Adekunle Gold’s latest album, his sixth studio project with 15 tracks celebrates Lagos sounds “Fuji, Apala, Tungba.”
“Guys, all I ask is this: listen in order, no skips. Whether you know the songs or not, trust the sequence. It’s a journey, an experience you can only feel if you go from start to finish. Thank you.”
That’s the message from Adekunle Gold as he releases his brand-new 15-track album, “Fuji.” Before today’s release, he had already teased fans with four singles: “Obimo,” “Coco Money,” “Bobo” featuring Lojay and Shoday, and “Believe.” Now, the full project is here, and he’s asking everyone to enjoy it the way he designed it — start to finish.
This is AG’s sixth album, following “Tequila Ever After” in 2023. Speaking to Apple Music, he explained that the title Fuji goes deeper than the sound itself:
“My album title started as an acronym. Finding Uncharted Journeys Inside. But I’m already making fuji sounds; since my first album Gold, I have a fuji-sounding song on every album. Even if I sing R&B, I sound fuji. So I might as well show the world this sound that I grew up on.”
For Adekunle Gold, fuji is personal and cultural.
“Fuji is just the sound of Lagos,” he says. “I grew up on fuji. I guess I should say thank you to my auntie for constantly playing it when I was a child. It’s at every party, every event, they play it everywhere. It’s ingrained in me.”
On Fuji, he leans fully into Yoruba oral music traditions — Apala, Fuji, Tungba — while still creating space for storytelling.
He adds:
“I love my culture, I love my traditions and heritage. I will always uphold it. I feel, as Africans, we all have a duty, an obligation to show our culture. I will never stop doing that.”
