“Wyclef was just in Miami, and he come by the studio and put it on,” he says. A soulful, spacious number with an easy, melodious hook, the song came about recently in Miami. He’s expanding his musical vocabulary in a big way, with guests including Wyclef Jean, Rakim and the Roots’ MC Black Thought, who appears on a song called “Thorn of the Rose.” In the Marquis recording studio he plays us “Keeper of the Flame,” the track featuring Wyclef. “I knew that conceptually it was not going to be a reggae album.” “The root is there, and we’re looking at the leaves and the branches and the stem and different veins and all these things,” he says. “ Revelation Part 2 is the growth,” he says. Having successfully defended the music he grew up on, Marley is taking a different approach to the sequel.
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Now he is turning his full attention to Revelation Part 2, the follow-up to the Grammy winner. That show, where Marley played both his own songs and several of his father’s and was joined by brother Ziggy onstage, wrapped up the tour for Revelation Part 1. And the night before we met him at L.A.’s musician-friendly Sunset Marquis hotel, he demonstrated that the music his father helped globalize is still strong, playing before a sold-out crowd at the House of Blues. Marley proved his point emphatically, taking home a Grammy earlier this year for Best Reggae Album. That’s what motivated the album – paying homage to the root of reggae music.” “That kind of inspired me to defend my root. “The whole album came about from me reading an article and the journalist was talking about the state of reggae music and that it was on the decline,” Marley tells Rolling Stone. It’s something he showed with his last album, Revelation Part 1 – The Root of Life. Being the son of Bob Marley, Stephen Marley takes reggae music very seriously.
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