BANNED Bob Marley Songs You Weren't Supposed to Hear

[@africanknowledge4U]

His music will live forever.

[@Ripah]

@@africanknowledge4U so true

[@acadette1]

In my opinion "Babylon System" is perhaps Bob's hardest hitting song. I am very surprised that it was not banned

[@Ripah]

That’s true .. it’s strong one. My favourite is “Rebel”

[@solomonmuwori1954]

You can say that again!

[@elgranjero2284]

@acadette1 How about WAR? Until the philosophy that holds one race superior, and another inferior, is totally and finally abandoned, everywhere is WAR. I expected that song to be banned not only in Jamaica, but globally. It's a riveting song which tugs at the visceral sinews of the humanitarian, and begs for fairness on a level playing field. The song says that the colour of a man's skin should be of no more significance than the colour of his eyes, and until the basic human rights have been guaranteed to all, everywhere will be WAR.

[@Babylon_Must_Fall]

He who knows it, will surely agree with you! I’m one of those - trust me!

[@Lloyd5412]

'We nuh know ow wi an de a go work it out' ... these kind of songs get you killed, Gong is still a warrior today.

[@TheXaimaca]

If you are interested, I can tell you that in 1980, June 27, Friday at 9 pm, I was in Milan for Bob's concert in front of 100,000 people. I saw that evening boys and girls from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia dancing and hugging each other throughout the concert while their countries had been at war for 30 years. In my opinion this was the true strength of Bob's music and lyrics. This is his true legacy. The strength of uniting real, right people. We also knew that in Jamaica he helped 2,500 families financially and in this regard I know for sure that in Italy, at the end of his concerts he was paid in cash and Bob gave the management to his entire group, almost as if money for Him was a dirty thing. This was Robert Nesta Marley. Also that summer he already knew he was going to die as ''Family Man'' Barrett (a person of extraordinary kindness and the greatest bass player in the history of music) told me that night. I was one of the very few people who at that time spread the Roots Rasta Reggae Music in Italy. In every corner of our planet you will find something that refers to Bob, even in the most remote places. Bob has done his job and today he is at JAH's side. JAH guide

[@Ripah]

Wow

[@rocmon]

I caught some of your energy, a brotha from Abruzzo beach Town...

[@Ripah]

Respect

[@Ripah]

Bless up

[@liliethedwards968]

I still standing up for my rights

[@jubai12345]

'.....They say what we know, is just what they teach us, and we're so ignorant, that every time they can reach us, through political strategy....' '...Don't let them fool you, or even try to school you..' Absolutely Something.

[@Ripah]

Facts

[@liliethedwards968]

Me na make them fool me me wise

[@Snowcrash777]

This is why Babylon will fall. Peace, Love, Respect!

[@Ripah]

They fight to keep us down

[@Ripah]

Respect ✊🏾

[@dehabamine2322]

@@Snowcrash777 what is this pointing fingers at babylon thing. Why not focus on oneself and show the way?

[@user-barrcnslt]

​@@dehabamine2322Yuh love babylon?

[@djaiteh7789]

Big Up Bob Marley! Long live….❤

[@elgranjero2284]

Lovely video. Thanks for the lessons bredrin.

[@Ripah]

Respect… glad you enjoyed it 👊🏾

[@dieselqueen]

Give thanks for sharing your knowledge. There were many more Bob Marley and the Wailers tunes that were banned too. Just like how they banned other rastafarian artists songs such as, Exodus and the Wailers song "Babylon Kingdom", and" It Won't Come Easy." Nuh even talk bout Peter Tosh, Jah know. The shitstem don't want the people to know the truth, so they banned the Rastaman dem tunes especially back in the day. From then til now, if they don't want your music to play on the radio, it will never be played. The biggest threats to the establishment, you'd never know their names or their music if it weren't for foreign people pushing the music. Bob Marley and several others were categorized as "dutty Rasta bwoy" and other slanderous names, and it's when the English and European people who love vintage roots reggae gave these singers the love and made them big then our fellow Jamaicans jumped on the band wagon. We should've been the ones to support our own first, sad. Long time dem a fight gainst Rasta.

