All Rebel Rockers by Michael Franti & Spearhead

All Rebel Rockers, the sixth studio album from Michael Franti & Spearhead, came out on September 9, 2008, through Boo Boo Wax and ANTI-, and it finds the former Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy activist chasing sunshine. Franti took the band to Kingston, Jamaica, for most of the sessions and handed production to Sly and Robbie, and by his own description the result is a reggae record at heart: loping bass, chopping offbeat guitars, choruses built for a field full of swaying bodies.

Zap Mama's Marie Daulne and Jamaican soul and dancehall singer Cherine Anderson drop in along the way. The big one was "Say Hey (I Love You)", a dancehall-tinged sugar rush that sold a million and reached No. 18 on the Hot 100, and the album climbed to No. 37 on the Billboard 200, the best showing Spearhead ever had.

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