{"id":83497,"date":"2021-07-01T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/konshens-davido-boom-bang\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T09:34:49","slug":"konshens-davido-boom-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/konshens-davido-boom-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Konshens and Davido reunite on the explosive &#8220;Boom Bang&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dancehall icon Konshens announces the upcoming <em>Red Reign<\/em> via track featuring Afrobeats star Davido.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by Demarco in the city of Atlanta, Konshens sees the video for &#8220;Boom Bang&#8221; as follows: &#8220;<em>We couldn&#8217;t do Jamaica, we couldn&#8217;t do Nigeria, so we met at the crossroads<\/em>.&#8221; Indeed, Atlanta is home to significant Jamaican and Nigerian diasporas. The track\u2019s aim was to take people\u2019s minds off the lockdown: &#8220;<em>It\u2019s just a fun vibe and that\u2019s what we want going into the summer. The past year has been way too serious, so we\u2019re trying to loosen things up now.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Konshens is known for collaborations alongside the likes of Cardi B, Doja Cat and Rick Ross, on which he adds the dancehall flavor. He joins forces with one of the most popular artists on the African continent <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/davido\/\">Davido<\/a>. The single is part of Konshens&#8217; <em>Red Reign<\/em>, the artist&#8217;s first project of 2021, to be released on the Oakland-based Ineffable Music label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Boom Bang&#8221; in our Songs of the Week playlist on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2Pz0eyg\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30zVbUA\" target=\"_blank\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1001\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/konshens-davido.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/konshens-davido.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/konshens-davido-759x427.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/konshens-davido-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/konshens-davido-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/konshens-davido-375x211.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancehall icon Konshens announces the upcoming Red Reign via track featuring Afrobeats star Davido. Directed by Demarco in the city of Atlanta, Konshens sees the video for &#8220;Boom Bang&#8221; as follows: &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t do Jamaica, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":83472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[20359,4827,40678,37260,23663],"location":[8082,8172,7976],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,24279,8956,11472,8996,8414,8933,37255,8402,8435,11306,8400,8543,9194],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83497"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=83497"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=83497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}