ALBUM REVIEW!! Are You Truly Feeling The “Twice As Tall” Album By Burna Boy? (Here Is Our Say)

Posted by E.L.E.X on August 16 2020 under Celebrities

Burna Boy presents his highly anticipated album dubbed “Twice As Tall” under “Spaceship Record” which he recently announced a few days now

The fifth studio album was recorded mainly in Lagos, Nigeria over the last few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 15-track album is executive produced by Diddy, Bosede Ogulu, and African Giant “Burna Boy” himself.

This new project comes with the boasting features of Chris Martin, Stormzy, Youssou N’Dour, and Naughty by Nature with some producers on the project including Timbaland, Mike Dean, and more numerous producers.

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This album severs as an immediate follow up to his previous album “African Giant“

The song is reviewed accordingly on the tracklist.

Level Up (Twice As Tall) ft Youssou N’Dour

My first reaction after playing Level Up was ‘Yoo that’s the Burna before African Giant’.

The intro to the song has this ‘opening segment which comes from the soundtrack to the 1959 film journey to the center of the earth that kind of just sets you in the mood for a beautiful beginning.

Burna then comes in with the ragga. Youssou as usual came with that traditional and mbalax feel to complete it.

The song sounds like a new Burna Boy anthem, a perfect replacement for ‘African Giant (the song)’ where he shares his come-up story starting with how ‘he remembers how he couldn’t level up’ to when he told them ‘they can’t bury him’ and now he is standing ‘Twice as tall’.

Diddy ends it with ‘Don’t be afraid to step into greatness.., I know it’s scary but it’s magical’. This is really a good intro.

Alarm Clock

Diddy again introduces the second track with a continuation of his speech from the Level Up ‘God made us, he made us magical beings……. it’s black love…’.

In this follow up song, Burna takes us through his ‘Alarm clock of stardom’ where he is ‘always sending money from when he wakes up’, feels like a gentle brag but hey if you’re at the level he is at the moment you also surely will.

Do you remember that rich instrumentation from Anybody?

The same kind of instrumental was implored here giving it that rich afrobeat feels to dance with. This definitely is a jam.

Way Too Big

He followed up with a bit of a higher tempo vibe which sounds like ‘Yo all you hating on me, I’m way too big to be fucking with you but you know what, let’s jam to this’.

This is a club banger for me and wow the production is just on point.

Burna then comes with the lyrics ‘I bring the thunder-like Muri, They say I’m on drugs,… But everything them talk still no dey do me’ which got me wondering ‘This one na jab to someone or na?’

Bebo

This one na serious leg work song oo. Y’all should see me working my legs with this with some gbese in-between.

Bebo is that song you need to live in the moment, it comes with the vibe ‘Yo! forget everything and everybody and just do your thing cos you only live once’.

Wonderful

Anytime I listen to Wonderful, I get this spiritual vibe fused with authentic African drums.

Wonderful is more like a gratifying song giving you a thumbs up after a good work done. And most especially, it’s a connection between your home and wherever you are.

Onyeka (Baby)

Onyeka is like the continuation of Omo, another melodious love song to his baby girl.

Burna boy once again pledges his love to Onyeka, definitely Stefflon Don in this song with the assurances that she is ‘his odo’, ‘she will be his baby mama’ ‘any-day whether Sunday or Wednesday he still go dey struggle her case’.

Naughty by Nature ft Naughty by Nature

Did you miss the Don Gorgon sound?

He brought that vibe to Naughty by Nature and who better than the legendary Naughty by Nature to complete the song. And Yo Vins and Treach didn’t disappoint with their verses.

In this song, Burna once again is reiterating his ‘alphas’ with the whole ‘I’m naughty by nature, you can’t handle me vibe’.

Comma

The comma is also a high tempo danceable tune and as he rightly introduced it, ‘it’s for all the comma babes’.

This is the kind song you fit to whine your waist on. The song describes a ‘comma babe’ as one with breast and ass implants, bleached skin who regardless is slaying and whining.

