Jamaica-born, Los Angeles–based Cess Silvera was editing his independent gangster pic Shottas when he got a call from his composer, Wyclef Jean. “Wyclef told me that one of the scoring tapes got lost in the studio,” Silvera recalls. “Two weeks later it was on every bootleg stand in Brooklyn and Times Square!” Now, almost three years later, “it’s on every rapper’s tour bus. Anyone who has got a DVD of Scarface  has got one of Shottas  too.”     

SPRAGGA BENZ... Born and raised in the Southside community of Rae town, Kingston Jamaica, Carlton Grant p.k.a Spragga Benz has attained and maintained a level of musical notoriety only dreamed of by other aspiring Jamaican Deejays (The reggae equivalent of a rapper). Spragga Benz's musical journey to dancehall stardom began with his first touch of a microphone in 1992, on a dare issued by Buju Banton, while doing dubplates for the La Benz Sound System of his mega-hits "Browning" and "Sound Fi Dead".

CESS SILVERA.... Jamaica-born, Los Angeles–based Cess Silvera was editing his independent gangster pic Shottas when he got a call from his composer, Wyclef Jean. “Wyclef told me that one of the scoring tapes got lost in the studio,” Silvera recalls. “Two weeks later it was on every bootleg stand in Brooklyn and Times Square!” Now, almost three years later, “it’s on every rapper’s tour bus. Anyone who has got a DVD of Scarface  has got one of Shottas  too.”