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Some bands are formed in garages. Some are built in studios. Spliff Vision was forged in survival. From the working-class streets of San Pedro’s “The Lows,” the brothers and cousins who make up Spliff Vision didn’t just grow up around music—they grew up around the realities that reggae was always meant to speak about: struggle, loss, injustice, and resilience. Their sound—what they call Reality Roots—isn’t branding. It’s biography. --- A Childhood Where Music Was the Escape Before the stages, before the festivals, before the crowds knew their name, the members of Spliff Vision were simply family in a house full of instruments. Konker Spliff grew up alongside his brothers—Buddy on drums and their older brother on bass—learning music by ear, experimenting, and copying everything they heard. No formal training. No classes. Just passion. They were self-taught players, united by the same instinct: if there was an instrument nearby, they wanted to play it. But the music wasn’t just entertain...