One of the more notable parts of the interview was when Marley described LL Cool J's comeback in New York, believing that LL's early 90s records were very influential in gaining street credibility.
"That was one of the pinnacle points of LL's return. In a big way," he said. "I think it was a anti-gun rally — matter of fact I did see it was a anti-gun rally in Harlem, and I think PE was performing, They said, 'I want to shout out my boy LL Cool J. He's here!' 'Boooooooo.' I seen a video of his face. I was like, 'wow.' I heard about it but I never seen it until I saw the video."His street cred wasn't right," he continued. "Because of the Walking With A Panther album — it was a great album but it wasn't street. Because N.W.A. started coming out at that point. You got Public Enemy fighting the power. It was political or gun shit. He was in the middle and that's just what happened. I guess the hood felt that he wasn't supplying them with what they want, and they booed him. He had to regroup. His grandmother said, 'Go knock 'em out,' and he came to my house and we knocked 'em out."
Finally of note, Marley recalled some of his early recording techniques and the influence those had in New York City when the radio wouldn't play Hip Hop.
"You gotta think: It wasn't on the radio," Marley said when talking about the old days. "There was tapes that people would record right from their box, straight off the microphone, and those tapes would resonate throughout the city. That's how most of the people who loved hip-hop in the early-'80s, late-'70s — this was our smoke signals, those tapes, those early tapes coming out of Harlem and the Bronx."
Read the full NPR interview here.