The "father", the king of reggae, among other affectionate titles, reveal the importance of this sacred monster of Jamaican music. Beyond his mastery, the irrefutable truth: U-Roy is the precursor of rap. In the late 60s, U-Roy created a hitherto unusual style, which in Jamaica soon came to be called "toast". This was nothing more than verbal improvisation (spoken) to the rhythm of songs, as Northeastern Brazilian repentistas do, with due proportions. U-Roy was DJ of a sound system team called "El Paso", one of the most popular in Jamaica.
He soon became a myth. He was invited to record on disc what he improvised in the squares of Kingston. The fact is that Jamaican ghettos in major American cities ended up importing this type of music to the United States, attracting the attention of American ghettos themselves, which began adopting the style. This worldwide merit is too little to try to reveal the dimension of U-Roy's talent.