Ini Kamoze, whose stage name means “mountain of the true God”, made his first single, “World Affairs”, in 1981, and he followed it with “Trouble You a Trouble Me”/“General” in 1983. His self-titled debut album came out in 1984 as a six-track mini-LP on Island Records. In the album notes, he describes himself as a “pencil thin… disentangled… six-foot vegetarian”.