(Editor's note: This story was inadvertently cut off in yesterday's paper, so today we are running it in its entirety.)

Life may possibly never be the same for 19-year-old Omar 'Poor and Boasy' Johnson after the once street-boy-turned-popular upcoming deejay was crowned the male winner of the Magnum King and Queen of Dancehall at the event's final show last Saturday night.

The aspiring deejay's life has been one that saw him taking naps in a Half-Way Tree cemetery and wiping windscreens for a dollar from as early as age 11, while he was still a student at the Seaward Primary and Junior High School in Kingston 11.

As he recalls, it was rough on his mother who was caring for his other three siblings and himself, so he would take to the "windscreen hustle" to secure lunch money on most days.

full-time hustler

That side-hustle would later become his full-time job after ending his formal education after leaving his primary school.

"Mi mother neva like it at all yuh nuh, but a jus so it did set. Mi would go home one and two time but after that mi gone back pon de streets gone hustle and a sleep inna de cemetery. Even now, I still go to my mother's house sometimes because is all love," he says.

As for whether his sleeping on tomb days are behind him since winning the million dollars in prize, Johnson says: "Even last night (Monday night) a de cemetery mi sleep. Nothing nuh really change yet. Mi a sleep there from a tender age," he recalled. "Even during de competition mi would sleep there. Mi used to get ready from there sometimes, get water and bathe there then go to the show (Magnum King and Queen of Dancehall) then after the show mi go back to the cemetery go sleep. Either that or I go to my mother's house."

The upcoming deejay would like to leave the cemetery full time and acquire a place of rest to call his own and even further his education. He still maintains that he would never forget his humble beginnings however, or the fellow street friends he made there.

"Yuh can't forget weh u a come from but the life wha mi use to live inna de streets mi nuh waan live it again, but yuh will definitely see mi in the streets wid mi frens," he says. "Even back inna de cemetery, going back to lay down pon mi tomb to pray and tell God thanks because a there so mi use to pray and ask Him fi sen better."

aiming for better

The young deejay says he is determined to put in the hard work necessary for him to lead a better life and inspire his peers to do the same as well. And, after Saturday night, that journey is already looking promising as he has been getting countless calls of interest from several big-name players in the music fraternity, an industry he hopes to dominate in coming years.

With all being well, Johnson says he wants to be the "next Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Buju Banton or Garnett Silk. Dem man deh work live on and a so mi waan my thing tek off. Positive music".

The question on most people's mind is, of course, how will he spend the million dollars? "Mi a gwaan do some work an try build on it, yu nuh. Mi waan invest some too."

He continued that the money was to also help in ensuring that his daughter lives an easier life than he did. Poor and Boasy also mentioned the possibility of "squeezing off a little cheap car".