[@Ripah]

Straight facts

[@zedekiahkwame640]

Most of Bob's songs and reggae is still considered as rebellious,, having dreadlocks too, as much as cornrow hair plaiting,, we've come a long way, here in Kenya that's how its was ,one particular song that wasn't played was buffalo soldier in the airwaves,,but time comes when the authorities go and the music stays forever ‼️🙏🇰🇪❤️🔥☝️

[@Ripah]

Wow .. that’s for this response family.. can’t wait to get to Kenya 🇰🇪 🇯🇲

[@zedekiahkwame640]

@@Ripah you are missing alot,I too wish could travel to the Carribbeans ‼️🙏🇰🇪🔥❤️☝️

[@zedekiahkwame640]

@@Ripah please do, most if not all of your music artists like it here for holidays too,, Alicia keys and she had a Lind stay here,etana is coming,koshens always around,de Marco Sean Paul, shaggy, glen was here the other day, Morgan heritage etc,and they take long holidays and we have a big Jamaican family and investors too,, Kenya is much much underrated,the reggae culture here is real,catch a fire,if not catch a flight,visa free 🇰🇪🙏‼️

[@ivorysteele]

Actually just for information. Reggae music was called rebel music.

[@jovitapatterson41]

Love me some Marley

[@IBumpg]

Wrong information. The songs were not banned in Jamaica! Some songs rubbed the powers that be in not so nice ways, to put it mildly but were not banned.

[@radcliffemurphy5273]

Black man redemption

[@Ripah]

Solid

[@claudefrancis9128]

That's a great video bro thanks do a second part of this

[@Ripah]

Glad you enjoyed it… what would you like me to do next?

[@claudefrancis9128]

@Ripah yes I did it was great. A video similar to this one but it's on how influecial bob and his music was an the changes it was already doing. An in separate video one about Luke dube and how he was shot please would be greatly appreciated

[@Ripah]

@@claudefrancis9128 I will put this into my list of videos to do

[@claudefrancis9128]

@@Ripah ok thanks

[@reneearmstead5116]

Absolutely a powerful force with a whole vibe✌🏿✊🏿💅🏿

[@Ripah]

So true

[@andraebrasnell996]

Upful music and overstanding!!

[@Ripah]

Real talk

[@queenelizabella]

I didn't know this! thanks for sharing fam! 🇯🇲 #onelove

[@Ripah]

Thanks a million .. glad you enjoyed it

[@zedekiahkwame640]

I love Rat Race ‼️

[@Ripah]

Big BIG SONG

[@aframaco9491]

Not one of Bob Marley's songs was officially banned in Jamaica!! But certain early Marley songs didn't get enough airplay on Jamaican radio! But people played the records regardless and Marley performed the songs at live concerts! Only South Africa banned certain music and not necessarily Bob's music! However, they did sabotage some of his music by defacing the vinyl records, so that people could not read the titles of the songs, and they also scratched and etched the records, so that they skipped and jumped when South African music fans played the records on a turntable and the music could not be listened to in any sensible sequence! 43 years after his , all Bob Marley songs and recordings are at our disposal! A great legacy indeed! 👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!!

[@Ripah]

Nice ..

[@andreyviana504]

Bob once said in a interview that the whole Rastaman Vibration album was banned in Jamaica

[@andreyviana504]

Jamaica was under a comunist regime so they couldnt allow certain songs not only for Bob but for many of them

[@rednaxelaguitar]

Thanks, Man! Irie presentation!

[@Ripah]

Thanks fam. Respect

[@hOMMENVIE]

Search for Money is crime a really wise song by Bob Marley

[@Ripah]

Ahhh

[@JasonAdams-m6i]

That's why they killed him.

[@desertstar223]

Who killed Marley? Go educate yourself. Paper Brain

[@JasonAdams-m6i]

@desertstar223 well I guess your dumbass still believe he died of cancer, maybe you need to go and educate yourself and find out.

[@NoelReid-p1d]

How come they never banned "Talking Blues" ? He said he felt like bombing a church because he found out the preachers were lying 🤔

[@Ripah]

Damn .. good question. Bob has so many explosive and honest lines

[@rasempress9724]

Because dat song was a hit for the British based group, CIMMARONS, not Bob…..

[@andrewbradley1700]

​@@rasempress9724 Bob wrote and originally recorded it.

[@rasempress9724]

@@andrewbradley1700 that I know…however, Cimarron’s cover blew it up…their recording was a hit in Ja ….then Tommy Cowan brought them to Ja at his then recording studio on Oxford Blvd, New Kgn….Bob came to hang out with at the FORUM Hotel Cottages in Portmore, where they were housed during their time in Ja…n as to who wrote Bob’s songs, well, not all were solo efforts….

