Soweto (with Don Toliver, Rema & Tempoe)
Soweto (with Don Toliver, Rema & Tempoe)
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Mad! <br/><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle1><label for=toggle1><span class="annotate-lyric"> Call all your brokoto <br/></span></label><div id=content1 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Victony tells his friends (presumably) to call sexually attractive women.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle2><label for=toggle2><span class="annotate-lyric"> No go dey slogodo oh <br/></span></label><div id=content2 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He asks them not to be sluggish about it.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle3><label for=toggle3><span class="annotate-lyric"> Body dey draw me like ogbono oh<br/>Body dey rise my tonono oh <br/></span></label><div id=content3 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He is horny.  </div></div><br/> I say, call all your brokoto <br/> No go dey slogodo oh <input type="checkbox" id=toggle4><label for=toggle4><span class="annotate-lyric"> Girlie dey burst my bololo oh<br/>Girl make I salute your commodore oh <br/></span></label><div id=content4 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> The girl's body is driving him crazy and he wants to appreciate it. </div></div><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle5><label for=toggle5><span class="annotate-lyric"> Girl if you Balanciego, I give you paper <br/></span></label><div id=content5 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He will spend on her. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle6><label for=toggle6><span class="annotate-lyric"> Oh, no go do me Diego, my Maradona <br/></span></label><div id=content6 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> This is a reference to the legendary footballer- Diego Maradona. </div></div><br/> Girl if I lap your soweto, na Maphorisa <input type="checkbox" id=toggle7><label for=toggle7><span class="annotate-lyric"> Girlie your back e be tornado <br/></span></label><div id=content7 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> This is a reference to the song, Soweto by South African DJ- DJ Maphorisa.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle8><label for=toggle8><span class="annotate-lyric"> And I go follow your craze go, craze go<br/>Tunde don dey craze oh <br/></span></label><div id=content8 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He admires her and is ready to go with her. </div></div><br/> Ayy, for your waist oh <br/> And I go pay for your lace oh <input type="checkbox" id=toggle9><label for=toggle9><span class="annotate-lyric"> Go dey for your ways oh<br/>Tunde don dey craze oh <br/></span></label><div id=content9 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Tunde (presumably his friend) is going crazy for her body.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle10><label for=toggle10><span class="annotate-lyric"> Ayy, for your waist oh <br/></span></label><div id=content10 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He is ready to pay for her hair (lace wig). </div></div><br/> I go pay for your lace oh, ayy <br/> (Pay for your lace) <br/><br/><br/> New key to the bedroom (Uh) <br/> Be there when I pull up, pull up, pull up <br/> Know I’m there soon <input type="checkbox" id=toggle11><label for=toggle11><span class="annotate-lyric"> Be there when I pull up<br/>Live it up (Uhh), she wanna live it up, uh-huh (Uhh)<br/>She let me lick it up, uh-huh<br/>You know what’ll happen when I’m gonna beat it up <br/></span></label><div id=content11 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Don Toliver wants his lover to be in his room when he gets there.  </div></div><br/> So baby would you just give one reason <br/> I’ma hold your waist and watch you whine <br/> We all new to meet you <br/> Tell me your love don’t waste my time <input type="checkbox" id=toggle12><label for=toggle12><span class="annotate-lyric"> I want to get loose with you, I want to reach ecstasy<br/>I want to have sex (I want you sexually) <br/></span></label><div id=content12 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He wants to hold her and watch her dance. </div></div><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle13><label for=toggle13><span class="annotate-lyric"> When I move bae, watch my step (My step) <br/></span></label><div id=content13 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He wants her to be upfront about her feelings for him.  </div></div><br/> I need you and nobody else (Nobody else) <br/> Ask God if you got my help (Ask God) <br/> Fuck ’em all, you can meet me out here (You know) <br/> She wanna fuck like ya, ya, yeah (Ya, yeah) <input type="checkbox" id=toggle14><label for=toggle14><span class="annotate-lyric"> I need you and nobody else (Nobody else) <br/></span></label><div id=content14 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He wants her alone.  </div></div><br/> Ask God if you got my help (Ask God) <br/> Fuck ’em all, you can meet me out here (Meet me out here) <br/><br/><br/> Girl if you Balanciego (Oh, oh), I give you paper <br/> (Kirikata soweto) <br/> Oh no go do me Diego (Oh, oh), my Maradona <br/> (Kirikata soweto) <br/> Girl if I lap your Soweto, na Maphorisa <br/> Girlie your back e be tornado <br/> (Gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang) <br/> And I go follow your craze go (Gang, gang, gang, gang), craze go (Gang, gang) <br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle15><label for=toggle15><span class="annotate-lyric"> Tell me where you dey yeah, yeah, Omoge yeah, yeah <br/></span></label><div id=content15 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Rema asks his love interest to tell him where she is. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle16><label for=toggle16><span class="annotate-lyric"> Send locay, go any kilometer for your waist <br/></span></label><div id=content16 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He asks her to send her location because he can go any distance for her. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle17><label for=toggle17><span class="annotate-lyric"> Oh karashika, the beat get shaker <br/></span></label><div id=content17 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> This is a reference to a 1996 Nigerian horror film called "Karishika." It was about a beautiful but evil woman. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle18><label for=toggle18><span class="annotate-lyric"> So e means you go shake am (Shake am) <br/></span></label><div id=content18 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He wants her to dance. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle19><label for=toggle19><span class="annotate-lyric"> What is the use of my money? Take am (Take am) <br/></span></label><div id=content19 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He sees no other use for his money if not to spend on her.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle20><label for=toggle20><span class="annotate-lyric"> Smoking hot I go need inhaler <br/></span></label><div id=content20 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> She is so hot.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle21><label for=toggle21><span class="annotate-lyric"> Shey you wan dey form ogaranya oh <br/></span></label><div id=content21 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He doesn't want her to be too full of herself.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle22><label for=toggle22><span class="annotate-lyric"> Injure me, I be werey oh <br/></span></label><div id=content22 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He doesn't mind if she injures him.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle23><label for=toggle23><span class="annotate-lyric"> She say, “Baby e gba mi oh, Your thing e dey touch my belle oh”, mhmm <br/></span></label><div id=content23 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> She is also attracted to him and is overwhelmed by his body.  </div></div><br/> Yay j’aime les mauvaises filles <input type="checkbox" id=toggle24><label for=toggle24><span class="annotate-lyric"> Oh baby, comment allez vous ni <br/></span></label><div id=content24 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> In French, Rema expresses his love for bad girls.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle25><label for=toggle25><span class="annotate-lyric"> Hallelujah, hallelu’ ya <br/></span></label><div id=content25 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> French phrase that means "how are you?" </div></div><br/> As I see am hallelu’

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Credits
Produced by
Tempoe, Graux
Written by
Anthony Victor, Caleb Toliver, Michael Alagwu, Divine Ikubor, Sebastien Graux
Release date
March 22, 2023