Exodus

But Music for the Masses was my second one, if it wasn't Violator wasn't available.

Oh, well, I gotta go with the, um, with my brahn, twin-twin, twin-twin, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Exodus.

Mm.

That's the good twin-twin, twin-twin.

War, drawing from Haile Selassie's 1963 address to the United Nations, translated a diplomatic speech into a chant against racial hierarchy.

Exodus made movement itself a spiritual command.

Survival, released in 1979, placed African liberation at the center of the album's sound, imagery, and argument.

Peter Tosh.

There was a level of racism there that was crazy.

So Bob Marley's album, Exodus... was actually written and dedicated to Black folks in Jamaica who were fighting back against police brutality.

Yes.

Get Up, Stand Up, all of that was for Black British folks, many of them from the Caribbean diaspora, who were fighting back against British brutality.

It made me want to go deeper into the catalog.

That's why I'm actually looking forward to Exodus when we get to it later on in the countdown, because if this is where the story starts, I really want to see where it goes.

If you've never heard Catch a Fire front to back, today's the day.

Don't just play stir it up and call it done.