Afropop megastar, Asake is back with a brand new album titled “M$NEY”.
“M$NEY” is his fourth studio album, which finds the Nigerian singer-songwriter cashing in stacks of the international acclaim he accrued in the intervening years, resulting in his most global-facing body of work yet.
That isn’t to say the core elements of Asake‘s sound-high-octane beats, powerful hooks, fuji influences-have been abandoned or compromised. Tracks such as “Gratitude” and “Forgiveness” marry propulsive indigenous grooves and stirring, choral refrains with soulful, soul-searching melodies; amapiano titan Kabza De Small tags in on momentum-building baller anthem “Asambe”. Even the more overt cross-genre experiments-the golden-age R&B sound of “Oba” or DJ Snake’s festival-ready drops in “WORSHIP” —retain Asake‘s sonic DNA as the dominant expression, succeeding in subsuming more instantly recognisable beats (Amerie’s 2005 smash hit “1 Thing”, as sampled on Tiakola collab “BADMAN GANGSTA”) and making them his own. It’s the same carefully managed balance of authenticity and expansion Asake has bet on for his entire career.
With “M$NEY”, Asake hits the jackpot once again!
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