Oshaprapra
Victony, Shorae Moor...
I just had a session with Shorae (singer & songwriter) at KTIZO’s studio in Lagos. Shorae and I usually have random
sessions from time to time. He’s someone I love to write with. He’s really big in the Afrobeats writing space, although
we don’t acknowledge writers that much, but he’s at the top of the game. I love writing with Shorae because when we
write, it’s very collaborative. He does melodies, I put lyrics. “Oshaprapra” came from one of those days where we’re
just vibing and DJ Notorious [one half of KTIZO]–that’s the name of the producer who made the beat, and I was in love
with the chords. I was like, “I need to try something,” and we just started working on it. We decided on the theme of
the song together. When we started writing it, I had an idea of what I wanted it to be about, and we did the schemes
together. I asked him what “Oshaprapra” meant, and he said it means shiny skin. So, I just decided to follow that theme
of being through hellfire and still having a shiny skin. It was a metaphor for the song. Funny thing is that at the end
of the session, I told the producer to scrap everything that we did because I liked the beat, and I didn’t think what we
had done was enough to complement the beat. He just said okay, but he didn’t scrap it. The next day, he sent it to me
and told me it was crazy. I told him I’d listen to it. I was supposed to travel to London at the time, so I listened to
the song on the flight to London, and I was like, “Okay, this is something.” When I got to London, I played it for the
team, and everyone liked it because it tapped into the energy that everyone was feeling. I started liking it as well,
and I loved it at the end of the day. I recently saw a tweet I made in 2023 where I said, “Intro: Oshaprapra,” and I
didn’t even have the idea for Stubborn at the time.
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