Okyeame Kwame has always found ways to stay ahead or at least, keep abreast with prevailing momentum in the music business and it appears one of the strategies he is wielding now is to unleash inspiring pieces with input from stars drawn from across the continent.
His newest song, It’s Your Time, came out last week. Featuring Congolese singer, Lelo, the track scores a big point for the Rap Dacta as a well-focused songwriter, singer and rapper driven to use his talents as a factor for positive change in audiences.
In It’s Your Time, a song efficiently produced by Ben Kusilin of One Mic Entertainment Studios, Okyeame relies on familiar sketches and names to tell a story about patience, hard work, perseverance and gain.
Singing most of the time in Twi with occasional lines in English, he touches on moments of discouragement and how to rally around again to claim glory.
It is your time to rise
It is your time to stand
It is your time to walk
It is your time to run
It is your time to fly
It is your time to dance.
Lelo has a similar uplifting message in French and for those keen to dance to the track, producer, Ben Kusilin, has provided the right grooves for that.
Placing infectious ‘adowa’ rhythms on top of crisp guitar licks and tight percussion, he makes it almost impossible for the listener to stand still.
It’s Your Time is an appropriate follow-up to Try Another Time which Okyeame released last year with Nigerian star, J Martins.
Like this new piece, that song also encourages folks not to give up in life but to rather keep trying till success unfolds.
Okyeame Kwame knows how to run with the times. He is aware that he needs to make better inroads into Francophone Africa so Lelo’s presence on It’s Your Time is partly to help pave the way for that.
It is a good, jumpy song by all standards and it is hoped listeners find the intended inspiration in there while the Rap Dacta also finds the additional markets he so badly needs.
