STAR: What are your thoughts on the 2 a.m. lock off time for dances?

Serani: "First of all, its not stopping violence. It only leaves people with nutting to do ... you're giving them reason to think about stupidness. Why are they trying to mash up the music? My question to them is what are the people going to do now? Is a curfew then, 'cause when 2 a.m. time done. What must we do?"

STAR: What are your thoughts on Red Stripe's decision to stop sponsoring dancehall events?

Serani: "I don't have a problem, I guess dem do wha dem want to do. I hope they not promoting any gangsta movies, though, 'cause that would be a double standard. I hope they don't promote soca music cause it is very slack. But yuh know dem cyaan stop Jamaican dancehall music."

STAR: There is a perception that to make it in the business as a producer there has to be a certain 'badness' about you. Do you think that is true?

Serani: "Mi just a musician, still, I'm not a bad man, so, no, you don't have to be bad. It nuh mean we tek disrespect, still, but I'm a musician."

STAR: If there was one thing you could change about Jamaica, what would that be and why?

Bugle: "The way how corporate Jamaica, which is the higher part of society, looks on dancehall and reggae. Dem mek it look like sumting illegal like we a sell crack on the roadside. We need a 110 per cent help from corporate Jamaica, yet dem a try cut we out ... There are so many people dat mek a livelihood from a likkle dance. Yuh see ten jerk chicken men at dances - dem use dat fi sen dem kids go university. They need to broaden their perspective, a nuff people a benefit from it."

STAR: In your music you talk about overcoming obstacles. What are some of the bad things people have said to you that you have overcome to be successful?

Bugle: "People use to have me like I'm not an artiste. People see me like a yute who nah go mek it. Dem nuh give me a chance and hear me out. Mi see dem as obstacles not me a try to overcome dem, but they are motivation."

STAR: How important is image to the career of an artiste and what is your image?

Bugle: "An artiste's image is like a hit song - it sell yuh off of course. Inna every form as an artiste image works. If di people see yuh in di paper and yuh nuh look good, dem have a problem. People buy clothes, shoes based on wha dem artiste a wear. My image is very laid back, mi ting change by the occasion. I can dress up, but day today is a cap, simple shoes a jeans and a shirt. Also a chain, a watch and one ring as jewellery. But dat's just me."

STAR: How do you feel about producers taking sides in lyrical wars?

Craig: "It depends, sometimes you probably can't help it. In the business everyone has a camp like Big Ship wid their artistes, Corleon wid his artistes and we wid Bugle. If an artiste a throw word pon artiste in your camp, yuh almost haffi drawn into it. On a level, is a part of the business weh yuh have Bounty and Beenie a clash and so forth. Now and again we need that. But, we (DASECA) not into dat."

STAR: How much collaboration is done among studios and why?

Craig: "I don't think yuh have many producers working on a track together. Everybody just doing dem own ting. We have our own people and people like TJ Records who we par wid everyday. We don't find it hard to work wid dem. But is not a bad vibe is just everybody working on their own stuff."

STAR: As a producer, if an artiste comes to you with lyrics that you do not condone would you still produce the song?

David: "No is not a lot I don't condone. Me, personally, find some lyrics as entertainment. I don't have a problem with it. But there are some things I don't want to produce cause all the songs we do with Mavado is not the gun songs, is songs like Dying and Don't Worry. Cause I don't condone killing."

STAR: What subject matter would you consider to be off limits in a song?

David: "I don't like songs when people are singing against each other and I wouldn't voice a song where people a call up people name."

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image is very laid back, mi ting change by the occasion. I can dress up, but day today is a cap, simple shoes a jeans and a shirt. Also a chain, a watch and one ring as jewellery. But dat's just me."

STAR: How do you feel about producers taking sides in lyrical wars?

Craig: "It depends, sometimes you probably can't help it. In the business everyone has a camp like Big Ship wid their artistes, Corleon wid his artistes and we wid Bugle. If an artiste a throw word pon artiste in your camp, yuh almost haffi drawn into it. On a level, is a part of the business weh yuh have Bounty and Beenie a clash and so forth. Now and again we need that. But, we (DASECA) not into dat."

STAR: How much collaboration is done among studios and why?

Craig: "I don't think yuh have many producers working on a track together. Everybody just doing dem own ting. We have our own people and people like TJ Records who we par wid everyday. We don't find it hard to work wid dem. But is not a bad vibe is just everybody working on their own stuff."

STAR: As a producer, if an artiste comes to you with lyrics that you do not condone would you still produce the song?

David: "No is not a lot I don't condone. Me, personally, find some lyrics as entertainment. I don't have a problem with it. But there are some things I don't want to produce cause all the songs we do with Mavado is not the gun songs, is songs like Dying and Don't Worry. Cause I don't condone killing."

STAR: What subject matter would you consider to be off limits in a song?

David: "I don't like songs when people are singing against each other and I wouldn't voice a song where people a call up people name."