Dubbing with Banton is a dub album almost in name only. Most tracks are barely remixed and add very little to the existing instrumentals. The best tracks from Dubbing with...
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The Best of Buju Banton provides a concise look at his dancehall and reggae work, collecting definitive tracks, duets, and remixes. Songs like "Deportees (Things Change),"...
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There's never been a better time for dancehall stars to try cracking the U.S. market, but Buju Banton has always put his heart before the charts. He left behind the world of...
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The smiley-face tone of this album title is not misleading. Although a couple of cuts tastefully skirt the edge of slackness and one (the very fine "Mr. Nine") is an angry...
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Off-island fans of Buju Banton could only listen in amazement at the transformation the artist underwent during the mid-'90s. Debuting internationally in 1993 with the...
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The once controversial Buju Banton, vilified for his anti-homosexual sentiments on his early single "Boom Bye Bye" and for his typically violent and slack dancehall,...
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This is the kind of album that leaves the listener breathless with amazement, not least of all because Voice of Jamaica was Buju Banton's international debut, but the artist...
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As is to be expected, the Ultimate Collection doesn't quite live up to its billing, but so prolific is Buju Banton, so many hits has he unleashed, that even the fulsome 18...
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1993's Voice of Jamaica was a stellar set, an aural collage of the island, with its swirl of diverse styles, sounds and themes.
Bringing dancehall to the wider world, that...
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