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.''



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US rapper Jay-Z has admitted that he wanted dancehall star Vybz Kartel on his last album but couldn't make it work.

In an interview recently, Jay-Z admitted that he had Kartel in the studio during the recording of his last album Blueprint 3 but failed to get a song that worked.

They tried three songs and spent the entire day trying to work out which track would have sounded best.

During the interview Jay-Z described Vybz Kartel as Jamaica's Eminem.

Reggae artiste Gyptian has once again taken home an international award.

The singer beat out Vybz Kartel and Mr. Vegas, Gramps Morgan, Damian "Jr Gong" and Jah Cure in the Best Reggae Artiste category of the 2010 Soul Train Music Awards on Wednesday.

This is Gyptian's second big win for the year having recently won a MOBO award for 'Best Reggae Artiste' in Liverpool, England.

Gyptian performed a medley of his current hits Hold Yuh and Nah Let Go during the Soul Train awards show held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.

He recently completed a guest performance slot on R &B singer Mary J. Blige's UK tour.

"That was a great platform for me and it exposed me to a wider audience", Gyptian commented.

Gyptian will head into the studios over the next couple of weeks to record a collaboration with R&B singer Ne Yo.

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