2. Burna Boy
From dance-pop club bangers like “Tonight” to the spacey, introspective “Soke,” Lagos’ Burna Boy moves across the map, musically, but the root of his sound, as he’s often acknowledged in interviews, is dancehall. That inspiration is front and center on 2014’s “Don Gorgon,” which references dancehall classics like Shabba’s “Ting-a-Ling,” Johnny Osbourne’s “Budy Bye” and Super Cat and Heavy D’s “Dem No Worry We.” Despite his considerable crossover appeal and popularity at home, North American and Caribbean audiences have been slow to catch on to Burna Boy. Until they inevitably do, he’ll just have to be West Africa’s secret.
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