Peruzzi opens "Inferno" with a confession: your love is carrying me over, and there is no point pretending otherwise. The track, which features Zlatan and Shoday, sets its tone early with that mix of vulnerability and swagger that Afrobeats does so well. Peruzzi is not here to play it cool. He is running the whole thing undercover because he simply cannot hide what he feels.
The pre-chorus is where the track gets cheeky. Peruzzi and Zlatan trade lines about standing at her gate, waiting, ready, and not going anywhere. The wordplay is bold and the energy is playful rather than aggressive, the kind of flirty banter that makes you smile even when you know exactly what they are saying.
Shoday steps in for the second verse and softens things just a little. He is begging for love like bambiala, promising to buy the world, calling her his Rihanna. Then Zlatan drops the line that reframes the whole song: "it's time to what? Time to marry." Suddenly "Inferno" is not just about attraction. It is about someone realising the heat they feel might actually be something worth keeping.
Zlatan closes things out with a Yoruba refrain that speaks to following someone's lead, front and back, in every direction. It is playful, it is musical, and it lands the track exactly where it wants to be: somewhere between a love song and a great night out.
The real question "Inferno" keeps asking, right there in the chorus, is whether any of this chemistry is love or just good timing. Peruzzi sounds like he already knows the answer.
Originally published by NotJustOk.