Nathino’s ‘Eli Eli’ — 2023 Bless Me EP Rewind of the Opening Cry That Starts the Whole Testimony

Official Nathino Bless Me EP cover art, Nathino with arms stretched wide on weathered stone ramparts above a turquoise sea under a bright blue sky with palm trees, white NATHINO BLESS ME lettering, framed in thin The Ent News green

Most Ghanaian albums open with a hype intro. Somebody shouts the label name, a DJ drops a siren, the artist tells you he is the king of the streets before you even sit down. Nathino chose a different door. The very first words of his Bless Me EP, released on Friday, 10 November 2023 through BLACK NETWORK MUSIC GROUP, are a cry, not a brag: “Eli Eli”. My God, my God.

We have spent today rewinding the EP one chapter at a time. “Weary”, “Follow Me” and “Sing Aloud” have all had their moment. Now we finish the series where the project itself begins, at the very first track.

🎤 “Eli Eli” in a Nutshell

“Eli Eli” is track one of four, the opening statement of the Bless Me EP. Nathino carries it alone, no features, in a lean 2:27, the shortest song on the project. Apple files the EP under Afrobeats, but the camp behind it, RFGM / Rap For God Music, tells you what the real assignment is: urban gospel with Afrosounds in its bones.

📌 Quick Facts

Song	Eli Eli
Artist	Nathino (solo, no features)
Project	Bless Me EP (track 1 of 4, the opener)
Released	Friday, 10 November 2023
Length	2:27
Genre	Afrobeats / Afrosounds with urban-gospel heart
Label	BLACK NETWORK MUSIC GROUP
Camp	RFGM / Rap For God Music

🎧 Listen: “Eli Eli” (Official Audio)

The Oldest Cry in the Book

“Eli, Eli” is not a phrase you pick because it sounds nice on a hook. It comes from the opening line of Psalm 22: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” David wrote it as a lament, the prayer of a man who feels completely alone. Centuries later, Matthew 27:46 records Jesus crying the same words from the cross, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”, in the darkest hour of the whole gospel story.

Here is the part many people miss: Psalm 22 does not end in despair. The same psalm that starts with “why have you forsaken me” turns, by its second half, into praise in the middle of the congregation. The cry is the beginning of the journey, not the end. So when an artist from a camp literally called Rap For God Music opens his EP with those two words, he is not being dramatic. He is setting up a story.

Why the Cry Comes First

Read the tracklist top to bottom and the Bless Me EP plays like a short testimony. First the cry, “Eli Eli”. Then the direction, “Follow Me”. Then the honest admission that the road is long, “Weary”. And finally the release, “Sing Aloud”. It is basically Psalm 22 stretched across four songs: lament, guidance, struggle, praise.

That is a very Ghanaian way to pray, if we are being honest. Nobody in this country starts a serious prayer with “Lord, everything is fine.” We start with the matter. Rent advance. Visa refusal. The landlord who has suddenly discovered that light bill is shared. The cry comes first, the testimony comes later, and the drummer waits patiently in between. Nathino simply put that order on a tracklist.

2:27 From the Man Behind the Desk

At just under two and a half minutes, “Eli Eli” does not overstay. That economy runs through the whole project, which wraps up in under eleven minutes. As our “Who Is Nathino?” profile explains, he is a mixing and mastering engineer as well as an artist, and Nathino Behind the Desk shows how much of his catalogue passes through his own hands before it reaches yours.

There is a quiet irony in that. Engineers are the people who make sure nothing in a mix feels lost or buried. Yet the first song on this EP is about the feeling of being exactly that: lost, buried, unheard. Only gospel fit turn the engineer’s nightmare into the opening track and make it sound like hope.

Closing the Rewind Where It All Started

With this post, all four chapters of the Bless Me EP now have their own spotlight on The Ent News. Our original Bless Me EP write-up introduced the project as a whole; the rewind series has taken it apart song by song, and ending on the opener feels right. You understand the cry better once you have heard where it leads.

And the timing works. We are entering the end-of-year stretch, the season of watch-night services, harvest thanksgivings and people quietly asking God why this year was so heavy. “Eli Eli” meets you right there, honest about the struggle, before the rest of the EP walks you toward praise. For newcomers, our Where to Start With Nathino guide picks up the journey from here.

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🔁 The Complete Bless Me EP Rewind

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