Many an artiste has had to deal with the audience's rejection by bottles at a stage show in Jamaica. There is only one whose ratings skyrocketed after he was bottled. He is William 'Supercat' Maragh, the Don Dada of dancehall.

It was at Sting 1991 when, during a clash with Ninja Man, a few bottles were tossed at the 'Wild Apache'. Anybody else would have got the message and cut. Not the Cat. He picked up one bottle, hurled it back into the crowd, let everybody know that he had something tougher than bottles on him. Legend has it that people ducked.

How serious was Supercat? He had to be pulled off the stage.

Supercat is a bonafide legend, not because of prolific output but because of the quality of his recordings, his swagger and his striking intelligence. It is a heck of a combination. He shows a keen awareness of history in detailing the development of Jamaica lyrically, he rides the Sleng Teng with Trash and Ready and puts fruit and vegetable to music in Vineyard Style.Boops, Mud Up, Under Pressure ("ri bi di bi du bad deng!"), Cry Fi Di Youth and Nuff Man a Die are the stuff of dancehall legend - and this is even without his Columbia Records albums Don Dada and The Struggle Continues, as the Cat took on hip hop like he was made for it.

Remember the Jump remix with Kriss Kross? "Special reques' to all uptown man, an special reques' to all downtown man ..." He has a flair for the unusual, like Sweet for My Sweets and Dolly My Baby. And he is not afraid to honour his roots - listen to Sandokhan, done for the man who was at one point Jamaica's most wanted after a raid on the Olympic Gardens Police Station. Then listen to his explanation for recording it in an interview with David Rodigan.

He rides a rhythm with superb ease, always sounding like the coolest cat in town. And he is, from his ultra-dapper dressing to his sample talk. In that Ninja Man clash, when the Don Gorgon went into gun talk Supercat said he wouldn't even talk about his gun, because "who see it dead".

From his days on Kilamanjaro as Early B's prento to Stereomars for Skeng Dong, Supercat has carved out a legend that continues in the voices of Sean Paul and Jr Gong (who references him in Beautiful).

Link to 'My Girl Josephine': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miVqam1CBZE