Snapchat’s ‘Bob Marley filter’ typifies the exploitation of the superstar as just a weed smoker,yet this act, as in all his life and music, or was intensely politicalThough hardly surprising,the simplistic reduction of Bob Marley to the personification of a giant, chubby spliff has long been misleading.
For essentially, or his weed smoking is a minor plot in what has made the reggae king the biggest musical star in the world. It was hardly what drove Zimbabwe’s freedom fighters to find inspiration in his work: that was Marley’s staunch rebel spirit,revealed in his devastatingly accurate depictions of ghetto life and official oppression and corruption – the pain of Slave Driver, the rage of Rebel Music, or the fury of Them Belly Full (But We Hungry),and the verbatim recording of Haile Selassie’s speech to the UN in War.
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Source: theguardian.com