"Now this is my story." "This is my story." "You know, I´m not prejudice about myself." "Because" " Why don´t I have prejudice about myself?" "My father is white, my mother black." "They call me haIf-caste, or whatever." "well, me don´t end up on nobody´s side." "Me don´t end up on the black man´s side, nor the white man´s side, but upon God´s side-- the Man who create, who cause me to come from black and white." "Born fatherIess." "I never knew my father." "My mother worked hard, she had no way of keeping me to go to school." "We don´t have education, we have inspiration." "If I was educated I would be a damn fool." "Saturday morning on KBC." "We couldn´t afford to buy records, so we listened to the radio." "Anything the radio played, is what we hear." "So I wasn´t really into them things." "I was really into, Iike... you call it... spiritual music." "You know, ´cause it get more revolutionized." "Here we were, for instance, living in Trench Town." "I´d grab my acoustic guitar, and we´d go over where we stayed," "like, in our yard, we´d smoke herb and everyone was there, and music would start playing." "Everybody, everyone´s influences, come into it." "A man might hear you sing something, even if he was a stranger, and he´d tell you, "Sing it this way!" "Put this word to it."" "So, it´s aII-- it´s like the peopIe-- the "peopIe-ness."" "We first came together about 1960, and rehearsed for about three years, and made the first record in 1963." "At that time, we used to have BeverIey KeIso," "Cherry, Bunny, Peter, Junior Braithewaite, and I." "It was good, you know," "´cause it was the first experience within music, working with some good musicians and trying to get the harmonies and everything." "It was great." "Junior split." "The two girls split and leave." "Peter, Bunny and Bob." "During that time, we used to have one track." "You know, everything mixed and recorded one time, and that´s it." "And after that, you had two tracks." "So, the studios were really depending on... who can hear as the engineer mixed everything." "Sometimes it took long, and sometimes they found a mix, and it got you." "I´m a little low!" "Raise it up!" "Reggae music is always here now, but the thing that makes our music so important is the Iyrics," "I think." "Yes, it is necessary to understand the Iyrics." "They have meaning." "But, because some peopIe-- some people understand the words, some people never go through those situations." "But dreds of the world suffer, masses of the people suffer, and this music comes from the masses of the people." ""This morning I wake up in a curfew." "Oh God, I was a prisoner, too."" "Compare it to when you wake up in a curfew you become a prisoner." ""could not recognize the faces standing over me,"" "like all those guys who stand over you with a gun, with a uniform-- you don´t know who´s who." ""They were all dressed in uniforms of brutality."" "So, I and I say again," ""How many rivers do we have to cross before we can talk to the boss?"" "I mean, you know, we just want betterness." "And that´s why "Curfew" come about." "But it´s not really, literally, burning down the city, or burning down-- it´s a burning out certain things out of our minds for to live in one harmony." "well, reggae music is a music created by Rasta people." "And it carries earth force of people, our people." "And it´s really about people working, people moving." "My love of music has always been inspired by... what we believe in, what we know, you know?" "So, and what is happening, what you experience and everything." "Reggae music is a people music and the reggae music is news." "It´s news about your one self, your one history, things that you wouldn´t really... they wouldn´t teach you in a school, you understand?" "Because they wouldn´t tell you that Rastafari is God." "Yet, the bible will tell you that within 2,000 years" "Christ shall return and when He returns" "He´s going to be King of Kings, Lord of Lords, conquering Lion of the tribe of Judah, through the lineage of King solomon and King David." "Now that is a reality and a world truth and the truth is that His Majesty is Earth´s rightful ruler." "And there´s a Christ, and that is halle SeIassie I." "If His Majesty should come to Jamaica, millions and all people will come out to see him." "I always said to the people, man," ""Be still and know that His imperial Majesty" "Emperor halle SeIassie I of Ethiopia is the almighty."" "Freedom to me is when the people unite." "Freedom means I must be free within myself." "My mind must be free." "The only way my mind can be free is when I praise Rastafari." "SeIassie I is the King of Kings, for Earth." "Now, which guy upon Earth, is rich like the King of Kings?" "I don´t have a religion, you know?" "I am what I am, you know?" "And I am a Rastaman." "So religion is not-- this is not religion, this