Each week, we spotlight the highest releases by means of our greatest music of the week column, Songs You Need to Hear. Here is our round-up of the perfect tracks and music movies that got here throughout our desks.
If you happen to like these music lists, you can even try our Best Songs of the Month columns following Nigerian, Ghanaian, East African and South African music.
Burna Boy “Alone”
The Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally rollout is heating up—and the total official soundtrack is now out. Whereas the 19-song soundtrack accommodates songs from a stellar crew together with Tems, Stormzy, DBN Gogo, Rihanna Rema, and lots of extra, our present spotlight is Burna Boy‘s emotional afro-fusion ballad “Alone.” Get into it above.
Stonebwoy “GIDIGBA (FIRM & STRONG)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_9RSiGbJA
Ghanaian dancehall star Stonebwoy got here by means of final week with the visuals for his beforehand launched single “Gidigba,” which interprets to “Agency & Robust” from Yoruba. The observe sees Stonebwoy moving into along with his typical Ghana-meet-Jamaiaca vocal cadences over a mid-tempo beat. The brand new Younglabi-directed music video go together with the observe title in telling a narrative of “power, grit and willpower,” a press assertion reads.
Runtown “Issues I Know”
Nigeria’s Runtown returned to the scene with a brand new track titled “Issues I Know.” The observe was launched forward of the singer’s upcoming album, Indicators, and which he is been teasing just lately on social media following an extended hiatus. “Issues I Know” blends participating afrobeats melodies with clean synthesizers to showcase excellent sonic progress from Runtown.
Que DJ x DJ Lag “The place’s Your Father”
Qu3 DJ and DJ Lag, two of South Africa’s gqom pioneers, join for the primary time in ‘The place’s Your Father,” a booming and hard-hitting new observe partly constructed on a social media pattern. “The concept for the track got here once I was DJing at a membership,” reveals DJ Lag. “Que and my finest good friend Skoro had been there and Que simply took the mic and began saying, ‘The place’s your father, the place’s your mom?”. There [was] a video of Skoro saying these strains [that] was trending on social media. Que began saying it within the membership and within the morning we headed straight to the studio to report the track.”
DBN Gogo x Sino Msolo x Kamo Mphela x Younger Stunna x Busiswa “Love & Loyalty (Consider)”
We end issues off with one other inclusion from the brand new Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally – Music From And Impressed By soundtrack. This one’s from the South African part of the soundtrack and comes as a collaboration between DBN Gogo, who’s been on a relentless sizzling streak nowadays, and fellow SAers Sino Msolo, Kamo Mphela, Yung Stunna, and Busiswa. The crew carry amapiano bass to the BP2 soundtrack above.
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