Did Bob Marley Ruin the whole Reggae Genre?

The state of Reggae music is an ongoing conversation within my network. While doing some research, I ran across this interesting snippet and thought I would share and get your thoughts. The article is titled:

5 Works of Art So Good, They Ruined Their Whole Genre

Listed as #2 on the list is :  #2. Bob Marley Became Reggae With Exodus

 The article reads:

Wikipedia will tell you:

Reggae is most easily recognized by the rhythmic accents on the off-beat, usually played by guitar or piano (or both), known as the skank. This pattern accents the second and fourth beat in each bar (or the "and"s of each beat depending on how the music is counted) and combines with the drums emphasis on beat three to create a unique feel and sense of phrasing in contrast to most other popular genres focus on beat one, the "downbeat." The tempo of reggae is usually felt as slower than the popular Jamaican forms, ska and rocksteady, which preceded it. It is this slower tempo, the guitar/piano offbeats, the emphasis on the third beat, and the use of syncopated, melodic bass lines that differentiates reggae from other music, although other musical styles have incorporated some of these innovations separately.   Wikipedia - Reggae

For most people, however, that's a needlessly long and confusing explanation, because reggae is simply:

To prove that statement true, all you need to do is ask most morons who sang a particular reggae song. As I've written about twice before, regardless of the right answer, hordes of people will say "Bob Marley," no matter how ridiculous. The theme song from Cops? Bob Marley. "Don't Worry, Be Happy"? Bob Marley! It doesn't matter that Mr. Marley had been long dead by the time both those songs came out. Quite simply, he owns the genre.

When did that happen? Probably in 1977, when Marley released Exodus. In truth, no one album defines Marley's impact on the entire genre of reggae, but many consider Exodus his best, so I'm going with that. It has more tracks on his greatest hits album Legend than any other, and Legend is the best-selling reggae album of all time. Why not just say Legend, you ask?

  Because greatest hits albums are for little girls, that's why.

 But it's also the album with the song that most people hear in their head when they think reggae.

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