Can You Imagine?”.Īmong the four features on Common Sense(Tiggs Da Author, Mo Stack, MIST and Burna Boy), Burna Boy’s presence on “Good Time” is the most prominent. Despite his dark and brooding themes, he manages to slip in a few chuckle-worthy lines: “She said she don’t do this often.
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Using an economic paring of synth piano keys adorned by artificial vocal hums and spacious drums played at double speed, J Hus delivers a full set riddled with London Grime flows and slurs. “Plottin”, the 8th song on the 17-track-album listens like an EDM grime fusion. J Hus picks up on the vibe and works lines referencing his violent lifestyle and how he stays winning.Īfropop might be responsible for J Hus’ feature on DJ turn tables at the club but on Common Sense, he tries other different dancehall genres. Produced by long-time collaborator, Jae5, Hus raps over a jazz orchestra with drum patterns for what sounds like the hardest Jay-Z-Pharrell collaboration ever. For “Common Sense”, J Hus settles for an assertive Hip-hop flow, steering clear of the grittiness of British Grime and Afropop combined. To prove the point, J Hus debut album, Common Sense dropped at the end of last week and a rave of positive reviews have been pouring in since.Ĭommon Sense starts with title track, “Common Sense” and it’s a different J Hus from what we heard on pre-released singles, “Did You See” and “Friendly” where he did more pop than rap.
And since Afropop is a direct marriage of American pop and African folk music, J Hus’ Afropop-Grime fusion doesn’t seem too much like an oddity. As cultures mesh thanks to the internet and globalisation, genre experiments are increasingly holding hint of future sound evolution.