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Lonely at the Top
Lonely at the Top
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<input type="checkbox" id=toggle1><label for=toggle1><span class="annotate-lyric"> It's lonely at the top (Lonely, lonely, lonely) <br/></span></label><div id=content1 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Asake is at the top of his game but he feels lonely.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle2><label for=toggle2><span class="annotate-lyric"> Money on my mind (Money, money, money) <br/></span></label><div id=content2 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He has money on his mind. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle3><label for=toggle3><span class="annotate-lyric"> Don't care what they yearning about me in particular (Ko kan mi, kan mi, kan mi)<br/>Out here on the road chasing my dream because I know (No one can chase it for me) <br/></span></label><div id=content3 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He doesn't care what people are saying about him because he is focused on chasing his dreams. </div></div><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle4><label for=toggle4><span class="annotate-lyric"> Ọ́lọ-lọlade maa n gb'ọmọ lọ (Gb'ọmọ lọ) <br/></span></label><div id=content4 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He carries women. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle5><label for=toggle5><span class="annotate-lyric"> Bọrọkọtọ idi ṣ'ọmọ lọ (Ṣ'ọmọ lọ) <br/></span></label><div id=content5 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He likes curvy women.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle6><label for=toggle6><span class="annotate-lyric"> Ẹ fi wọn s'ilẹ jẹ kan ma lọ <br/></span></label><div id=content6 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Leave them alone, let them go.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle7><label for=toggle7><span class="annotate-lyric"> No dey find anybody na money I want (Me I want) <br/></span></label><div id=content7 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He is not checking for anyone, just money.  </div></div><br/> No dey hear wetin people dey talk (People dey talk) <input type="checkbox" id=toggle8><label for=toggle8><span class="annotate-lyric"> Wọn ti ge Aṣakẹ l'eti lọ (L'eti lọ) <br/></span></label><div id=content8 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> It's a Yoruba phrase directly meaning that people that have been talking about him have cut off his ears. It means that they have talked about him so much.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle9><label for=toggle9><span class="annotate-lyric"> They say life na one no get another one<br/>I go take am do wetin I love <br/></span></label><div id=content9 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> There is only one life so he will spend it doing what he loves.  </div></div><br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle10><label for=toggle10><span class="annotate-lyric"> Wetin you love o<br/>No be wetin I love o<br/>Wetin I love I go do am with all my heart o <br/></span></label><div id=content10 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> What you love is not what he loves. He will do what he loves wholeheartedly. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle11><label for=toggle11><span class="annotate-lyric"> Ogogoro no be vodka <br/></span></label><div id=content11 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> 'Ogogoro' is a local gin native to West Africa. It is not vodka. </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle12><label for=toggle12><span class="annotate-lyric"> Mr. Money ginger <br/></span></label><div id=content12 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Mr. Money is his alias.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle13><label for=toggle13><span class="annotate-lyric"> But una know I no dey waste time <br/></span></label><div id=content13 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He doesn't waste time.  </div></div><br/> Mr. Money ginger <br/><input type="checkbox" id=toggle14><label for=toggle14><span class="annotate-lyric"> Just carry girl baby no time <br/></span></label><div id=content14 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He tells a woman to hurry and leave with him.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle15><label for=toggle15><span class="annotate-lyric"> Bad boy dey me I dey fine<br/>And at the same time me I dey high <br/></span></label><div id=content15 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He is fine but intoxicated.  </div></div><br/> Mo duro tan, mo stand out calm down <input type="checkbox" id=toggle16><label for=toggle16><span class="annotate-lyric"> You go dey fine like fine wine, no decline <br/></span></label><div id=content16 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> He tells his love interest that she is fine.  </div></div><br/> Sing about it, extraordinary things <input type="checkbox" id=toggle17><label for=toggle17><span class="annotate-lyric"> Show me love, I go show you more <br/></span></label><div id=content17 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> If she shows him love, he'd reciprocate even more.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle18><label for=toggle18><span class="annotate-lyric"> O pọ lọ pọ, pọ <br/></span></label><div id=content18 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> There is a lot.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle19><label for=toggle19><span class="annotate-lyric"> Wo bo ṣe n ṣe, wo bo ṣe n ṣe<br/>Ọmọ e don tey, je a ṣ'ere d'ele <br/></span></label><div id=content19 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> The way the girl is behaving is making him want to go home with her as it's been a while.  </div></div><input type="checkbox" id=toggle20><label for=toggle20><span class="annotate-lyric"> Mo n fọ f'aye, mo ti fọ f'aye <br/></span></label><div id=content20 class="annotate-explain"><div class="annotate-text"> Life is making him more vulnerable. </div></div><br/> Ye, ye <br/><br/> Ọ́lọ-lọlade maa n gb'ọmọ lọ (Gb'ọmọ lọ) <br/> Bọrọkọtọ idi ṣ'ọmọ lọ (Ṣ'ọmọ lọ) <br/> Ẹ fi wọn s'ilẹ jẹ kan ma lọ <br/> No dey find anybody na money me I want (Me I want) <br/> No dey hear wetin people dey talk (People dey talk) <br/> Wọn ti ge Aṣakẹ l'eti lọ (L'eti lọ) <br/> They say life na one no get another one <br/> I go take am do wetin I love <br/><br/> Wetin you love o <br/> No be wetin I love o <br/> Wetin I love I go do am with all my heart o <br/> Ogogoro no be vodka <br/> Mr. Money ginger <br/> But una know I no dey waste time <br/> Mr. Money ginger

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Credits
Produced by
Blaisebeatz
Written by
Ahmed Olalade, Olamide Adedeji
Release date
June 15, 2023