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Rory Stone Love

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Rory Gilligan, known as Rory Stone Love, is a Jamaican selector born 22 November 1962 in South London to Jamaican parents. He joined the Stone Love Movement as a selector in 1982 while still a student at Calabar High School, one of just three people — alongside Wee Pow and Cancer — who made up Stone Love through the 1980s, and reshaped its dancehall profile through advanced juggling, beat-matching and heavy use of exclusive dubplates.

Widely cited as a definitive modern selector, he later built the Black Dub production imprint, working with Bounty Killer, Jigsy King and Capleton, and was credited on DJ Khaled's "You Remind Me" in 2025.

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Type: Person (artist, selector, producer…) →
Era: Dancehall and the digital turn →
Confidence: Well supported
Sources: LargeUp "Selector's Choice"; Jamadio; Jamaicans.com; Red Bull Music Academy Daily.

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