A dancehall elder statesman incorporates the atmospherics of modern hip-hop without stooping to imitate it. No voice captures the brawn and uplift of Jamaican dancehall like Buju Banton’s. It isn’t that he’s the toughest. though he’s plenty tough; it’s that he understands toughness isn’t everything, and in fact, isn’t much. Maybe that’s why he still sounds vital chasing pum-pum in his fifties (“X Rated,”) or at least why the X-rated stuff feels at home alongside anguished political tracks like “Power”: In Banton’s music, there’s always been more to life than partying. Dancehall enthusiasts will smile at nods to the “Diseases” riddim (“We Nuh Play”) and Coxsone Dodd’s “Real Rock” (“Butterflies”), while tracks like “House Call” and “Like You” incorporate the atmospherics of modern hip-hop without stooping to imitate it. It’s funny to think about a sound so youthful and aggressively sexed-up becoming “traditional” music, but it has—and Banton’s the elder statesman.