Patoranking Links Olamide on ‘Welcome To Lagos’ — Ctea-Produced Dancehall City Anthem and Mama Aboyo Reunion Out Now

Patoranking in a cream-and-red striped suit and brown cap, side by side with Olamide in a black T-shirt with arms folded, official artist portraits in a thin The Ent News green frame

Every December, Accra and Lagos start the same argument. Accra says “Detty December na our own, come and see beach party, come and see Afro Nation crowd.” Lagos simply smiles, adjusts its agbada and says, “Oya, come.” Now Patoranking has turned that smile into a song. “Welcome To Lagos”, his new link-up with Olamide, landed on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, and it sounds exactly like the city it is named after: loud, flashy, a little dangerous, and impossible to ignore.

A few days before the drop, Patoranking had already set the mood online: “They all coming to Lagos this December.” The record is the invitation card. Produced by his longtime collaborator Ctea and released through Amari Musiq, the 3:03 single is out now on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Audiomack and Deezer. Fasten your seatbelt, because Third Mainland Bridge traffic no dey wait for anybody.

🌆 “Welcome To Lagos” at a Glance

This is a club record with a city for a hook. Patoranking walks in with his dancehall chat, the kind of toasting that has been his signature from day one, and then the chorus drops a short, sticky loop: “Welcome To Lagos / Come party with the Rich and Famous.” Ctea builds the floor with rolling bass, busy syncopated drums and enough space for a crowd to shout the hook back. Midway, Olamide steps in like the landlord of the whole estate, flexing Lagos money, nodding to the city’s old praise names and dropping a few street warnings for anybody who thinks Eko is a playground. Then the hook carries everybody back to the dance floor.

It is not trying to be deep. It is trying to be the song the DJ plays when the bottles come out, and on that brief, it delivers.

📌 Quick Facts

Song	Welcome To Lagos
Artists	Patoranking feat. Olamide
Released	Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Label	Amari Musiq
Length	3:03
Genre	Dancehall / Afrobeats
Producer	Ctea
Project	Fourth single from Patoranking’s upcoming fifth album

Ten Years After “Mama Aboyo”

This is not their first dance. The last time Patoranking and Olamide shared a record was “Mama Aboyo”, from Patoranking’s 2016 debut album God Over Everything. Back then, Patoranking was the hungry dancehall boy fresh off “Girlie O” and “My Woman, My Everything”, and Olamide was already running the streets with YBNL. A decade later, both of them are elder statesmen in their own lanes, and the reunion feels less like a feature and more like two old friends meeting at the same owambe and deciding to take over the DJ booth together.

The timing is sweet too. In September, Patoranking celebrated ten years of God Over Everything with a headline set at TRACE Live in Lagos. So the man who gave us “Mama Aboyo” in 2016 is now giving us its grown-up cousin, with more money, more mileage and the same energy.

Who Is Patoranking?

Patoranking is Patrick Nnaemeka Okorie, born on 27 May 1990 and raised in Lagos, the city he is now hyping on wax. He rose from the streets to become one of West Africa’s leading dancehall voices with records like “Girlie O”, “My Woman, My Everything” and “Abule”, and built a catalogue of four albums: God Over Everything (2016), Wilmer (2019), Three (2020) and World Best (2023).

2026 has been a busy one. He toured festivals across the UK and Europe, won Best Male Reggae/Dancehall at AFRIMMA in Dallas, and headlined the Nigerian Independence Day Parade in New York, where he also picked up a Philanthropy Impact Award. Off the mic, the ALU Patoranking Scholarship keeps funding students across Africa. Musically, “Welcome To Lagos” is the fourth single from his upcoming fifth album, following “No Jonze”, the Buju Banton link-up “African Soldier” and “Shake That” with Ruger. Title and date of the album? Patoranking is still holding that card close to his chest.

Enter Olamide, Landlord of Lagos

If any rapper has the right to give Lagos a tour, it is Olamide. Baddo from Bariga has rapped about this city his whole career, from the 2016 anthem “I Love Lagos” to the 2017 album Lagos Nawa!, and he built YBNL into the kind of label that gave the world Fireboy DML and Asake. When Olamide says “welcome”, it is the street giving you a visa.

He is also in campaign mode. His album Time and Space is due on 16 November 2026, a few weeks after the “Burukutu” party starter, and he is booked to headline London’s O2 Arena in March 2027. Popping up on a Patoranking record six days before his own album drops is classic Olamide: keep feeding the streets, never go quiet.

Why It Hits

First, the chemistry. Patoranking’s dancehall swagger and Olamide’s Yoruba street bars are two different accents of the same Lagos, and Ctea gives them a beat wide enough for both. Second, the hook. “Welcome To Lagos” is the kind of chorus that sticks after one listen and is easy to scream in traffic, at a beach party or on the way to the airport. Third, the timing. With December around the corner and the whole diaspora booking flights home, this is a ready-made soundtrack for arrival videos, club entrances and every Instagram story that begins at Murtala Muhammed Airport.

For Ghanaian listeners, there is a small sting. Lagos has formally entered the December chat with a theme song, so Accra artists, please, we are waiting for the reply. Until then, Ghana fans will dance to this one anyway, because good dancehall no get passport.

The Lagos Song Club

Nigerian music has a long tradition of love letters to Eko, and Olamide has already written a few of them. What makes this one different is the dancehall angle. Most Lagos anthems lean on street-hop or Afropop; Patoranking brings the reggae-dancehall toasting that made him famous, so the city is painted through a sound system instead of a fuji drum. Add a UAX-directed video to go with the single and the package feels built for the season, not just for the moment.

Lagos dey call. Whether you answer from Accra, London or Abuja, at least come with your dancing shoes.

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