Mi see some lickle lawyer a come up now and a defend and a run dung artiste. Dem nuh know artiste like me.

producers and engineers who he has done work for over his 40 years as a lawyer reads like a Who’s Who in Entertainment, and this fact is certainly not lost on him.

Popcaan, Inner Circle, Hugh Mundell, Bunny Wailer, Shabba Ranks, Bloodfire Posse, Tamlins, Cutty Ranks, Edi Fitzroy, Anthony B, Agostos Pablo, Earl 16,

Bongo Herman, Mr Vegas,

Tommy Lee, Jah Cure, Sting (the event), Merciless, Bobby Digital, Pamputtae, D’Angel, Kartel, Shawn Storm, Quada, and Ruff Kut Band are all listed among his clientele.

“Mi see some lickle lawyer a come up now and a defend and a run dung artiste,” he said, sounding very much like a deejay, and then rattled off the punchline, “Dem nuh know artiste like me.”

UNRULY BERT

While it would not be fair to call this erudite upholder of the law an unruly person, Samuels is nonetheless unruly by association, and a tad bit more. Actually, the Unruly Boss, himself, Popcaan, refers to Samuels very respectfully as ‘Uncle Bert’. And if ‘family’ pictures, jovial conversations and name-tagging dubplate specials are a good measure of amity, then these two seem to be fast friends.

A cell phone conversation goes something like this:

“Uncle Bert, the man mi see pon TV di other day, ah yuh bredda?

“Yeah, man, a mi big bredda. Mi haffi show him respek.”

“Him look like yuh, Uncle Bert.” “Wha yuh a seh Poppi? Mi better looking dan him!”

(They laugh) “Poppi, a journalist deh yah an interview mi and she nuh believe seh me a part a di crew.”

“How she fi nuh believe yuh? It hurt if yuh don’t check Bert.” (Again, they laugh)

He later says that Poppy is his nephew and showed a picture of the two of them hanging out with a three-wheeler, which he rides sometimes. “How yuh mean? Mi a part a di crew. Mi haffi ride it,” he said, reacting as if to a silly question.

“What yuh notice about this picture?” he asked, looking as happy as a kid in a candy store. Well, it looks like him and Popcaan and, oh yeah, they both have on khaki shorts and white tees, and they are even wearing the same getting-ready-to-conquer-the-world expression.

So, did Unruly Bert and the Unruly Boss plan the similar dress code?

“Unruly Bert,” he said, savouring it and grinning. “You see! It’s the same protest I was telling you about.” But no, it wasn’t planned. Him just come check me at home and we both had on what you see in the picture,” Samuels said casually. “I keep telling you, we are family.”