From her 2026 album, It’s Yemi Alade, “Alhaja” lets Nigerian Afropop artist Yemi Alade handle the single entirely on her own, without any featured vocal.
This is one of the occasions on the record when Yemi Alade does not share her personality with a collaborator, keeping the performance focused on her own delivery.
It works with a rapid Afrobeats speed, providing the vocalists a strong rhythmic background while not losing enough space for the hook to be evident. Its fluidity is at home in the dance-friendly part of the larger endeavor.
It’s an approach that works for the fanbase Yemi Alade has built up over more than a decade of Afropop releases, international tours and a library that has gone far beyond Nigeria. That global profile was only further reinforced by her first Grammy nomination in 2025.
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