Buju Banton Came Home After 7 Years in Prison

After serving seven years behind bars following a problematic trial and controversial conviction, Buju Banton has at last completed his Long Walk To Freedom. On Friday, December 7th he was released from prison-one day early-and accepted voluntarily deportation back to his island homeland of Jamaica. Currently enroute home, Buju Banton is filled with anticipation over the simple things so many of us take for granted in our day-to-day lives. When asked the first thing he was looking forward to when you return home, the artist’s response was: “A clean glass of water to flow through my system.”

Although he has not release any new songs since ‘Before the Dawn,’ which won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album, Buju‘s music remains popular. During the past year alone, he racked up over 22 million streams on Spotify alone, including one of his biggest and most controversial singles of his career Boom Bye Bye.