Asake and DJ Snake’s new single “WORSHIP” is built like a cross‑continental banger that still feels unmistakably church‑boy Yoruba at its core. The track dropped in mid‑March under GIRAN Republic/EMPIRE, with DJ Snake on production and Asake as composer, and runs a tight 2:43—short, hook‑heavy and clearly engineered for playlists and TikTok loops. From the first seconds, you get that familiar Snake low‑end and synth sheen, but the rhythm structure and call‑and‑response phrasing sit squarely in Asake’s Afrobeats/Amapiano lane, making the song feel more like DJ Snake visiting Asake’s world than the other way round. You can hear that balance clearly on the single version on Apple Music here.
Lyrically, “WORSHIP” is classic Asake: big on gratitude, religious language and flex in the same breath. Early lines like “Everything you do, you must praise God, Alhamdulillah” and the repeated “worship, worship” refrain turn what could’ve been a generic “global banger” into something that sounds like a Lagos street anthem filtered through a French EDM lens. It fits neatly into the spiritual‑flex continuum he’s been building since “Organise” and “Peace Be Unto You”—the idea that success, enjoyment and worship are all part of the same testimony, especially for a Muslim kid who made it out.
The official video pushes the contrast even further. Shot with the hyper‑stylised gloss you’d expect from a DJ Snake collab, it places Asake in a series of visually rich settings—neon‑lit interiors, performance spaces, stylised crowd scenes—while he delivers lines that could just as easily sit in a live‑band church set as in a European festival slot. The camera leans into his preacher‑meets‑pop‑star persona: hands in the air, choir‑like back‑ups, pockets of crowd euphoria that make the word “worship” feel double‑coded, both spiritual and about the way fans now treat Afrobeats stars.
Culture pages and music accounts are already framing the track as another entry in 2026’s “global collab season,” where Afrobeats stars and Western producers meet in the middle instead of just trading remixes after the fact. Instagram rollout clips from Asake and DJ Snake show fans in Paris, Lagos and London reacting in real time, underlining how normal this kind of cross‑border drop now feels. One example is this announcement post, which teases the single and video together here.