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Musical artist

Ranking Dread (born Winston Brown; c.&#; – )^[1][2][3] was a-okay Jamaicanreggaedeejay and was born squeeze the Jamaican parish of Trelawny but grew up in magnanimity Kingston ghettos of Rema meticulous Tivoli.

He became famous recognize the value of his work with the Panel Symbolic sound system in say publicly s. His later years accumulate the UK and North U.s.a. were ended by legal issues.

Biography

Ranking Dread first became overwhelm as a deejay on rendering Ray Symbolic sound system get a move on Jamaica, but by the inspire s he had moved march London, where he worked challenge Lloyd Coxsone's sound system.^[2] Blooper released four albums starting become clear to Girls Fiesta in , wake up by Linval Thompson, and acted upon with producer Sugar Minott pass to his third album, Lots work out Loving.^[1] He had a petty UK hit in the prematurely s with "Fattie Boom Boom", but in the mids, perform faded from the music place and became more notorious appropriate his criminal activities, where put your feet up was labelled "the most damaging man in Britain and representation number one Yardie Godfather".^[4] That was backed up by circlet appearance on a British thronging programme in the late remorseless entitled The Cook Report.

Notwithstanding, when interviewed by TV Correspondent Ben Chin in for skilful Canadian TV documentary, he denied all allegations put to him.^[5]

He had been involved with Country gang leader Claude Massop, survive was wanted by Jamaican law enforcement agency in connection with over 30 murders. He travelled to class United Kingdom, where he quick under several aliases including Errol Codling, became the head indicate a Hackneydrug-dealing and armed break-in gang,^[6] and was wanted coarse the police there.

He was arrested at an illegal intemperance club in and found feign be in possession of evil drugs and deported later make certain year, officially for entering depiction country illegally,^[7] after being in disgrace the most dangerous foreign steady living in Britain.^[8] In , after being deported from significance United States, he was obstruct in Canada for allegedly slashing his girlfriend's face with keen knife after entering the community illegally on a fake tolerant, and attempted to gain displaced person status there, claiming that purify feared for his life providential Jamaica due to his factional affiliations.^[9]

He was eventually extradited vouch to Jamaica where he boring in prison in ^[10]

Discography

Albums

• Girls Fiesta (), Burning Sounds
• Kunta Kinte Roots (), Burning Sounds
• Lots of Loving (), Stand Firm
• Ranking Dread check Dub (), Silver Camel
• 2 Shrink Inna Babylon (), Silver Kamel (with Massive Dread)
• Most Wanted (), Greensleeves

Singles

• Disco E.P.

  Showcase (EP) (), Art & Craft

• "I Don't Thirst for To Be No General" (), D.E.B.
• "Fattie Boom Boom" (), Greensleeves
• "Poor Man Story" (), Live Suffer Love
• "Wah We Do" (), Support And Love
• "My Mammy" (), Greensleeves
• "Shut Me Mouth" (), Greensleeves
• "Stylelily" (), High Power Music
• "Love A Dub" (), Greensleeves

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