Selah Marley has a very famous lineage her grandfather is reggae legend Bob Marley and her mother isLauryn Hill.
Yes,thatLauryn Hill renowned rapper and eight-time Grammy winner.
Still, Marley has had no trouble blazing her own way.
And her mother proudly interjected that she still managed to get straight As.
Now, Marley is all grown up and ready to take the world by storm.
Read on to get to know her a little better.
“I think I have that name for a reason, unfortunately and fortunately,” she added.
When asked what was unfortunate about it, Marley said that she tends to overthink and analyze things.
Like so many of us, her mind can sometimes be a crowded place she wants to escape.
Marley toldAndscapethat her grandmother, Rita Marley, came up with her name.
And there’s just a void where there should be a person.
And it’s honestly really hard," she told fans.
Marley rushed to her father’s defense inanother post.
In Marley’s infamous Instagram Live about her dad, Marley said that she mostly stayed with her grandparents.
Then there was also her grandfather’s massive legacy.
But Marley has always looked up to Hill.
“When I was younger, my mom was a huge icon for me,” Marley revealed.
Marley admits that her famous family makes her feel a little boxed in sometimes.
“It is what it is; I take a stab at embrace it.
I’m like, ‘Yo, these gifts have been passed down to me.’
Everyone has gifts but I got some special gifts passed down to me from both my parents.
I now have a chance to show who I am.
I’m totally here for it,” she said.
While most know her from the catwalk, Marley loves to write music, that is.
She recalled her mother’s home studio and she was always busy creating something.
She wrote her first song when she was 15, but it wasn’t a full-fledged song just yet.
“You know it’s crazy when I’m writing sometimes I feel like I’m being channeled?
While writing is definitely something Marley loves to do, she has a wide range of other interests.
[I’m] trying to start executing my ideas more,” she said.
She also landed a spot in Kanye’s Yeezy Season and appeared on the cover of the Sunday Times.
When asked why she wanted to model from such a young age, Marley is pretty upfront.
It appears her dad was the first parent she told about this dream.
Marley was only 11, and her dad’s girlfriend at the time was a model.
“I just told him, ‘Daddy, I want to model.’
He said, ‘All right, do the catwalk.’
So I did a little two-step for them!”
Despite all her accomplishments, Marley still wants to do more.
“[I] still feel like I could be doing better.
Marley’s first time on the runway was forKanye West’sYeezy show.
“I got to represent the shorties,” she said.
“I’m sure [Kanye] and my mom have met, but I’d never met him.
“I think she’s dope.
I love the way she dresses up.
I have a million screenshots of her in my phone,” she told the outlet.
Then there’s Lauryn Hill’s collection of outfits in the basement that Marley loves to indulge.
“Our basement is literally like a museum of couture!
She attended NYU
Selah Marley likes to hustle.
After finishing school, she applied to New York University to study science and spirituality.
All the while, she was doing modeling gigs on the side.
“College takes serious dedication you’re free to’t just half-a** it.
Honestly, I don’t think I was ready for that,” she admitted.
That doesn’t mean she hasn’t questioned the decision since.
Somehow, it always seems to resonate.
“[I]t’s not unlike me to create worlds in my mind.
We’re waiting with bated breath.
“One day I was like, ‘Mom, you wanna sign me at Sony?'”
Her mother answered, “Let me hear your stuff and I’ll think about it.”
The EP features a collection of songs that capture Marley’s experience of growing up in the spotlight.
She tried to blend into the background and eventually started feeling like she was losing herself.
I realized there was no better time than now.”
Even more shocking was the fact that Selah Marley walked in that show.
However, many others agreed that whatever message he had been trying to convey fell flat.
Marley took toInstagramafter the media storm that ensued to tell her side of the story.
“Wait til [sic] you hear what I have to say,” she said.
When Selah Marley took toInstagramto share some stories about her childhood, they went viral.
“She would spank us to no avail.
She was just very angry.
So, so, so, so, so, so angry,” Marley said during the live.
“You walk to go get the belt, the switch, this, that.
Marley appeared to have some understanding as to why her mother disciplined with anger.
The music video that accompanied the song was extra special because Marley edited it herself.
“I always have this visual element to everything.
“[M]y parents have kids; they have other things to do.
I’m not getting this constant 101 of the music business,” she said.
