For months now, rumors have swirled around the idea of a collaborative effort from Nas & Damian Marley. Then, Rock the Bells unveiled the lineup for their summer festival series with the two artists co-headlining the bill, a promotion push for the forthcoming album. This video, directed by the talented Nabil Elderkin, is the preview for Distant Relatives. Not that I’d expect anything less, but this looks to be some pretty powerful shit. The kind of music that starts movements. Watch for yourself.
“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect – you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break – her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.”
Photojournalist David Burnett recently released Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley, a collection of pictures taken in 1976 on an assignment for Time Magazine to document the growing popularity of reggae music. The book offers a look at the legendary artist both in his home environment as well as on the road, featuring over 200 pictures, only a few of which were featured in the Time article. Too dope for words. Cop the book here
“One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain…”
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“She said how could you treat me this way What we had was more than words could say Two times the echoes of my mind That dont know where else this love I’ll find…”
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“We don’t think upon a low level. We think high. That means we can live and we can see things. We can stay from above, and see things low. If you stay from below and look above, you have want. If you stay from above and look ‘pon them below, then you can’t want. Because you have to bend down too low to pick up something…”
