Asake – Lungu Boy Full Album

On his third album, 2024’s Lungu Boy, Asake bends time, space, genre, and rhythm to his will. As the indigenous sounds that converge in Lagos interact with more diasporic influences, the singer-songwriter and performer articulates his identity through imaginative musical frameworks.

“Lungu Boy explains my early beginnings in music and how it shaped me into the person I am becoming,” Asake tells Apple Music. “The English word is ‘ghetto.’ As you can tell from the choice of collaborations, Lungu Boy is my heritage and culture [spreading] to the rest of the world.”

The result is a project more expansive than his previous albums Mr. Money With the Vibe and Work of Art that welcomes LUDMILLA, Central Cee, Stormzy, Travis Scott, and Wizkid into Asake’s orbit, and where eras are collapsed via Fuji vocal samples, log drums, and nostalgic beat breaks.

This is Asake’s crystallization of an iteration of Afrobeat’s that accommodates various influences adapted from domestic and international sources. “It’s a new field,” Asake says. “I refuse to limit myself, and strive to share my African heritage with the world through a blend that goes beyond just a sound.”

Asake Lungu Boy album Track list