I’m Not Bothered About COVID Affecting My EP Release — Mike Akox A genre Bender multitalented international Ghanaian artiste is very hopeful his “Patience” EP will be wholly embraced despite delays and several weeks of rescheduling due to COVID-19. According to him, he was really “looking forward to a good plug for my EP here in Ghana but times and seasons proved otherwise. The COVID came...

There's a specific kind of bleak bartering that happens at 2 AM, and Rusty Reid’s single “Piece of the Action” builds a whole four-minute economy around it. This isn't a song about the sweeping grandeur of romance; it’s a clinical look at turning “dissatisfaction” into “a transaction of love.” The language is deliberate, almost like a contract being signed on a napkin under a...