Jamaica's first dancehall superstar, Yellowman, changed the course of reggae history with his controversial lyrics, albinism, and shameless sexuality—a complete, cultural 180 following the peaceful, calm tone that Bob Marley had set prior to his death in 1981. His early-success brought the popularity of toasting—the reggae equivalent of rapping—to a whole new level, and helped establish dancehall as the wave of the future. He also epitomized dancehall's penchant for "slack" lyrics: casual violence, sexism, homophobia, general rudeness, and levels of explicitness previously unheard of in Jamaica. In 2019, 16 years after his last album New York, he released No More War, an LP which doubled as the inaugural release on Yellow Baby Records—a label launched by Yellowman's daughter K'reema.
