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Prince Hammer was born Beris (sic) Simpson in Kingston, Jamaica, at the Kingston Jubilee Hospital. He grew up in the south part of Kingston. He first started deejaying for the Sound System Vee-Jay and cut his first 45 for Glen Brown in the mid seventies under his real name (or Berry Simpson). It might have been the single »Daughter A Whole Lotta Sugar Down Deh«, the b-side do Glen Brown's »Two Wedden Skank« (Downtown DT507). He then changed his name to Prince Hammer…
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