Literally comma means ‘there’s more to it’ and that’s what he is portraying when he said ‘wetin be this oo comma,…. ‘With your fake breast, with the silicon, girl I dey see comma there’.

No Fit Vex

Now, this is an inspiration song toeing the line of Dangote.

Burna in this song preaches how life isn’t easy and how he is finding his own same way you should also find your own and that ‘he no fit vex for you’.

It’s mid-tempo and something you can listen to whiles relaxing and nodding your head slowly along with the rhythm and flow.

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Another mid-tempo soulful tune which starts with Burna telling us how music ‘made him feel like he is Jordan’.

He then splashes the song with doses of him doing ragga on this Afro-house-dancehall inspired sound.

It’s also got this relaxing feel which hits you smoothly as you sip on the sound.

Time Flies ft Sauti Sol

Time flies is an afro-pop tune that comes with a different feeling from the usual Burna Boy which I would attribute to Sauti Sol and it’s not surprising the production was also done by them.

It’s also sort of inspirational with Burna singing ‘Time flies like a thief in the night. We all?got?a story to?write. So darling jump in the?ride. Before the train is gone’ Savara then comes to add ‘Nobody knows tomorrow, so do what you got to do’.

This for me is one song I’ll listen to every Monday to cushion and motivate me for the week.

Monsters You Made ft Chris Martin

Are you familiar with the song ‘fun’ from Coldplay?

Yes, it’s Chris Martin from Coldplay on this one and he brought the same vibe to this track. For a moment I imagined myself at a show with a rock band thrilling the fans with this song.

Burna as usual came hard on this one leveling up Chris’s energy to give the song that finesse.

This is like a wake-up call to Africans to rise against the oppression from the west and he rightly ended it with this excerpt from Ama Atta Aidoo’s interview ‘Since we met your people five hundred years ago. Look at us, we have given everything. You are still taking it. In exchange for that, we have got nothing. Nothing. And you know it. But you just think that this is over now? Over where? Is it over?’

This definitely is going to be my new jam, not only because of the rich conscious lyrics but also the reggae vibe in there.

Wettin dey Sup

Telz and Timbaland on productions for this one and right from start you could feel the richness of the sound.

For a moment I was like is this a part II of ‘Wettin man go do?’. Both songs got this same feeling from the arrangements to the delivery. Burna here is just telling how fearless he is and comparing himself with a python with the lyrics ‘poisonous like a long python’.

It also got the dancehall feel and you know when it’s dancehall, Burna gon murder dat thing yunno.

Real Life ft Stormzy

Diddy came through once again with an opening on this one followed by Burna digging right into it with some vigorous ragga verses.

Stormzy!!! This guy just knows how to capture you with his singing. The way he smoothly chorused this one, whoos.

This is a track you’ll be tempted to loop for a while before realizing you’ve been listening to the same song over and over again.

Bank On It

Jonathan Mensah (JAE5) brought the East London vibe to this smooth outro, starting with Burna expressing his insecurities in the lyrics ‘Always looking out my window. Paranoid and confused. I’m not sure anymore. Who is knocking at my door?’

He then tops it up with some attributes of how he is an indigene of Port Harcourt, you should ask what happened.

He is Oluwa Burna ko gbadun and they call him Bankole cos he walks around with the bank on it’

Overall this is a masterpiece of an album with awesome top-notch production, this could possibly be the one to win him that Grammy comes to the 63rd edition. And I love the fact that he brought the old and new Burna to this one with a show of how versatile he could be on the instruments.

Our Say On The Album

Average music listeners are already giving up while some are forcing it on themselves, most precisely the African Giants soldiers.

It’s normal, things don’t turn up immediately, It takes days for a song to boom and it’s an album which consists of various kinds of tunes, we might need weeks to start feeling it.

Comparing to “African Giant” I would gladly pick this “Twice As Tall” cause I believe the content in it was superb.

The idea of an album is to connect the listeners, send messages, tell your own story, make them stand on their toes to party, and most importantly defend your lyrics. In other words, create your lyrics not manipulating from another party.

Apparently, this “Twice As Tall” album has all the above qualities required.