is the life." "So the teaching of His Majesty is a truth to us, mankind." "It´s not" " Him don´t" " Him don´t make war or nothing." "There´s a teaching, you know?" "This is a teaching, right?" "Someone who´II set the example that one must follow and one must live." "And His Majesty´s the only one and the perfect one who´II do it." "His foundation is in the holy mountains." "Jah Ioveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." "glorious things have been spoken of Thee, O City of God." "I´II make mention to Rahab and babylon to them that know I." "behold PhiIistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia it shall be said that this man was born there." "And the highest himself shall establish the Earth." "Jah Rastafari!" "That is the future." "Rasta is the future." "Seen?" "Yes, Rasta is the future." "Yeah!" "Bob marley and the wailers!" "Introducing Bob marley and the wailers!" "Mr. Bob marley, yeah!" "Jah Rastafari." "Bob marley and the wailers." "...who we think is the number one reggae group in the world today." "Yes... we´ve come a Iong way." "Comin´ through to california all the way from Trench Town, Jamaica, the proverbial Bob marley and the waiIin´ WaiIers!" "Bob marley and the wailers, yeah!" "We, the Rastafari," "I-tinuaIIy, ever faithful, ever sure," "Jah lives, children." "lively up yourself, now." "Come on!" "We got the power!" "We got the power, yeah!" "I" " I don´t come to bow, you know?" "I come to conquer." "I don´t come to bow, I come to conquer." "My home is always where I am." "My home is in my head." "My home is what I think about or what I try to sink in my mind into thinking that I think." "That is my home." "My home is not a material home or somewhere out there." "You know?" "My home is in my head." "I don´t even have an ambition." "I only have one thing that I´d like to see happen." "I´d like to see mankind live together." "black, white, Chinese, anyone." "You know what I mean?" "That´s all." "until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned-- war." "Yeah, you know?" "So, I just prophesize, and everyone know that that is truth." "And that it comes out of the mouth of Rastafari." "Why one race want it to be rich and the other one be poor?" "Why one want to fight on the other?" "There´s no more of that." "The youth of today say, no." "That can´t work no more." "We´re revolutionaries, you know?" "I see myself as a revolutionary, who don´t have no help, and I take no bribe from no one." "I fight it singIe-handed with music." "violence is destructive and degrading." "please help in every possible way to make this general election campaign a peaceful one." "We, the people of Jamaica, deserve no less." "I feel Jamaica is a reaIIy-- a nice place, and a bad place, know what I mean?" "A very good place." "But when you have political vioIence-- now when I stand up and I see the youth fighting against the youth for the politicians, then I really feel sick." "You know?" "Because baId-heads really seek them, because-- just because he was hungry." "You know, and he can´t get a job." "And the people who control the jobs are politicians." "So you´II find the youth fighting against the youth, and the youth killing the youth, because of the politicians." "Then I really feel sick in my heart about that." "Here now is a special item of news from the JBC newsroom." "Entertainer and reggae star Bob marley," "Rita marley, and the manager of "The WaiIers," Don taylor are now patients in the University hospital after receiving gunshot wounds during a shooting incident, which took place at marley´s home at 56 Hope Road tonight." "police said the group was rehearsing..." "That was the night I was resting at 56 Hope Road, and to cool out there." "And then gunshots starting firing." "After awhile it was like, some type of political motivated type of thing." "But it was really a good experience, you know?" "Nobody died." "Why is still something that nobody really knows the reason why up till now." "Why did I say?" "I said the reason is, men like we is Rasta." "And we stand for the cause." "Everybody knows that we don´t deal with politics, neither JLP nor PMP, we´re Rasta." "And so getting rid of Rasta is the only thing people try to do when dealing with politics, because-- you not a voter." "So you´re like sitting on the fence." "So, if you´re up on the fence you can get shot off from any angle, from anybody." "Why is still something that nobody really knows, no reason why up till now." "It happens to straighten some people." "It happens to satisfy some people." "And it happened to straighten me." "My life is not important to me." "Other people´s lives are important." "My life is only important if I can help plenty people." "If my Iife is just me and my own security then I don´t want it." "My life is for people, as many as..." "Yes, the