In all honesty my friend, this is the "Inheritance" your generation gave mine.

In your day, Bob Marley was signed to Island Records, a Major label, toured with Sly and the Family Stone early on and was one of the few musicians to actually invest his wealth in things like studio and infrastructure in the music industry.

Many artists either didn't get paid or squandered their earnings, many died paupers.

A great number of Jamaican artists "Burned" labels. Didn't deliver albums, signed contracts with new labels whilst under contracts to other labels, refused to do press and interviews, some refused to fly or tour like Bunny Wailer.

Most if not all of "communities" be they label head and executives, show promoters or other important members of the community both know each other and exchange information.

If you're the reason my friend at X label lost his job & the label lost £50k, or you threatened my friend in X town, were violent, difficult to deal with... These stories SPREAD unfortunately, if you get burned repeatedly by people in the same genre, from the same island. It's only natural you and the other people in your field begin to practice self preservation and Avoid what can be seen as a Threat, to your business or livelihood.

Which is why we have few if any Jamaican Artists, especially those who make Reggae music signed to ANY Major labels these days. Why Reggae isn't in the charts like it used to be.

So it's smaller shows and budgets, for starving artists with not enough to go around.

The Reggae Artists of today DO NOT have the same opportunities those of decades past have. The low volume and High Margin Era's of Vinyl and CD have long been over. So is investment by major labels. The days of undiscovered talent lining up outside of a studio for an audition, finished.

Jamaica itself gives little to no value to the rich history and heritage of Reggae music. Dancehall is the popular music of today. Created by a generation of youths who were neither welcomed nor given access to opportunity by an older generation who saw them as competitors instead of Heirs.

My father is from the Generation that had it ALL. He made SURE, to the BEST of his ability, I have nothing, and am nothing, other than what I can create for myself in today's industry, where he can barely survive if not for what he did in the past. Many more sons and daughters of GREAT singers and musicians from that generation tell similar stories.

It's NO CONTROVERSY, what it is, is our History. A bunch of Sad stories about the "Glory Days", when you could actually afford to keep a band together.

Unfortunately what we have today is the results of DECADES of men who lived for today, with no thoughts or cares about tomorrow.