Jamar McNaughton/Chronixx
Known for a Reggae Revival.
Uses digital instrument to experiment with reggae and dancehall – trap reggae/dancehall
Positive thinking, Social Justice, Black Empowerment, Rastafarian themes in his music. Invested in his homeland and knowledge of African roots through Rastafari
These creative giants have been able to reconstruct “Blackness” in the culture. According to author Nova Sparks, ‘We see the possibilities of a society of Black men and women that is steeped in our history, but also embraces our advancement while protecting both as a means for survival.’ Afrofuturism is at the foundation of the artistic output of the three legends, which is not limited to music but include visual arts, fashion, creative writing and science fiction. The Afrofuturism movement continues in new artists such as Chronixx, Janelle Monáe, Solange Knowles and writers including Marlon James and Louis Chude Sokei.
Dennis Howard “Afrofuturism Resistance in the Matrix” | RiddimStyle Magazine
Rainford Perry/Lee “Scratch” Perry
Pioneer of Dub Music and Remixing
Built his own studio The Black Ark and produced music for Bob Marley and the Wailers. the Heptones, Junior Murvin, later influencing popular dancehall and hip-hop acts.
Known for his eccentricity, musical genius and fashion
though not a self-identified Afrofuturist, took on an Afropunk fashion style that later influenced generations of Black male and female music artists. For instance, Lee Perry dressed up in space-like costumes, black biker boots decorated with an assortment of crushed mirror pieces that he pasted to the leather. His ‘frohawk’ and beard were either coloured in bright red or multi-coloured. Afrika Bambaataa’s, Grace Jones’s, and OutKast Andre 3000’s fashion choices reflected Perry’s bold and fiercely individual style.
Lisa Tomlison “Lee Scratch Perry the Black Ark Miracle” | RiddimStyle Magazine
Excerpts from the interview with The Gleaner (linked above)
Tell us about ‘Jamaican E.T.’ (His Grammy-nominated album). Why that title?
“His eternal Marcus Garvey, who caan dead, so that’s where the title of the CD came from. When Marcus Garvey leave Africa there was no more Africa left in Africa.”
So what’s in Africa?
“Dead men. Dead bodies and dead bones, people without any brain. Selling each other tribalism and catching AIDS, bacteria, ’fronteria’, ’sideteria’ all over Liberia, ’bacteria’, ’fronteria’, ’sideteria’… .’
You have a reputation for being somewhat eccentric. How do you respond to that?
“Well, is the only ting what could mek me do the things I could. I repent, I did love meat very much and I start to say, well is only one body I have and if what you eat you become, then soon I’m going to dead because the things that I’m eating, the meat that I’m eating, is dead meat. So when I look into my heart, the later you will die if you eat dead meat forever, so I stop to eat meat, stop drink rum, then I start to see people as they are.”
Why haven’t you done more work here in Jamaica?
“Because I’m afraid of mixing with those crook parasites and vampire. If you are in the business and you as the crook, you must know, as mus’ God cripple you fi warn you.”
Grace Jones
Model, Singer and Actress
Fashion Icon known for androgynous appearance, bold and provocative photoshoots. Controversial takes on beauty, celebrity sex, gender and race
Experiemental, trendsetting multi-genre musician
Sylvia Wynter's Dream 
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