Burna Boy - African Giant (July 26, 2019) Album

1. African Giant
2. Anybody
3. Wetin Man Go Do
4. Dangote
5. Gum Body f. Jorja Smith
6. Killin Dem f. Zlatan
7. Omo
8. Secret f. Jeremih & Serani
9. Collateral Damage
10. Another Story f. M.anifest
11. Pull Up
12. Blak Ryno (Skit)
13. Destiny
14. Different f. Damian Marley & Angelique Kidjo)
15. Gbona
16. On The Low
17. Show & Tell f. Future
18. The Side f. YG
19. Spiritual

album of the year, one of the most assured and fully-formed afro pop records ever, every song bangs and the production is so layered and lush that when burna isn't singing i sometimes wonder if i've wandered into a more syncopated sade record

 

aoty

every sax appearance on this is transporting

 

I'm seriously so obsessed with this and I'd never heard Burna Boy before he was on M A N I A lol

 

it's insane that every song on this sounds like a hit

"Dangote," "Secret," and "Anybody" are my faves atm

 

outside was a great record but "ye" towered slightly over everything else. "anybody" is an eternal jam but there's way less of a gulf between that and the other material here. every detail of "secret" is so gorgeous

 

I gotta hear this. Liked the last album but never stuck with me in the long run. His DJDS collaboration EP was really nice. Sounds like this is pretty major though.

 

Yessssssssss

 

Album rules, straight hits

 

Fuck yes

 

This is a great album.

A great appearance by him this year some might not know about:

 

I realized I had like 4 or 5 of the songs on this already downloaded onto my soty lists lol

 

Justice

 

Really cool to see. My (admittedly minimal) experience with afrobeat has mostly been as a singles genre so it's pretty amazing to have a major, cohesive work like this. Seems like this is already a landmark record for African music.

 

I too am a major novice on that entire world of music, but I will give the obligatory recommendation to check out some Fela Kuti albums

Burna Boy's godfather was actually Fela Kuti's manager and a bunch of Burna Boy songs sample FK tracks so there is that lineage there

I'm sure @The Lucky Moose and @unbornwhiskey have more recs as well though

 

kiss daniel's new era is one of my other favorite afropop records of the last few years

 

wizkid is an international treasure and i expect great things from his incredibly delayed album

 

Made in Lagos when

 

just added to my queue

 

yemi alade's records are also wonderful

 

There’s a lot of albums in my the “afro genres” coming out of France every year too, but yeah I would agree that singles are the priority now. I’m also not an expert. I do deep dives occasionally but it’s hard to constantly keep up with it.

We have a thread for it and other genres tthough:

African and Caribbean Music • forum.chorus.fm

@username

 

Been going back to this again the last few days. The hook on "Secret" is just on another level.

 

one of the best of the year imo

jeremih floaaaaats on it too

 

Honestly, all the features on here go. Despite being a big fan of both, I'm still surprised how well Future and YG slip into the sound here.

 

Totally, BB & the various producers were super adept at employing all these western guests in a way that feels totally organic, and not a transparent bid for more crossover success

It's really cool to see a Nigerian artist blow up, but really on their own terms

 

Dropped a new one the other day