I met Seani B when I was teenager; our friendship was always surrounded by music. He had a sound system in his bedroom; I loved music so it was a natural connection. We used to link up and practice everyday. Seani B was the selector; Wingie Foots and I were the DJs. Sometimes the vibes would be so nice that Seani B would  also start to DJ as well. Those days were our training ground but as we were having fun it didn’t feel like training.

The first big stage I performed on was U Roy’s (THE LEGENDARY FATHER OF DANCE HALL DJ’s AND RAPPING) Olympic Football Ground talent show; I was around twelve years old when I did the show. I did the show with my ankle heavily bandaged because of an injury I had received earlier that day. I had to leave before the results were announced due to the pain I was in. I found out a couple days later that I had won.

Music was always a passion of mine, it was impossible to live without it, but doing music as a career was not at the forefront of my mind. I grew up in the music evironment, I was among the artists all the time, my community is surrounded by studios. Next door my school was Bunny Stricker Lee, I used sit at the back of my school (John Mills All Age School) and listen to the rehearsals, the music being made, the melodies. I had to walk past Channel One Studios everyday, sometimes I would go in and look around out of curriosity. Normally I would walk to school but on oncassions when I took the bus, I had to catch my bus outside of Studio One. As a child I loved to go fishing, I was on Greenwich Town Seaside every opportunity I got, that same fishing village is somewhere artists always come to chill and get freshly caught fish as well. And of coarse Arnet Gardens being my place of birth was the safe haven for Bob Marley. Had it not been for my family Bob Marley’s story would be different. Bob Marley himself said he would not have felt comfortable returning to Jamaica.

I grew up fully intertwined into the music and I loved to write songs, I started at the age of seven but I was not comfortable being an artist. People in my community was always encouraging me, artists wanted to take me to dances with them but my mom said no, I was too young. One day I went to visit Dennis Brown (one of the artists I got a good energy from), my talent came up in our conversation, he said to me; you have a natural talent, if you really want to do music, I will help you. He died shortly after. Rest In Eternal Power Dennis Emmanuel Brown. When I was a toddler I lived on Waltham Avenue for a while, it was a split house, my family was on one side and Leroy Smart was on the other side, Leroy Smart always had time for me as a baby, he took me everywhere my mom allowed him to. When we left Arnett Gardens we went to live in Grenwhich Town, we had nothing. One of the neighbours had a sound system and no where to keep it so my mother decided to keep the sound system so we could have furniture. My bed was literally a speaker box with a piece of foam on it. The entire furnishing was of speaker boxes, everyone slept on a speaker box. When the sound system was being used we had no bed to sleep on, we had to sleep on the floor. My neighbour in Greenwich Town was Prince Allah, he was a very nice person to everyone. After a while my yard and Prince Allah’s yard became one yard because the fence between us callapsed and was never repaired.

My life was hard, my family was suffereing, I new lots of suffereing artists so being an artist was not on my agenda. I was about helping my family escape this sufferation. Sufferation was all I knew and I did not want to know it any more. When I met Seani B he was being encouraged by his bigger brother to play old soul music. Seani B wanted to play HIp Hop; me and my cousin Wingie started influencing him into playing Dancehall. Teaching him the songs that really energized our culture. I started connecting him with influencial people in the Jmaican music seen. Getting him on certain events. I really believed in him, he was passionate about Djing, I had access to the streets; I was not using that access for music so I invested heavily in building his presence.

Seani B started geting attention from record companies, which lead to studio sessions. I was not very excited about the dances and the stage shows, I grew up in that. But I found myself coming alive in the studios. It was a natural fit; as a results I took the lead on the music production and things started to grow in a different direction. My hunger was now ignited; now I wanted to do music.Adrian was a seasoned instrumentalist, being a full time member of Ras-Ites band before we got together to work on Big-League’s productions, so naturally I learnt a lot from him. Seani B introduced me to him after his work on Spanish Fly, the link was made from there and the connection grew. stronger. I am rated as a great studio engineer but I have to say thanks to Adrian. Adrian tours constantly now.

My first rhythm creation was the Spanish Fly; Seani B used it as the rhythm for the Bon Garcon-Shake-Shake remix; we then decided to make a juggling from the rhythm. Adrian took the rhythm and went samba with it; which I have to say is my favourite cut, the rest as they say is history. It was also around this time I approached Tubby T and explained what we had in mind for Big League Production, he was impressed with our progress and instantly hit the studio. The resulting song was (Ready Shi Ready), which became one of his biggest hits. REST IN PEACE TUBBY T.

My next move was to remake Bob Marley’s Sun Is Shining. At the time everyone was on the dancehall thing but I wanted to demonstrate our musical abilities, it would have been easy to create a rhythm but to recreate one such as the Sun Is Shining properly would cement our status as producers; so Adrian and I did just that. Paradise was something I heard Adrian playing and fell in love with it. The next thing he knew I returned with songs to be mixed. I intended to use that Paradise Rhythm to break some great-unknown talent, but because most disk-jocks playing music today chase clout instead of focusing on talent and quality songs those songs fell through the cracks, however the really great songs on that rhythm are from unknown artists. The Paradise Rhythm also brought my writing abilities to the public in a big way. I’m constantly writing, but the songs I wrote and co-wrote on the paradise received major attention. The Sizzla track The Solution- one of my creations- was very well received. Along the way I’ve had the pleasure of writing with the likes of Beenie Man, Machel Montano, Luciano, Tony Rebel, Tony Curtis, Richie Spice, Chuck Fender to mention a few.

As we grew as creatives we started to get the attention that comes with delivering respected art. Unfortunately as that attention came in we got more and more divided. The relationship between Seani B and Adrian got so bad everything came to a halt. As a result of that attention and subsequent infighting I am now on my own; but I still have that burning passion, and because I don’t think we made the mark that we could have as a team I am still on a mission to make that mark. The painful part about this split between us is the fact that I tried to be the mediator between Adrian and Seani B but because of the relationship between Seani B and I Adrian distanced himself from me when the split happened. Very unfortunate because I rate Adrian, we make really good music together and would only get better. I’ve always been told that I make magic happen; so I think Black Magik is a fitting name. To be honest the upcoming talents around us gave me no choice, they said I gave them the attention they needed and the professional sound some artist couldn’t achieve. So with no money but loaded with infinite talent I present Black Magik Entertainment.