Stonebwoy, a dancehall superstar, makes it clear he has no plans to slow down with his fifth studio album. According to him, "There's no other name that could adequately describe my fifth studio album," he tells Apple Music.
"In the place I'm in, I want to keep giving back to my generation, my time, and my culture. Beyond the physical, the fifth dimension extends into the astral and the spiritual. It covers all facets of feelings and ideas. This is vibration, this is scale, this is intensity, this is a wave.
The 17 songs on the album continually demonstrate Stonebwoy's willingness to experiment with different musical genres.
On "Apotheke," he even delves into amapiano territory with South African superstar DJ Maphorisa, exhibiting the same fervour with which he performs his distinctive dancehall-meets-Afrobeats recordings. He breaks down some of the album's important tunes below.
Stormzy and "Life and Money"
"If you listen to the song closely, you'll hear that I admit my direction. I am aware of how much effort I am putting into improving myself. The desire to truly enjoy life and generate money in the end is something else I also realise. I'm wanting this for all of my folks as well. And I just ask God to provide us all a long life so that we can enjoy the fruits of our labour.
'Long journey'
"'Far Away' leads you on a road of meditation. It involves taking everything into account and determining for sure. that you are a winner or a champion and that you are mentally absent—in other words, far away. The higher vibrations are coming from you. And all of this is only possible in your thoughts. Whatever you do, the initial thought that propels you there comes from your mind.
The phrase "More of You"
More of You is a play on words. I believe that connections and the maintenance of them are at the heart of everything that occurs in the world. And I consider the greatest commandment to be love. In essence, you give in order to get, and while you should be understanding enough to realise that you must also reciprocate to that degree, you should also expect to be given the most. It resembles a It has a highlife-style sound, but it's incorporated into a modern beat, making it a proper fusion of my signature styles.
In "Ava Wum Lo"
"'Ava womlo' means 'You go murder me' in my native Ewe language (I'm from the Volta area of Ghana). It's also a really sweet love song that is sung in my dialect and provides my people a sense of tradition and belonging so that they can truly connect and feel the energy. It is a sensuous love story that honours and then praises women for the quantity of love they display and the ways in which they exhibit love.
“Forget”
"The beat reminds me of a typical jama song,"These tunes are among the all the songs that are played when the Black Stars play football matches—like when you're going to school tournaments or football games—are played on the streets. I needed a topic that would go with that rhythmic approach. The song "Forget" is about firmly deciding not to contact your ex again. It's saying to them, "You weren't there for me when I had nothing, but now that I have something, you're trying to figure out how to get through it."
(With Mereba) "Run AM"
"I've always enjoyed going deep and coming up with something original. My career is founded on taking risks since it's incredibly difficult to combine reggae and Afrobeats to produce a specific sound in the first place. However, not every musician can.
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