanging on the wall remember this
music.
At Kingston, Marley's business
is Tom Lee present.
The city that he had offered Chris Blackwell,
his manager at Highland Records,
was transformed into a museum.
His memory also lives at Studio One,
the label of Sir Coxon Dodd.
He was the first producer to
guess his talent and left
the keys to the studio.
In the fall of the night,
Kingston New Kingston's business
changes its face.
The neon lights are on.
And concerts are organized
every week.
The audience comes here to have fun
and to forget a daily routine
in the capital.
Kingston is a marmite.
Its parties serve
a lot of decompression.
And tonight,
it's a mass camp
that takes place
at Dancehall in the old days.
This is mass camp.
This is absolute.
This is the number one dance hall.
It's a dance show.
This is the place to be.
It shows a well show.
Yeah.
Mass camp.
Uptown Jamaica.
New Kingston.
It's a mass camp.
Here man, you're famous, you know?
Famous in Jamaica.
Famous all over the world.
glass.
StourGave,
MetroMedia
and Jalov,
the old Sans system
banned for singing
to the details at the end of the night.
To that simple recipe,
the Jockey
is entitled to a.
But then they're like
the first.
I'm going to show you a little bit of what it's like to be here in Monta Jamaica.
Well, they don't know tonight is the veteran of night.
They're here at the table, dancers. Tonight are the real dancers.
Some dancers and some boys at the table. The real dancers are not tellable.
Leko Chan, Brigadier Jerry, George Will, Charlie Chaplin.
I do all the work. The real dancers. I actually start from...
I've been going to town since I was 4 years old.
And I'm still here at 61.
And I couldn't never come to this dance tonight and dance in this tour.
Look how we all know this one. Coming like a national anthem.
At least 1 km from Mascamp, a crowd of another kind is gathering tonight.
Welcome to the world of modern dancehall on Knudtsford Boulevard.
We're going to show you a little bit of what it's like to be here in Monta Jamaica.
We're going to show you a little bit of what it's like to be here in Monta Jamaica.
We're going to show you a little bit of what it's like to be here in Monta Jamaica.
We're going to show you a little bit of what it's like to be here in Monta Jamaica.
We're going to show you a little bit of what it's like to be here in Monta Jamaica.
We're going to show you a little bit of what it's like to be here in Monta Jamaica.
Welcome to the world of modern dancehall on Knudtsford Boulevard.
It's in the middle of fast food and telephone shops that are focused on the most popular club in the world.
It's hot inside and outside
We are currently at North South Boulevard
This is a heat club in Jamaica, yeah?
Asylum, the heat spot
The best club in Jamaica, yeah?
Image and answers is very important
Glasses, felt, image, shows, your style addressing is very important
It's very important to us
To pray on Asylum's track is the best way to make yourself aware
All the stars of the modern dancehall often take place
Elephant man, Mavado, Sean Paul or even Boonty Killer
They come to celebrate their birthday, launch their new album or just drink a drink
The dancers are here to dance, but also to display their latest creations
The demonstrations in these clubs may be the opportunity to launch a new fashion
Each step of dance has a very special name
If it becomes quite popular, it will be repeated in the lyrics of the songs
The lyrics of the songs
A few years later, the parties are leaving
And some dancehall queens are more afraid of nothing
The people are playing
If the Sunday morning seems to be at a standstill
Most of the inhabitants are still afraid of the office
Jamaica is the country that counts the most churches per inhabitants
The first music in the country is not the reggae
But the gospel
The chorus is published on records and the benefits are reflected in their paroise boxes
The vedettes of the Christian song really do their show every Sunday morning.
I have a special help to cross these rivers. This bridge is Jesus. Shout Hallelujah.
Claiming the song Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
I see no one to help me, but I'm determined. I'm gonna live.
I keep crossing my rivers, although I can't see that bridge.
Can I have a weakness this morning? There are times when it seems that the waters would cover me
and there's no need for me trying to cross. Oh, but I know that the Savior...
Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen.
For some reason most of the time the people are inclined to listen to music
and it builds their spiritual involvement more than sometimes some of the preachers.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
The churches are the first schools of change in Jamaica.
