RASTA ne cuy............

To get his music out of what he called Babylon and into Africa, was perhaps the greatest professional desire of Bob’s career going back to his earliest days. Bob always believed that the power of his lyrics could change political systems and carry the message of Rastafari back to its homeland. Above all Bob despised the Apartheid system, which then existed in South Africa. The authorities were terrified that his lyrics would incite the people to rise up against them so they censored the music.

Such was his reputation in Africa as a musical freedom fighter that when Zimbabwe won it’s independence in 1980 Bob was the only foreign artist invited to play. He was calling for African Unity, music is a cultural weapon and he was going to fight the war single handed with music.

Bob Marley Lyrics

Bob Marley: “When you think of Rastafari, touch the heart”

Bob Marley: “ Well I’ve been a Rasta from ever since. You know, but, it’s not how long I’ve been a Rasta, it’s how long it take you to grow up, because what you is, is what you is from the beginnin’ to the end, you can never change, so we’re just Rasta from Creation. I would say to the people be still and know that his Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Sellassie of Ethiopia is earth rightful ruler, the bible say so, Babylon newspaper say so and I and I the children say so. What do they want, a white god, well God come black”

Bob Marley: “Reggae music is a music created by Rasta people and it carry earth force, the people rhythm. You know there’s a rythmn where people workin’, people movin’ you know. When we play music, and you know we don’t play to suit critics, we play what we want to play, when we want to play it , and we have a reason why we play it too.”

Bob Marley: “Reggae music is the people’s music, reggae music is news. It’s news about your own self, your own history, things that you wouldn’t really… they wouldn’t teach you in a school”

Bob Marley: “ Well everything’s political, I’ll never by a politician or deal with anything political. Me just deal with life and nature, that’s the greatest thing to me.”

Bob Marley: “ When I stand up and I see the youth fighting against the youth for the politicians, then I really feel sick and it just because they keep the youth hungry and they can’t get no job and the people who control the jobs is politicians, so politics is just trick.”

Aston Familyman Barrett: “ Yeah we carry a strong vibes, cause what Bob was sayin’, what Scratch was sayin’ and what the hippy upsetter boys was sayin’, we were the perfect combination to start that soul rebel kind a feelin”

Bob Marley: “ Yes it is necessary to understand the lyrics. This is the music say death to black and white oppressors, to all oppressors, you know we a deal with a human being, we a deal with the purpose why god create man in a the first place.”

Rebel Music: The Bob Marley Story, which was released on June 26, 2001, is available on DVD and VHS (Palm Pictures) and tells the fascinating and heart-wrenching story of reggae superstar Bob Marley. Rebel Music was directed and produced by Jeremy Marre and contains unheard recordings, news footage and live performances and contains features, exclusive interviews by his wife, Rita Marley, Lee ``Scratch'' Perry, Chris Blackwell and original members of the Wailers