Reefer Tym excels on debut, 'No Games' [Pulse EP Review]

Pulse Ghana reported that the pop famous person’s first EP opened with an unequalled 3M+ streams. The 23-year-old Reefer Tym additionally surpassed Sarkodie because the artist to have a chart-topping album for the longest time period in Ghana. His EP topped the Ghana Prime 100 Apple Music Charts for greater than 113 days – a report.

The EP is a lush therapy in the great thing about up to date Afro-pop, wealthy in melodies and adorned with lovely spirits of lamba. Primarily, the challenge addresses all the weather of your common pop challenge; love, intercourse, get together, the great time and extra.

However what actually stands out throughout the six tracks is Tym’s method, dynamism and the timing of his cadence switches. He additionally deserves credit score for a way he switches between English, Pidgin and his Patois leaning, for Dancehall results. Generally, he appears like Shank, different occasions, like Patoranking or Samini.

Just a few occasions, he additionally appears like Kuami Eugene and even Burna Boy, with Magasco‘s voice kind. It additionally reveals that what ties West African up to date pop sounds is far more than what divides us. If anyone had been to inform the common ignorant listener that Tym was Nigerian, there could be no argument.

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On ‘Bare‘ he has comparable adlibs to Yung L. On ‘Carry Go,‘ he says phrases like “Jogodo,” and his Pidgin comes with out an accent. Like Durella, he additionally has a music titled, ‘Wiskolowiska.’

An attention-grabbing allusion to that truth is Tym’s ‘Bare,’ which makes use of the identical beat as Fireboy‘s ‘King.’ Like Fireboy, Tym’s thematic base is a lady. Whereas Fireboy mentioned the lady from a love angle with PG-13 results, Tym is extra vulgar like he was all through the EP.

He is like an Omah Lay equal, along with his love for vulgarity, brazen sexually-charged statements and fearless use of expletives. A second that actually seals tis similarity is on ‘Wiskolowiska‘ when he says, “Wiskolowiska… Monday to Monday we hustle or perhaps get dimple for nyash…”

If that does not sound like one thing Omah Lay would say, I do not know what does. With very Nigerian options like Femi Johnson, this author additionally needs to argue that Tym’s Pan-African strategy to this EP is intentional.

Moments like his allusion to Abena on ‘Again It Up‘ and the general really feel of ‘Give Them’ retain his Ghanaian nationality, however Tym’s music will simply cross borders if it is marketed correctly. Extra importantly, this EP reveals that we have to cease combating amongst ourselves, as Africans.

Rankings: /10

• Zero-1.9: Flop

• 2.Zero-Three.9: Close to fall

• four.Zero-5.9: Common

• 6.Zero-7.9: Victory

• eight.Zero-10: Champion

Pulse Ranking: /10

7.9 – Victory

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