On Wednesday, Complex.com and Boomshots.com premiered Buju Banton’s ‘Set Up The Mic’, the debut single from the crucial new compilation album, Certified Boomshots Vol. 1.
Recorded three years ago on the Rapid Burst rhythm for Young Blood Records, Set Up The Mic started out as an on-the-spot freestyle while Buju Banton waited for the engineer to fix the levels at the start of a studio session. The engineer happened to press record, and the sounds captured that day were refreshingly raw, a glimpse of the champion deejay spitting lyrics off the head as if he were toasting around a sound system, a rare treat for Buju’s fans, who have been missing the voice of the Gargamel.
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“I always told people I have a song that I think is one of the baddest Buju tracks, but he was just freestyling,” said producer Mr G in a release sent to THE WEEKEND STAR.
“The thing about this song, it’s got a happy, playful kinda energy. The world will appreciate and love hearing Buju again, banging as the great Buju Banton. Although it’s a freestyle, if I don’t tell people it’s a freestyle, they would never know it,” he added.
21st Hapilos Distribution is proud to release the debut single from the highly anticipated new compilation album, Certified Boomshots Vol. 1. This is the first of a series of compilations officially endorsed by Boomshots. From multi-platinum hit-makers to the freshest new sounds of the Kingston streets, and classic roots rock reggae, Certified Boomshots hits you with the raw uncut.
The official Boomshots release party will be on December 21. Certified Boomshots is the freshest new compilation of dancehall and reggae tracks on the market, representing all the best of what the music has to offer on a worldwide level.
The first of many compilations to come, Vol. 1 features blazing tracks from the hottest producers in reggae today such as Stephen ‘Di Genius’ McGregor, Don Corleone, ZJ Chrome, Troyton, Cashflow, Chimney Records and Markus Myrie, Buju Banton’s son, who is carrying on the family legacy as a young producer on the rise.
Markus Records produced the breakout hit, Whine Me, by Blak Ryno. The album’s classic throwback is Penitentiary, by the late, great Gregory Isaacs