In their youth, all the stars of the reggae route used their pants.
Ken Booth, the golden man, did not escape.
I just live on the top side there. I also have a museum because I think a museum is very significant
for anybody who wants to look back, you know, in the past.
The great Ken Booth also comes from the Thrench Town ghetto, like Bob Marley.
The two stars were built in the 1960s.
His international success later allowed him to build a city in the Kossu
in Ligon, you know. You're welcome to my home, right?
And as I told you before, it's a museum, right?
You know, when the day is ready for me, when the time comes for me to leave this business,
I want to see pictures of my friends and me and places that have been to one thing like that.
So I decided that I'm going to turn my whole house into a museum.
All of us started in the 60s. So I tried to keep them on pictures.
Some of them passed away, you know, like Phyllis De lunch, she leave us.
You know, so I tried to keep them in pictures and also tell people about them
since whoever is alive, we tried to sing their songs on stage and all that, you know.
Ken Booth had started his career even before the appearance of the reggae.
Before 1968, he was singing Ska and Rocksteady.
With Jimmy Cliff, who was all Siberian, and his incomparable group The Metals,
he embraced the Balls of Kingston with desire and passion.
I think it was Tempo that caused names, you know, make names arrive.
Tempo, because this guy was, he just sound real Ska. The name Ska suits it.
Now Rocksteady was, you know, slowed down with him like so it's like a rock and Rocksteady and the reggae.
With the mode of the reggae, the philosopher Aston infuses little by little in the messages of the songs.
All of this takes place in 1966, when the Emperor of Ethiopia, Aile Célacier I, arrives in a diplomatic visit.
Thousands of Rastas then cross the country and take on the airport of Kingston.
All want to see from their own eyes the one they consider as the descendant of King Salomon and King David,
Jair Rastafari, the black Christian in Cherianos.
To me Dreadlocks is like a symbol, you know, but I think the whole thing is in the mind, you know.
People refer to me as a ballet, but my concept of Rastafari comes from within me, you know.
There's human beings who have that God power, you know, who, you know, it's a mystical thing, you know.
But I know if I would say somebody is garden flesh, I would more refer to him, you know.
If I'm going to say garden flesh, I'll refer to him as pure Majesty.
And Marcus Gary as a prophet and then Prince Emmanuel as the priest.
And this is a national anthem for Jamaica.
Jamaica, Jamaica land we love.
That's just a new kind of thing, and I respect it, you know.
We're in Tivoli Garden, Kingston, Jamaica, and which Tivoli Garden is that of all garrison, all inner city, all ghetto.
We're proud of what we come from, we're proud of the zinc fence and we're proud of the post and the big battle, we're proud of everything.
So we're just bringing it to the world, you know what I mean?
But where the music comes from is them places, you know what I mean?
And where most of the real scholars come from are out at the ghetto, you know what I mean?
Where they're at the ghetto in the country, at the ghetto in Kingston, they come out at the ghetto.
And reggae music come out at the ghetto, which is the greatest asset in Jamaica.
I mean first is the Rastaman, then the reggae music, you know what I mean?
So then I decided I want to show the world where I come from, where the music comes from, and where the authentic people come from.
It's shining with the town and tell the people near and far.
You seek how you research, we science how we search.
The flesh it is, the temple and the temple is, the church is, he lost his happy work.
So someone alert.
I am downtown Kingston at the waterfront.
At the National Gallery.
So here we are.
This is my display.
It's called The Scene and The Unseen.
No matter how poor you are, on Sundays you eat the biggest meal and you have the biggest television.
Yeah?
No, this is, this represents the typical ghetto house in Kingston.
I see myself as a historian, you know what I mean?
I want to make videos with our culture, you know?
So the next 20 years or so now, the generation coming up, they're going to have that to look like when we look at some of those old reggae album cover.
My style is I go downtown, which is my favorite place in Jamaica to go downtown Kingston, where we are now, and sit in the market and look at the people, how they move.
And that's how I learned to direct.
Downtown Kingston, as you can see, the most, there's so much people come downtown Kingston.
It's my favorite place.
This is it, you know what I mean? Come on, this is the real thing, you know?
