Olamide Pours ‘Burukutu’ — BlaiseBeatz-Produced Time and Space Party Starter Out Now

In the north of Nigeria, burukutu is the local grain brew they pour into calabashes when the gathering is serious. Here in Ghana, we will just call it pito’s cousin and move on. Either way, when Olamide names a song after it, you know the YBNL Nation boss is not inviting you to a quiet evening. “Burukutu” is the new single from the Bariga legend, and it opens with a chant that settles every argument before it starts: “Baddoo we wanna party!” Chale, the calabash is full. Who is driving home?

The song landed on Tuesday, 20 October 2026 through YBNL Nation and EMPIRE, with a TG Omori-directed music video going up on OlamideVEVO the same evening. By Thursday morning the video had already crossed 388,000 views. In the same breath, Olamide confirmed that his next album, Time and Space, arrives on 16 November 2026, and that he will headline London’s O2 Arena on 25 March 2027. One drink, three announcements. Baddo no dey do small things.

⚡ The Drop in 30 Seconds

“Burukutu” is track four on the ten-song Time and Space, and right now it is the only song from the album you can play. It runs 5:11, which is long by today’s TikTok standards, but Olamide has never been a man who rushes the party. The beat comes from BlaiseBeatz, the writing credit goes to Olamide Adedeji and Marcel Akunwata, and the language mix is classic Baddo: Yoruba street wisdom, Pidgin punchlines and just enough English for the diaspora to sing along. It wears the explicit tag, so maybe don’t play it at the family thanksgiving service.

📌 Quick Facts

Song	Burukutu (single)
Artist	Olamide
Released	20 October 2026
Album	Time and Space (track 4 of 10, out 16 November 2026)
Length	5:11
Producer	BlaiseBeatz
Writers	Olamide Adedeji, Marcel Akunwata
Video director	TG Omori
Label	YBNL Nation / EMPIRE
Genre	Afrobeats / Street-hop

🎬 Watch “Burukutu” (Official Video)

The Vibe: Calabash Up, Worries Down

This is a street party song with a passport. Olamide runs through his travel plans like a man reading a boarding list: if he is not in Miami, he is in Barcelona; if not Barcelona, then New York; and if not New York, then LA, California. Then he drops back into Lagos Yoruba so fast you remember exactly where the passport was issued. The hook, “Ejor e fun mi ni brukutu”, is basically a polite request for one more cup, and the call-and-response chants are built for a crowd that has stopped checking the time.

The bars are pure Baddo mischief. He jokes that his enemies are out of form like Samuel Eto’o, waves away anybody trying to lecture him about the finals like Mbappé, and tells everybody to enjoy their weekend as if he personally signed the public holiday. BlaiseBeatz keeps the groove bouncy and loose, leaving space for the chants to breathe. Five minutes sounds long until you are in the middle of it. Then it feels like the DJ is doing you a favour.

The Video and the Cover: Saxophone Season

TG Omori has given the song serious style. Early write-ups describe a video that cuts between a glowing, all-red corridor, where Olamide stands in a sharp double-breasted suit, dark shades and long dreadlocks, and an earth-toned courtyard with arches, full of dancers in structured white outfits, pillbox hats and pearls. Then the man picks up a saxophone and plays. Yes, Olamide. Saxophone. Somewhere in Bariga, an old music teacher is crying tears of joy.

The single cover follows the same idea: a grainy black-and-white photo of Olamide, head bowed, dreadlocks falling, saxophone raised, all inside a heavy carved wooden frame lined with cowrie shells. It looks like something you would find hanging in a palace hallway, and that is the point. The album art for Time and Space goes the other way, with planets and orbit lines in deep purple. Street at home, cosmos abroad.

Who Is Olamide?

Olamide Adedeji, born on 15 March 1989 and raised in Bariga, Lagos, is one of the most important figures in modern Nigerian music. He came up rapping in Yoruba when many people said that would never sell, dropped his debut album Rapsodi in 2011, and set up his own label, YBNL Nation, in 2012. Pheelz produced his “First of All” in those early days, and from there the hits kept coming: “Bobo”, the party rocket “Wo!!”, “Science Student”, the Omah Lay-assisted love song “Infinity” and “Triumphant” with Bella Shmurda, among many others.

But Baddo’s biggest flex might be the people he has lifted. Through YBNL he helped introduce stars like Adekunle Gold, Lil Kesh, Fireboy DML and Asake to the world. He followed his self-titled 2025 album Olamidé with a sold-out night at London’s OVO Arena Wembley, and his recent guest turns, like the DaniLeigh duet “Goosebumps”, show a veteran who still collects new audiences with ease.

Why “Burukutu” Matters Now

The timing is very clever. Olamide is moving from the Wembley arena to the 20,000-capacity O2, and general ticket sales open on Friday, 23 October. “Burukutu” gives fans something loud to scream at that show, and it gives the Time and Space campaign a strong first taste four weeks before the album lands. It also lands in a season when his old collaborators are busy too: Pheelz, the producer behind so many early YBNL classics, just released “Cash Rules Everything Around Us”.

For Ghanaian listeners, the song is easy to love. Swap burukutu for pito, Bariga for Nima, and the energy is exactly the same: hard work all week, then one proper weekend to forget about the light bill. Olamide has been doing this for fifteen years and he still sounds like the hungriest man at the party. That is not luck. That is a craft.

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