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by Mankaprr Conteh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a child, like many children, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu was fascinated by superhero comics. He wanted to be his own superhero, so he named himself Burna Boy, a moniker that has followed him into a career as one of the defining musical acts of today\u2019s African diaspora. Last November, after his fourth studio album African Giant permeated the summer from Abuja to Brooklyn, he sold out London\u2019s Wembley Arena. Now, just a year after African Giant, Burna returns with Twice as Tall, and with it, a more resonant origin story\u2014one that explains his ascent from 2018\u2019s breakthrough single \u201cYe.\u201d In an accompanying motion comic, the Yoruba deity Orunmila chooses Burna to embody his \u201csecret flame.\u201d With it, Burna is challenged to restore the gods\u2019 faith in humanity. He meets these Black gods again, in 2020, his mission completed through his resounding success. \u201cYou make music passionately, like you are waging a war,\u201d one tells him, proudly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twice as Tall is Burna\u2019s battle cry. Compared to 2018\u2019s jovial Outside and last year\u2019s sunnily conscious African Giant, Twice as Tall can feel heavy under the weight of Burna\u2019s personal reflection and Pan-African crusade. His newly moody Afro-fusion\u2014a mix of afrobeat, reggae, dancehall, hip-hop, EDM, and more\u2014amplifies his passion. Twice as Tall could\u2019ve aimed to crystalize Burna\u2019s position as a global Afropop star with easier, feel-good hits. Instead, he turns starkly inward, assuring himself of his power, and outward, reminding the world of its failures and its potential. It is a load worth carrying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burna Boy lost the 2020 Grammy for Best World Music Album to celebrated Beninese singer Ang\u00e9lique Kidjo, an idol and collaborator. Despite his reverence for her, the loss sickened him, as he recounts on album opener \u201cLevel Up.\u201d As Burna\u2014whose humility here is admirable\u2014lists times that he\u2019s felt small, he initiates the familiar, satisfying arc of the hero\u2019s journey. Over Anderson .Paak\u2019s menacing drums on \u201cAlarm Clock,\u201d Burna issues a warning in light Pidgin English: You\u2019ll discover that I\u2019m really unstoppable. The somber synths of \u201cWay Too Big\u201d sound like a hike up Mount Olympus. Twice as Tall is marked by Burna\u2019s pride in his hustle, his confidence in his path, and his faith that he is favored by the divine. It\u2019s littered with pleas to God, rebukes of the Devil, and prayers that his trek to victory will be uninterrupted. As the album ends, he and UK rapper and singer Stormzy offer a peaceful, self-assured balm with \u201cReal Life,\u201d before Burna settles into the might and limits of being merely human on \u201cBank on It.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While Burna uses the album opener to meditate on his own capacity for greatness, he reveals grander ambitions than riches and relaxation, or even personal fulfillment. He\u2019s on a mission to fold in all corners of the diaspora, bridging colonial ruptures to illuminate a common struggle. When the album was nearly complete, Burna enlisted Diddy<\/a> as an executive producer, alongside himself and his mother, Bosede Ogulu. Diddy supplies his experience as an American music mogul and adds narration that neatly stitches tracks together. \u201cWe from the same tribe. It\u2019s Black love,\u201d he says at the top of \u201cAlarm Clock.\u201d On \u201cMonsters You Made,\u201d Burna rages about structural violence and the ways it breeds interpersonal harm, as well as protest. He pulls at the thread that connects all oppressive regimes, from the post-war Nigeria that radicalized his hero Fela Kuti<\/a> to the modern United States. With a hook from Coldplay<\/a>\u2019s Chris Martin and bombastic production that evokes an Imagine Dragons single, the song smuggles one of Burna\u2019s most radical political messages into a record that could top the modern rock charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pensive tone of Twice as Tall<\/em> may throw off fans of Burna\u2019s more danceable tracks, but \u201cWonderful<\/a>,\u201d \u201cOnyeka (Baby),\u201d \u201cNaughty by Nature,\u201d and \u201cComma\u201d offer reprieve from the album\u2019s focus and fury, bringing the levity to an impressive mid-album stretch. Here, Burna indulges. Sure, \u201cOnyeka\u201d is inspired by Nigerian diva and activist Onyeka Onwenu, who hosted a striking BBC documentary<\/a> about government corruption in Nigeria and was subsequently banned from seven of the country\u2019s 36 states\u2014but it\u2019s really just a scampish love song. On \u201cNaughty by Nature,\u201d he enlists the titular rap trio, whose 1993 hit \u201cHip Hop Hooray<\/a>\u201d was the first song he learned word-for-word. \u201cComma\u201d is the party anthem, akin to African Giant<\/em>\u2019s \u201cKillin Dem,\u201d and Burna has the time of his life making light of sticky situations and women\u2019s cosmetic procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In an archival interview featured in Alex Gibney\u2019s documentary on Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat trailblazer says, \u201cAs far as Africa is concerned, music cannot be for enjoyment, music has to be for revolution.\u201d Of course, Kuti\u2019s music was widely enjoyed, but it was also complex and challenging. On his latest LP, Burna Boy leans into this aspect of the icon\u2019s mythos. Twice as Tall<\/em> advances Burna\u2019s political vision, and is frankly less fun than the two recent projects that catapulted him to superstardom. But the world is less fun than it was a year ago, too. Society could use a hero, a godsend. Pairing rhythms that possess the hips with encouraging calls for Black unity and an infectious sense of self-reliance, Twice as Tall<\/em> is Herculean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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