"Getting Paid" is a four-way conversation between some of the most significant voices in current Afrobeats and dancehall, assembled by Sarz, the Lagos-born producer who has been one of the genre's key architects since helping define the mid-2010s sound. Asake brings the Afropop energy that made him one of the biggest names in the Nigerian music scene; Wizkid provides the weight of an artist who has been doing this at the highest level since before most of his contemporaries were known; Skillibeng brings Kingston's dancehall tradition to the arrangement. Sarz has said he approaches production as building a party that everyone at a different table needs to want to attend. "Getting Paid" is that approach with the guest list at full capacity. The production is warm and propulsive, the features do not compete, and the result is a track that moves at a rate designed for maximum physical response. This is Afrobeats operating at the level where the collaborations are genuinely earned rather than assembled for marketing purposes. Four different artists, four different geographic and stylistic points of origin, one coherent track.
Sarz, Asake, Wizkid, Skillibeng