Empress (album)

Empress is an African experience which gleans several African elements in themes and diverse range of afropop. On its cover was an art that showcased the Alade as an African regality. Empress is an afrobeats record that is built mostly in elements of highlife and dancehall. The melodies of Empress are perfectly suited to a live experience.[4] Alade revealed in an interview that when she released her previous album Woman of Steel, She was already recording Empress. Alade spent two years recording the album. She also said that most of the tracks from the album were produced in Amsterdam with the help of her European sound engineers alongside her crew.[5] The album features guest appearances from two french singers Vegedream and Dadju, two Nigerian artistes Patoranking and Rudeboy, It also features the British Grammy award-winning singer Estelle and the notable Mzansi Youth Choir.

The first album track is "True Love" which incorporates elements of amapiano South African house music; Alade sings "DJ play that happy music, .... leave the negativity for back" as a mode of setting aside your sadness for happiness through music. The second track is Yoyoyo built in highlife from southeastern Nigeria; Alade fantasizes about a typical nigerian play boy and college scarlet girl. In "Mami Water"; Mami water is a Nigerian concept of a mermaid. It is used to described light-skinned beautiful women or women possessed by the spirit of Poisedon. The Vegedream assisted track is "Lose My Mind". Alade collaborated with a French singer and rapper to produce a song with an African expression of love. Dancina the fifth track is a dance song that has a Ghanaian originated beat. "Boyz" is a dancehall track from the album; Alade describes the qualities of the type of men she desires. "I Choose You" featuring Dadju is a pop song.[6] Alade again uses dancehall and afrofusion elements in "Control" which is the eight track. "Temptation" features Patoranking Alade's counterpart and co-coach in the Voice Nigeria. Ice is a dive from afrobeats; Alade displayed her vocal dexterity.[7] Rudeboy was featured on the eleventh track "Deceive"; Alade tells of a story of deception in love. "Turn Up" is yet again another highlife from the album; Alade sings about her loving an ideal celebrity-like man. Rain the thirteenth track featuring the notable Mzansi Youth Choir from South Africa; an African gospel music Alade sings about unison. "Weekend" is a track that features the British Grammy winning singer Estelle; Alade takes a break from her regular Pan-African sounds in this track.[8] The last track from the body of work is "Double Double". Alade uses electronic highlife to be joyful for her achievements.[4]

Credits adapted from Genius, album cover art and other publications[9][10]

All tracks are written by Yemi Alade.

Credits adapted from Alade's album cover

• Yemi Alade - primary artiste, composer and executive producer
• Taiye Aliyu - executive producer
• