No Sign of Weakness
No Sign of Weakness Album ∙ Afro-fusion ∙ 2025 Burna Boy The man who in 2019 knew well enough to declare himself the African Giant may not have needed a Mick Jagger collaboration to certify his rock-star bona fides, but with his eighth studio album, No Sign of Weakness , that is what Burna Boy saw fit to deliver. “Shout-out to Naomi Campbell,” the Nigerian-born superstar tells Apple Music’s Ebro Darden. “It was literally her idea. She was like, ‘You and Mick Jagger would be so legendary.’ And she pressed about it for so long.” The song is called “Empty Chairs” and is a unique classic-rock/Afrobeats hybrid—just one of a wealth of disparate vibes Burna explores across No Sign of Weakness , an album whose title implies a plan for continued dominance while asserting a pronounced lack of fear in his musical practice. “I was trying to make something that I haven’t made before,” Burna says. “In a sense that I’m trying to do the opposite of everything I’ve ever done—in a...
