The title of Burna Boy’s mournful but impassioned new song “20 10 20” refers to the date of the deadly events last month in the suburb of Lekki in Nigeria, when security forces opened fire on a crowd peacefully protesting state police brutality by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, known as SARS. Like much of his excellent recent album “Twice as Tall,” “20 10 20” filters political rumination through a prism of deeply felt personal emotions: “Suffer, suffer, water runaway my eyes,” he croons. But Burna Boy also draws strength from the revolutionary spirit of his lodestar Fela Kuti, to whom he nods when he sings, “Everything done scatter, scatter.” LINDSAY ZOLADZ
Maluma and the Weeknd, ‘Hawái Remix’
The Weeknd doesn’t just add English lyrics — and his own first vocals in Spanish — to the remix of Maluma’s international hit “Hawái.” In his crisp reggaeton ballad, Maluma sang about an ex who was…
