offered, encouraging experimentation within the emerging reggae style and giving players greater latitude to develop arrangements and ideas.

His first major single "People Funny Boy", which was an insult directed at Gibbs, did well with 60,000 copies sold in Jamaica alone. It is notable for its innovative use of a sample (a crying baby) as well as a fast, chugging beat that would soon become identifiable as "reggae". Similarly his acrimonious 1967 single as Lee "King" Perry, "Run for Cover",