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ALBUMWine - SingleBounty Killer, Esco Da Shocker & Yo West
Albums by Bounty Killer
ALBUMTime BombBounty Killer & Cham
ALBUMUncle T Presents: The Saturday SessionsBounty Killer
ALBUMMy Jamaican GuyBounty Killer & Grace Jones
ALBUMEeeeaaoowwFreeform Five & Bounty Killer
ALBUMGhetto Dictionary: The Art of WarBounty Killer
ALBUM5th ElementBounty Killer
ALBUMNext MillenniumBounty Killer
ALBUMGuns OutBeenie Man & Bounty Killer
ALBUMMy XperienceBounty Killer
ALBUMNo ArgumentBounty Killer
Bounty Killer's Popular Music Videos
WHERE YOU COME FROM (feat. Buju Banton, Capleton & Bounty Killer)
DJ Khaled
THESE STREETS KNOW MY NAME (feat. Skillibeng, Buju Banton, Capleton, Bounty Killer & Sizzla)
DJ Khaled
Whine (feat. Bounty Killer)
Mýa
Change Like the Weather
Bounty Killer
Slow Motion
Dexta Daps, Cham & Bounty Killer
Whine
Mýa & Bounty Killer
They Keep Falling
Bounty Killer & NYMRON
Twisted Agenda
Collie Buddz, Bounty Killer & Massive B
Loco (Remix)
Agent Sasco (Assassin), Kabaka Pyramid & Bounty Killer
Hip Hopera
Bounty Killer
Artist Playlists
Bounty Killer Essentials
Half street mouthpiece, half Rastafarian force-of-nature.
Artist Biography
Rough and tough even by rude boy standards, Bounty Killer was one of the most electrifying and polarizing dancehall stars to emerge in the genre’s ’90s boom. Born Rodney Basil Price (in 1972), the young deejay was building a rep at sound systems as a teenager in Kingston when he was injured by a stray bullet in 1986. His personal experience of street violence became part of his inspiration for his 1992 breakthrough, “Coppershot,” and more hard-edged tracks that caught on in Jamaica—and America, too. Collaborations with hip-hop greats like Wu-Tang Clan and Mobb Deep—as well as No Doubt on their 2001 hit “Hey Baby”—boosted Bounty Killer’s international profile even as his lyrics attracted controversy for their violent, sometimes anti-gay content. In later years, Price shifted toward more positive subject matter while defending his status as dancehall’s King of Kingston.
Hometown
Kingston, Jamaica
Genre
Reggae