On September 21st, 1980, Bob Marley collapsed while jogging in New York. Two nights later, he honored this sold-out date — Marley's last show before he died of cancer in 1981. His performance does not have the conqueror's fire of 1975's Live! or the arena-star confidence of '78's Babylon by Bus. But there is an eerie valedictory defiance in Marley's singing, matched by the Wailers' heavy, impatient swagger in "Them Belly Full" and "Jamming" and the surging trance of "Exodus." The result is a final fierce account, onstage, of an honorable revolutionary life.

Listen to "Exodus":

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“Too Close”

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'"