peace, you know, is really what the youth of Jamaica started and asked me to help them get it together, you know." "Being that I was one of the victims during the time of the politics." "This work-- this peace work, it doesn´t stop." "It never stops." "We know it never stops." "That means... we, the youth, got our work to do." "Love, prosperity, be with us all, Jah." " Rastafari." "SeIassie I." " Rastafari!" "AII world politics are just things to keep people divided and foolish, and to put your trust in men." "None of them can do nothing for you." "If you don´t have no life, you don´t have anything." "So even those who are big politicians, they must find Rastafari, too." "We use cannabis, you know?" "We use herb." "Herb is the healing of the nation," "like all other qualities is the destruction of mankind, herb is the healing of the nation." "The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari." "You dig what I say?" "We, who accept herb-- herb is important, but herb is more important to the people who don´t accept it, because that is a reality." "He´s not selling them arms-- selling them something that you crave, but you take it in a sense and say..." ""Herb-- herb is a plant."" "I mean, herbs are good for everything." "Why-- why these people want to do so much good... for everyone... who call themselves government, and this and that" "Why them say you must not use the herb?" "You see?" "And we check that and we can´t find" "We just see them just say, "No, you mustn´t use it, because it makes you rebel."" "Against what?" "Herb is a thing that will give you a little time for yourself so you can live." "If you use it." "My boundaries I must pick a place on Earth where I know I must live and I want to live near my father and my father lives in Ethiopia." "So I must live where my father is." "My future is in a green part of the Earth, big enough where I can roam freely." "I don´t feel Jamaica is going to be the right place for me because Jamaica looks a bit small." "Somewhere new, Ethiopia." "Adventure." "You know, you can start to live." "The only place we can live on Earth is Africa." "Big enough." "One of these years, I´II stop playing music and I´II go to Africa, and I won´t talk to nobody no more, and I won´t sing to nobody, because this is not a joke." "When you check it, you know that black people must unite." "well, we know that... unity must start from Jamaica, and unity will almost have to start now, because how long would we have to suffer if we´II just learn these things that we must be united." "Because once we´re united, we won´t fight one another." "Marcus Garvey´s a prophet, mon." "Marcus Garvey tells us we must look to the east for the King." "I Iove the things Marcus Garvey said." "And a Iot of it come to pass." "Some still leave." "And everyone see it." "I mean, you get more stronger." "You know?" "In reality." "As everything what he said in those times is happening today and everyone sees it happening." "well played." "One love, one heart, one destiny, peace and love for all mankind." "And Africa for Africans all over and abroad, you know." "How good and how pleasant it is for I and I to dwell together in one perfect harmony." "Jah!" "Rastafari!" "Who liveth and reigneth with I and I, I-tinuaIIy, ever faithful, ever sure." "Jah!" "Rastafari!" "Jah!" "Rastafari!" "I, Robert gabriel Mugabe, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Zimbabwe and observe the laws of Zimbabwe, so help me God." "well, they say, "dabble in politics."" "I don´t know what that is." "You say, "Stand up and talk for my rights,"" "I know what that is." "See?" "And I don´t care who the guy is, because my right is my right," "like my Iife-- you know?" "AII I have is my Iife." "Bob, keep talking to the people." "They might never hear your voice again." "Keep talking to them for a little while until you´re cool, man." "This is to the people that have a voice inside of them that´s-- talked to them, you know, that is the voice that these people must listen to." "Because in everything you´re going to do, there´s a wrong way and a right way, and if you listen good, you will know the right way." " True." " You know?" "Because there is a voice inside talking to everyone." " Seen?" " True." "Seen." "Here Rasta." "only thing gonna kill, rast kill me." "I understand that writers and people in the press are very interest-- concerned about my health." "I want to say thank you for your interest, and that I´II be all right, and I´II be back on the road again in 1981, recording, performing, with the fans we love." "beautiful." "You know, if Bob´s talking to you, don´t have no doubt." "Seen?" "Good." "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "The Rastaman vibration is positive." "I am not the angel of death, lady," "I am the child of Iife." "Hey, come on!" "Yeah!" "Thank you!"