Legendary highlife musician Kojo Antwi has teamed up with Stonebwoy, one of the new school kings, for a potentially hit song.

Antwi’s first submission in a significant while, ‘Akyekyede3 Nante3’ is an emotive reggae number which relates sentiments of the deep loneliness that fills the void left in the heart by the absence of a loved one.

Antwi opens the joint dreading the moments just before his departing lover zooms off in a car, followed by expressions of inevitable longing — such as sudden jerks invoked by a car’s honking — amid hopes that his beloved could be on her way back. He also laments troubling daydreams and — in the chorus — just how fast time runs when he’s next to his significant other, juxtaposed with its ‘tortoise-like pace’ when he isn’t. “Prisoner of time,” he describes himself in such a state.

Stonebwoy picks up the subject in a manner that instantly bridge the gap between his latter-day generation and Antwi’s. With copious nostalgia, the Ashaiman-bred star recounts the beautiful moments once shared with his lover.

“Since you’re gone ooh,” the dancehall star wails, “cannot breathe [sic], can’t find nobody to hold.” In subsequent verses, a dejected Stonebwoy seals his plea for renewed company with a simple reminder: “you are my love.”

It is not clear if the single predicates a new album, but this offering from an accomplished but seemingly slumbering artiste like Antwi is long overdue.

Author of classics like ‘Densu’, ‘Tom And Jerry’, ‘Dadie Anomaa’ and ‘Adiepena’, Antwi — aka, ‘The Maestro’ — bears 22 remarkable albums to his name, as well as many domestic and international laurels. Antwi is a trusted authority in Ghanaian music, and his sound — a flavorsome blend of reggae, highlife, Afropop, soul, R&B and more — is enduring. Hopefully, he’d add to that rich repertoire and legacy, courtesy a subsequent release of fresh music quicker than the pace of a tortoise.

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