Before the year even found its shoes, Nathino was already asking for grace out loud. On 22 January 2021, the Ghanaian urban-gospel / Afrosounds rapper dropped Favour — a nearly four-minute Hip-Hop/Rap single that opens his early-2021 run like a prayer before the hustle. No long speech. Just the title, the beat, and that RFGM confidence that favour is not a rumour; it is a request you put on record.
Who Is Nathino, Quick Recap
If you are new here: Nathino is the Rap For God Music voice who also moves with BLACK NETWORK MUSIC GROUP, and he is that rare Ghanaian artist who can write the verse, spit it, then sit behind the desk and mix and master the same session. From the 2020 debut-era single Winner through Books, Million Questions, Fake Love, Elevate, Tamale, Helping Hand, the Gratitude EP and the Bless Me EP, the catalog keeps stacking faith-forward Afrosounds without sounding like a church notice board. Favour is early in that climb — the January spark before the February fire.
January 2021: Grace First, Then the Stack
Look at the calendar and you will see the man was not joking with his release schedule. Jesus Is Born lands on the 21st. Favour follows on the 22nd. Then My Life on the 23rd and Loyalty Flow on the 24th — four days, four receipts. In Ghana we say “small small,” but Nathino’s January was “small small” at express speed. Favour is the Hip-Hop/Rap door that opens after the Christmas-leaning Christian cut; it sets the tone for a year where he would later drop Books, Million Questions, and the bigger Afro-soul and Afrobeats waves. If 2021 was a syllabus, this single is page one of the grace chapter.
What “Favour” Feels Like
At about 3:50, Favour gives you room to breathe — longer than the two-minute darts he sometimes throws, short enough to finish before your trotro clears Kaneshie. The title does the heavy lifting: favour is the soft Ghanaian shorthand for “God should remember me today,” the thing aunties declare over you when the job interview is tomorrow and the light bill is today. Filed under Hip-Hop/Rap on the stores, it still sits inside Nathino’s urban-gospel lane — bars with belief, not bars pretending belief is a costume. Play it when you need the year to start on the right foot, not the anxious one.
Why This Rewind Still Matters in 2026
Catalog rewinds are not nostalgia cosplay; they are homework. New fans who met Nathino on Bless Me or the later Afrobeats cuts need the January map. Day-ones who lived the 2021 single drip already know: before the features, before the EP packaging, there was a man putting Favour on the internet like a public altar call. In 2026 the stream links still work, the cover still holds, and the prayer in the title has not expired. Dust it off. Share it. Let the algorithm learn your old faith again.
🎧 Stream “Favour”
- Apple Music — Favour
- TIDAL — Favour
- Boomplay — Favour
- YouTube (Nathino – Topic, official audio)
- song.link hub — Favour
- Nathino on YouTube
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