Wale gifted album download5/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been the recipient of a succession of high-profile co-signs: from Harry Styles, who asked her to support him on tour to John Legend, on whose 2020 album Bigger Love she appeared to Jay-Z, who tapped her to perform the theme song to the acclaimed western The Harder They Fall. Two years ago, she became the first female artist ever to win the Grammy for best reggae album, despite the fact that Rapture clearly wasn’t an album: whichever way you sliced it, it was a distinct improvement on the previous year, when the Grammys deemed the best reggae album a collaborative work by Sting and Shaggy. Her career has developed a striking momentum. Jamaica hasn’t produced a huge mainstream pop star since Sean Paul, whose peak was 20 years ago, but Koffee sounds determined: “Might get caught up in a new wave,” she suggests on the title track, before offering to “chop the track up in a new way if it helps me get a few plays”. Perhaps evoking the biggest crossover reggae star of all says something about the commercial ambitions behind Gifted. While her teenage friends in Spanish Town tended to like whatever was big at the time, she told Rolling Stone magazine in 2021, she “ took to reggae and just made my own path”. Like the lyrical nods to Sister Nancy’s Bam Bam and Althea & Donna’s Uptown Top Ranking on her 2019 EP Rapture, it’s presumably intended to say something about Simpson’s deep connection to reggae’s history. ![]()
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