Every Ghanaian has said it at least once, usually with a hand on the waist. Your uncle is asking why you resigned from the bank to start a channel. Your neighbour wants to know why your hair is blue this month. Your church mother is wondering, loudly, when the wedding is coming. And you look them dead in the eye and deliver the national defence: “It is my life.”
On Saturday, 23 January 2021, Nathino turned that two-word defence into a single. “My Life” was the third drop in a January sprint that had the Ghanaian urban-gospel rapper releasing music every single day from Thursday to Sunday. Today’s catalog rewind opens the diary page in the middle of that week, the one where the man stopped declaring for a moment and started talking about himself.
⚡ “My Life” in Half a Minute
“My Life” is a solo single from Nathino, released on Saturday, 23 January 2021. Apple Music files it under Hip-Hop/Rap, it runs 3:14, and no guest appears anywhere on the credits. Nathino is credited as writer and composer, and his own upload of the song carries the tag “Mixed by Nathino”. It was day three of four straight days of releases, and it streams on Apple Music, TIDAL, Boomplay, Deezer and his ReverbNation page.
📌 Quick Facts
| Song | My Life |
| Artist | Nathino (solo, no features) |
| Released | Saturday, 23 January 2021 |
| Type | Single |
| Length | 3:14 |
| Genre | Hip-Hop/Rap / urban gospel |
| Written & mixed by | Nathino |
| Camp | RFGM (Rap For God Music), self-released |
| Release run | Jesus Is Born (21 Jan) → Favour (22 Jan) → My Life (23 Jan) → Loyalty Flow (24 Jan 2021) |
Thursday to Sunday: The Week He Kept the Oven On
Most artists treat a single like a wedding: months of planning, one big day, then a long rest. Nathino treated January 2021 like a bakery on Sunday morning. “Jesus Is Born” came out on Thursday the 21st, filed under Christian music, a late Christmas gift for anybody whose decorations were still up. On Friday came “Favour”, his nearly four-minute prayer for grace. On Saturday, “My Life”. On Sunday, the quick-fire “Loyalty Flow”, the one that also got its own official video.
The small hours of that Saturday tell you how the week felt from inside. At around 1:40am, on the very day “My Life” landed, he was on Twitter (now X) celebrating with a Favour link and a proud line: “We made 1,000 streams in 5hours.” Hashtag RFGM, of course. No label machine, no billboard at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, just an independent rapper refreshing his stats at dawn and then pushing out the next song anyway. If that is not hunger, somebody explain hunger to us.
Day Three Is the Diary Entry
Read the four titles in order and they sketch an arc. “Jesus Is Born” is the foundation, the faith statement. “Favour” is the request, the hands lifted. “Loyalty Flow” is the flex, the chest out. And right in between, on day three, sits “My Life”, the only title in the run that points the camera straight at the man holding it.
That is what makes it the most interesting entry of the week. Urban gospel can easily turn into a sermon delivered from a distance. A song called “My Life” promises the opposite: first person, close range, your own story told in your own words. The title alone is a loud signal. After two days of talking about God, Nathino spent the Saturday talking about the life God was working on.
A Guitar, a Triangle and Two Words
The artwork is pure minimalism, and it is entirely black and white. An acoustic cutaway guitar stands upright in the middle of the frame, headstock at the top, its long neck running straight down to the sound hole. Behind it, a pale grey triangle points to the sky against a solid black background, like a mountain or an arrow aimed upward. Across the middle, bold white block letters spell “MY LIFE”, with the guitar neck cutting right through the words, and a grey serif “NATHINO” sits quietly at the lower right.
No posing, no chains, no studio smoke. Not even his face. For a song about his own life, he let an instrument stand in for him, which is a very engineer thing to do. Whatever you hear on the record, the cover says storytelling, the kind of thing you would tell over a guitar after the party has emptied. Eight weeks later, the “Thank You” cover would also arrive in black and white, so this monochrome mood was clearly part of his early-2021 look.
The Engineer Signs His Own Work
Here is a detail day-one fans will appreciate. Nathino is not only a rapper; he is a mixing and mastering engineer who works on other people’s records. When he uploaded “My Life” to his ReverbNation page on 13 February 2021, three weeks after release, he gave it a fuller title: “My Life (Mixed by Nathino)”. “Loyalty Flow” got the same treatment minutes apart.
That small bracket says a lot. Plenty of artists write the song and hand the session to someone else to polish. On “My Life”, the credits show him as writer and composer, and his own upload tells you he handled the mix too. It is a self-portrait in every sense: his story, his words, and his hands on the faders. In Ghana we would call that “self-made, self-mixed, self-delivered.”
Life Keeps Coming Back in His Catalog
Once you notice the theme, you see it everywhere. Less than two months after this run, he dropped the 71-second “Thank You”, gratitude in a hurry. In December 2021, his GRATITUDE EP carried a track simply called “Life”. And in 2025 he turned up as the featured voice on BlackMajesty BME’s “Live My Life”. From “My Life” to “Life” to “Live My Life”, the man has been writing the same autobiography in instalments.
That is the lane he has built across the years, from these early RFGM singles to his later BLACK NETWORK MUSIC GROUP era: faith-forward rap that keeps looking back at the person living it. “My Life” is one of the earliest chapters on the shelf, and it is worth knowing if you want the full story.
Five Years Later, the Defence Still Holds
In 2026, everybody has an opinion about your life before you have finished living it. The comment section wants to know your salary, your relationship status and why you have not japa’d yet. A song that simply claims the words “my life” feels more relevant now than it did on that busy Saturday in 2021.
So run it back with fresh ears. Play it after “Favour” and before “Loyalty Flow”, the way the calendar intended, and hear how day three fits the week. Then go and live your own life without asking the group chat for permission. Nathino did, one Saturday single at a time.
🎧 Listen Now
- Apple Music — My Life
- TIDAL — My Life
- Boomplay — My Life
- Deezer — My Life
- ReverbNation — My Life (Mixed by Nathino)
- song.link — all platforms for My Life
🔁 Rewind the Tape: More Nathino on The Ent News
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