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Make It Bun Dem produced by Skrillex was a great success. Can we also expect some dubstep kind of style on the album? These questions are the same ones I am asking myself also. We are experimenting and still trying to find out what the album is going to sound like ourselves. It’s not like I don’t want to disclose much yet, but we are still in the creative process of finding out ourselves. I am not holding back any information, it’s just that there is no information at this point in time (laughs). You still released singles during the past few years, works such as Set Up Shop, Hard Work, Is It Worth It. Why did you never compile them to an album? Those songs are compiled on the Set Up Shop Vol. 1 and 2. I really wanted to help to
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bring some exposure to our label and some of the acts that we have been working with on it. That is why I released those songs in support of the compilations. Speaking of the Ghetto Youths International camp, what do you appreciate about the artists that are signed to the label, especially Black-Am-I and Christopher Ellis? Talent! Christopher Ellis is very talented. He had a lot of exposure to the music industry through his father. Alton Ellis is unquestionably a great legend of Reggae music. My brother Stephen actually brought Christopher to the camp. It is musically interesting to work with him. Likewise with Black-Am-I. He is a youth from Nine Mile in Jamaica, where my father was born. He was as one of the least experienced acts that we are working