00:00I cannot remember who's the first person that said to me there's a place for you in the music
00:05industry but I can remember all the people who said that there was not a place for me in the
00:09music industry. Hey this is Budgie Banton, you're tuned to Ebony. Came into this music industry as
00:25an indigenous Maroon. My name was given to me by my mom which is a Maroon named Bojo. From
00:311991-92 I've been telling the global community who I am. My assignment is what you will feel
00:37and connect with. You know what I mean? We do our part and we play our part from a musical
00:42perspective. We've been contributing for the past 36 years to the development of our musical
00:46culture and our genre and that's our assignment basically to make sure we keep pounding out the
00:52wall to break down those barriers to make sure that reggae music reaches masses and reaches the
00:57people who it is intended for and those people who it is not intended for shall come along because
01:03it is so potent and has always been. I'm a simple man from simple foundations you know. These accolades
01:10and this man-made title really means nothing to me. I see myself as a servant of the people who's
01:16doing
01:16my father's work where inner music right now is just sex politics, blood, guts, gold, drugs and you name it.
01:23So our ethos is what our forefathers gave us where reggae music was the inception of reggae music came
01:30off the back of struggling people who wanted better not only for themselves but for their children
01:35you know and hence the music was born and now it is at a point where it is very lucrative
01:42so to speak
01:43we have a lot of people coming in for the wrong reason not to uplift now to stimulate the minds
01:48of
01:48the people but to enrich themselves and we don't want that to change into a situation where it becomes
01:55vain because we see what happens with other genres where that is just the main focus of their music
02:01we want the music to continue to be an impactful tool to our people and people in the global community
02:06so that will never change. Irrespective because dance hall always have its underpinnings but the
02:13social aspect of it that will deal with issues affecting people all around the world will never change.
02:19Now when i was growing up you used to have a thing called the grey whistle test
02:29in order for you to pass the grey whistle test first and foremost you must show yourself to the
02:35elders to be worthy worthy of what to receive the mantle of what is called a musician or a dj
02:42or a top singer
02:43and we inspire and we look at those who have been inspired to see who grasps the fundamentals
02:53of the culture and the rudiments of the music to take it to the next corridor so it can expand
03:02we're still looking we're still looking i myself personally i'm still looking
03:08because it's not something you give someone to then take it back tomorrow they must earn it
03:13the cover art is not gonna match the posters what's called a nurse sign for those who don't know
03:17these signs were done by an individual by the name of bugs these cover art represent a significant
03:24portion of our culture when we didn't have the luxury of the printing press and those things
03:29to real and truly and the social media advent was readily there we use what was called primarily nurse
03:35signs where we paint and paint them in a certain texture in a certain way to give a certain look
03:40and this is primarily what we want to capture to show and remind the jamaican people and the people
03:46of the dance our reggae music community where is freedom coming from because we're a new generation
03:50of adherents who do not understand so we want to take them to the foundation to bring them forward
03:55well this is budgie bym time passing through ebony july 17th make it a date and don't be late to
04:01missus to this
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