Latest Release
- 20 SEPT 2024
- 1 Song
- Slow Motion - Single · 2023
- Down In the Ghetto · 1994
- John John Presents: Bounty Killer · 2002
- Barrington Levy's DJ Counteraction (11 Classic Hits Re-Charged) · 1993
- Nah No Mercy - The Warlord Scrolls · 1999
- KHALED KHALED · 2021
- Dancehall Riddim: Panty Raid - Single · 2023
- Celebrating Jamaica 62 · 2024
- Ball a Roll - Single · 2024
- John John Dancehall Riddims: G String - EP · 2024
Essential Albums
- Bounty Killer has long been influenced by hip-hop, but on My Xperience he makes the connection explicit—in more ways than one. Over hard beats by rap producers like RZA and dancehall maestros like Sly & Robbie, the Kingston deejay spits occasionally violent stories about life on the streets of Jamaica. Then there's "Seek God", a hidden gem built around traditional Nyabinghi drumming and a reworked rocksteady-inspired arrangement.
- 2005
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
Artist Playlists
- Half street mouthpiece, half Rastafarian force-of-nature.
About Bounty Killer
Rough and tough even by rude boy standards, Bounty Killer was one of the most electrifying and polarising 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
- BORN
- 12 June 1972
- GENRE
- Reggae