Ziggy Marley was born as David Nesta Marley on October 17, 1968, in Kingston, Jamaica. The oldest son of reggae great Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley has continued the family’s involvement in the music scene, making a name for himself as one of the genre’s leading artists in the process. He spent some of his early years growing up in Trench Town, one of Kingston’s poorest neighborhoods as his father tried to make a success of his band, the Wailers (later Bob Marley and the Wailers). A singer in her own right, his mother joined the group in the mid-1970s.

Also in his youth, Marley spent some time in Wilmington, Delaware, where his younger brother Stephen was born in 1972. He already had an older sister, Cedella, and an older half-sister, Sharon, from his mother’s previous relationship. The four siblings recorded their first song together, “Children Playing in the Streets,” in 1979. Written by their father, the single addressed the horrible poverty that many children in Jamaica were living in. Royalties from the song were donated to the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Ziggy Marley made a name for himself as one of the genre’s leading artists. Ziggy and his siblings formed the band Melody Makers in 1981 after their father’s death. Their 1988 album, Conscious Party, won a Grammy and helped the group break through to mainstream audiences. After a few more successful albums with the band, Marley began a solo career in 2006.

Obie Trice and Nate Dogg team up again on this hardcore street anthem for Obie debut Cheers.

Nas is joined by Yonkers native Jadakiss and Atlanta’s Ludacris to bring you the remix to the “Made You Look” street anthem.

“WWIII” kicks off the second edition of the Ruff Ryders Ryde or Die series. The track brings together artists from the South, East and West Coast over a track from Swizz Beats, who talked about the track with Complex:

I knew this was going to be big. We were making a statement by having Scarface and Snoop. Me and Snoop had been kicking it so that phone call went through and the Scarface call went through [and we got them]. Then you’ve got Jadakiss on there and a new artist named Yung Wun that I had from Atlanta. That covered a lot.

I thought, ‘Damn, how am I going to shine?’ I was the person that was running down on people saying, ‘State your name, gangsta. Where you from?’ I thought it was a cool way to intro it, rather than a chorus every time. I was like, ‘We need something that’s passing it off. What’s the pass off?’

The video clip for “World War III” helps you understand what the track is about – Swizz Beatz is riding across the whole US to meet rappers representing different areas and hear them spit. The track has been reorganized for the clip – Yung Wun’s and Scarface’s verse are switched so that it doesn’t feel as if Swizz was going back and forth without a plan.

In 2004, Swizz produced a track called ‘State Your Name,’ which follows the same outline as ‘WW III’, and features The Game from the West, Lil' Flip from the South, and Cassidy from the East.