“The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.”
― Austin Kleon
In other words all artists are influenced by what they love. For anyone to claim they created an "original" or a work of art from scratch is ah-flat-out lying. Art is a collective progression of previous works molded into a new fashion. In this song, the Long Beach Dub All-stars, which in case you didn’t know is Sublime minus lead singer Bradley Nowell, play homage to their inspiration- Some of the deepest roots of reggae. So if your looking to expand your knowledge of the genre a little deeper than Bob Marley and Sean Kingston, look no further. Here is a collection of the artists mentioned in the above tune. Oh and if while listening you don’t experience a single head bob or some sort of musically induced movement (inadvertent or ortherwise) than this blog is not right for you and you should probably leave immediately. “Now live the life you love and love the life you live!”
And since we are on the subject...
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