General Trees' Gone A Negril, with its three heavy beats after each line in the chorus, is a consistently popular, high-energy deejay song that has stood the test of time and changing highways.

It was made about the journey from Kingston to the western end long before toll roads and the easing of Spur Tree Hill's gradient and hairpin corners. "Me an Trees go Negril. It was a vibes, 'cause me bredren did have a club. When we go back (to Kingston) we sey it nice, waan go back. Me sey we waan do it again, boom de lyrics lick again," Maurice 'Jack Scorpio' Johnson, said.

Twenty years later, Scorpio is very happy with the reaction the song continues to get. "This generation who never born when it make a jump feit. It make me feel very good for that moment," he said.

Trees also did Minibus, memorably asking "Where have all the jolly bus gone?" as the Jamaica Omnibus Service made way for a privatised, chaotic transportation system. The song was again produced by Scorpio. Scorpio says it was the first deejay tune to get number one song for the year and was one of the first deejay songs to be done on an original rhythm done by a live band of musicians, assembled specifically for that job.

There were no other songs on the rhythm.

Scorn him

There have been many other deejays that have been associated with Black Scorpio sound system. "Yellowman was there before Aces (sound system from St. Thomas). I was the one make Aces know Yellowman. I carry Yellowman to St. Thomas and play. Aces was a couple chain from me and our dance flop them," Scorpio said.

And he notes that the first time the albino deejay came to deejay on Black Scorpio sound system the other deejays "scorn him. I say is my sound and my mike" and insisted that he be allowed to perform.

- Mel Cooke.