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Music superstar, business visionary, and international nomad Mr Eazi will release his long-awaited, decade-in-the-making debut solo album on Oct. 27, 2023. The 16-track album is now available for pre-order here.
The announcement arrives alongside the release of the lead single Chop Time, No Friend, and its accompanying music video, shot in Dakar, Senegal, by director Allison Swank Owen.
Chop Time, No Friend is a playful return to the Banku Music sound Mr Eazi pioneered and popularised with his early singles and mixtapes. “Chop Time, No Friend is a very common Ghanaian saying, something you will see written on the front or side of buses,” Mr Eazi says. “It means when you are eating, you don’t think about anybody. You are just focused on your enjoyment.”
For Eazi, the track’s lyrics are a way to express how he doesn’t let haters distract him from enjoying the fruits of his success. “It is touching on how people chitchat on me, but I am still focused on my enjoyment,” Eazi says. “It is a declaration, a celebration of self. I am saying everything I touch turns to gold. You can’t trouble me.”
Chop Time, No Friend was produced by Andre Vibez, the beatmaker behind Rema and Selena Gomez’s Billboard Top 10 single Calm Down, and Ghana’s Killbeatz (Ed Sheeran), a key contributor to Mr Eazi’s breakthrough 2017 mixtape Life Is Eazi, Vol. 1: Accra to Lagos.