{"id":974014,"date":"2019-12-12T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=925243"},"modified":"2019-12-12T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:50:10","slug":"wande-coal-previews-realms-ep-with-brassy-ode-lo-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/wande-coal-previews-realms-ep-with-brassy-ode-lo-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Wande Coal Previews \u2018Realms\u2019 EP With Brassy \u2018Ode Lo Like\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/wande-coal-song.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span>After remaining relatively quiet for most of 2019, the Nigerian singer Wande Coal released a new single titled \u201cOde Lo Like\u201d on Thursday. The track marks Coal\u2019s first release through Empire, and it precedes the <\/span><i><span>Realms <\/span><\/i><span>EP \u2014 the first project from the singer since 2015 \u2014 which is due out March 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOde Lo Like\u201d builds around a sinuous guitar line and cheerful synth-horns from producers Dapiano and Screwface. \u201c\u2018Ode Lo Like\u2019 is a [Nigerian] phrase which means \u2018They love fools,&#8217;\u201d Coal explains. \u201cIt\u2019s a street [slang] generated for people taking advantage of entertainers and \u2018cool personalities\u2019 and seeing them as fools, and liking them because they are easily accessed and [they] easily give in. I\u2019m saying: They love fools, but we are not fools \u2014 we know what we are doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Coal is the latest Nigerian singer to earn a deal with an American label or distribution company. RCA has signed Davido and Wizkid, Atlantic has Burna Boy, Columbia briefly had a deal with Tekno, and Santi is now affiliated with LVRN. Tina Davis, VP of A&amp;R at Empire, called Coal \u201ca true star and incredibly talented writer.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOde Lo Like\u201d follows \u201cVex,\u201d a buzzing single released quietly in November. Other than, Coal has restricted himself to guest verses on other singer\u2019s tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/wande-coal-ode-lo-like-925243\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After remaining relatively quiet for most of 2019, the Nigerian singer Wande Coal released a new single titled \u201cOde Lo Like\u201d on Thursday. The track marks Coal\u2019s first release through Empire, and it precedes the Realms EP \u2014 the first project from the singer since 2015 \u2014 which is due out March 6. \u201cOde Lo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 18:10:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}