Degree

b. Cardiff Butt, 28 Apr 1968, Manchester, Jamaica, Western world Indies. Butt shifted to Kingston to pursue a profession being a tailor and, getting motivated by Professor Nut products and Lieutenant Stitchie, was shortly attracted to the dancehall. Butt originally performed for the audio systems as General Level, acknowledging the actual fact that he was cited because the contender to General Trees and shrubs’ crown. The achievement of Level’s 1991 debut, ‘Granny’, resulted in several hits with a number of Jamaica’s best manufacturers, including Andre Tyrell (‘Body Safeguard’), Philip ‘Fatis’ Burrell (‘Arrive Dis Up’), Sly And Robbie (‘Like Lullaby’), Steely And Clevie (‘Dweet (GET IT DONE) Lovely’ and ‘When I Keep You Tonight’), and Danny Browne (‘Pianist’). The suggestive lyrics from the last mentioned helped the one to best the reggae graphs worldwide, prompting fresh curiosity for his previously hits as well as the launch of P’N’S. A link with Browne’s Primary Street outlet adopted, including classes with Junior Tucker around the chart-topping ‘Move Along’ and ‘Morning hours Ride’. Degree offers maintained a higher profile with ‘Guy Tief’, ‘Ragga Caring’, ‘Great Ladies’, the social ‘Nah Quit Pray’, ‘Just Grasp God’, ‘Thanks a lot And Praises’, as well as for the UK-based Style Records, ‘Work Method Mr Tickle’. His design is widely thought to be having affected DJ Buccaneer and appointing Crimson Rat along with his epithet. In 1996, influenced by Dave ‘Rude Boy’ Kelly, Level setup his personal Pretty Boy label and decreased the General label. In 1997, the DJ experienced a UK pop strike with the launch of ‘Arrive Provide Me Your Like’, documented alongside Richie Stephens.