It's widely believed that Lee Scratch Perry's vocals and rhythms have influenced most genres of music including hip hop, drum and bass, dubstep, dancehall and bashment.

The 70-something-year-old (no-one's sure when he was born) has been sampled countless times by everyone from Jay-Z to the Prodigy and it was him who took a very young Bob Marley and his band the Wailers under his wings.

In The Upsetter we hear from: artists who worked with him in the famous Black Ark studios which Scratch claims to have burnt down himself; producers who are still being influenced today by his work and the very eccentric Lee Scratch Perry who says: ''If you think you are old you'll be very old ...I'm only eight.''



Chase The Devil

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