June 12, 1972 Kingston, Jamaica, Trenchtown rocks once more as Miss Ivy bears her last son into its surrounds. Jamaica balances on the edge of another bloody chapter, as war is about to be waged on the streets in the name of politics. Rodney Basil Price - the last son in a family of nine children' - he was a child whose destiny would be irrevocably shaped by the landscapes of inner-city Kingston, where tribalism and poverty battle for the morals of the hungry and desperate.Leaving Trenchtown soon after, Miss Ivy relocates her family to Riverton City, a community founded on the Kingston City dump. Once known as 'Dungle', the sprawling rubbish heap is a vital resource to many of its inhabitants. Clothed by 'tear-up-batty' pants, Rodney would sneak out late at night to hear the music thundering from speaker boxes strung up in the community, belonging to his Father's sound system. "I used to just grab the mic and vibe up the place with my arguments and slangs!" remembers Bounty of the beginning. "I never had any lyrics of my own. Once I went to take the microphone at a talent show in Riverton. I intended to DJ, but I just opened my mouth and began to sing Junior Reid's "Woman Make Your Wasitline Roll!" Even though it didn't work out how I planned it, the crowd were hyped by it so I decided to build my own lyrics." Rodney's first lyrics strained over a raw monotone melody, but the topic mapped out the conscious vein that would pulse through his music in the years ahead; a map that would lead his people to crown him Poor People's Governor. "When I was a yute I lived down in the gully, inna mi tear-up pants people used to laugh after me" he chanted. Young Rodney had become the Bounty Hunter.
