Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight!
Preacher man, don’t tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don’t know
What life is really worth
It’s not all that glitters is gold
‘Alf the story has never been told
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!
The above excerpt from Bob Marley‘s song, `Stand up, Get up’ could not have been more propitious any other time than now—in a world replete with human rights abuses, racism, poverty among others.
No doubt, many reggae artists today draw their inspirations from the icon whose style of music continues to rub off on various genres of reggae—roots, rub-a-dub and ragamuffin, dancehall, lovers rock among others.
Bob Marley was the first “third-world” global superstar and the artist responsible for bringing reggae to mainstream…
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