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<input type="checkbox" id=toggle1><label for=toggle1><span class="annotate-lyric"> E don cast, <br/></span></label><div id=content1 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> A Nigerian phrase that means "it has scattered" or "the worst has happened." </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle2><label for=toggle2><span class="annotate-lyric"> Last last,<br/>Na everybody go chop breakfast <br/></span></label><div id=content2 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> In the end, everyone will "chop breakfast" which means disappointment (heartbreak in this context).  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle3><label for=toggle3><span class="annotate-lyric"> Shayooo<br/>Shayooo <br/></span></label><div id=content3 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Nigerian slang for alcohol. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle4><label for=toggle4><span class="annotate-lyric"> Igbo <br/></span></label><div id=content4 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Nigerian slang for marijuana.  </div></div><br/><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle5><label for=toggle5><span class="annotate-lyric"> You go bow for the result o <br/></span></label><div id=content5 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> You will be blown away by the result.   </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle6><label for=toggle6><span class="annotate-lyric"> Nothing to discuss o, cause I dey win by default o<br/>And without any doubt o, <br/></span></label><div id=content6 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Burna Boy undoubtedly wins by default.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle7><label for=toggle7><span class="annotate-lyric"> Omo me I be adult o<br/>I no go fit take your,<br/>I no go fit take your insult o<br/>Omo mind as you dey talk o <br/></span></label><div id=content7 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He is an adult and will not take insults so he warns (people) to mind how they talk.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle8><label for=toggle8><span class="annotate-lyric"> I put my life into my job <br/></span></label><div id=content8 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He puts his all into his job. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle9><label for=toggle9><span class="annotate-lyric"> And I know I’m in trouble<br/>She manipulate my love oo, <br/></span></label><div id=content9 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He knows he is in trouble as his (now former) lover manipulated him.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle10><label for=toggle10><span class="annotate-lyric"> Hmm, I no holy ooo and I no denge pose<br/>Like e Baba Fryo, <br/></span></label><div id=content10 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> This is a reference to "Denge Pose" by Nigerian singer- Baba Fryo. It was released in 1998.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle11><label for=toggle11><span class="annotate-lyric"> My eye o don cry o <br/></span></label><div id=content11 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He has cried so much.  </div></div><br/><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle12><label for=toggle12><span class="annotate-lyric"> I need Igbo and shayo (shayooo)<br/>I need Igbo and shayo (shayo)<br/>I need Igbo and shayo (shayooo)<br/>I need Igbo and shayo<br/>(shayo) Shayo, (shayo) Shayo<br/>I need Igbo and shayo (shayooo)<br/>I need Igbo and shayo (shayo)<br/>I need Igbo and shayo<br/>(shayo) Shayo, (shayo) Shayo <br/></span></label><div id=content12 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He needs marijuana and alcohol to feel better.  </div></div><br/><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle13><label for=toggle13><span class="annotate-lyric"> I dey Port Harcourt when dey kill Soboma <br/></span></label><div id=content13 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Port-Harcourt is the capital of Rivers State in southern Nigeria. He was there when Soboma George was killed. Soboma was a militant in the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta and The Outlaws. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle14><label for=toggle14><span class="annotate-lyric"> I dey try to buy motor, one Toyota Corolla <br/></span></label><div id=content14 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He was trying to purchase a Toyota Corolla car when it happened.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle15><label for=toggle15><span class="annotate-lyric"> My feelings been dey swing like Jangolova<br/>Feelings been dey swing like Jangolova <br/></span></label><div id=content15 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> His feelings were all over the place. "Jangolova" is a word coined by Yorubas in south-western Nigeria. It was coined from the nursery rhyme-  “Jingle over, like a motor." The word is used to refer to a swing, merry-go-round or any playing equipment that goes round or back and forth. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle16><label for=toggle16><span class="annotate-lyric"> Now you scratch your Ferrari for Lekki Burna <br/></span></label><div id=content16 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He had an accident while driving his Ferrari in Lekki which is located in Lagos, Nigeria.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle17><label for=toggle17><span class="annotate-lyric"> Na small thing remain, could have been run-over <br/></span></label><div id=content17 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> It was a near-death experience because he was almost run over.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle18><label for=toggle18><span class="annotate-lyric"> My feelings still dey swing like Jangolova<br/>Feelings still dey swing like.. <br/></span></label><div id=content18 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> His feelings are all over the place.  </div></div><br/><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle19><label for=toggle19><span class="annotate-lyric"> Ti ma ni ke ju’ru, e ju’ru<br/>Omo why ti o kin fe ni suru? <br/></span></label><div id=content19 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He asks his ex why she can't be patient.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle20><label for=toggle20><span class="annotate-lyric"> Why you say I did nothing for you? <br/></span></label><div id=content20 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He asks her why she said he did nothing for her.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle21><label for=toggle21><span class="annotate-lyric"> I for do anything you want me to do <br/></span></label><div id=content21 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He would've done anything she asked.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle22><label for=toggle22><span class="annotate-lyric"> Ti ma ni ke ju’ru, e ju’ru<br/>Omo why ti o kin fe ni suru? <br/></span></label><div id=content22 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text">He asks his ex why she can't be patient.  </div></div><br/> Why you say I did nothing for you? <br/> I for do anything you want me to do <input type="checkbox" id=toggle23><label for=toggle23><span class="annotate-lyric"> Maybe another time, maybe another life<br/>You will be my wife and we’ll get it right <br/></span></label><div id=content23 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He expresses his wish to make her his wife in another life or maybe another time when they get it right.  </div></div><br/> E don cast, last last, na everybody go chop breakfast <br/><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle24><label for=toggle24><span class="annotate-lyric"> Have to say bye bye o,<br/>Bye bye o to the love of my life<br/>My eye ooooh don cry o <br/></span></label><div id=content24 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He has to bid the love of his life goodbye.  </div></div><br/><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle25><label for=toggle25><span class="annotate-lyric"> I need Igbo and shayo (shayoooo)<br/>I need Igbo and shayo (shayo)<br/>I need Igbo and shayo (shayoooo)<br/>I need Igbo and shayo <br/></span></label><div id=content25 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text">He needs marijuana and alcohol to feel better.  </div></div><br/> (shayo) Shayo, (shayo) Shayo <br/><br/><br/> I need Igbo and shayo <br/> I need Igbo and shayo (shayoooo) <br/> I need Igbo and shayo <br/> (shayo) Shayo, (shayo) Shayo

Credits
Produced by
Ruuben, MD$, Off & Out & Chopstix
Written by
Chopstix, Rodney Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, James Malcolm Olagundoye, Harvey Mason Jr., Fred Jerkins III & Burna Boy
Release date
May 13, 2022