Tuff Gong Archives

LargeUp Premiere: Jahdan x Kabaka Pyramid — “For The Children”

Words by Jesse Serwer— Over a career spanning 20 years, Jahdan Blakkamoore has collaborated with Smif N Wessun, Branford Marsalis, Major Lazer and, most recently, Snoop, on whose Reincarnated he was a ke... Read More...

CONTEST: Record at Tuff Gong with Stephen Marley

Words by LargeUp Crew— Play reggae and looking for your big break? Marley's Mellow Mood and the Marley family are launching a national search to find "the next great artist or band in the tradition of Bo... Read More...

PHOTO GALLERY: LargeUp on Instagram

Words and Photos by LargeUp Crew— Are you following LargeUp on Instagram? We update our content daily, but there's plenty more we want to show you. For the last year, we've been documenting our running... Read More...

Video: Watch Snoop Lion’s “La La La”

Words by DJ Gravy— As you've probably heard, hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg recently took his career in a radical new direction, inspired by reggae, Bob Marley and the message of Rastafari. Snoop spent some tim... Read More...

You Rate It: Gyptian Covers Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors”

Words by Sherman Escoffery— Reggae crooner Gyptian was selected to rep Jamaica as one of four international artists in the MTV Iggy/Chevy Spark “Cover the World” campaign. The cover song selected for Gyp... Read More...

Fashion Fridays: Bob Marley Shop

Words by LargeUp Crew— Marley merchandise is a big, hundred-millions-dollar-a-year business and, for years, the music legend's family/estate was seeing very little of that, while bootlegging ran rampant.... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Reggae-Inspired Kicks

Words by Jason "J-Rockaz" Orford Spring is here! Which means Summer will be hotstepping around the corner any minute. While we here at LargeUp have kept our Clarks on for what seems like all winter, we d... Read More...

Family Business: The Week in Marley, Inc.

Words by Jesse Serwer Tomorrow, Sunday February 6 marks what would have been Bob Marley's 66th birthday, and, while the week leading up to this date is always busy with Bob-related news and events, the l... Read More...

Future Rebels: Exclusive Ziggy Marley interview

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton As the scion of the Marley dynasty, Ziggy Marley has been the most uncompromising of reggae purists, never wavering from his famous father's vision of the world. At the sa... Read More...

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