Immediately right after scoring 1 of the most important Afrobeats crossover hits in U.S. heritage with his Selena Gomez-assisted “Calm Down,” Nigerian superstar Rema is gearing up to enter a new period.

On Thursday (June 20), the Billboard New music Award winner unleashed his really initial musical release of the yr — a new collaboration with Shallipopi titled “Benin Boys.”

Throughout important drums and stirring background strings, Rema and Shallipopi trade verses that flex their “big money” and exalt their status as two of the world’s most preferred younger stars. The new collaboration comes alongside a DK-helmed songs on line video that finds the two stars decked out in their freshest matches in a series of scenes, like a neon-drenched evening time club, a non-public jet and on prime of what appears to be a church.

On Tuesday (June 18), Rema acquired a pair of ASCAP London Songs Awards: song of the yr and top rated rated streaming music, each of these for “Calm Down.” Past yr, “Calm Down” attained No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent a report-putting 58 months atop U.S. Afrobeats Tracks. The infectious Afrobeats track also attained No. 1 on the all-style Radio Songs chart, creating historical previous for a tune by an African guide artist. “Calm Down” served as the subsequent solitary from Rave & Roses, Rema’s debut studio album, which arrived at No. 81 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on Earth Albums.

Exterior of a couple of solo tracks on the deluxe variation of Rave & Roses, such as “Charm” and “Reason You,” Rema’s most current releases have primarily been collaborative. Amid these persons collaborations are tracks with Feid (“Bubalu”), Ice Spice (“Pretty Girl”) and, of coaching course, the “Soweto” remix (with Victony, Tempoe and Don Toliver), which reached No. 65 on the Very hot 100. Enthusiasts final study Rema on his really personal tracks by utilizing really final October’s Ravage EP, which involve the lover-most loved “DND.”

“Benin Boys” marks the initial formal launch for Rema as a freshly-minted Interscope Records artist by the label’s UMG-assisted partnership with Mavin World wide.

Stream “Benin Boys” now.