Patoranking’s fourth studio album WORLD BEST once again proves why the Nigerian born singer is the ultimate human synthesiser. Whether over a viscous drill beat or revivalist highlife, throbbing amapiano or breezy R&B, Jamaican dancehall or Ghanaian hiplife, his artistic identity is at once inimitable and mercurial.
WORLD BEST also features musical excursions into galala (Nigeria), soukous (Congo) and soca (Trinidad and Tobago), each with its own complex make of instruments and influences. “I just don’t like people seeing…
