As Cedella Marley notes: "The message is still relevant. Unfortunately, not everything has changed for the better, and as I grow and my children grow, I say: "wow"; in the late "70s, Jamaica was in turmoil. Daddy could have gone anywhere in the world to record, but for some reason he chose London. Exodus is not really an angry record; it"s really a cry about every kind of situation he"s gone through."