I think I've landed on an 8-song version of this that I like quite a lot if not as much as African Giant (the other 7 range from not-bad-but-unremarkable to terrible):
BeboWonderfulOnyeka (Baby)CommaNo Fit Vex* 23Wetin Dey SupBank On It
* Spotlight on this, which is really good and doesn't sound much like past BB. I could dig a groovier, sunnier, wavier set that sounded like this and Wonderful.
So basically cut everything with a feature (sometimes Naughty By Nature sounds like goofy fun to me and sometimes like an awkward misfire), plus I find that opening run kind of ponderous. If you add Money Play and Odogwu, you'd have a strong back-to-back album imo.
― rob, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
(one could dream of a free-jazzy / funky Burna Boy album)
I would also be here for this (pretty improbable) imaginary album. I rewatched his Tiny Desk last night, and it would be cool to hear him collaborate with a band.
― rob, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
i've decided twice as tall suffers from a lack of kel-p vibes
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
i like twice as tall a lot an am not clear why people dislike it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
it lacks edgenot bad though
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
it's still good, i just prefer the sonic palette of african giant a bit more (and the guest stars on that album blend in a lot better)
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
I def wouldn't say I dislike it. In fact, "weird sequencing here leads to a smattering of garbage tracks throughout imo but there's a lot to enjoy" is really close to how I would put it!
African Giant is a personal fave and part of why is that right off the bat I loved it and couldn't stop playing it, so this inevitably feels a little disappointing
― rob, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
"Naughty by Nature" rules, improbably
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
my fav guest spot on the album by a long shot
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
smattering of garbage tracks
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
the pat boone (?!?!?!?!) sample combined with timbo/djds production and a solid vocal turn from n'dour make 'level up' the most unlikely song i love this year
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
Yeah might be letting my “the guests are unwelcome” thesis overdetermine my ears on that one
― rob, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
Just played this from the start and enjoyed all three opening tracks and NBN...probably just need to let the whole thing marinate a little
― rob, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
new track in response to the Lekkimassacre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68rvZWARzewBurna Boy • 20 10 20
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Sunday, 1 November 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
...the Lekki massacre...
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Sunday, 1 November 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUtZB0foy_4
― just sayin, Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
that’s “No Be Water” by Burna with Praiz and Vector.it’s actually a 2015 release in the so-called Hennessy Artistry series (Hennessy Nigeria paying artists to come up with a booze-friendly anthem basically). the year before they had paired up Wizkid and 2Baba for “Dance Go (Eau de Vie)”.
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 December 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
burna winning the grammy for "Best Global Music" over anoushka shankar and bebel gilberto is a strange sort of victory
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 14 March 2021 22:30 (three years ago) link
calls for a new thread! here comes the AFRICAN GRAMMY / Burna Boy (2021)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 15 March 2021 06:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/11/the-grammys-have-a-major-problem-with-global-diversity-lip-service-isnt-going-to-solve-it
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 March 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link
burna frankly should have been in the best rock album imo
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 March 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
The Grammys are so bad and hated even Drake knows what's up: "I think we should stop allowing ourselves to be shocked every year by the disconnect between impactful music and these awards. And just accept that what once was the highest form of recognition may no longer matter to the artists that exist now and the ones that come after."
At least we'll be spared more cringey lyrics from BB about losing now
― rob, Monday, 15 March 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 15 March 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
I did specify "losing"
― rob, Monday, 15 March 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
the brand-new single is highly enjoyably brash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81_XRvVxQc
(no Grammys were mentioned during the making of this track*)
produced by Chopstix
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 29 April 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
*thought he might be mentioning 'piano' tho, but no: no dey sweet, I be Alomo Bitters
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 29 April 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
yooo that bangs
― rob, Friday, 30 April 2021 00:43 (three years ago) link
nice one!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 30 April 2021 08:03 (three years ago) link
there's a video now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKv5CBr-kKo
this is such a great style for him, really thrilled by this
― rob, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
yah i think i like this more than anything off his last album.
video pays homage to some classic busta rhymes videos.
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Friday, 30 April 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
I hadn't quite had that thought yet, but I think you're otm
I also just noticed this only 2:16, which is why I'm like "wha?" every time it ends
― rob, Friday, 30 April 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
i liked twice as tall on the whole but yah this is in a different zone
funny tho my fav song off that album was also about ~2:15https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny4curtenuk
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Friday, 30 April 2021 22:24 (three years ago) link
ftr “KIlometre” is an extra 17 secs on streaming
― rob, Friday, 30 April 2021 23:31 (three years ago) link
this is so so def. hope the next album will be called Grammy Off My Chest and will sound accordingly, like “Kilometre” does
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 1 May 2021 12:29 (three years ago) link
extremely pleased to wake up with this in my head. I've never felt so good about the metric system
― rob, Saturday, 1 May 2021 13:11 (three years ago) link
...and British spelling!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 1 May 2021 13:15 (three years ago) link
"Question" with Don Jazzy is really nice. Not a banger like Kilometre, but some sly production moves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rOer3k2DWg
― rob, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
had been feeling like he was spinning his wheels a bit but this is wonderful
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 August 2021 05:20 (two years ago) link
yeah I'm liking it even more on second listen (though dammit I forgot about the annoying explosion in the middle of the video)
― rob, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 13:04 (two years ago) link
so good - https://open.spotify.com/album/6aWJgsbvVPQR2HgPztf4qe?si=IcKdQ1mXTC-7_3h4-9boRA
― just sayin, Friday, 13 May 2022 09:33 (one year ago) link
Fun, my wife is a fan of that Toni Braxton song. Really sounds like a hip hop production. Not a hit or anything, not his most inspired, but it's ok.
― Nabozo, Friday, 13 May 2022 10:09 (one year ago) link
This is great! I'm hearing way more of the big backing chorus thing we've been getting this year in naija* than hip hop. It's probably too much of a groove to be a "hit" I suppose, though I couldn't care less about his chart success tbh if that's what you meant. For me it's all about how much I like luxuriating in his weapons-grade charisma at this point, real "he could read the phone book" level of just loving his voice & presence. That's not to undersell this: Chopstix's production is excellent with an attention to detail that reminds me of London's work on the Rema
* and in fact that is Asake on backing vocals I just saw
― rob, Friday, 13 May 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=421w1j87fEM
Burna Boy Last Last official video out too.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 May 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
this is great
― he was eating Vaseline like it was a bunch of cheeseburgers (Spottie), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
19 song album out july 1
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 May 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
Taking back part of what I said, I've warmed up to Last Last, I like the chilled inertia, urgency, focus
― Nabozo, Thursday, 26 May 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
new one is out now!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 July 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
Sounds really strong so far.
― aphoristical, Friday, 8 July 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
i'm very late to the party; saw him at Glstonbury and damn, he was great!
― stirmonster, Friday, 8 July 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
watched his show this past weekend, seconding that he was great
luxuriating in his weapons-grade charisma
^ yes, that's correct
― trippie redd's privat chef uh is it medium purple aww (gaudio), Friday, 8 July 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link