Bob Marley: Rasta Vigilante

DISGRACELAND

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Music, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bob Marley is known as the peace and love reggae superstar, but the truth of who he really was is a bit more complicated. After gunmen raided his home, putting bullets into him, his wife, his manager and his guitar player, Bob survived. But the lives of his assassins—all of them—were eventually brought to violent, horrific ends. And their killers were never found. Many think the perpetrator was an angry young man from the Trenchtown ghetto, who was called, by those who feared him, “Screwface." Was it Bob Marley, Rasta Vigilante? To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at ⁠www.disgracelandpod.com⁠. This episode was originally released on May 29, 2018. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - ⁠GET THE NEWSLETTER⁠ Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠ ⁠X⁠ (formerly Twitter) ⁠Facebook Fan Group⁠ ⁠TikTok To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.0	The peace and love Rastafarian reggae superstar was also a violent revenge-fueled kid from the Trenchtown ghetto
1:19.5	who would not be denied justice or his due.
1:23.7	He once hung his manager out of a hotel window to renegotiate a contract.
1:28.6	He and his friends were known to strong-armed DJs for radio play,
1:32.2	and in a rage he jammed a pistol into the side of a colleague's head
1:35.8	until he was given what he wanted.
1:38.5	If you were the big tree and in his way, he was the small axe, sharpened to cut you down. And he sought and possibly
1:46.8	attain justice by having a trench town kangaroo court string up his would-be assassins from palm
1:53.0	trees. Bob Marley believed in justice, but there was a thin line between justice and vengeance.
2:02.9	You can hear both themes throughout his music.
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