Wande Coal’s next single is “Kowope,” and it arrives Thursday, November 12. He set the date himself this afternoon with an 18-second clip and five words: “See You All on Thursday.”
The clip drops an owambe into a bank. Guests in gele and sequinned aso-ebi sweep through a green-walled banking hall with ivory hand fans raised, a man in a blue agbada and dark glasses leads them in, and elders in white agbada and fila lean over the Teller 4 counter with slips in hand. The cover, already up for pre-add on Apple Music, is just as loud: a gold grill, two cowrie-studded fila stacked one on the other, and a pile of sliced bread pressed to the ear like a phone.
He has been hinting at the title for two weeks. On October 26 he posted himself dancing alone on a high-rise balcony with the caption “KOWOPE SZN.”
That tease ran into “Ndewo,” his duet with Phyno on Let That Sink In, out since October 30. “It’s Beautiful To See How People Have Started Greeting Me With ‘NDEWO,’” he wrote on November 2. “Kowope” is his first solo single since KING COAL, the 15-track album he released on June 26 with Wizkid, Tiwa Savage, BNXN and Ruger among the guests, alongside Dera and LAZ, the two singers he signed to his Black Diamond label. Black Diamond is the name on the new single too.
Pre-add “Kowope” on Apple Music.