Come Collect – Rob Matare | Pidgin Afropop Love Song (Official Lyric Video)

Come Collect by Rob Matare: “Amaka, your slippers dey my door” Subscribe for a new song every day ▶    / @robmatare   ▶ Play the whole album:    • Плейлист   Come Collect is a warm, mid-tempo Nigerian afropop love song sung in Pidgin English, a tender complaint with a smile about a woman whose things are still all over a man's room. Her name is Amaka, and she is everywhere except where he can see her. Her slippers face his door. Her ring sits shining in his cup. The fan keeps turning through a hot night and he cannot sleep, and nobody knocks at his gate. She came to borrow his charger three weeks ago and it never came back. She cooked Indomie in his kitchen, burnt it, then blamed his pot. Her laugh woke the neighbour's daughter, who knocked on the wall, properly vexed. He lists all of this like grievances, yet every item lands as a fond memory, and in the dark he admits he is smiling and would rather the charger stayed. Then her mother sends him pepper soup in the same container he returned, calling him oga and asking when he is coming, and he answers honestly that the money has not entered yet. He remembers Amaka in her yellow wrapper, the one with a small hole she thinks nobody noticed. He noticed. A new one is waiting for December, and meanwhile he has quietly sewn the hole himself so she will not be upset when she comes back. His call to collect her things is no eviction at all. It is an open door. "I no fit sleep, the fan dey turn" WHAT THIS SONG IS ABOUT Love measured in small things: a lost charger, a burnt pot, a ring in a cup, a needle and thread. A man with little money and plenty of patience cannot yet afford the grand gesture, so he takes care of the little ones instead. The feeling is amused, tender and a little wistful, the kind of missing someone that shows up as a joke before it becomes a confession. It is also a quiet nod to the family around the couple: a mother who keeps sending food and asking when he will come, and a man who wants to arrive properly, not empty-handed. WHO IT IS FOR Play it on a slow evening when the room is warm and someone you love is not in it. It fits anyone living through a long distance love, anyone keeping a partner's things like a promise, and anyone missing your lover more than they say out loud. Fans of a gentle pidgin love song and easy chill afropop will feel at home, along with listeners who collect pidgin english songs that sound like real life in a single rented room. ABOUT THE ALBUM This track is from Day Don Break, a set of everyday stories from Nigerian streets, homes and nights. Around it you will find a talking drum waking a whole family at sunrise, a former car washer walking in on the guest list, two lovers sharing groundnuts by candlelight on a hidden rooftop, and a slow okada ride home that nobody wants to end. Which small thing would you keep for someone you miss, and will you tell us in a comment? ▶ Stream the album everywhere: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/rob... CREDITS Produced by Rob Matare Label: EpicSound360 #Afrobeats #RobMatare #ComeCollect #NaijaAfrobeats