The originators of fast chat

General Levy (Paul Scott Levy, born 28 April 1971) is a British ragga deejay of Trinidadian descent, raised in Harlesden and Wembley, who collected dancehall tapes from age 10 and formed his own sound system, Third Dimension, as a teenager before his 1994 collaboration with M-Beat, 'Incredible', became the first jungle track to reach the UK Top 10.

UK genre of the early 1990s built from chopped breakbeats run at high speed under reggae and dancehall basslines, with MCs working crowds sound-system style. It grew where Britain's Jamaican sound-system culture met hardcore rave, and fed directly into drum and bass.

British reggae deejay (David Emmanuel, 1963 to 2011) of the Saxon Studio International sound, whose fast-chat "Cockney Translation" and "Police Officer" carried UK dancehall onto the pop charts and made him a foundation deejay of the British scene. He died on 15 March 2011, aged 48, of a stab wound sustained during a police raid at his home in Surrey, where officers of the Serious and Organised Crime Command were executing an arrest warrant; he had been due to stand trial the following week accused of conspiracy to supply cocaine. He had recently appeared in the BBC Four documentary Reggae Britannia. His death became a cause in Black British politics and remains contested.

Saxon Studio International is a British reggae sound system that began operating in Lewisham, South London, in 1976 and came to prominence for the "fast chat" MC style pioneered by deejay Peter King. Its roster of microphone talent, including Smiley Culture, Tippa Irie, Papa Levi and Asher Senator, went on to chart success, and the sound itself won the UK Cup Clash in 1992 and became the first UK sound to win the World Clash in 1994.

London-born deejay Philip Williams, a leading voice of the Saxon Studio International sound, credited with sharpening the fast-chat style. His "Mi God Mi King" (1984) is often cited as the first British-produced record to top the Jamaican chart.

Asher Senator (Peter St Aubyn) is a British MC raised in Clapham, South London, who began deejaying at 14 on the Buchanan sound system alongside Smiley Culture before joining Saxon Studio International's fast-chat crew; his 1986 solo album Born To Chat remains his best-known release.

A rapid-fire deejay delivery in which lyrics are chatted at double or triple time. Crystallised in Jamaica by deejays such as Ranking Joe and Peter Metro and, in the mid-1980s, sharpened at London's Saxon Studio by Papa Levi and Smiley Culture.

Daddy Freddy (S. Frederick Small, born 1965) is a Jamaican-born deejay raised in Trench Town who performed on Sugar Minott's sound system before recording 'Zoo Party' for Studio One in 1985 and topping Jamaican charts the following year; the Guinness Book of Records twice certified him the world's fastest chatter, ultimately at 598 syllables per minute, and his 1987 album Raggamuffin Hip-Hop with producer Asher D was an early dancehall-hip-hop fusion.

Top Cat (Anthony Codrington) is a British MC who came up on the UK reggae sound system circuit in the 1980s, topping the UK reggae chart for six weeks with 'Love Me Sess' (1989) before releasing 'Request the Style' and 'Push Up Unu Lighter' for Fashion Records and becoming a key voice in the early jungle scene through his own Nine Lives Records.

Peter King is a British reggae MC credited with inventing 'fast style' mic chat in 1982 as a 19-year-old on Saxon Studio International, unveiling the technique on 'Me Neat, Me Sweet' at the Dick Sheppard Youth Club; the style was rapidly adopted by fellow Saxon MCs including Tippa Irie and Papa Levi and became a defining British contribution to reggae toasting.

British dancehall deejay (Anthony Henry, b. 1965) of Saxon Studio International whose rapid fast-chat 'Hello Darling' reached the UK Top 30; a leading UK sound-system deejay who later collaborated widely across genres.