Fireboy DML closes out his ZUKO album with something raw and unguarded. The track is called FIGHTING, and from the first line, he is not pretending everything is fine.
He opens with a quiet gratitude, thankful for friends, family, and the life he has built, but he does not stay there long. Tears in his eyes, a fake smile on his face, stepping onto the stage anyway. That tension between public performance and private pain runs through the whole song.
The hook pulls no punches. He is still smoking, still unsure, still telling himself he will be fine without fully believing it. The word "soldier" carries weight here, not as a brag but as a confession that the fight is ongoing and exhausting.
What makes FIGHTING land is the honesty in that Pidgin line: "I no know why I dey like this." No neat explanation, no resolution. Just a man sitting with his own confusion and putting it on record for the world to hear.
As the final track on ZUKO, it does not wrap things up neatly. It leaves you wondering what comes next for Fireboy, and something tells you he is still figuring that out too.
Originally published by NotJustOk.