[@andrewbradley1700]

Get Up Stand Up was just as much a Peter Tosh song as it was Bobs.

[@aframaco9491]

@@andrewbradley1700 Yes, one of two songs actually credited to both of them! The other being "Why Must I Cry" which featured on Peter Tosh's Legalise It album!! Tosh did record and release his version of Get Up Stand Up, but Bob Marley's version held sway! 👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!!

[@Ripah]

I agree

[@jencooper1816]

Open your eyes and look within

[@Ripah]

Are you satisfied with the life you’re living

[@davidcupples7622]

In my understanding, Bob's songs, some of them anyway, were banned in S Africa but not JA. 1976 the PM was Manley and he and Bob had mutual respect, except that Bob and the Rastas were very upset Manley hadn't legalized marijuana

[@Ripah]

Ahhh I see .. thanks for that 👊🏾

[@emmanuelatsu7681]

Get up stand belongs to peter tosh but was popularized by bob Marley

[@Ripah]

True

[@beverleyreid563]

You all should read Marlon James book: A Brief History of Seven Killings. (Who God chooses, no man can touch)!

[@Ripah]

Thanks for that

[@bosszulu245]

Nice one, gov. They also burned music ago teach them a lesson,me heard.

[@Ripah]

Respect fam

[@oralmorris-sr2ly]

Where did these songs band i heard these songs on radio on social media

[@Ripah]

They weren’t always banned

[@nevillewilliams5459]

I Shot the SHERIFF was never banned in Jamaica, the song was covered by Eric Clapton which went to # 1 before we knew that it was a Bob Marley's original.

[@sativacenindikaindcells8898]

You have forgotten about Talking Blues wherein he sings I Feel like booming a church for the preacher is lying.

[@Ripah]

This wasn’t coming up as ever being banned

[@danking6700]

Truth brother Man i rie

[@Ripah]

Respect

[@michaelnelson7438]

It would be good if you told us which country banned them

[@Ripah]

Go watch it again

[@turnerlouis3518]

​@@Ripahthey ask you which country....no reply😢

[@Ripah]

The video told you

[@turnerlouis3518]

@@Ripah is it you or the u.s said it....maybe you said it.but you just can't say which country...

[@turnerlouis3518]

@@Ripah bob said wen they shall kill our prophets ...but why they can't kill mr.louis Farrakhan...his our prophets..

[@Roq-stone]

Juniour X's "gas them and light them", was banned same way! Listen to that song how it promotes morality. But we are ruled by criminals, there can be no justice.

[@Ripah]

Chuck Fender song it

[@DominicKimutai-y8d]

Even peter tosh music was never allowed in any radio station

[@Ripah]

Ahhh facts

[@nicholausmasese6337]

WHAT ABOUT REDEMPTION SONG?

[@Ripah]

Not sure about redemption song .. do you think it was ever banned?

[@Stefan_Johansson]

Can we get eny facts - this is just romours

[@f.t2482]

Im 100% metal freak. But some bob marly songs just hit you like a truck. I see him as a truth speaker in song version. I just downloade chant down babylon and babylon system. Great songs. But my personly favorit from my teenager time is buffolo soilder. I saw a dokumentation video with him wher he say its good to smoke weed as a rastafsri. And rastsafari heaven is afrika. Perhaps the weed thing is true,ci just cant use it becorse i get so stoned back in stone age😅😅

[@Ripah]

That last sentence 😂😂😂

[@ingridreid5303]

Where did you get this information from. I am 66 years old and listen all these songs on the radio. They were never banned. Yes Bob tried to bring the leaders of PNP and the JLP together and he was shot at. The songs however was never banned. The only two people who could ban them were those twoen because they were Prime Ministers. Bob Marley songs were never banned. Where did you get this information from. Please be careful what you put out in public just to get popular on KZbin. One Love.