It's just the whole vibe, the woman belly big and her bottom big and she don't care, she's still sexy.
She's still going to wear that little piece of clothes, you know what I mean?
You know what I mean? This is it. This is what I want to bring to the world, my culture.
The Orange Street street is a large street that is on the market of downtown. At the time of the reggae route and acoustics, all the recording studios were installed in this historic street, a sort of boulevard alley of the Jamaican reggae.
There are still some studios and some discers that resisted the erosion of time.
Well, I've been working for Lego from 89, the studio's been around from 89.
All the artists are big. I've done Dennis Brown, Greg Reiser, Black Wuru, Daddy Roy, Sugarmine, so many, and all these are great artists, you know?
Right now, there are small world recording studios in this a braver place, but we have enough upcoming artists, you know?
Men like Armini and Johnny Diamond and we have Dowie Kongo, Billa. We have no thought it's a come on type place, man, you know?
Play hide and seek and go run and find them as a little youth who couldn't play with no gun.
Pop out the beat, you till die, kingdom comes to first dying love.
It's too greater than the nowadays love. One time, all of us used to torture when man and woman used to live together.
They're not shooting, they're never used to one. They're making linear never used to one.
Mama used to help papa plan the con. Yeah, so come back first love.
Give us another try, yes, until feel be satisfied.
At the hotel around a bit, at local night, and we'll say at the first love, you know?
Yeah, man.
And we'll say we give thanks and we'll say I'm more love, I'm more music all over the world.
You see it, alright, in Jamaica, right there, right at Charles and Aaron Street, downtown Kingston, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, man, we're the right at the corner, Aaron Street, and now Street, famous place, you know?
Before, the place was like this, there used to be a tram, you know?
Tram car, I run at Omega because straight up, to cross it, you know?
But all them thing that feels old, now the 70s, going to the 80s, you know?
They still have many record shops too, because this is the street, right? This is the music street, you know?
Well, there are Augustos Pablo record shops, you know?
135 Aaron Street, right? So you can come inside.
Alright, Augustos Pablo is the owner of this shop, one of Jamaica's greatest instrumentalists.
But a legend here.
Oh, I'm off Dennis Brown over there, which is Big Yard, you know?
Dennis Brown was undoubtedly the favorite singer of the Jamaicans in the 70s.
But he simply nicknamed him the prince of reggae, since the rest of the world had chosen Marley as king.
No, no, no, no.
Downtown, for some people, many people, some people died, like Beverly's, they died, and a lot of people died,
and many people come along and do new business.
But as you can see, a lot of people, they do business mostly uptown, you know?
So we are at the great Technics, you know? Technics Records.
Lower on Orange Street, Technics Records is one of the shops where you can unleash vinyl treasures.
The shop is always held by its founder and owner, Winston Riley, another living legend of Jamaican music.
This is Winston Riley from the Technics. He's everything in the business in the 60s, yeah.
And then he becomes a producer in the 70s.
And then I start to escalate by putting out my records at the British chart, and I get involved solely in production, totally.
I sing no one again at all a while, and I write a lot.
And as you know, I have the biggest number one show in the world, Stalak.
All right, do your thing.
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
I'm not going to the car now, I'm not going to the car, I'm going to the park, you know?
I'm not going to the car.
Varad is a great place where all the buses and taxis of the city converge.
In the 70s, the musicians came to show themselves.
They hoped to be hired for a recording session at Randy's.
This studio was managed by Vincent Chin, a young Chinese Jamaican,
who has been a VIP record since then.
It's still the most productive label in the world today.
It's an original Randy's studio, you know.
It's all beginning now.
Pressing and everything.
So the 24, 16 record.
All called 24 now.
I understand.
So after they've got the master in it and they do the thing,
they take it downstairs to test it on the turntable, you know.
And then you make it after that.
Then you make the record from that.
If it was great when playing downstairs, people would dance to it.
And then you know it's number one.
Gone, you know.
Here I am.
Pressing vinyl for a long time was a very lucrative activity in Jamaica.
At the Randy's store, all day, we recorded,
we pressed the 45 tours to sell them in the drawer
to young artists at the counter.
The VIP record label continues business,
but on an international scale.
