Pitchfork just released their 100 Best Songs and 50 albums that defined 2020 and Grammy-nominated Nigerian artiste Burna Boy made the list with his song Onyeka along with his 2020 album Twice As Tall.
Burna Boy’s Onyeka made the cut at number 57 and his Twice As Tall album made number 46 on the Pitchfork lists.
Writing about the song, music and literature writer Mina Tavakoli wrote: Onyeka (Baby) is an indestructibly sweet, sunny moment amid a colossal album of dancehall, Afrobeats, and pop; another of Burna’s Sisyphean efforts to compress the breadth of pan-Africanism into his person.”
“Not since Fela Kuti has one artist blended the contradictions, agonies, and triumphs of the continent with so much muscle,” the review concluded.
Despite the bumps he has had on the way, fan-based or otherwise; Burna Boy has been on an upward trajectory for a few years now. He established himself as an international act that not only makes good music; but also makes it palatable for whiter audiences.
With his African revolutionary aesthetic, he has captured audiences with a mild interest in social change. Burna Boy got his second Grammy nomination this year; in the Best World Music Category, just like last year. Fans are hoping that this time, he would win the award for which he has worked so desperately.
