Cloak and Dagger lyrics meaning Burna Boy
Here is Burna Boy’s Cloak and Dagger lyrics meaning
Cloak and Dagger lyrics meaning
Cloak and Dagger literally means what you wear to protect your body, and what you carry to protect yourself. It bears more figurative than literal meaning
Cloak and Dagger lyrics meaning shows that Burna Boy is a calculative person who predicts when and how people make “attacks” against him and that’s why he is always wearing Cloak and Dagger to protect himself.
Examining the first stanza and Chorus, Cloak and Dagger lyrics meaning is Burna Boy’s way of saying that he may never fall because he predicts people’s actions against him and he acts based on it.
Also, Cloak and Dagger lyrics meaning depict how he is holding it all together for so long. I mean, this is his 6th studio album.
We can also say Cloak and Dagger lyrics meaning is a representation of Burna Boy’s status in the music industry.
His musicality and artistry are unchallenged. He is the first Nigerian to win a Grammy Award and he is still making moves that always puts him ahead of others.
That is what Cloak and Dagger means
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Lyrics
{Burna Boy}
Ma lo ro se
Oh my God
Success, is all I want (Funkula)
Oti pe n’be
Shey ibeyen le ma sun
Oti pe n’be
Shey ibeyen le ma duro
Them dey pray make I fall and stagger
So I move in cloak and dagger
Might see me in black bandana
In a Lambo with Jowi Zaza
[?] with a pocket full of rubber
No shirt looking like an armed robber
Since I start dem dey carry my matter
No be now e go scatter my dada (Huhn)
Oti pe n’be
Shey ibe le ma sun
Oti pe n’be
Shey ibe le ma duro
{J Hus}
Yeah, yo
Them dey pray we go fall and stagger
Are you mad? You know why them man are call me Baba?
To catch I, you gon need one bigger
and a taller ladder (Big one)
Just there dancing, dagger
I’m outside chilling, ragga
What’s all the higgi-hagga?
When I come with the yinki yanka (Big one)
And my jacket was shining like Bianca
Now them man there wish them never done that (What?)
Now everybody Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder
Niggas doing 8 mile when they hear the thunder
Make a nigga wake up, rise from your slumber
I ain’t even green yet, man, I’m still on amber
Why you wanna see me fall down, see me under?
Sometimes I gotta think hard, and I ponder
They can come close, come here but they want to
Just stay far, stay there, smoke a ganja
24 hours ain’t enough for gangsta (Nah)
No sleep, now my eyes looking like a panda
Do them man them there really wanna passa-passa? (What?)
When you pull up them gon have to call for Jah Jah
Go and call for Ya Allah
See me ah marga
When your time has come, nigga, don’t make it harder
Can’t catch ’em today, so we gon’ see tomorrow
Only witness was Tia and Tamara
{Burna Boy}
Them dey pray make I fall and stagger
So I move in cloak and dagger
Might see me in black bandana
In a Lambo with Jowi Zaza
[?] with a pocket full of rubber
No shirt looking like an armed robber
Since I start dem dey carry my matter
No be now e go scatter my dada
Profile
With his fusion of dancehall, reggae, Afrobeat, and pop, Burna Boy emerged in the early part of the 2010s as one of Nigeria’s fastest-rising stars.
The LeriQ-produced 2012 single “Like to Party” proved to be his breakout track and paved the way for his full-length debut, L.I.F.E, a year later. Over the next five years, Burna released two more albums and collaborated with a variety of artists, from J Hus and Skales to Fall Out Boy and Lilly Allen.
His international exposure widened with 2018’s Outside, which hit number three on the Billboard Reggae chart and won the Nigeria Entertainment Award for Album of the Year. 2019’s African Giant and 2020’s Twice as Tall were both widely acclaimed and charted in several countries.
After becoming the first Nigerian to headline a show at Madison Square Garden, he released his sixth album, Love, Damini, in 2022. Burna Boy was born Damini Ogulu in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, in 1991. He began making music at just ten years old when a fellow classmate at school gave him a copy of the production software FruityLoops.
Armed with these means, he began to create his own beats on an old computer. After he graduated, he moved to London to attend university, but he dropped out after two years and moved back to Nigeria. In 2010, the 19-year-old Ogulu traveled to Nigeria’s southern coast, where a mutual acquaintance, producer LeriQ, had some studio space.
This marked a period when he began to connect to the music of his native country, having spent most of his youth immersed in American acts like DMX. He delved into the dancehall and reggae music his father listened to and explored the Afro-beat music preferred by his grandfather (who had also been Fela Kuti’s first manager).
As a result of his new discoveries, Ogulu created a confluence of genres that would become his signature sound. With production by LeriQ, Burna Boy created “Like to Party,” which marked his rise to prominence and generated a local buzz along the way. 2013 saw the release of his debut studio album; featuring guest slots from Wizkid, Timaya, 2face, and M.I., L.I.F.E drew favorable reviews from the music press.
For his sophomore effort, 2015’s On a Spaceship, Burna parted ways with both his record company and LeriQ, and delivered a record even more diverse than his first. In 2017, he teamed up with producer Juls for the single “Rock Your Body.” A host of singles followed throughout the year, including “GBA,” “Streets of Africa,” “Koni Baje,” and “Sekkle Down,” featuring J Hus.
After releasing the Lily Allen-aided single “Heaven’s Gate” in early January 2018, Burna delivered his third album, Outside, later that month.
He returned a year later with the single “Killin Dem,” a collaboration with Zlatan. Along with additional singles like “Dangote” and “On the Low,” it was later included on his fourth album, African Giant, which saw release in July 2019. The LP was nominated in the Best World Music Album category of the 62nd Grammy Awards.
In August 2020, Burna issued the full-length Twice as Tall, which became his highest charting album to date, reaching number 54 on the Billboard 200 and faring even better in Europe and Canada.
It went on to win a Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album. Featured on the album were guest appearances by Youssou N’Dour, Naughty by Nature, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and others.
“Rotate,” a collaboration with Becky G, arrived in 2021, as did the solo single “Kilometre.” Burna performed a sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden in April 2022, becoming the first Nigerian artist to headline a show at the famed New York venue.
Led by the Toni Braxton-sampling hit “Last Last,” his sixth album, Love, Damini, was released on July 2, his 31st birthday
Credits: Bekki Bemrose, Rovi
