Then there’s hip hop, which, while I rejected it at first, quickly proved to be on a continuum from records like Big Youth’s Screaming Target, where he speaks and semi-sings over a series of popular early reggae singles. I was also on the front lines of the second wave of ska (The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, et cetera), which was a rich source of breadcrumbs about Jamaican popular music. After all, I grew up in a different era, when reggae was just going global, moving hand in hand with the development of British punk, which drew both on the social protest side of Jamaican music as well as its musical innovations. So maybe it falls on me, as the grand old man of this collective, to help rectify that situation. So, when we covered the Nas and Damian Marley album a few months ago, I suddenly realized that I was taking for granted that everybody liked reggae, even if they weren’t as deep into it as I was, and had listened well beyond Bob Marley’s Legend collection. When it comes time to make my pick for this newsletter, my first audience, the one group I know will listen, is my fellow writers. This Week’s Selection Chosen By Jeremy Shatan
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