There’s a moment on “YBNL MAFIA” project—the first joint body of work from Olamide’s new signees—where calm piano keys followed by a sudden violin swoosh present, in the most beautiful accord yet, a solemn voice singing out a much familiar story of the Nigerian hustle. “All the pain of yesterday, I go forget am tomorrow,” Fireboy DML sings, and sings, before in-house producer Pheelz lays his exploratory fingers on the EDM touch he introduced to Soundcloud-version DML had initially uploaded months before his record deal. But before “I’ll be fine” is the sleeper hit in track 5 titled “Jealous”, a song that’d slowly become about-to-break nationwide track only four months later.
Today, with roughly 194000 YouTube views for the audio alone and a stunning Director K-directed music video, Jealous is poised to be a nationwide record hit.