(Alantic)The Nigerian superstar doubles down on his landmark 2019 album African Giant with a heady cocktail of styles and big-name guests that amplify his own compelling voice
The tale of Nigerian superstar Burna Boy’s globe-straddling fifth album begins where many artists dream of ending up – at the 2020 US Grammy awards, held last January. But all was not well. Burna Boy was losing his lunch.
“I remember when I couldn’t level up,” the
Singer intones on Level Up, the album opener, “cause the
Grammys had me feeling sick as fuck/ Throwing up and shit/ Asking questions like, ‘Why it wasn’t us?’”