OVO artist Popcaan has dropped the artwork for his upcoming album “Great Is He” which sees the “Next To Me” artist in a mirror frame dressed in a European hat similar to the style worn by UNIA founder Marcus Garvey in the 1920s.
Since July, when Burna Boy’s Gold selling album Love, Damini dropped millions of fans all over the world the have streamed the track T.A.S. (Toni-Ann Singh), which debuted on the US Afrobeats chart at No. 12 made it to No. 47 on the U.S. Afrobeats Year-End Chart.
Amilar “Cobe” Smith who is Popcaan’s manager and producer of T.A.S along with Anju Blaxx, told WMV exclusively at the time: “It is originally a Popcaan song but we were in some business with Burna Boy to get a feature so we did a swap.”
A “song swap” is music industry jargon meaning there is the possibility of a Burna Boy feature on Popcaan’s upcoming album “Great Is He.” An album originally scheduled to drop last fall.
With tongues wagging about the Miss Jamaica World Toni-Ann Singh’s relationship with dancehall DJ Popcaan, the pair has since dropped their own No. 1 Reggae iTunes hit “Next To Me” as the first single from the album.
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With a single with a beauty Queen, the official artwork released and “Great Is He” set to drop soon, Popcaan is inadvertently walking in the shoes of Bob Marley.
Bob Marley, known for using Garvey’s lyrics in songs while donning Cindy Breakspeare who was Miss World 1976 by his side was also said to have written the songs ‘Turn Your Lights Down Low’ and ‘Waiting in Vain‘ about her.
Their union produced reggae legend Damian Marley and Bob Marley.
So is Popcaan having his “Bob Marley, Cindy Breakspeare moment” of inspiration? Yes says Cobe to WMV back in July.
“I would think so, it’s his Bob Marley moment, it is a nice way to put it,” he said with a pleasant uncertainty in his voice.
As for Popcaan’s choice for musical collaborations the dancehall producer said: “Popcaan on Burna’s album will open up doors, the world a look pon Burna right now. Popcaan being one of the leaders of Dancehall and Burna being one of the leaders of Afrobeats is a good collab.”
“Which is one of the reasons we held off on the album,” he continued.
