Buju Banton

Buju Banton – BORN FOR GREATNESS (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:22 minutes | 647 MB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gargamel Music Co.

That you can never listen 12 of his albums and they all sound the same, is his claim and so it’s not surprising that Buju Banton’s new upcoming long player Born For Greatness appears quite different from what we’re used to from the superstar.

He takes us on a journey, wants to be reminded “of the way things was when everything was wrap up in love“ in the Stephen Marley-produced opener Ageless Time, a musically stripped-down rendition with acoustic guitar, one of Ragga’s typical abstract vocal samples and a subtle saxophone that melt into a melancholic vibration.

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Buju Banton – Upside Down 2020 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:24 minutes | 920 MB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gargamel Music

Upside Down 2020 is legendary dancehall singer Buju Banton’s 13th studio album – his first since Before the Dawn in 2010, which won a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album one year later. New single “Blessed” was released on 6/5 and track “Cherry Pie” features Pharrell. In regards to the album title, Banton says, “I perceive from what I’ve seen from my emergence as being upside down. In other words, we as people no longer possess things. These things we think we possess, they now possess us.” As for the “2020” of the album’s title, “2020 has a deeper understanding in my mind. It resonates with a clear vision and seeing things for what it is.”
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