‘God’s Timing’s The Best,’ Naira Marley’s Poor Excuse For Music [REVIEW]
...a monumental letdown on an immaculate album cover
This album sucks!
Over the years, Naira Marley, living in this delusional world of falling into the category of serious rappers yet, has proven that lyrics mean little to nothing to him. Here is a man who “raps” about the same thing every time he invades the studio under the guise of voicing new music.
Since hitting the spotlight a little over five years ago, Naira Marley has successfully employed the same choice of words in all of his songs, and that, somehow, makes him assume he’s cool. Marijuana, drugs, disrespectful sex, women, etc, dominate his themes. He never stops there. He goes one step further by employing the services of rappers and singers of the same intellect to either sing the bridge or chorus to such records. And, somehow, these records thrive.
To whom do we accord all of this success? Is it to the artiste who churns out these records or to the consumers whose social situation at the time gave room for the records to build a home in their heads?
Title
‘God’s Timing’s The Best’. How lazy can an artiste be to have decided against spelling things out? But, again, he is a Taurean. Many of us who are into astrology know that this zodiac sign rules laziness. So much effort was placed into creating the artwork for this project, an artwork that remains the one major achievement of this piece of work. Why couldn’t the same be done with an album coopting an entity as huge as ‘God’? Take up space and be. Isn’t that one of the many blessings God availed us? Also, why use the Lord’s name in vain? The title and the records have nothing in common.
Artwork
A work of art….in the words of my colleague, the music betrayed this immaculate artwork. If the same level of consciousness that created the album art had found its way into the Naira Marley’s music, we’d probably be talking about that Grammy.
Jo Dada: Niphkeys did something on this track in as much as the lyrics failed to bring the beauty of his genius out. But, of course, the producer was very much aware that lyrics mean little to nothing to the artiste. ‘Jo Dada’ is, of course, a beautiful way to cement the fact that Naira Marley is a Taurean. Lazy is the keyword here.
The rest of the records on this album simply solidified the fact that Naira Marley alone is not capable of making good songs, a feat that has rarely been recorded since his emergence on the scene. A few songs stood out in the album and would probably thrive largely due to these outside interferences/few production geniuses on the project.
If and when Naira Marley decides on making music, I hope to God he does something other than lyrics circling his seeming romance with mind-altering substances and the female genitalia. Until then, and with the position the planetary bodies are currently residing in, God’s timing is far from the best that this album has to offer.
Review: Tope Delano
