Tuff Gong Recording Studios on Marcus Garvey Drive in West Kingston is the facility that Bob Marley built — a full professional recording and pressing facility that became, in the late 1970s, one of the most significant studios in Jamaica. The plant contained its own vinyl pressing equipment, making Marley's operation genuinely vertically integrated at a time when most Jamaican musicians depended entirely on label-owned facilities.
The studio remains operational as a professional recording facility, and it is not a tourist attraction in the conventional sense. Tours can sometimes be arranged through the Bob Marley Museum on Hope Road, and the Marcus Garvey Drive building is identifiable from the road. For visitors tracing the physical geography of Jamaican music, Tuff Gong represents the ultimate statement of Jamaican musical self-determination — the artist who escaped the studio system and built his own.