Leading-edge pop, hip-hop and R&B fuse with Afrobeat and reggae traditions in vibrant grooves that are rich but never overcooked. On the Nigerian Afrofusion kingpin’s fourth studio album, that credo of understanding your worth and truth rings through songs which address success (“Gbona”), respect (“Anybody”), love and desire (“On the Low”) and poverty, aspiration and the daily grind (“Dangote”).īurna Boy might talk of ancestral influence overtaking his messaging and songwriting “When it’s time for music to be made, it’s almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it’s them,” he says, but he continues to skilfully consolidate the new with the old. That’s what I want my people to feel like, to realise that they are.” “Saying ‘African Giant’ goes to a lot more than music,” Burna Boy tells Apple Music.
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