Whaddat?Com v.2 :: Young Entrepreneurs

		January 2003 Ras Kassa had spent 6 years in the local film industry before single-handedly directing his first video, TOK's Deadly medley, filled with images of blatant ballin'. He, along with any true reggae purist, agrees that line has to be drawn somewhere. "You have to go in as the man. You have to deal with these artists verbally, spiritually, every kinda way." PART I / FULL 'UNDRED

		July 2001 While you're nodding your head or shaking your ass to the beat of Jamaican dancehall music, chances are you've no idea who the mastermind is behind the tough rhythmic sounds. Artists like Bounty Killer, Scare Dem Crew, Garnett Silk, Beenie Man, Shaggy, and Maxi Priest to name a few, have graced Jazwad's tracks. No stranger to music, this British import was surrounded by reggae and dancehall music all his life due to his Jamaican parentage.

		June 2001 With his Caribbean blood, this extremely low key 25 -year old Toronto native's roots are spread far beyond the Great North. Ace music video director, Little X, got his start in exciting the world of music video directing through an internship with Hype Williams' Big Dog Films. "I had no previous experience whatsoever", X admits he learned a great deal from the acclaimed director.

		May 2001 2Hard Records was once a simple dub studio, full of life, with artists gracing its stoop and spitting 'specials' for sounds all day long. This was back in the mid-nineties when producer, Jeremy Harding, CEO of 2Hard, was a young and inexperienced fledgling of sorts in Jamaica's brutal and dutty entertainment industry.

		April 2001 Why do you think we chose you for our very first Y.E? I think I was chosen because of my love for life, my love for Jamaica, and my desire to contribute to the wider society. I have a strong belief in Jamaica's economy and I am confident that things will turn around. YE Robert Collins