He assures the promotion of the current reggae artist
such as Bennyman, Sean Paul and Shaggy.
Westminster Road is a peaceful residential area.
Many American artists and producers have chosen to settle in.
Today, music is no longer in the street like before.
Everyone has their own court, their own studio,
everything protected by guardians,
digicodes and electric portals.
Yo, what's up?
Pay attention, it's Mr Lover.
Yeah, let it be known.
You're in Kingston right now.
Westminster is where my studio is.
Ah, ha, ha.
It's where my studio is.
Let me take you inside.
Come.
We've been here for years, upon years, upon years.
then Kappa shot them is next door now and it's a very spilling around the corner but you know
it's just I don't know what what is with the area I can't look at you until I said this area is
it's a new but it seems to be the area where a lot of shooters are you know of course they have
two love around the corner you know the original wow that says Mixing Lab is the original Mixing Lab
was probably the first to be around this particular here
ah
in less than a kilometer from the studio of shaggy is alphay 3 the largest boulevard in the capital
it is a border office between downtown ghettos and the vast neighborhoods of aptown all the city is
cross too small man I need bigger what's up television this is am fiddler we're here in
kingston jamaican alphatown alphatown is a spot between where the rich and kind of the urban is
this is the spot where you come to shop and do your gears and buy all your gear and get fly like
am fiddler so come with us and check it out we're gonna go buy some things and purchase a few things
check it out alphatria i'm shopping in alphatown i'm hanging here i'm doing a record in town with
sly and robbie it's gonna be great am fiddler sly and robbie how much the hat five five okay lucky
bob molly is all made by rosters original all the things you might want to buy the rosters are made
oh how much the belt
see y'all not looking look what's this it's a large two i want the black you don't have
the black and a small people always tell me i should be coming here and going to ultra real
so one of the islands or some shit like that but you know i'm like you know i want to go with the
people are where the real shit is where the music is so i'm here in kingston because the music is
here but not already music but as you can see the people surrounding us this real life going on
here is no tourism and all of that kind of shit this is the real thing the real deal
today it's around am fiddler to repeat with sly dumb bar
you
We grew up a lot, we used to listen a lot to the P-Funk, part of funk, you know, we love
the funk and everything like that, sometimes we take bars, something from the funk and
we put it in Saturday, you know.
After a recording session in one of the many studios in New Kingston, the artists
only had a few streets to go to a real Rasta restaurant, the members of the Roots
underground, and they made their canteen.
As you can see, the best place for Vegetarian's award went to Liviterre
Rasta restaurant, and that is current as in last week, so you know, it's a real, real
thing.
So, I know just Roots underground accessor is the whole of Jamaica accessor, yeah.
I'll take Chili Chana, Pinto Beans too, man.
Right here we have Roots Wine, you know, Roots Tonic, it's really a fermented Roots blend
of a whole lot of different things.
Yeah, man, some belief thing about everything we say, sexual enhancer, spelled out for you,
sexual enhancer.
This is where we hide away, the old ones special hiding place, I feel these walls inside my
music hall.
The Hytale food is really just a way of saying natural or total food, and all of the food
groups are there, all of the nutrients and vitamins, iron, calcium, everything you need
is there.
So, it's just a different alternative way of eating.
I've reason with Vegetarian's situation who don't do it, no food that touch fire, right.
And they're in a different category where they strictly do it nuts, fruits, raw food
only, right.
No animal products or animal byproducts, right.
Nowadays if you check out the world, you have bird flu, you have food and more, mad cow
disease, Hytale food again is another, it's a preventative measure to avert health dangers
and risks, you know, it's the best way to put it.
Yes.
So also here at Liberty they have a shop, you know, a culture shop called Simia House,
and they do clothes, you know, Roots clothes.
Roots about Roots living, Roots eating, and Roots way of life, yeah, bless.
Pure Jameek and culture.
If you want another real thing, come to Chinch Town, come to Culture Yard, it's the place
to be.
This is warm.
I don't know no other warm but Kingston to me.
The real authentic, conscious music, uplifted music.
Music only speaks one way, no matter where you come from.
So what a beautiful thing, music, you know.
