![]() ![]() ![]() Even as a successful artist, people look me in the eye, and I see doubts-but they are some of the biggest reasons why I wake up in the morning and I make music. I will grow up someday, and I’ll become big.’ I traveled back to who I used to be and the things I used to say to myself, and I made the song. I used to always look at myself in the mirror and beat my chest and tell myself, ‘You see me, staying in this studio every day and making beats for people and writing songs for people-I will not do this forever. In the song, I was referring to myself four or five years ago, before I blew up. It was just supposed to be an interlude with me just talking, as usual, saying the truth, man.” He remade everything, and we redid the whole thing. I sent it out to a producer called Orlando. With any chance that I get, I’ll mention that. “I would definitely rep where I’m from every day, man. British rapper Aitch also makes an appearance on “imagine.” Below, Omah Lay talks us through key tracks from Boy Alone. The deluxe edition, released in 2023, adds six new tracks-including a remix of “soso” that links the Port Harcourt star with Puerto Rican singer and rapper Ozuna. I actually lived my reality on the album.” The whole idea was to make sure that the album was really sounding the way I felt. “If I’m saying anything in a song, it’s definitely true. “I can’t sing what’s not me,” he explains. “Trust me, I was blocked.” Rather than compartmentalize this turbulent period in favor of fantasy-filled songwriting, the man born Stanley Omah Didia conceded to the music-making acumen which has served him well in the past: mining the highs and lows of success and romantic adventures. “I had the worst days of my life recording this album,” Omah Lay tells Apple Music. Each track combines biography with fantasy, earnest songwriting, and mannered though seductive singing, whether about heartbreaks or childhood ambitions, carnal pleasures or his bouts with depression. Boy Alone’s 14 tracks set any doubts aside. A gifted songwriter, as proven in his several chart-topping singles, collaborations, and pair of EPs released in 2020- Get Layd and What Have We Done- it remained to be seen if the Nigerian Afro-fusion artist could replicate this success across a full album. Omah Lay’s debut album is a pot full of gems. ![]()
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