USA Today referred to the album as a potent and often provocative collaboration and by Rolling Stone as an Afrocentric winner.
The album title refers not only to the bond between the artists, but the connection to their African ancestry, which inspired the album both musically and lyrically. Welcome to Jamrock led the pathway to Damians critically acclaimed collaboration with Nas for 2010s much lauded album Distant Relatives a project which explored the relationships between reggae, hip-hop and Africa. The New York Times called Welcome to Jamrock the best reggae song of the decade. He is also the only reggae artist to win in the Best UrbanAlternative Performance category at the Grammy Awards. He is described as rhyming with the conviction of a street preacher with the intellect of a university economist.ĭamians hit single Welcome to Jamrock was listed as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Decade by Rolling Stone, and at the 2006 Grammy Awards, he won Best Reggae Album and Best UrbanAlternative Performance for Welcome to Jamrock.ĭamian is the only Jamaican reggae artist in history to win two Grammy Awards on the same night. The lyrics in this album presented Marley as a true spiritual revolutionary, as he used his talent to evoke a spiritual change while trying to enforce a better way of thinking. While honored by this recognition by the global music fraternity, Damian continued to work in the studio, laying the groundwork for the tracks that would become his highly anticipated album, Welcome To Jamrock.
This album won Damian much recognition and remained on the Billboard Top Reggae Album Charts for 158 weeks and earned him his first Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2002. Marley, a heavily dancehall-influenced album produced by his brother Stephen Marley.
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