[@Ripah]

Thanks for your concern. It’s easy to do your own research.. many banned songs were played on the radio at some point.. respect

[@rasempress9724]

Feh….not getting played on the radio is not UNIVERSAL ban….if u want tawk bout REAL BAN, tawt bout n Walter Rodney….Ja had 2 radio stations bk in the day….in the 70s, only Barry G played our home grown music…he had a couple hours in the evening…JBC is government owned…RJR was privately owned…all the radio personalities were into foreign music…even to the extent of affecting their version of an American accent…wen RJR wouldn’t play THE WAILERS first 45s, it is rumoured, (wink) dat Bob went to the station with a pickaxe handle (san the blade), lock di DJ in the booth n wouldn’t let him out till dem played the record…everybody revising Bob’s history…even him wouldn’t recognise all a wat has been said about him….Jamaica back den was use to music picked up from the SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA….dats y Country n Western was popular n singers like Willie Nelson n Johnny Cash spent so much time down dere….legacy of our listening to Skeeter Davis, Patsy Cline etc….n of course SOUND SYSTEMS ruled….n the first ones were affiliated with the few Recording Studios at dat time…so their records were played…THE REAL disgrace that should b highlighted is what was done to the STEPPIN’ RAZOR, THE GREAT PETER TOSH…his militancy saw him abused by the police…one such encounter, after the regular arresting of him for advocating the FREE smoking of GANJA, SAW HIM BEATEN SO BADLY AT HALF WAY TREE POLICE STATION, he ended up with a fractured skull….n see, LEGALISE IT , i.e. GANJA is now a reality in many countries….some of us STILL TRYING TO GET HIS POSSESSION OF WEED arrest record espunged…NOW HE, is n was the REAL REVOLUTIONARY….btw, did u get ur info mostly from the BBC…mmmmmm…..Peter’s songs have ALWAYS been militant…FIGHTING AGAINST APARTHEID, EQUAL RIGHTS N JUSTICE, I AM THAT I AM…Peter NEVER compromised…never bowed…his album NUCLEAR WAR was ahead of the time…record labels liked Bob’s style because it wasn’t challenging….Peter sang it n lived it, MILITANCY….crossover audiences liked Bob because dem could smoke dem weed n relax to the laidback melody….Peter’s LYRICS came thru over di melody n ‘spoilt’ dem ‘high’…. I'm not in this world To live up to your expectations Neither are you here to live up to mine, yeah I don't owe no one No obligation No, I don't mean none So everything is fine, fine I said, I am that I am I am, I am, I am I am that I am I am, I am, I am I am that I am I am, I am, I am I am that I am I am, I am, I am Don't underestimate My ability Don't define my character Don't belittle my authority It's time you recognized my quality I am that I am…

[@rasempress9724]

BBC website, am sure…curiously, the rebuttal to nuff weh him post somehow not showing….since u r 66yrs young , n if u grew up in Ja during the formative years of OUR music, u should remember that radio play was awash with foreign music…Country n Western had been popular from mi a likkle pickney…Skeeter Davis, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves etal ….bk den, popular singers aped American music genres…memba the group Blues Busters?…n of course the few studios funnelled their 45s via sound system….1970s, with jus JBC n RJR, yaad music wasn’t deemed palatable to uptown…the social demarcation line, in every thing was Torrington Bridge n Cross Roads…even when JBC allowed our music, Barry G had couple hours in the evening…I can still hear the twang, pseudo US accent affected by the other radio personalities on both JBC n RJR….big concerts bk then were performances of black American singers…heck, I saw Teddy Prendergast perform when he was with Harold Melvin n the Bluenotes…..the REAL path blazer was n still is the Stepping Razor, Peter Tosh….see, Bob music was ‘considered’ laid back…Peter was militant in his persona…his lyrics more strident…Jah know, mi know dat if Bob did ever live see weh him ONE LOVE song became a tourist anthem, him woulda bringle …foreigners like getting high to the melody…the words r just words…y mi seh dat, RACISM IS ALIVE N WELL …the same people who sing along to ONE LOVE, once the weed high fade away, wellll….Peter is the one who never compromised…his lyrics , EQUAL RIGHTS, I AM THAT I AM, NO NUCLEAR WAR, 400 Years , Stepping Razor , Pick Myself Up · , African · Bush Doctor , Don't Look Back , Get Up, Stand Up , Legalize It, plus his staunch defiance of the ‘shitstem’ as he termed it p’d off lots n lots of the so-called powers that b….Peter was the one ALWAYS in the crossfire of our security forces…we still trying to get his ganja arrest records espunged…HE was beaten so badly while in lockup at Half Way Tree police station, he suffered a skull fracture….its a truism dat wen it come to our Jcan musical journey, ‘half the story has never been told’…

[@aframaco9491]

I don't know about all this!! Everybody wants to cash in on Bob Marley,one way or another!! A lot of the lyrics of One Love by Bob Marley were lifted off the song "People Get Ready" by Curtis Mayfield released in 1965. It was seen as a gospel song and wasn't banned! So i don't believe Jamaica banned Marley's version released 12 years later!! 👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!!!

