Even if you don't like it, talk with me about reggae

thoughts.
I don't listen to it much. Maybe post a few popular tracks as a sample?
Were UB40 reggae? I think Lauryn Hill was a bit reggae. And of course Bob Marley although I don't know too much about him. No woman no cry is a good song.
I find it interesting about the rastafarians but I also find them a bit weird as they seem to be really into marijuana.

Does Sublime count? I like Sublime a lot hahahaha

I'm not very into reggae as a genre but I do find it pleasant to listen to. I listened to that Steel Pulse song you posted up there; it's good stuff

These guys are great. I'd never have imagined a reggae cover of John Denver, but it really works. Better than the original, IMO.

I'm a huge fan of Jamaican music up until about the early 1970s. I got heavily into ska when I was a teen and eventually I worked my way back into The Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, Toots & the Maytals, Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan, Alton Ellis, etc. I never got too much into the "roots reggae" style that Bob Marley is best known for; it was always a bit too mellow for me. I like ska, rocksteady and early reggae which has got some groove and soul and bounce to it, something you can dance to.

Being a big ska fan, I'm also familiar with a lot of ska bands who also played reggae, particularly British bands like The Specials, The Selecter, Symarip, The Beat, even The Clash and The Police. Musically, I was more interested in how punk and new wave bands were incorporating reggae into their sound than I was with any orthodox roots reggae bands at the time.

Honestly, with sincere respect to their fans, I really can't stand bands like Sublime or Slightly Stoopid, because they seem so disingenuous to me; they're a bunch of white guys appropriating black music usually to glorify smoking marijuana. I've seen a lot of good white reggae bands (usually ones who fall within the ska/soul spectrum), but that whole "stoner frat boy" type of vibe from Sublime-ish bands turns me off.

Lyrically, I can't really comment much about Rastafarianism: most early reggae/rocksteady had pretty standard pop song lyrics or were socially-minded commentary on ghetto life, and most British reggae was very politically-minded. There were a lot of really strong, resonant lyrics from both camps, and I kinda wish more people recognized reggae as a platform for social and political criticism than just happy, summertime feel-good music.

I don't believe in Ras Tafari myself, Jesus has not yet returned. I differentiate this from reggae music, which can be enjoyable and relaxing.