Mr P’s new album, “OG Forever,” is out on Friday, November 20, and its opener, “Nothing to Prove,” comes first, on Friday, November 13. Four of the guest names on its tracklist are still blank.
Peter Okoye posted the cover and tracklist this evening and said the album had taken him two years: “Two years of recording, sleepless nights, going back to the studio, mixing, mastering and sometimes starting all over again because I knew I could do better.” The cover turns him into a silver statue in shades and a backwards cap, mic in hand, a crowd of hands reaching up from below. Forty minutes later he came back to add that “Nothing to Prove” was coming first.
Four of the 15 songs are already out, and anyone who has followed his solo releases will know them. “Winning,” from late 2024, sits at No. 9. “I Can’t Look Away” came out in June and is track 2, “I Love You Because” followed in August and is track 12, and “Chukwu Mee,” released on October 1, is track 14, just before the closer, “Back 2 Back.”
The missing guests sit on three songs: one on “Brown Sugar,” two on “No Case” and one on “Shebi You Dey Whine Me.” “I know some of you are already looking at those missing names,” he wrote, and promised to reveal them soon.
“OG Forever” comes five years after The Prodigal, his first solo album, a 16-track record from April 2021 that had Tiwa Savage, Wande Coal, Teni, Simi and Tamar Braxton on it. It arrived after years as one half of P-Square.
He has 11 days to fill in the blanks.