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Be I Strong

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This new album from Sizzla is just excellent. It portrays just how versatile Sizzla is in his music and it shows that he is getting better and better all the time. From track one to sixteen, this album has you entranced in great conscious music and deserves to be called one of Sizzla's best ever, if not the best. I believe this artist will go very far with his music.

In the grand scheme of things "Be I Strong" didn't make alotta noise, but it was a very very good album. It isn't the most consistently good album Kalonji has done, it certainly has its share of average songs, "The Vibes" with Capleton is kind of a party sounding track which is unfortunate because anytime those 2 get together, nothing but a classic should be produced. But against the average tracks, it also has magnificent sounding music, like "Men & People", "Stop the Youth" and the album's best track "POWERFUL". Also check out "No Chance". Overall its pretty average Kalonji, but average Sizzla still makes a better than average and pretty good record anyday.

Finally ... A reggae album to lift reggae music forward in the traditions of the great Bob Nesta Marley. Sizzla have proven that he's for real and has drop an album of which will be the yardstick use to judge reggae music in the new millenium...nuff said.

My personal favorite Sizzla album. Here Kalonji exhibits consciousness of the highest order. The positivity and righteousness is overflowing in "Be I Strong". Sure it didnt get the recognition it deserved, partly Sizzla's fault for releasing too many albums within a year (People wont be able to inhale it all), but the consistency in conscious lyricism along with continuous reggae production throughout(it has a refreshing lack of hip hop influenced reggae beats), this album is heads above the rest. Bless Bless!

My personal opinion Sizzla is getting very boring. The best Sizzla cd's are BLACK,WOMAN &CHILD-PRAISE YE JAH & FREEDOM CRY.He is a good artist but he needs to experiment some more musically.