“Chop Time, No Friend” is a playful return to the Banku Music sound Mr Eazi pioneered and popularized with his early singles and mixtapes. “Chop Time, No Friend is a very common Ghanaian saying, something you will see written on the front or side of buses like God is Great,” Mr Eazi says. “It means when you are eating, you don’t think about anybody. You are just focused on your enjoyment.”
For Eazi, it’s a way to express how he doesn’t let haters distract him from enjoying the fruits of his success. “It is touching on how people chitchat on me, but I am still focused on my enjoyment,” Eazi says. “It is a declaration, a celebration of self. I am saying everything I touch turns to gold. You can’t trouble me.”

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“Panadol” was created organically in Ouidah, Benin, when two of Mr Eazi’s most frequent collaborators, the producers Type A and E Kelly, came to visit him with the talented songwriter, Favour Brown, in tow. “We were chilling, trying to catch a vibe, I heard that beat play and I started jumping to the song,” Eazi recalls. Panadol, the drug, is designed to reduce pain and fever, and the song is all about feeling good. It’s where Mr Eazi finally lets bygones be bygones, and settles into his groove, playing with the theme of sexual performance and health. “I am past all that craziness [from the beginning of the album], I’ve said what I said, and now I'm having fun.”

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