Album Notes: Personnel: Buju Banton (vocals); Mitchum Chin (guitar); Steven Marsden (keyboards); Donald Dennis (bass guitar); Kirk Bennet (drums); Sydney Watson (percussion); Althea Hamilton, Angel Shalome, Nicky Burt (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Jermaine Reid; Steven Stanley. With Buju Banton's grand return to the dancehall on his 2006 release, TOO BAD, fans clamoring for the strictly-ragga flow of his early hits could rest easy that the gravelly-voiced master had not lost his touch. But as anyone who has tracked Banton's often tumultuous career would know, it's been the singer's 1995 conversion to the Rastafarian faith that has defined the arch of his career into the 2000s. RASTA GOT SOUL (2009) represents the completion of a long-anticipated album, first begun in 2005 and continuing in the modern roots style pioneered by Banton on releases such as TIL SHILOH (1995) and INNA HEIGHTS (1997). While heartfelt ballads like "Magic City" or energetic ska-styled throwbacks such as "A Little Bit of Sorry" may not appeal to hardcore dancehall heads, fans of authentic roots-flavored riddims will find lots to love here.
Advantages: Lots of bangers Disadvantages: Ends on a track that's weaker than the rest
...?Mr. Mention? was released in 1992 as the second album from the Jamaican Dancehall musician BujuBanton. It dropped soon after his debut (within a year) and so had him showing just how productive he could be at the time as he brought lots of his Dancehall material (that became much more Reggae-styled as his career developed and he embraced Rastafarians ways.
1. ?Batty Rider?
The album opens up with one of the biggest singles that he had released in the early years of his career as you find that here you get him blasting through a fly tune that has him bringing through the sort of controversial lyrics that gave him notoriety when he broke into the game at the age of 15 with ?Boom Bye Bye?. It is a hardcore tune, but one that I can?t say is really for all due to the themes.
**Five Stars**
2. ?Love How The Gal-Dem Flex?
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Advantages: Some big tunes Disadvantages: Quite repetitive
...Originally named "Stamina Daddy", "Quick" was the debut album from the Reggae and Dancehall star, BujuBanton. It came out in 1992 at first, but under the new title, it was released the following year.
1. "Quick" (feat. Winston Riley)
The beat in this one lived on far longer than the tune, as it has been heard recently in Hip hop tracks by Statik Selektah, and Guerilla Black, and to be honest, I found that they worked a lot better than in this original as it wasn't really that exciting, especially for one which is supposed to lead the album as its highlight piece.
**Three Stars**
2. "Bring You Body Come" (feat. Winston Riley)
For me, this is the top track off the album and does exactly what I want of a hot Dancehall track. On this one, you get all of the energy from a typical Dancehall tune of today, and with the most...
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...1. Shiloh 0:19
2. \'Til I\'m Laid To Rest 4:23
3. Murderer 3:56
4. Champion 3:57
5. Untold Stories 4:33
6. Not An Easy Road 3:59
7. Only Man 2:51
8. Complaint 4:00
9. Chuck It So 3:57
10. How Could You? 3:55
11. Wanna Be Loved 4:03
12. It\'s All Over 4:03
13. Hush Baby Hush 4:20
14. What You Gonna Do 3:40
15. Rampage 3:43
16. Sensemelia Persecution 4:02
17. Champion remix
This is not only one of the best dancehall/reggae albums, but one of the best albums that bujubanton ever did. HIGHLY reccomend this to anyone dancehall/reggae fan or not. Each and every song on this album is great, from song 2 to 9 and then song 11, 12and 17. On BujuBanton album you really have to listen to the lyrics, Buju is talking anout love, he telling a story and over all the tune to the songs are...
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