Mr. Eazi Shows Love for Fiancée Temi Otedola in New ‘Legalize’ Video, Announces Debut Album

Nigerian singer-songwriter Mr. Eazi announced his future debut album by sharing direct single “Legalize” on Friday (June 10) and introducing its distinctive creative rollout.

The Banku music pioneer, who’s regarded for fusing Ghanian highlife audio with Nigerian chord patterns, shares his passion for his fiancée and Nigerian actress Temi Otedola on the individual ode, its intimate groove wonderfully underlining Eazi’s proposal in the refrain: “I do not wanna do no koro child make we legalize/ My entire globe dey quit whenever you look into my eyes/ Even if you never know child I go make you know/ I no go let you go toddler na you be my spouse.” An intercontinental staff of producers arrived collectively to make “Legalize,” which include Haitian DJ/producer Michael Brun, Nigerian producer E Kelly and Nigerian-Canadian singer/songwriter/producer Nonso Amadi.

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“I started off the song in Michael Brun’s dwelling on some edibles, freestyling. Later, I went to London and listened to what I’d recorded, and recognized what the song was about. I’ve been thinking of asking Temi to marry me for a very long time, so I guess it was in my unconscious,” Mr. Eazi claimed in a push launch. “It’s far more like this music is for me. A ton of the album I’m doing work on feels that way. I am producing songs for myself.”

Italian director Federico Mazzarisi shot the swoon-deserving songs video in Venice. Months just after Eazi had arranged to movie the “Legalize” visible in Italy and procured a ring, he made a decision that the video clip shoot was the best time to suggest to Otedola.

“Legalize” is the first single from the Afropop superstar’s still-untitled debut album, which is a ten years in the building. He refers to his previous full-size assignments, Lifestyle Is Eazi, Vol. 1: From Accra to Lagos (2017) and Lifestyle Is Eazi, Vol. 2: From Lagos to London (2018), as mixtapes. And for the rollout of his extensive-awaited debut LP, Eazi has commissioned numerous African modern day artists to generate exceptional items in the course of reside, personal performances that will serve as the include artwork for each and every solitary. In accordance to the release, “These parts will be tokenized and shared with the general public through specially curated metaverse and physical activities.”

For the “Legalize” artwork, the “Skin Tight” singer tapped Beninese painter Patricorel, who painted two skeletons keeping fingers and sharing a consume about a black canvas that “captures the intimacy of appreciate, submission, vulnerability and the finality of demise,” according to the launch. Patricorel established the “Legalize” portray final thirty day period at an invite-only party in Lagos, where Eazi first carried out the “Legalize” solitary, which Demola Falomo documented in a small film right here. “What struck me was the simple fact that he signifies enjoy with his pieces, but he attracts with skeletons,” Eazi claims of Patricorel in a statement. “I think skeletons are our most human, bare kind.”