TRACK

2:30

Release date: 5th April 2023

From Work Of Art

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About This Track

Asake moves between Yoruba and English across '2:30', a track built on simmering percussion and synths that sets a late-night mood. The production, courtesy of Magicsticks and Blaisebeatz, sits back and lets the vocals breathe, with the chorus built around a simple, repeating hum that anchors the song's unhurried pace. The title itself marks a time, a moment when things shift into a different gear. Lyrically, Asake weighs aspiration against reality. He speaks to the gap between what others want from him and what he's willing to give, moving between boasts about money and stability and sharper observations about the cost of visibility. There's a weariness underneath the confidence, a sense of someone who has thought carefully about what he will and won't become. The Yoruba phrases ground the track in specificity, refusing the kind of smoothness that might soften its edges.

"2:30" is a track by Asake, from the album Work Of Art, released 5th April 2023. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Asake

Asake

Lyrics

2:30

[Intro]

Uh

Obah

What demma say?

Obah

Run

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

[Verse 1]

Awa de, awa de de

Awa lọmọ to n sọ ti o seke, ye

Orimọlade gbemi debẹ

Jigan jigan

Ẹsẹ mi o delẹ, delẹ

Alaye mi stop shebẹ

O fẹ jenbi, otun fẹ jenbẹ

Opọ se

Agbawo, fẹnu fo fence

Sun sẹ yin

Amọrawa, sho get?

Abinibi yato s'ability

Ẹsọ fun wọn tan ba teri si

Wọn ma pa lori

Tẹnu kọ, emi promising

Awọn tẹ fọ fun, fọ fun mi

Tori ko sẹ lomi

Many many fẹ dabi mi

Eri bi

Ẹgbọlorun tobi

Mo da aso-ẹbi for my country

You can call me Mr Money

[Chorus]

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

2:30 fẹlu

Oya ka turn up

Kilẹ to mọ

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Ye, ye, ye

2:30 fẹlu (Thirty fẹlu)

Oya ka turn up

Kilẹ to mọ

[Verse 2]

Ere moba wa kosi ja

Shokoto pen pe, ye

Ayenika, yebo, yeba

Formation logba, ye ja

Ọmọ'yami ko stay wise

Tranquility, tranquility

I no get time to dey form activity

Kole kalas, I dey find stability

Like abacha, monеy long infinity

What's the chances?

What's the probability?

To see a bеtter version of me with agility

No you can't fake reality

Ogun, principality and calamity

Mo ti lọ, mo ti pa iyen ti

Bẹbẹ no de for jiji

O shi wa n titi

Still get money like Fifty

Dripping like Fiji

I be real G

[Chorus]

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

2:30 fẹlu

Oya ka turn up

Kilẹ to mọ

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Ye, ye, ye

2:30 fẹlu

Oya ka turn up

Kilẹ to mọ

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From Work Of Art

2023

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