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Black Coffee and his eldest son Esona Tyolo have landed co-writing and production credits on a song on Drake’s new album.
The superstar DJ first introduced the world to Esona as a collaborator when he invited his son up to the podium at the Grammys 2022 to collect his award for Best Electronic/Dance Album.
“Texts Go Green” is the third track on Drake’s surprise album Honestly, Nevermind – which was released on Friday, 17 June, after only being announced the previous day. The song, which has an afro house music feel to it, is Black Coffee’s fourth feature from Drake and Esona’s first.
“Get Together” – which was released with Drake’s 2017 mixtape More Life, also featuring Jorja Smith – was Black Coffee’s first offering to the Toronto rapper’s catalogue. The song was originally “Superman” by Black Coffee, with Busiswa on the vocals, instead of Jorja Smith.
Three songs that were co-written and produced by Black Coffee on Honestly, Nevermind, include the songs “Overdrive” and “Currents”.
But what is beyond cool about “Texts Go Green” is that the artist did not even have to explain the song as Google took it upon themselves to maximise the opportunity by calling on Apple to adopt Rich Communication Services (RCS) on iMessage.
“The Android team thinks Drake’s new song ‘Texts Go Green’ is a real banger.
“It refers to the phenomenon when an iPhone user gets blocked. Or tries to text someone who doesn’t have an iPhone.
“Either way it’s pretty rough. If only some super talented engineering team at Apple would fix this. Because this is a problem only Apple can fix,” said Google in an “unofficial” lyrics explainer video on Twitter via the official @Android account.
“They just have to adopt RCS, actually. It would make texting more secure too. Just sayin’. Great track tho,” reads Google voice on the clip which had the song playing in the background on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Drake broke the record for most-streamed dance album on its first day. According to Roxx News, the rapper broke the record in less than an hour, after the album was released under his recording label OVO Sound.
