Dude not everyone can love Prince, all I stated was I don't give a fuck how good he is with a guitar, I still prefer Bob Marleys music over his. That's hardly a diss. Please remove his dick from your mouth.
his dick is not in my mouth, you sick depraved pervert.
i don't wish to know about what sexual practices you engage in with musicians you look up to, but i certainly do not participate in physical acts of love with anyone other than my wife.
whilst i respect your right to an opinion and preference, as a musician, songwriter and entertainer prince rogers nelson is far superior to robert nesta marley. and that was the topic of the thread in question which you soiled with your uninformed opinion and useless, unfounded negativity.
that is not open for discussion, it is a fact. marley succeeds over prince only in the areas of sociopolitical contributions through music, and iconic status, his untimely death being a big contributor to that (just like hendrix, cobain, curtis, joplin, holly, vicious and more).
i am not a man that considers record sales to be the be all and end all. but marley is in the category of "50 million+ records sold" whilst mr. prince rogers nelson is in the category of "100 million+ records sold".
so for all of bob's seemingly omniprescence stature
amongst every dope smoking rebellious teenager and twentysomething's bedroom and living room wall, it is not directly translating into sales.
maybe also consider that 90% of modern pop/r'n'b can be directly traced back to his purple badness (timbaland and the neptunes alone have spent their entire careers attempting to rip off his sound), whilst traditional roots-reggae has been eschewed by the current youth generation in favor of dancehall and has little to no relevance in todays musical climate. and i should know - i have been in the midst of the jamaican musical scene my whole life, living in handsworth - the epicentre of everything reggae in the UK. (and i've had conversations about the place of roots in todays music scene with everyone from steel pulse to ub40 to rita marley to frankie paul to buju banton).
roots became stale a long time ago because it never moved with the times. sizzla kalonji and damian marley are almost the only ones flying the flag for progressivity within the genre.
anyhoo, you prefer bob's music. more power to you.