Burna Boy is touted as one of the flag bearers of the current Afrobeats movement and sounds from Africa taking the world by storm. He has a number of hit songs that have gone global platinum, with his previous album “The African Giant” being his most successful project yet.

Burna’s new album has been very much anticipated considering the amount of ruckus he had created prior, and coupled with the fact that about two weeks ago, news came out that super producer and hiphop legend, Sean “Diddy” Combs was going to be the executive producer of the album.

Being a lover of music with some professional expertise in the industry, I have decided to do a review of this ‘Twice As Tall’ project so you get a fair idea of how the tracks could perform on the music scene and market.

Now let’s dive in;

Track 1 – Level Up featuring Youssou Ndour

Burna Boy features the legendary Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour on this track and as expected, it is an embodiment of Africa… actually it is an embodiment of the western coast of Africa as Burna fuses contemporary Afrobeat rhythm with Mr. Ndour’s Senegalese Mbalax genre which blends Wolof traditional instrumental and vocal forms. It is an inspirational song for anyone who hopes to make it. the song implores “hustlers” to stay the course of their quests. Burna literally narrates how he came up from the underground into the global super star he his now.

Diddy did the outro for the track.

Rating: 7.8/10

Track 2 – Alarm Clock

Diddy Combs did the intro for this track where he talks about the need for Black people to have a positive view of themselves and love each other.

The is a typical Afrobeat song with a number of old school Afrobeat instrumentals. Burna Boy preaches the need for Black people to hear the alarm clock, smell the coffee and wake up to own the very lands they occupy. It is a wake up call for black people to be more productive in their endeavours. You can feel the palpable influence of the legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti on Burna Boy’s music on this track; and this isn’t surprising as his grand father used to be Fela’s manager for decades.

Burna fuses Yoruba language and and English on this song.

The track however loses points for being too short; just 2:12 minutes. It actually ends abruptly when one is just about to now really get into the groove.

Rating: 7/10

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