{"id":7631,"date":"2017-08-04T22:58:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T22:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2740340&amp;preview_id=2740340"},"modified":"2017-08-04T22:58:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T22:58:29","slug":"damian-marley-shows-his-love-of-herb-in-his-music-and-cannabis-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/damian-marley-shows-his-love-of-herb-in-his-music-and-cannabis-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Damian Marley shows his love of herb in his music and cannabis business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/damian-marley-shows-his-love-of-herb-in-his-music-and-cannabis-business\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Aug 4, 2017, 10:04 am \u2022 Updated: Aug 4, 2017, 4:49 pm<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Joseph Longo<\/strong>, <em> The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Damian Marley shot the music video for his new song \u201cMedication\u201d in a medical marijuana farm.<\/p>\n<p>The reggae singer, who is part owner of a medical marijuana company, exalts the drug\u2019s benefits in \u201cMedication,\u201d which appears on his newly released album \u201cStony Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s his first solo record in 12 years, but don\u2019t call it a comeback. Marley said it\u2019s the natural next step after years working on collaboration albums.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Associated Press, Marley talks about managing his burgeoning cannabis career, working with Jay-Z for the first time and growing up in privileged Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p><em>Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AP:<\/strong> You\u2019re featured on Jay-Z\u2019s new album in the song \u201cBam.\u201d You shot some of the video in Jamaica. What was the experience like?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marley:<\/strong> I\u2019m a fan of his music, so I was honored to be invited to be a part of the album. We actually did a recording in Los Angeles. He invited me to come by the studio for a few hours, and he kind of already had an idea of what he wanted for the hook. He said, \u201cGo ahead, freestyle and have fun on the track.\u201d \u2026They kind of constructed my verse using lines from my freestyle. It was a fun session, and it was cool being around him. We spent two days in Jamaica showing him around, catching visuals for the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP:<\/strong> It\u2019s been 12 years since you released a solo album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marley:<\/strong> What\u2019s really been happening is that I\u2019ve been in the studio working on other projects. I did an album with Nas called \u201cDistant Relatives.\u201d I was part of another project called SuperHeavy, which was also featuring Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart, Joss Stone and A.R. Rahman. I\u2019ve been busy over the years, just not necessarily on my solo album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP:<\/strong> Can you tell me a little bit about the song \u201cMedication\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marley:<\/strong> This song is talking about marijuana. In some of the lines its sounds like I\u2019m speaking to a lady. But at the same time, it\u2019s really about the herb. Since it\u2019s become accepted in a lot of places, a lot more research has been done on the medicinal properties of the plant. There\u2019s a lot of great research and great promise being shown, so we wanted to highlight that in the song.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\">[embedded content]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>AP:<\/strong> Why name the album \u201cStony Hill\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marley:<\/strong> I choose \u201cStony Hill\u201d as the name of the album to reflect my upbringing. The neighborhood I grew up in from when I was around 5-years-old to when I was around 15 or 16. It\u2019s the more privileged part of Jamaica. In the album, we\u2019re trying to speak about that journey \u2026 my father came from the ghetto and was able to have a child like myself who was born and raised in an uptown, privileged area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP:<\/strong> You have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2016\/09\/22\/stony-hill-jamaica-marijuana-damian-marley\/63722\/\">your medical marijuana company, Stony Hill Corp.<\/a> How did that come about?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marley:<\/strong> Well it came about first and foremost of just being so closely involved with marijuana over the years as part of our culture. Marijuana has been such a big part of our lives even way before it was made legal in certain places. I think it\u2019s only right that we partake in the business now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AP:<\/strong> Many of the new songs resonate within the American political system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marley:<\/strong> More so in a global system, which America is a part of. Nowadays when you think about the news, we\u2019re exposed to what\u2019s going on everywhere. We\u2019re not really isolated anymore. When something happens in France, or in England, or in Africa or wherever it happens, you hear about it quickly. It\u2019s us being aware of what\u2019s going on in our world today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Joseph Longo on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josephlongo_\">@josephlongo_<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Watch an interview with the CEO of Damian\u2019s brother Julian Marley\u2019s company JuJu Royal<\/h4>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\">[embedded content]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Damian Marley, part owner of a medical marijuana company, exalts the drug\u2019s benefits in his new song \u201cMedication\u201d on his newly released album \u201cStony Hill.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,2435,6134,6813,77,5667,56,9,1495,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[2632,2436,6141,6818,2655,5673,2636,33,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}