- So, I'd say the inspiration behind it
for me was, me being tipsy,
me being a little tipsy.
And in life,
there are different challenges.
like, it never ends.
Like, once you get on that level,
there's always something you need to fix,
always something you need to solve,
always a problem you need to solve.
And we need that break.
And for me, at some point,
it was my sweet wine.
I'm not like encouraging alcoholism in any way,
but I understand that people need breaks.
And, but you,
trying to run away from your problems
are not going to fix them
at the end of the day, yeah.
Like, I think it's really, really special for me.
Like seeing how far the song,
how big the song is becoming
and big it's going to get.
Cause, it was like a different step in my, in my song.
Like it's not like the regular Joeboy sound that
people are used to, from the beginning.
Like, cause more or less like,
know as this kind of lover boy.
I was always like almost put in that box
and I was like,
nah, I'm done with this stuff.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing,
but I just wanted to like explore like different sounds.
And Alcohol is the first step in my sound evolving.
So it's kinda like,
it'd be never before the song drop,
or like I'm not sure people are going to accept it
the way they accept my other songs.
Cause like totally different from what I normally do.
And the reception has been amazing.
Like this is like my biggest chatting zone so far.
Since being in my car,
I like formed the numbers and the analytics,
like the biggest Joeboy song so far, you know?
And it's just beautiful. It's amazing.
A big shout out to everybody enjoying the music
and big shout out to everybody part of the process of
people listening to the music.
Yeah. So when I say blessings fall on my yard I'd say,
I'd say like it's from the little things
like from good health
to like my music blowing up like globally,
like I've been dropping music life for the past,
like three years on everything that has been doing well and
just getting bigger and bigger.
And it's just like amazing to see like people listen to my
music and they're excited. They're happy.
Like I get messages like you,
your music got me out of the depression and your music makes
me so happy. Never stop making music.
Like those are, those are the things like,
like it's a blessing and you like,
this is actually like really, really funny
But one thing I'm happy for is the fact that
I could get almost any shoe that I want.
Yeah. Cause, cause green,
nobody needs to have a little shoes and stuff like that.
And I like, I love shoes a lot.
So like it's like therapy for me.
Like if I'm feeling too down,
I just go to the store and I buy shoes
and it makes me feel good. So that's one blessing.
So yeah.
Jo jo jo (laughs)
Jo jo jo actually, the word Jo jo jo means,
please, please, please like as in Yoruba.
Like the Yoruba would. Like I'm Yoruba.
Yeah. So Jo jo jo means, please, please, please.
That part. That's why I sip my alcohol.
Um so I was sipping my wine and in my head I'm like,
why am I sipping wine? or why do people drink?
Why do people like drink?
I don't see why people would get drunk. Why do people drink?
Like it's because they want to feel good.
They want to have some feeling of positivity.
They need a break.
And that kind of influenced the next line.
Cause I don't wanna reason bad things no more.
Yeah, so people sip, I sip, personally for me.
I sip wine cause I don't wanna think about negative stuff
at that moment, and the next line,
I don't want to go back to where I dey before.
So I'll be honest.
My life was like pretty much shitty
before like the music and everything.
And I'm just happy for where I am now.
So I don't want to go back there basically.
Ebelebe, so its like popular slang from southern Nigeria.
Like eastern and southern Nigeria.
It means, I'm going to translate it directly means
you don't have know happening. Like it's going on right now.
It's happening right now. So I just have to use that.
Cause, cause, When, when it comes to Afrobeats,
you have to put like a bit of lumber.
That part that anybody can relate to.
And for me it was Ebelebe.
There's no way people are going to hear ebelebe
and don't feel that.
Even if they don't understand like everything
I've said before, then ebelebe it was just like the peak.
Like ebelebe, it means like it's going on. It's happening.
And I added that part just for balance,
you know, just for balance, just to make people be like,
be able to vibe to it. Like ebelebe, yeah yeah.
So that's just like the major idea behind that word. Yeah.
Too many distractions, too many problem.
I finna run away, but na who go solve them.
Too many badman and not enough friends.
Lord save me. Don't want to lose my conscience.
I just want to dance under the sunset.
Make nobody stop my enjoyment oh no, no, no, no, Yeah.
Yeah. So for me the biggest distractions,
like they'll always be distractions can be from
from partying too too too...
I would say, I'm not saying its a bad thing, but womanizing.
And yeah, I wouldn't say women, but that's wrong.
I'd say, womanizing just like things that
actually like take you off your purpose,
things that take you off your goals, things,
things that take you off
what you're really supposed to be doing.
And the next line: I finna run away,
but na who go solve them.
Like even if you're running away from your problems,
like nobody's going to help you fix it
you have to like go back and fix it.
Like it never ends anyways, so face that challenge,
fix stuff here, do what you have to do. Don't run.
You can run, but it's still going to come back.
So yeah.
So that's just that.
A big shout out to the producer Tempoe,
we shot Sunday's, you know, oxygen mix.
Big shout to the co-writer J Derobie.
I mean, I always love to give credit to him
and he's like lists of things.
So a big shout out to J Derobie he's an amazing artists
from Ghana dancehall.
So shout out to you. Yeah.