https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGL1JoC2IaQ👌🏼
― ||||||||, Saturday, 25 January 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
^^^ oh hey i coengine33red this song! recorded b3urna's ho3ok a cpl months ago. happy to see it released so soon
― lumen (esby), Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
This song is apparently a month old but I only heard it today. It's an absolute banger.
Nappy & Burna Boy - Ayehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCXjRUasA48
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 1 February 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
that's awesome, esby, good work!
xp
love the nappy track. such a bop - burna can do no wrong rn
― ||||||||, Monday, 3 February 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
Hardly any discussion here about the “Money Play” single Burna dropped last Xmas. It has definitely grown on me, but it still feels like a bit of a hiccup in his imperial phase.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
Anyway, I made a pseudo-pan-African-pop/not-pop playlist for the rolling afro 2020 thread and all Afro-adjacent threads, generously defined. It’s already 108 tracks deep, so enjoy!ILM rolling✳️all-inclusive✳️afro 2020
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
Follow-up question to two posts above: and what about this brand new one? Back with Kel-P, but look ma, no horns! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onQmiURQCyUBurna Boy • Odogwu
― breastcrawl, Friday, 28 February 2020 06:02 (four years ago) link
not really feeling this one too much, it's a bit too low-key and repetitive
― ufo, Friday, 28 February 2020 06:30 (four years ago) link
It’s definitely looking like he wants to make a clean break with that trademark Kel-P sound. Maybe he feels it’s time for something new now that Wizkid has adopted it for his SoundMan project?Check the Rolling Afro thread for more Kel-P vibes!
― breastcrawl, Friday, 28 February 2020 06:59 (four years ago) link
money play is great odugwu is filler
― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Friday, 28 February 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
I think I agree. Money Play sounds awesome in the mix. Odugwu sounds alright, but might grow on me.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 28 February 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
I really love the bass and drums on Odogwu, though I can see wanting it to be a more dramatic
― rob, Sunday, 1 March 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R4Ps2NHLDw
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
^^2Baba ft. Burna Boy • We Must Groove(from the new 2Baba album)
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
<3
BURNA BOY ON A HOT PINK DOCK IN NIGERIA WEARING YOHJI WOW pic.twitter.com/wGompEWUHQ— rachel seville tashjian (@theprophetpizza) March 4, 2020
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
Video for "Odogwu":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUliAM1ByDk
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYBWrQumfVg
first single from new album Twice As Tall out 'this summer' !!!
― ufo, Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
“Wonderful” is no lie. I love love this new sound. His voice sounds great, the beat and the production are fantastic, the guitar flourishes are ace. I wasn’t aware of producer Telz, but I see he also did a track on prettyboydo’s excellent new EP. With hindsight, Burna has guided us into this new era expertly with those two palate cleansing singles in December and February. He could have easily stuck with that modern-classic Kel-P sound, but I approve of this development.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 June 2020 11:11 (three years ago) link
Great song and super exciting news!
― dip to dup (rob), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:23 (three years ago) link
Yeah I'll be curious--maybe a little surprised--to see if Odogwu and Money Play aren't included on this. It would definitely be impressive to have three really distinct albums out in just a few years
― dip to dup (rob), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
video for “Wonderful”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k33o1IgtUEM
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
You’re all invited to participate in this poll:
🇳🇬 NAIJA SPECIAL: which of these *seven* current high-profile Nigerian hit songs is the best one? please help me decide
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
#TWICEASTALL 14/08 🦍 pic.twitter.com/YOMdN1s2xL— Burna Boy (@burnaboy) August 5, 2020
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
Yesssss
― rob, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
im ready
― Spottie, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
twice as tall tracklist was revealed:Level Up (Twice as Tall) [ft. Youssou N’Dour]Alarm ClockWay Too BigBeboWonderfulOnyeka (Baby)Naughty By Nature [ft. Naughty By Nature]CommaNo Fit Vex23Time Flies [ft. Sauti Sol]Monsters You Made [ft. Chris Martin]Wetin Dey SupReal Life [ft. Stormzy]Bank on It
looking forward to the sauti sol collab but not at all excited to hear chris martin's appearance
jae5 has also contributed to the production!
― ufo, Monday, 10 August 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
the YG and future songs from the lsat album ended up being pretty dope considering so i'm willing to give him some rope... "monsters you made" not rly a promising title tho lol
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 August 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
*heart eyes*
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Monday, 10 August 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
Monsters You Made (ft. Chris Martin)
great, a hook about Goop
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Monday, 10 August 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
It shoulda been Christopher Martin smh.
I'm kind of surprised neither Money Play nor Odogwu are on this. I wonder if the Naughty by Nature one will be like the Blak Ryno one on AG.
