"Peace,” is his greeting. Guy says he's cool, “just chillin' and shit.” The image that forms isn't of a hip-hop star soakin' up chlorine and Hennessey in his pool; it's of a superhero in his fortress.

Robert Dixon, who as Bobby Digital became one of Jamaica’s most influential producers, and whose production of the Shabba Ranks song “Dem Bow” became a cornerstone of reggaeton and 21st-century pop, ...