[@Ripah]

Did the research?

[@aframaco9491]

@ No, just a chronic Bob Marley fan!! No research needed!! 👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!!

[@Ripah]

@@aframaco9491 I see 🇯🇲👊🏾

[@jencooper1816]

They killed the prophet.yet jah live

[@Ripah]

Jah live forever

[@g.orlandoprendergast8578]

This was all facilitated by the CIA who was threatened by the influence he had on the Jamaican people. They had recently set up shop in Jamaica and was a huge supporter of Seaga. Irie ✊🏾🇯🇲

[@Ripah]

Facts family

[@rasempress9724]

Lol..lol..lol…that rumour continues…lol…but den, people did swear dat dem really saw the three wheel coffin wid 3 johncrow pon it , n a ask , ‘where is Mr Brown’…my people….memba di evening in HWT, waiting on di JOS infront of Aquarius music shop, n all of a sudden crowd s people started running pass HWT clock tower tru smaddy seh him see di coffin wid fi johncrow dem….n everybody stawt run behind him fi go see, sumting dat wasn’t dere…my people../Mr Seaga was a real Jcan…lived dung a backawall , immersed in our revival n odda indigenous music….went on to start Dynamics stufio wich he later sold to Byron Lee…also the first person to launch our burgeoning music, ska , at the ‘67 WORLD’S FAIR in NewYork…” taken ftom ..Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music: There are conflicting stories about the circumstances surrounding the tour, particularly the decision to choose Byron Lee as the backing band. According to [Clement] Coxsone: ‘Seaga just board the bandwagon. They send people to represent the ska business who don’t even know anything about it.’ Garth White makes this judgment: ‘They left out The Skatalites and Bop and Persian in what seemed to be class bias. There was absolutely no way you could compare Byron Lee as representative of ska with The Skatalites, which was the top and most authentic band of the time.’ Jackie Mittoo was more matter of fact: ‘They send Byron Lee because The Skatalites smoked Ganja.’ Byron Lee himself tells this story: ‘We (Byron Lee and the Dragonaires) were booked to appear at the Manhattan Centre. The government was planning this ska tour to the World’s Fair and heard about our gig, so they asked us if we would back-up the singers since we were already going to be in New York. But we were never paid by the government. We played for free, to help promote ourselves and the music. So all this talk about getting out The Skatalites is foolishness. Furthermore, at the time we were the number one live backing band in Jamaica. The Skatalites were fantastic in the studio, but they were never a popular live band. We were the backing for almost all the live shows… It’s true ska was not a dance at first. When we went to the world’s fair there were dances all over the place. The Twist, Mashed Potato, Cha Cha Cha, plenty of them. In order to compete and sell our product, we Jamaicans had to have a dance too. That really is how the ska dance came about. In a sense it was Jamaican Twist’ (pp. 36-7).’….

[@alvinmitchell1412]

I think 🤔 Zimbabwean and Africans a liberate Zimbabwean

[@vinimakito7553]

Truth hard to handle for the liars The crazy baldhead tune weren t banned?

[@Ripah]

Don’t know if that one

[@vinimakito7553]

@@Ripah caus' many Don t like it. & don t really understand it.

[@Ripah]

@ facts

[@davidgleeson9225]

Qedemawi Haile selassie is the force A no true i

[@GODBLESS43478]

Good video but pls less f memes or short videos of some bs !

[@VEE-z3l]

Free Palestine.

[@dehabamine2322]

Bob was extremely wise and sharp. But I don't understand how he could be pro weed. That thing destroys lives and communities 😋

[@Ripah]

🤷🏾‍♂️

[@claudefrancis9128]

You're talking shit weed is a healing natural plant herbs medicinal. Go ask those doctors why they refer to pharmacy as drugs all these pills have drugs that's harmful. Go do your research before talking nonsense

[@raskassaroyal]

Herbs is the Healing of the Nation

[@dehabamine2322]

@raskassaroyal This herb is drug. And you might want to tell me which nation is healed because of drugs?

[@claudefrancis9128]

@dehabamine2322 are you stupid or something? You must and american the most stupid set of people in the world. If you're sick and u use weed it heals and helps types better than the pills in drugs store the drugs most Americans be on