With artists releasing songs at a fast and furious pace it’s difficult for the average hip-hop head to keep track of it all—no matter how tapped in they are. That’s why we created The Ones, a daily post to highlight the song you need to hear curated by the Levels team. We sort through all the new songs—across all the platforms and subgenres—so you don’t have to. Thank us later.
Burna Boy’s “Anybody” feels like summer. I can imagine it now: the smell of burning charcoal, my uncles with bottles of Prestige at their side, stepping to every tap of the hand drums. The smooth melody provides an excitable warmth, and the horns sound like Burna Boy went to Haiti to enlist a Kompa band. It’s all part of the diaspora-connecting instrumentation that’s made the Nigerian artist a standout. But his best attribute is still his vocal versatility. On “Anybody,” he commands the same amount of attention whether he’s humming or speeding it up for a smooth-talking rap verse. And like all the music he’s released since 2018’s Outside, the hook drips with the cocky awareness that the song he’s making will get everyone moving.
Check out previous Ones, and listen to new rap from Burna Boy and more on our Spotify playlist, Apple Music playlist, and SoundCloud playlist.
