Sound the ALARM CLOCK and take it off snooze!
From Ghana to Nigeria, an unknown territory of writing for me which leaves me with some sort of fear!
But one thing I don’t fear in any territory is that my ears and my waist never lie. They connect in a way that takes over and become my scribe in this nameless world, where the African Giant hungers to be Twice As Tall.
It’s time to sound the alarm clock to the world and see if they are all awake, or merely robbing this giant of his vertical elevation.
Burna Boy reminds the world with Twice As Tall that music has many sides, and AFRICA cannot be contained!
We have entered a revolution, and, the revolution is real; but remember my people that time flies, so seize the day, this is your time, my time, our time to paint our pictures, play our rhythm and stand twice as tall with conviction in our visions.
I sit and wonder and ask myself the question, if people will dissect, complain and examine an artists work but sit on their vision(s), masser why?
If you will compare twice as tall to the African Giant album and be the person(s) who complains and says “hey y’all, what happened to Burna, this album ain’t like the last”, without taking a minute to sit right back to listen.
I mean listen, my friend, you will miss the beat of the music, forgetting that music has many sides, angles and approaches that it is in the eye of the beholder who will hear.
Right now, I’m in that corner, sitting right back and listening. I’m hearing a man with a message, a man who has feelings and pains like the next, a man who wants to be heard but not just in him but in the voices of the people, the countries across the continent as he unites the sounds and merges the vibes to remind the world that music has no one side.
It does not have to be loud to be heard.
The voice of our ancestors will be heard, because it will be heard through us (well if you get up from your complaining chair and move it will) the revolution is here – Africa did that.
I could go on, but I’ll leave it here and make this one short and sweet as a reminder to the elitist crew who know because this message is not for the ones who live for that one month in the year to celebrate their “blackness”. It’s for the ones who know they are Twice As Tall
Are you awake yet!
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Album Review: Twice as Tall
