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The Early Years: 1990-1995

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This is one of the best cd that follows the career of Buju Banton! This CD has some of the best dancehall riddims on there with the heavy reggae bass line. This cd is highly recommend to all the dancehall lovers out there. People keep talking about buju making hate music and the reason Buju made boom bye bye was because a little boy was rape in Jamaica and it anger Buju so he made that song and its not like he was just sitting around and he just got an idea out of nowhere. Everyone should research the whole story of a song and the reason behind it and instead of criticizing a great artist off of one song and you have to remember Buju never made a track like that after boom bye bye. All these ignorant people always use a song that was made in 1992, to try to make Buju seem like a bad guy, they never talk about all the conscious songs he made in the present time and they always bring back the past with a song he made in the 1992 (That was one song) when he was in his teens.

Solid recording as expected by the artists. shipping, pricing and all that was fine by seller.

This has boom bye bye and good lookin gal, two of bujus biggest and best hits that were never on any of his albums, plus the dickie remix wicked dicke. Bogle, Stamina Daddy, even Big it Up, are other Buju classics not available on his regular albums, so overall, its a super collection. Its basically stuff, not even just before 1995, but before the Voice of Jamaica album which came out in like 93 or something, his first "crossover" album. There were some good tracks on that that could have been "best of" tracks, including the unique Tribal War with Tony Rebel, Terry Ganzie and others and Operation Ardent, Good Body and "A Little More Time," his best duet ever with Beres Hammond. There are no Beres-buju tracks on here. I'd say its a great idea though, because his older hits are better and different from his stuff after Voice of Jamaica album, and lots of people (me included) would want an album like this.

Good CD. I recommend this product. Buju Banton is a great artist anyway, but the CD is recommendable.

MAGNIFICENT ALBUM THAT HAS MESSAGE. I HOPE MOST JAH PEOPLE LOVES IT.JAH GUIDE!!

This album showcases Buju in his early years before he adopted his Rastafarian faith and became more spirtual. You won't find any conscious roots type songs on here, instead this is just straight up dancehall. My favorite tracks are "Batty Rider," Have Fi Get Yu Tonight," "Love How Di Gal Dem Flex," "Hotness," the infectious "Bogle," "Good Looking Gal," "Gone A Lead," the wicked, bass-heavy "Good Good," the controversial "Boom Bye Bye," "Stamina Daddy," the fast, uptempo "Mine Behind the Wine," the smooth R&B-influenced "Wicked Dickie" (the female singer provides nice vocals), and the last track "Bonafide Love." Although there really isn't a bad song on here, there are a couple of tracks that I feel didn't quite fit the rest of the album such as "Why Should I," and "Miss Joan" (not a bad song, but the chorus is sort of annoying). Conspicuous by their absence are "Man Fi Dead," and "Love Me Browning" (would have been better if these REPLACED the aforementioned tracks). Overall however, it is a excellent compilation from Buju B.

All of his early hits. I like about 8 of these tracks still. I couldn't care less about the content of the lyrics since I can't understand what he's saying anyway.

BUJU BANTON HAS A REALLY HOT ALBUM UP IN HERRE IT HAS A NICE BEAT YOU SHOULD GET IT HE SINGS HALF REGGAE AND HALF RAP GET IT!...

If you like homophobic murder music, you'll love this! Banton advocates killing gays and lesbians in a number of songs, and is wanted for questioning in the attack of six gay men. [...]

His song Boom Bye Bye talks about shooting gay men with Uzis as well as pouring acid on their heads. "Burn him up badly, like you would burn an old tyre wheel"

The best of his early time . All good songs and exciting tracks.love it...