Thoughts about Reggae
By Ras Michael

I was listening to a local radio station the other day and the conversation was about Reggae music, and where it is heading. Many of the callers were saying that Reggae is drifting away from its roots towards more violence and hatred, and they felt certain artists should clean up their lyrics.

 As a kid growing up in Jamaica, I remember the music was always positive and uplifting. I don’t remember hearing lyrics talking about all this killing, fighting and hatred. For me music has always been about loving. It has always been about the uplifting power of a positive message set to a Reggae beat.

Now anything that comes into a recording artists mind is put into their music whether positive, negative or hateful. Negativity never wins. That is why I have always loved Bob Marley.

Bob Marley experienced positive, negative and hateful vibrations, but his music was always positive. As I grew up in Kingston, I remember the days when they would say, “Bob Marley don’t hav no sense.” He was just some “Rasta boy, smoking weed all the time and talking mess.” But in my heart I felt that this was some of the best music I had ever heard, and that Bob Marley was one of the best music makers of all time.

Just like Joseph, the son of Jacob, who insisted on storing corn in Egypt, saving the Egyptians from famine, Bob Marley left Jamaica to spread Reggae music to the world, and in doing so, tried to save us with his message of love and hope. Did you know Bob Marley was born under the “Sign of Joseph?” Check the Twelve Tribes.


“Brethen and Sistren,”  as brother Bob say,  “Me throw me corn, me no call no fowl.” - Who the cap fit let them wear it

Till next time, Only Peace and Love to You -
Ras Michael

Email RasMichael@RastafarianNEWS.com

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 Who the cap fit let them wear it

 Bob Marley