Other producers: LeriQ, Telz, P2J, Rexxie, Mike Dean, Timbaland, Skread, DJDS
― rob, Monday, 10 August 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
as for the Chris Martin collab: you are all aware Burna’s on Sam Smith’s current single, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byO74UGa8bI#mainstreamingburna
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
I meant to ask if anyone has heard that yet...I have not
― rob, Monday, 10 August 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
good to see he’s working with LeriQ again, the guy who produced his early stuff.and Timbaland - seems like a trophy collaborator, like Youssou N’Dour perhaps, but who knows...
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
I quite liked it but ymmv
tbh I can't even remember what Smith sounds like so I'm not sure why I'm avoiding it
― rob, Monday, 10 August 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/arts/music/burna-boy-twice-as-tall.html
Interview / feature
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 August 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
solid piece. more production details:
For “Twice as Tall,” Burna Boy enlisted an American executive producer: Sean Combs, a.k.a. Diddy, who has long guided rappers and singers (most famously the Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige) toward wider audiences.
Combs also makes his presence audible with voice-over intros on some songs, briefly upstaging Burna Boy.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
I like this description of Burna’s artistry or whatever the word is (although I must admit I can’t attest to the pentatonic African modes):
For the most part, Burna Boy hasn’t diluted his African heritage to reach his global audience. Instead, he has placed an unmistakably African stamp on music drawn from all around Africa and from across the African diaspora. He has a calm, husky, resolute voice that exemplifies the West African cultural virtue of coolness: poise and control transcending any commotion. His melodic sense is rooted in pentatonic African modes but unconstrained by them, and he has a stable of producers who deliver some of the most innovative rhythm tracks in 21st-century pop — usually working alongside Burna Boy in his studio, he said. He sings, most often, in a pidgin of English and Yoruba, confident that his meaning will get through even if listeners don’t recognize all the words.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
Burna Boy is a leader amid a bounty of new African pop that has been increasingly welcomed in the West: a confluence of widespread availability via streaming, discovery via word-of-internet rather than former gatekeepers, and the sheer inventiveness taking place outside established music-business strongholds.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
can confirm the album is on my streaming service of choice
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
so far "way too big" rules so much
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
unsurprisingly chris martin is an extremely unwelcome presence here
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
diddy only shows up to interject once thankfully
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
Naughty By Nature (ft. Naughty By Nature)
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 August 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
Chris Martin is a bullet I'm not looking forward to biting, guess I'll tell myself it could be worse, could've been Allbran or somebody
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 August 2020 08:12 (three years ago) link
Sheeran's going to be furious.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 August 2020 08:22 (three years ago) link
listening again and there is a second diddy interjection that i completely missed the first time through
honestly sheeran is a far less obnoxious vocal presence than martin, if some british white guy had to show up he'd be far from my first choice but the result would probably have been more tolerable
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link
I told Burna I did a song with ColdplayNext thing I know he got a song with Coldplay
― triggercut, Friday, 14 August 2020 09:10 (three years ago) link
Very good album. I can't imagine I'll end up liking it as much as African Giant, but that's not a knock, AG is genius.
I was nervous about the guests...rightly so. Martin does suck, but tbrr I don't know if that song would be much better with [yr fav] on it--though thanks to dog latin, I did briefly wonder if Chronixx could have made it work--it has my least favorite Burna vocals too. I have never liked Sauti Sol very much, so those two back to back are a serious lull for me, curious if Sol fans like that one more. It's not ruinous, but the absolute wrong Stormzy shows up, all slow and moody, a missed opportunity though I quite like the women singing backup on that (see also Bank On It; swapping out all the guests for women would be an interesting exercise). Still, there's a happy surprise: Naughty by Nature sound kinda leftfield great, and as ufo mentioned Diddy's presence is not too distracting.
Anyway, even if you outright delete all the guest tracks (though no need to cut N'Dour), you end up with a strong collection, at least on par with Outside, maybe a little better once I listen more.
― rob, Friday, 14 August 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
I’m not sure what mainstream means in this context
― rob, Friday, 1 September 2023 21:21 (seven months ago) link
it feels like he’s trying to speak more to the rap establishment with the wu appearances, plus 21 savage and j. cole guest verses
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 September 2023 23:41 (seven months ago) link
oh ok that makes sense. He’s bigger than j cole in my mind but that’s probably empirically wrong
― rob, Friday, 1 September 2023 23:51 (seven months ago) link
caught his concert last night, the show is incredible. live version of “anybody” blew the roof off the place
― flopson, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 19:09 (five months ago) link
he is awesome live
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 19:09 (five months ago) link
recorded version of “it’s plenty” was a bit too cheesy to me but a stadium full of people singing along and going nuts to it while Burna boy is jumping up and down with the worlds widest grin on his face with confetti cannons and fireworks going off behind him really warmed me on it
― flopson, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 19:33 (five months ago) link