Nathino’s ‘Bless Me’ EP Turns 3 — Anniversary Retrospective of the Four-Song Prayer That Followed GRATITUDE

In Ghana, a third birthday is serious business. The child can now talk back, the aunties want jollof, and somebody’s uncle will deliver a speech nobody requested. So consider this our speech. On Tuesday, 10 November 2026, Nathino’s Bless Me EP turns three — three full years since the Ghanaian urban-gospel artist and mixing/mastering engineer dropped four songs on Friday, 10 November 2023 under ℗ BLACK NETWORK MUSIC GROUP, from the RFGM / Rap For God Music camp.

We have already given every song its own rewind — “Eli Eli”, “Follow Me”, “Weary” and “Sing Aloud”. This one is different. No track-by-track microscope today. We are stepping back to look at the whole house, ask what three years have done to it, and figure out where it sits in the Nathino story.

🎂 Bless Me at Three: The Birthday Card

Project	Bless Me EP
Artist	Nathino (solo on every track, zero features)
Released	Friday, 10 November 2023
Turns three	Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Tracks	4 — Eli Eli, Follow Me, Weary, Sing Aloud
Running time	About 10 minutes 56 seconds
Label	℗ 2023 BLACK NETWORK MUSIC GROUP
Genre	Afrobeats on the store shelf, urban gospel in the heart

🎧 Press Play: The Full Bless Me EP

Four Rooms, One House

Quick tour before the cake gets cut. Bless Me is built like a compact Accra chamber-and-hall: four rooms, no wasted corridor.

1. Eli Eli (2:27) — the opener, borrowing the ancient cry “My God, my God”.
2. Follow Me (2:35) — two words that sound like an invitation and an instruction at the same time.
3. Weary (3:05) — the longest song, and the only one that crosses the three-minute line.
4. Sing Aloud (2:47) — the closer, where the volume finally goes up.

Read the titles from top to bottom and you get a whole sermon outline: a cry, a call, a confession of tiredness, then praise. Many artists need fifteen tracks and three interludes to tell a story. Nathino did it with four song titles and a cover photo of himself with his arms wide open on a seaside rampart, looking like a man who has just received good news from the bank.

From ‘Thank You’ to ‘Bless Me’: Two EPs, Two Prayers

To appreciate Bless Me at three, you need to remember its big brother. Nathino’s first EP, GRATITUDE, landed on 7 December 2021: five tracks, roughly fifteen and a half minutes, and two guests on board — Kojo Spy6 on “Aseda” and Ken Oshew on “Dance”. Bless Me arrived 703 days later with one track fewer, under eleven minutes on the clock, and nobody else on the mic.

Look at the titles side by side and the difference is almost funny. In 2021 the message was “thank you”. In 2023 it became “bless me”. Every Ghanaian knows these are the two oldest lines of prayer in the book. First you give thanks for what came, then you humbly put in a fresh request — the same way your mother will thank God for the harvest and, in the same breath, ask Him to remember the school fees. Nathino basically released both halves of a Ghanaian prayer, two years apart.

Eleven Minutes in a Long-Song Era

Three of the four songs finish under three minutes. The whole EP is shorter than some pastors’ announcements. In 2023 that looked like a smart streaming-era decision; in 2026, when attention spans are being measured in Reels, it looks almost prophetic. Bless Me fits inside a trotro ride from Madina to Legon with time left to argue with the mate about change.

There is also the desk factor. Nathino is not only the voice on these records; he is an engineer, which our Behind the Desk feature broke down in detail. An engineer’s instinct is to cut what does not need to be there. Bless Me sounds like a project made by someone who knows exactly where the fade-out button lives and is not afraid to press it.

No Guest List, No Problem

For an artist who loves sharing the mic — our Guest Star feature mapped his verses across other people’s records — it is telling that Bless Me has no features at all. GRATITUDE was a thanksgiving service with friends in the front row. Bless Me is a private prayer in the closet. Some requests you cannot send through a middleman. When you are asking God for a blessing, you do not CC your producer friends.

What Three Years Did to the EP

Here is the twist that makes the anniversary interesting. Bless Me closed a productive 2023 for Nathino — that same year also gave us “Love Me Now”, the “Aseda” single, “Helping Hand” and “Dear Motherland”. And three years on, it is still the most recent project carrying his name in the lead-artist slot on Apple Music and Deezer.

That does not mean the man went quiet. Since Bless Me, Nathino has spent his time as the trusted guest voice in his circle: “Wavy” with Abdul Rasheed (May 2024), “Blessing” on BlackMajesty BME’s Songs of Majesty (II) (June 2024), “Sometimes” with Abdul Rasheed and Dwight Sammy (September 2024), “Thank God” with Yaw Blac (August 2025), “Live My Life” with BlackMajesty BME (September 2025), plus “Got It” and “Odyssey” on Abdul Rasheed’s The Convert Who Never Stopped Growing (November 2025). Notice the titles: “Blessing”, “Thank God”. The Bless Me spirit did not retire; it just went on tour.

So the EP has quietly become a landmark. For three years it has stood as the latest chapter of Nathino’s solo catalogue — the newest thing on the shelf when anybody asks, “Which Nathino project should I start with?” (Short answer: start here, then grab our Where to Start With Nathino guide.)

How to Celebrate the Anniversary Properly

No cake required. Just do it the old-school way: play the four songs in order, no shuffle. Let “Eli Eli” open the door, let “Follow Me” lead you inside, sit with “Weary” for its full three minutes, and when “Sing Aloud” comes on, actually sing — your neighbours will survive. Eleven minutes is a small price for a full prayer meeting in your earphones.

Happy third birthday, Bless Me. You are small, but you no dey play.

🎧 Listen Now

• Apple Music — Bless Me EP
• Audiomack — Bless Me EP
• YouTube — Bless Me EP (Nathino – Topic, official audio)
• YouTube Music — Bless Me EP
• Deezer — Bless Me EP
• TIDAL — Bless Me EP
• Amazon Music — Bless Me EP
• Boomplay — Bless Me EP
• Pandora — Bless Me EP
• album.link — all platforms for Bless Me EP

🔁 Rewind the Tape: More Nathino on The Ent News

• Nathino’s ‘Eli Eli’ — 2023 Bless Me EP Rewind of the Opening Cry That Starts the Whole Testimony
• Nathino’s ‘Follow Me’ — 2023 Bless Me EP Rewind of the Two-Word Invitation in a Follow-for-Follow World
• Nathino’s ‘Weary’ — 2023 Bless Me EP Rewind for Anybody Running on Low Battery
• Nathino’s ‘Sing Aloud’ — 2023 Bless Me EP Rewind of the Closer That Turns Weariness Into Volume
• Inside Nathino’s GRATITUDE EP — Five-Track Thanksgiving Still Feeding Accra
• Nathino the Guest Star: Mapping His Feature Verses From ‘God Is Cooking’ to ‘Odyssey’

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