Listen to Johnny Drille’s new “What Is This Love” song featuring Nonso Amadi, co-produced by HeyGODDY from the “Before The Morning Light” album. Stream, buy the track, mp3 download.
Nigerian singer Johnny Drille spent the last five years in quiet. He disappeared into fatherhood, into intimate songwriting, into live sessions that prioritized feeling over frenzy. His 2021 debut Before We Fall Asleep established him as an emotionally articulate voice in a genre driven by tempo. Now he returns with the follow-up, Before The Morning Light, a 14-track sophomore album released in May 2026 via Mavin Records. “What Is This Love,” the thirteenth track on the project, pairs Drille with fellow Nigerian vocalist Nonso Amadi for a conversation about the uncertainty that lives at the heart of romance.
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The song runs three minutes. Production credits list HeyGODDY and Johnny Drille himself. The arrangement leans into soft percussion, atmospheric pads, and clean guitar lines, none of which compete for attention. Drille opens the track with his signature calm, a voice that has soothed listeners since his 2015 cover of Di’Ja’s “Awww” first caught Don Jazzy’s ear. He asks a question the rest of the song refuses to answer: “What is this love?” Nonso Amadi, the Canadian-based singer-songwriter who has amassed over 130 million digital streams and collaborated with Mr Eazi, Simi, and Majid Jordan, enters with a counterpoint. His delivery is airy, almost weightless, a subtle R&B influence that complements Drille’s folk-inflected tone. Together, they explore emotional vulnerability, confusion, and the quiet ache of a connection you cannot name.
The track arrives as a standout on an album that also features Angelique Kidjo, Fireboy DML, Tiwa Savage, Ayra Starr, Lojay, and Young Jonn. Drille announced the project through a now-viral video featuring his daughter, Amaris, a moment of fatherhood that became part of the album’s emotional architecture. “What Is This Love” captures that same intimacy. It is a duet built for headphones, not arenas. Stream it now on all major platforms. No official music video has been released at this time.
Johnny Drille, Nonso Amadi – What Is This Love
From the “Before The Morning Light” project
Produced by HeyGODDY, Johnny Drille
2026-05-15 • 1 song, 3 minutes
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