Lee Perry<\/a> was a shamanistic pioneer that made Jamaica an epicentre of the world\u2019s music using his raw imagination in the studio. We pay tribute to the man, myth, and legendary record producer and the monumental legacy he has left behind in music and life.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAfter brief stints in the 1950s working with Clement \u201cCoxsone\u201d Dodd\u2019s popular Studio One and passing through Joe Gibbs\u2019 rival label Amalgamated Records, Perry proved to be too maverick (and too insistent on getting paid) for any established order. Instead, he formed his own Upsetter Records, a nod to his track \u201cI Am the Upsetter\u201d, run out of the infamous Black Ark studio from his own backyard in Kingston. From the Black Ark we get The Congos\u2019 Heart of Congos<\/em>, Max Romeo\u2019s War Ina Babylon<\/em>, The Wailers\u2019 Soul Rebels<\/em>, and Bob Marley\u2019s ninth studio album Exodus<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nLee Perry\u2019s work earned him the respect of major musicians from across the world and from all musical backgrounds. Afrika Bambaataa, a founding father of hip-hop said, \u201cIt was Lee Perry\u2019s sound and the Jamaican toasters that inspired us to start hip-hop<\/em>.\u201d Lee Perry has also been the toast of The Clash, Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, and the Beastie Boys to name a few, giving broad testament to Perry\u2019s influence.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n