Ten years ago, Mayorkun stepped into the spotlight with Eleko, and he is marking that anniversary the way it deserves: with new music. The Lagos favourite has released Home Training, a brand new single produced by his longtime collaborator Fresh VDM, along with an official music video.
The song draws on a feeling most Nigerians will recognise immediately. Mayorkun describes it as the kind of love that pulls a different side out of you, the kind where you have to decide when to be prim and proper and when to let your home training slide a little. The title borrows from that very Nigerian shorthand for the manners your parents drilled into you.
Home Training is also the opening track of his incoming EP, Long Live, The Mayor!, which will close with his earlier release Kaluba. The anniversary is shaping up to be a full campaign rather than a single moment, and this single is the first real taste of what the project holds.
He has been keeping a steady pace leading into this. Before Kaluba, he appeared on track ten of Harmonize's 14-track album Bumpy Ride, which kept him present in conversations without slowing down his own rollout. Add that to a back catalogue stretching from The Mayor of Lagos in 2018 through Back in Office in 2021, and it is clear he has never really left the building.
The question now is what the full EP sounds like.
Originally published by NotJustOk.