PrettyboyDO ruggedity, rigidity and resilience relfects on new single – Living in Bondage. Right from the intro, prettyboydo shows he is not ready to bend or bow to any opposition, he says: “My mama wake up every morning, pray to God say: ‘protect my only son’. Me say: ‘ mama don’t pray for me, pray for them’”.

Living in Bondage is prettyboydo’s way of saying no matter what his thrown his way in form of opposition and persecution, he will never wave the white flag.

“Mom I’m at war / Say a prayer cause I’m in war” he reveals on the first track before complementing it on the chorus with the statement, “Bondage Bondage / Say me living in bondage / Here tomorrow’s not promised / ‘Cause me living in bondage”.

PrettyboyDO highlights some circumstances leading to him Living in Bondage, they include gang activities or insecurities and backward mentality of people he is surrounded by but in spite of all that, he sings on how focused he is on the paper chase and how he will not allow their poor reasoning affect him.

Listen to Living in Bondage; the track’s production is handled by Trill XO and Tochi Bedford.

One thing Rema is not scared of doing is experimenting with sounds and that he did to the full effect on latest song—Soundgasm—produced by frequent producer collaborator, London.

The guitar strings introduces listeners to the pleasing “Do-oh, do-oh, do-oh, do-oh, do-oh, do-oh, do-oh, do-oh, ah-ah” sung by Rema on the chorus of the song, just in time for the Afrobeat sample to kick in.

If Rema’s aim was to actually secret body fluids before making listeners ears shake like they were being vibrated, then he accomplished that in flying colours as he lays beautiful verses by using different sexual innuendos to connote different sex foreplay and positions; on the second verse he boasts of his ability to please and outperform any girl’s sexual expectations of him, “Shorty got a lot in her bucket list / I give her number one, she need a bucket quick / And when we done, she feel me like a majesty”.

One thing I like about Rema’s sound is his continual experimentation of sound and that again was explored on the bridge of Soundgasm, he goes full-on asmr whispering: “Baby girl your body is my medicine
Sweet baby melanin sweeter than sugarcane / If I hickey, hickey on her neck / Sex like a gangster, one my face, innocent” before going fully uncensored on the next few lines.

From the strings to the conspicuous baseline to the intermediary Afrobeat sample, London worked his magic on the production for Soundgasm. An excellent job from both of them, Rema and London.

Listen to Soundgasm. The music video for Rema’s latest banger currently premieres on Apple Music. It should be up for streaming on YouTube and other platforms anytime from 12 PM WAT today.

Dagbana Replubik artiste, “Fine boy” Bella Shmurda releases artwork and the month of release pertaining to the follow-up to 2020 groundbreaking successful Extended Play (EP), “High Tension”, as he is set to release the part two, tagged—High Tension 2.0.

No further detail is known regarding the rollout of High Tension 2.0 as to whether it will also be an EP or go all out to feature as a Long Play (LP) or album. Bella Shmurda announced in form of a written poetry:

There are people who are born to shine. Stars, you cannot dim their light.
No matter what happens, no matter what life throws at them
They stand tall, they chase the bag.
They continue to break stereotypes, they break standards.
Successful people equal High Tension.
As lightening is forever due to strike, they will do whatever it takes for them to shine.

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The first version to “High Tension” released last year churned out hits including “Vision 2020” (featuring Olamide), “Sho Mo Mi”, “Liqour” among others while Bella Shmurda’s been having an eventful 2020 with the release of “Rush” and “World”.