{"id":2048,"date":"2019-01-04T19:57:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2019-01-04T19:57:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:57:55","slug":"i-have-paid-the-price-says-buju-banton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2048","title":{"rendered":"‘I have paid the price’, says Buju Banton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael Nattoo<\/em><\/strong> – Staff Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guys, I\u2019m sorry (not\nreally though), but we can\u2019t quite stop talking about Buju yet. Even if we\ntried, he\u2019s effortlessly making it impossible for us to. And if you were under\nthe illusion that this will be the last we\u2019ll say of him for a while, well,\nI\u2019ve got news for you \u2013 it\u2019s not.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what\u2019s the latest in this Buju News Rush? You\u2019ll want to\ntake your seats for this one. While we admit that we may be a bit late on this\ntrain, it\u2019s still worth hopping on to. Did you know that Buju recently released\na brand-new song? Yes, you read that right. The song, titled \u2018Pay The Price\u2019,\nfor which there is currently only audio, is at number 18 on the YouTube\ntrending chart. Translation: This song is absolutely and unapologetically\nscorching hot right now, particularly on the international scene. Locally, it\nmay be that the song, released on December 27, may have been a well-kept\nsecret. In fact, considering the many who are yearning for the [sound of] the\n\u2018Gargamel\u2019, that\u2019s the only logical explanation we can offer as to why we\u2019re\nnot hearing more buzz about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, just what is the soon-to-be chart-toppling tune about?\nIts name says it all, really. Buju feels as though he has paid the price, and\nfor loyal fans of his, they wouldn\u2019t hesitate to agree. The lyrics aside, which\nwe will get into a bit, there\u2019s a wave of nostalgia, and just an overall\nfeeling of complete harmony, when one takes in the newly released track. About\na minute into the nearly 5-minute-long track (its real length being 4 minutes\nand 42 seconds), you are reminded of just how much you had longed to be in the\nsoulful, musical, raspy embrace of Buju\u2019s unique sound and vocals. Delivered\nwith a depth and emotional maturity of a man who has seen dark days, Buju takes\nfans on an intimate journey of his life over the past years, and his words\nperfectly captured the experience. To a relatively slow, rhythmic beat, Buju\nbegan with his iconic ad lib, \u201cOoh Lawd\u201d, and it was pure magic from there. His\nwords: \u201cHere I go again, just me and myself, I\u2019m without a friend, they have\nall turned and gone and left me, now on my lonesome journey, a few things in\nlife concern me – \u2018what is life?\u2019, the other, \u2018how we live it\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would share more, but simply quoting the lyrics here does\nnot do enough justice to the pain that can be heard in Buju\u2019s voice as he\ndelivered what is likely his first official song to grace the public since his\nrelease from prison in the USA. It\u2019s a timely and appropriate reintroduction to\nthe musical scene, and as more people grow to know of it, the song, which at\nthe time of this writing has 620,366 views, is bound to climb YouTube\u2019s\nTrending Chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a true lover of music, you need no prompt to go\nfind that song. In the event that you do need a bit of motivation, remind\nyourself that pretty soon, Buju will be reclaiming prominence on the musical\nscene, and what will follow that is not a story you would want to miss out on\nexperiencing first-hand, and subsequently one that you can share with your\nkids, grandkids or great grand kids. So yeah, do it for Buju, or at the very\nleast, do it for the kids. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Nattoo – Staff Reporter Guys, I\u2019m sorry (not really though), but we can\u2019t quite stop talking about Buju yet. Even if we tried, he\u2019s effortlessly making it impossible for us to. And if you were under the illusion that this will be the last we\u2019ll say of him for a while, well, I\u2019ve got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1046,1049,1048,1047],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-buju-banton","tag-incarcerated","tag-mark-myrie","tag-pay-the-price"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}