August 01, 2019

Pitchfork's Best New Music: Burna Boy shows what western music owes to Africa on 'African Giant'

"Burna’s compositions are all based in something he’s dubbed Afro-fusion—blending pop, American hip-hop and R&B, Jamaican dancehall, and hard UK rap with Nigerian music—and he puts Africa at the root of that expanding lineage while also pushing the more traditional sounds forward. The album is a splendid hour of jams, both personal and political, that never sacrifices its bewitching groove" - Pitchfork says in a verdict (8,3 grade, of 10).