BREAKS & BITS  22

BOB MARLEY'S MUSIC

BOB MARLEY - Could You Be Loved   ><  DE LA SOUL  - Keepin' The Faith

1980
In 1980, Could You Be Loved was the first reggae song to get major airplay on US radio stations. Bob Marley had written the song to appeal to the American mainstream market ahead of what was to be his final tour. Could You Be Loved is one of the half dozen songs sampled by Prince Paul on De La Soul's Keepin' The Faith. The song is the final track on De La Soul Is Dead - the second album from the hip hop trio. 
1991

BOB MARLEY - Concrete Jungle    ><    LAURYN HILL - Forgive Them Father

1973
Concrete Jungle appears on Catch A Fire, the fifth album from Bob Marley and The Wailers - their first album on Island Records. Lauryn Hill sampled Concrete Jungle on Forgive Them Father, a song featured on her debut Miseducation album. Her deeply personal album was inspired by her pregnancy with the child of Rohan Marley - Bob Marley's son. Although Hill often referred to Marley as her husband, the two were never married. They had five children together before their relationship ended in 2009.
1998

BOB MARLEY - Them Belly Full  ><  POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS - Strictly Mash'ion

1974
In 1991 Poor Righteous Teachers released their second album Pure Poverty. The album features Strictly Mash'ion, which samples Them Belly Full by Bob Marley And The Wailers. Them Belly Full appears on Marley's 1974 Natty Dread album. This was the first album that was released by Bob Marler and The Wailers, rather then just the Wailers. The album was also the first Wailer album to not include both Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.
1991

BOB MARLEY - Jammin'    ><    STEVIE WONDER - Master Blaster (Jammin')

1977
In 1980 Stevie Wonder wrote Master Blaster (Jammin') as a tribute to Bob Marley, who was fighting cancer at the time (and died the following year). The song was the first single from Wonder's Hotter Than July album, and it samples Marley's Jammin'. Bob Marley & The Wailers were billed as the opening act on Wonder's US tour that year, and Wonder was often performing live with Marley. The Hotter Than July album also features Happy Birthday, Wonder's tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
1980

BOB MARLEY - Get Up Stand Up   ><   OUTKAST ft GOODIE MOB - Git Up Get Out

1973
 Get Up Stand Up is featured on Bob Marley's Burnin' album. In this song, Marley quotes Abraham Lincoln in the lyrics - "you can fool all the people sometimes, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." In 1994, the rap trio Outkast released their debut album. The album features Git Up, Get Out - the vocals on the song were inspired by Get Up, Stand Up.
1994

BOB MARLEY - Sun Is Shining    ><    REDMAN ft METHOD MAN - Blow Treez

1971
Sun Is Shing was originally produced by Lee Perry and recorded by Bob Marley in the 1960's. The song was re-recorded by Marley in 1978 for his Kaya album. In 1999 the original version of the song was remixed into a house song by Funkstar Deluxe, topping the charts in the US. The song out-charted any of Marley's releases in much of the world. Sun Is Shining has been sampled numerous times, such as by Redman and Method Man on Blow Treez, featured on Redman's 2007 album Red Gone Wild. 
2007

BOB MARLEY - Hammer    ><    MS JADE - Really Don't Want My Love

1968
In 1968 Bob Marley re-recorded some of his old tracks at JAD Records in Kingston and in London. Hammer was one of these recordings, which were recorded with Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Rita Marley. In 2002, producer Timberland sampled Hammer for Ms. Jade's Really Don't Want My Love. The song appear's on the first and only album from the Philadelphia rapper - Girl Interrupted. 
2002

BOB MARLEY - Natural Mystic    ><    GROOVE ARMADA - Soundboy Rock

1977
Natural Mystic is the opening track on Bob Marley and The Wailers' ninth studio album Exodus. The album was recorded in London in 1976, where Marley was living after a failed assassination attempt in Jamaica. In 1999 Exodus was declared to be the best album of the 20th century by Time Magazine. In 2007, Natural Mystic was sampled on Soundboy Rock - the title track off UK electronic dance group Groove Armada's fifth studio album.
2007

BOB MARLEY - So Much Trouble    ><    ESTELLE - So Much Out The Way

1979
So Much Trouble In The World is the opening track on Bob Marley's Survival album from 1979. The album was originally planned to be called Black Survival, but before the album was released the title was shortened to simply Survival. In 2008, So Much Trouble In The World was sampled by British singer Estelle on So Much Out The Way. The song is featured on Shine, the singer's second studio album.
2008

BOB MARLEY - Mr. Brown   ><   STYLES OF BEYOND - Mr. Brown

1970
Mr. Brown was originally recorded in 1970 by The Wailers. The song was produced by Lee Perry as a single, and it samples Jackie Mittoo's Peenie Wallie. Mr Brown has been sampled numerous times, such as by Los Angeles underground rap group Styles Of Beyond for their song Mr. Brown. The song is featured on Megadef, their second album.
2003