
Wha’ gwan me bredren!? Me name is a John Stoney and I been watchin you on da internet for a long time now ya kna. I see you got a new website and you still making us laugh out loud (LOL). We like a catch laugh. I do wood carving with my friend Ratty and we like to smoke ganja and make all manner a ting. Can you put dese pictures up on your web page? If you don’t you get RASSED (joke).


This first piece took me about a year. It has everything. You got Marcus Garvey. I saw you had him in your “Aboot” section but you done called him Daniel. Wha’ gwan wi’ dat? Also, here you see Haile Selassie with da Lion of Zion. At da bottom dare’s Peter Tosh, Sean Paul and Mutabaruka.

Dat’s Bob in da top right and all manner of politicians here in Jamaica dat tell lies cuz Babylon be closin’ in on dam ya kna. In da bottom we got Malcom X above da Pig of Corruption.

This is from a picture and I don’t know who it be, just a bunch of children and I see it and think, “I make a carving of this.”

This is Bob with his drummer, Carlton Barrett.

Ratty is making this sculpture of an African slave with his dying son. Like you in America, Jamaica used to be Indians. Dan came da slaves and da Indians was gone ya knaw.

Here is something I make fe you. A dedication to all da laughs you done catch us here in da international.

In a real New York style, ya knaw. Hope you like it. And I appreciate any pics you put up in the internet. Respect.
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i call b.s. on that being a real letter. those carvings, however, are sick.
02.19.08 at 12:27 pm
holy shit!!!!
02.19.08 at 2:54 pm
Bubble hill is the spot
02.19.08 at 5:06 pm
Fucking amazing.
02.19.08 at 5:12 pm
dat shit be mega-irie!
02.19.08 at 6:42 pm
someone went on holiday to jamaica, took a bunch of photos of locals carving wood and sent an email with a bad jamaican accent. yawn. you should try and buy some nuclear arms and write about your experiences. err… wait.
02.19.08 at 7:39 pm
I wanna friend dat’s named Ratty!
02.20.08 at 5:52 am
Yeah, you guys flew to Jamaica, made this guy pose with a street carnage drawing & template that you made in your hotel room, took your pictures, and spent the last two years carving that cock sucker yourselves. OR Derrick’s ex-old-lady commissioned the carving when she was in Trinidad (& don’t forget Tobago).
02.20.08 at 11:24 am