Artist Nas And Damian "Junior Gong" Marley
Collaborations come and go, but a few are meant for something bigger: hip-hop stalwart Nas guested on reggae scion Damian Marley’s excellent crossover single, “Road To Zion” (from 2005’s Grammy-winning Welcome To Jamrock), and the musical simpatico of the two proved undeniable. The song is a mélange of reggae and hip-hop that, remarkably, sounds neither like a bad remix nor a watered-down version of either genre. It’s a perfect complement of both styles, and it established a working relationship between Marley and Nas that, years later, has bloomed into Distant Relatives, an ambitious Afrocentric manifesto that finds a happy balance between Nas’ Queensbridge boom-bap and Marley’s rastafied reggae stylings.
Updated 08/19/2010
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