Date 2023-05-19
Category Lyrics, Naija Songs, New Music
Joeboy starts His new Body & Soul album with the BeatsByKO-produced song tagged, “Normally.” The piece features BNXN fka Buju, ODUMODUBLVCK. Listen, stream, read the lyrics, buy the track.
The two years between Somewhere Between Beauty & Magic and his much-anticipated sophomore album, 2023’s Body & Soul, have seen the singer grow and refine his music into a more rounded outlook on his experiences with attraction and romance. “Body & Soul is my state of mind,” he tells Apple Music. “It contains the topics I want to speak about. It’s a more vulnerable project and has a darker side. SBBM was really just good vibes all through. Body & Soul has a bit of darkness, which I feel is more realistic. Because there will always be good and bad. There’ll always be pros and cons.” In many ways, Body & Soul is a synthesis of his loving worldview as well as the pressures and pleasures of operating at the peak of Afropop. “The idea for this album is just that you can actually be yourself and you don’t have to be perfect,” he explains.
“All you need to do is be yourself and focus on being a better version of yourself.” Read on as Joeboy takes us through key tracks from Body & Soul.
“‘Normally’ talks about the kind of person I am. I don’t like stress and I don’t like drama. It doesn’t mean I won’t go through it if I need to, but it’s something that I would definitely avoid. So it’s just about me being a stress-free person, always focusing on the positives and doing my thing—also stating the fact that I’m a special person. Big shout-out to BNXN and ODUMODU on that song because everybody just came together and the synergy was one hundred.”
Joeboy – Normally (ft. BNXN fka Buju, ODUMODUBLVCK) (prod. BeatsByKO)
19 May 2023
1 Song, 3 minutes
℗ 2023 emPawa Africa Limited
Lyrics
See my bros them turn up
Yeah my brother
Real life shit no Hannah Montana
Roll my J, go about my day
No brother like stress and I no like drama
When we in the club it’s a champagne shower
Only see blessing, never see yawa
Can’t understand there’s a higher power
And we special yeah we nuh do normal no
Normally normally normally
Normally normally normally
Normally normally normally nor-mally
Yeah yeah
Mehn na normal thing
Normally normally normally
Normally normally normally yeah
Normally normally nor-mally whoa whoa whoa whoa
I say problem e no dey finish
Na why we dey burn trees dey shacky spirit
Remember when we no get you wouldn’t believe it
And I gat a couple friends to confirm the lyrics
You wouldn’t believe it
Normal normal, e go surely better
Nah dem be singing my songs like Yvonne Chaka Chaka
Now we living better
No more jaga jaga, Oluwa blessing my feet now I’m moving proper
Hallelujah fun Oloun Oba
Bo se jen sin nisi omo eru doba
If na right now mehn I go see you later
Nothing fit to shake me
If e no be paper that be normal
Hallelujah fun Oloun Oba
Bo se jen sin nisi omo eru doba
If na right now omo I go see you later
Nothing fit to shake me
If e no be paper that be normal
Physically I be like person wey drink Agbo
Spiritually my charges dey block off olosho
Fuck up any flow
MODU go turn up any show (EH)
KATAKATA ranger
OGHENEbiko (pra)
Anytime we pull up them go know
Pressure
Their kele dey hustle for my bone
Leisure
Pleasure
When I use it as a weapon (EH)
The thing dey be like say
Her body don Dey tremor
Naso I Dey waka waka
Many men tuama
Many men tuama
When I been dey fire fire
Men dem gabadaya o
Men dem gabadaya
Normally I bad (EH)
Diligent soldier
MODU covered by the spirit
Joeboy settle for your glory
Buju roll it up
Take ten tokes
Before OLOKPA come here meet us (Idiots)
Nobody go gree for their akpor
See my bros them turn up
Yeah my brother
Real life shit no Hannah Montana
Roll my J, go about my day
No brother like stress and I don’t like drama
When we in the club it’s a champagne shower
Only see blessing, never see yawa
Can’t understand there’s a higher power
And we special yeah we nuh do normal no
Normally normally normally
Normally normally normally
Normally normally normally nor-mally
Yeah yeah
Mehn na normal thing
Normally normally normally
Normally normally normally yeah
Normally normally nor-mally whoa whoa whoa
Joeboy ‘pon deck
