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Awakening Songs: Buju Banton's Favourite Music
Zakiya Mckenzie , July 29th, 2020 09:41

As Buju Banton releases his first album in a decade, he guides Zakiya Mckenzie through the songs that shaped him, from discovering dancehall on the school minibus to collaborating with Pharrell Williams

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Stephen Marley - Mind Control
This is another song telling people to wake up. I don’t like the music that I can’t play in the car with children, that is really embarrassing. I want to teach and inspire them to be smarter than we were, so I try to expose them to better things than we were exposed to. And the reality is that mind control is out there if we don’t do better for them. Right now, people are looking up and they’re listening. With all happening in the world, it would be remiss for a guy to go singing about Hennessey and things like that because people really are looking up and listening now. They want to know ‘what are you saying, we have been there before and done that, what are you saying now?’ This is a beautiful song and good music is always good music. I always have a Stephen Marley in my playlist, too.