The CIA saw the People’s National Party (PNP) of Jamaica, headed by Michael Manley, as a potential threat to the United States and American business ventures, as Manley embodied socialist values, and had also built strong ties with Fidel Castro’s Cuba. Recorded in the year of the failed attempt on his life in December, the “voilence” of which Marley speaks was prevalent and rose scarily during the late 1970s in Jamaica. Rat Race (Album: Rastaman Vibration, 1976) This post brings just 10 (there are many more!) of his particularly powerful lyrics to the table in order to remind people of the real message in Bob Marley’s music. Despite the deeply political, radical, and pro-Black roots of reggae music, general negative stereotypes about Rastafari and reggae have reduced Marley’s, and many other artists’, legacy to little more than being a mascot for hippies and weed-smoking culture – many readers will no doubt remember the proliferation of Snapchat’s insensitive “420 filter” of Bob Marley (a lot of which was, surprisingly enough, to do with whomever was in charge of the Marley Estate). Bob Marley is the world’s most well-known reggae artist of all-time.
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