A Cautionary Tale From Gregory
My wife took this picture of Gregory perched on a scooter outside a dancehall in the late Seventies. It's the perfect Jamaican rude boy photo. Gregory said he was "guarding" that massive sound system speaker behind him, at the request of Prince Jammy, the headliner for the dancehall event.
Hard Drugs- Gregory Isaacs Gregory Isaacs' fondness of cocaine got him into a lot of trouble with the law which hobbled his career as a performer. He spent a lot of his prime years behind bars at Kingston's General Penitentiary on a series of drugs and weapons charges and was unable to tour the United States and Europe just as he was breaking out as an international star. When Gregory finally was released from GP in the mid 80s, his criminal record made it nearly impossible for him to get a visa to tour.
Hard Drugs is a cautionary tale to the rude boy on the street about the dangers of hard drug use based his own career setbacks from his own use of coke.