- 01The Slackest LPHis 1979 set was simply titled The Slackest LP, and the Gemini and Ray Symbolic sound-system deejay wouldn't have lost any sleep over a possible Trades Descriptions Act prosecution.from the chapter
- 0212 Inches of PleasureThat and his follow-up album 12 Inches of Pleasure marked the opening of this particular floodgate.from the chapter
- 03Yellow Like CheeseHe was a leering, self-celebratory triumph over more than one adversity, who had the sheer brass neck to title an album Yellow Like Cheese and became dancehall's first international icon, the original superstar of slackness.from the chapter
- 04“Soldier Take Over”Thanks to his relentless devotion to slackness, significantly offset against a sharp, often self-deprecating wit and several wholly pertinent sufferah anthems – ‘Soldier Take Over’ and ‘Operation Eradication’ being the best remembered – he became dancehall's biggest star.from the chapter
- 05“Operation Eradication”Thanks to his relentless devotion to slackness, significantly offset against a sharp, often self-deprecating wit and several wholly pertinent sufferah anthems – ‘Soldier Take Over’ and ‘Operation Eradication’ being the best remembered – he became dancehall's biggest star.from the chapter
- 06Yellowman & Fathead Live at Aces DiscoDuring that year he gave the dancehall genre a further boost with Yellowman & Fathead Live at Aces Disco, on which he was shrewd enough to want to capture on vinyl the adrenalin-pumping excitement of his deejaying a major sound system.from the chapter
- 07King YellowmanThe resultant album, King Yellowman, wasn't a huge success, not because it wasn't any good – it had its moments – but largely because Yellow and the Junjo Lawes dancehall sound was just past its combined peak.from the chapter
- 08Slackness vs Pure CultureWith the latter he cut the self-explanatory deejay clash set Slackness vs Pure Culture, in which both parties delivered some inspired imagery and rhyme around their chosen subject matter, and Slackness won by a knockout.from the chapter
- 09“Natty Don't Make War”The latter provided a particularly vivid illustration: in the 1970s he'd had a hit with the single ‘Natty Don't Make War’; now, a few years later, his songbook included a number called ‘Lift Up Yuh Frock’.from the chapter
- 10“Lift Up Yuh Frock”The latter provided a particularly vivid illustration: in the 1970s he'd had a hit with the single ‘Natty Don't Make War’; now, a few years later, his songbook included a number called ‘Lift Up Yuh Frock’.from the chapter
- 11“Under Mi Sleng Teng”If ever there was a point of no return for Reggae As We Know It, it was the 1985 hit single by Wayne Smith ‘Under Mi Sleng Teng’.from the chapter