Editing Lee "Scratch" Perry (section)

===After the Black Ark (1980s and 1990s)===
[[File:Lee Perry live.jpg|thumb|left|Perry performing in 1998]]
After the demise of the Black Ark in the early 1980s, Perry spent time in England and the United States, performing live and making erratic records with a variety of collaborators.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/> His career took a new path in 1984 when he met Mark Downie (Marcus Upbeat{{Original research inline|date=September 2021}}) with whom he worked on the 1986 album ''Battle of Armagideon'' for Trojan. It was not until the late 1980s, when he began working with British producers [[Adrian Sherwood]] and Neil Fraser (who is better known as [[Mad Professor]]), that Perry's career began to get back on solid ground again. Perry also attributed a later resurgence of his creative muse to his deciding to quit drinking alcohol and smoking [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]]. In his earlier days, the act of producing for Perry was a frenzied and ritualistic one where he stated that "he blew smoke into the microphone so that the weed would get into the song."<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine|title=Lee "Scratch" Perry|last=Horovitz|first=Adam|date=21 April 2005|magazine=Rolling Stone|location=New York|id={{ProQuest|220173961}}}}</ref> Perry stated in an interview that he wanted to see if "it was the smoke making the music or Lee Perry making the music. I found out it was me and that I don't need to smoke."<ref>{{cite news |first=Douglas |last=Heselgrave |title=Lee Scratch Perry: From the Black Ark to the Skull Cave, the Madman Becomes a Psychiatrist |url=http://www.musicbox-online.com/interviews/lee-scratch-perry-2006.html |magazine=Music Box Magazine |date=December 2006 |access-date=28 December 2006 }}</ref>

In 1998, Perry reached a wider global audience as vocalist on the track "Dr. Lee, PhD" from the [[Beastie Boys]]' album ''[[Hello Nasty]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1663126/beastie-boys-hot-sauce-committee-part-two.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505161400/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1663126/beastie-boys-hot-sauce-committee-part-two.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2011 |title=Beastie Boys' Hot Sauce History: Lee Perry Rides The Subway – Music, Celebrity, Artist News |website=Mtv.com |date=3 May 2011 |access-date=21 December 2012}}</ref>