Dancehall artist Popcaan will release his second single “We Caa Done” featuring Drake from his forthcoming album “Great Is He”. The single will be accompanied by a music video which the DJ teased on Wednesday. Popcaan’s album is scheduled for release on the last Friday of January ahead of Black History month according to sources.
Popcaan’s manager Cobe said the DJ is channeling several great historical figures and he chose to channel Marcus Garvey on the cover which was released on Tuesday.
The first single from the album is the ride or die themed song “Next To Me” featuring Miss World Toni-Ann Singh with whom the St Thomas native has been cuddling up since last summer. The two performed the No. 1 Reggae iTunes hit at Burna Boy’s Love, Damini Jamaica stop in December and shared an onstage lip lock to the delight of the over 20 thousand people in attendance.
Cobe revealed in July that Burna Boy will be on Popcaan’s album as he returns the favor for Popcaan’s feature on his album.
The track T.A.S. (Toni-Ann Singh), off Love, Damini 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.”
“Popcaan on Burna’s album will open up doors, the world a look pon Burna right now. Popcaan being one of the leader 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, anywhere between November towards December Africa turn up,” he continued.
Popcaan & Drake
Popcaan debuted an unreleased dubplate remixed version of the diamond dancehall single “One Dance” at Red Bull’s Culture Clash 2016 in the U.K. It featured unreleased vocals laced with all new verses and choruses and a shoutout to Popcaan himself.
Drake revealed On December 23, 2018, that Popcaan, whose real name is Andre Sutherland would be signed to his record label OVO Sound and Warner Records. Popcaan’s third album, Vanquish, was released a year later on December 19, 2019, and was the first project produced with OVO Sound.
His fourth album, Fixtape, was released on August 7, 2020 and Drake was featured on two songs “All I Need” and “Twist and Turn,”. The pair of tracks find the hip hop superstar crooning over the Jamaican DJ’s multi-genre infused beats.
The Warner/OVO projectentered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, at 94 after selling 686 copies in the first week and was second on the Billboard Reggae albums chart to Bob Marley’s Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers.
October 16, 2020, Popcaan teamed up with OVO affiliate Preme for their Link Up EP, which featured Wiz Khalfia, Davido, BEAM, and French Montana.
