,” a sultry R&B cut with a dancehall undercurrent that satisfyingly swells during his lively verse and outro. Tapping in with Banton, a legend who dominated Jamaican music in the early 1990s, vibed well with Monét’s characteristic nostalgia., released on Sep. 8, their work together feels decidedly more modern, though just as delicious.
It too is a decadent meeting of dancehall and R&B, with Banton deejaying sensually about a lover who’s “tough on the outside but inside, she soft” and Monét cooing a romantic chorus about doing life together. Though Banton’s music has been political and spiritual, marking his journeys across Rastafarianism and incarceration and tackling matters such as safe sex, capitalism, and gun violence, he’s also been long known for songs full of lust and longing.