Rela’s new year release sees him cruise across the expansive world of Afrobeats with acerate lyrics meant to psychologically displace his naysayers. With Taste, Rela completely seizes the opportunity for the first time in his increasingly beautiful discography to chronicle his experiences with antagonists.
Although the artwork which serves as the listeners’ first point of contact portrays the artist as an individual in the center of luxury, the tales told on the song are in fact greater than that. The mid-tempo Afropop song not only captures Rela’s past battles and present victories, it as well presents some valuable lessons about life.
Rela so far since his debut single, Fadekemi, has shown that a considerable part of him must always go into his music such that each piece, lyrically, leans towards personal experiences, biases, beliefs and more importantly, policies. Perhaps, this is why he audaciously reiterates the popular parlance about money making the “world go round”.
While Rela continues to stamp his footprint across the face of music, what he has achieved in Derby in the last couple of years is worthy of note. This talented UK-based artist with Nigerian roots has featured prominently in shows across the aforementioned terrain, occasionally flying back home to preview his past releases like Fadekemi, Everything and Superstar in the company of his compatriots and lovers and friends. This will not be his end however, he will expand his discography, his legacy and more necessarily, the tentacles of the sound “Afrobeats” across the surface of the world.
