Skip Marley releases "Make Me Feel (feat. Rick Ross and Ari Lennox)
Skip Marley, whose history-making global hit "Slow Down" with Grammy Award-winning artist H.E.R. reached #1 on the Billboard Adult R&B chart this spring, releases his eagerly anticipated new single “Make Me Feel” featuring fellow Miamian hitmaker Rick Ross and R&B songstress Ari Lennox via Tuff Gong/Island Records.
“Make Me Feel” and "Slow Down" are among the cornerstones of Skip’s long-awaited debut EP scheduled for release in August and found Skip collaborating with Nasri Atweh (Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Halsey) and once again with Rykeyz, who also produced “Slow Down.” “Make Me Feel” is a feel-good record with a groovy production accompanied with Ross’s effortless flow and Lennox’s sweet and soulful melodies singing the lyrics “let’s make this a good life even through the bad times,” a mantra that resonates louder today.
Earlier this month, Skip, the Marley family and friends from the four corners of the earth banded together as The Amplified Project to ‘reimagine’ Bob Marley’s iconic “One Love” anthem in support of UNICEF. The re-recording of “One Love” supports UNICEF’s Reimagine campaign, a global fundraising appeal to respond, recover and reimagine a post-COVID-19 world fit for children. All net proceeds from sales of the charity release of the “One Love” track and video are being paid to UNICEF.
In May, "Slow Down," with over 70 million global streams, became the quickest and biggest-streaming song in Marley Family history, and elevated Skip to over 200 million global artist streams It was the first time a Jamaican-born artist reached the #1 spot on the Billboard adult R&B chart. At the same time, Skip became the first Jamaican-born artist inside the Top 15 on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart in nearly a decade and a half (since Sean Paul and Keyshia Cole in 2006, “When You Gonna Give it Up to Me”).