As firm as his association is with Jamaica, the music he made had a dialogic relationship with a variety of Black styles, including funk (“I Shot the Sheriff,” “No More Trouble”), soul (“No Woman, No Cry,” “Redemption Song”), and even disco (“Could You Be Loved,” “Exodus”)-reggae, you could say, was just his concentration.Įven as he settled into smoother, pop-oriented sounds (1978's Kaya, 1980's Uprising), he retained an urgency and sense of struggle that inspired generations of artists to recognize that music, while great for entertainment, can also be the delivery system for something bigger. And if his music sounded sweet and made you want to dance, it’s because, as his sometime publicist Vivien Goldman once put it, he knew that if he hooked you with the melody, you’d have to listen to what he had to say.īorn in 1945 in Nine Mile, a rural village about an hour and a half outside Kingston, Marley formed The Wailers with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in his late teens, thickening from cheerful R&B-based ska to the more rhythmically substantive sound of reggae. He may have been ambivalent about politics (he once said it was pretty much the same thing as church-a way to keep people ignorant), but it wasn’t because of their underlying possibilities it was the way the political system had been twisted by the tyranny and greed of people in power that troubled him. Ganja Babe (Michael Franti) 20.Because I Got High (Afroman). Tosh’s 1976 hit Legalize It remains a rallying cry for those pushing to make marijuana legal. Some classic songs to listen when high to transport your mind and hit you up with the right tune. Lyrics to 'Ganja Gun' by Bob Marley: N' keep ya' very lucky you can smoke it in a bong When you smoke it. Bob Marley - Ganja Gun I'm gonna smoke'a de ganja until I go blind.
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His music spoke to colonialism (“Small Axe”), poverty (“Them Belly Full ”), the necessity of achieving political agency (“Get Up, Stand Up”), and the challenge of exercising it (“Burnin’ and Lootin’”) with a righteousness and frustration that made him as much a figurehead to punk rock as to the reggae he helped export to the world. It began to gain wider acceptance in the 1970s when Rastafari and reggae culture was popularized through music icons Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, two of the faith’s most famous exponents. Download Lagu Reggae Bob Marley Ganja Gun Bob Marley Ganja Song Lagu Reggae Bob Marley Comment by Ederodrigo. Given the image of him as a smiling, joint-smoking peacenik that has proliferated since his death in 1981, it’s easy to forget jut how angry Bob Marley was.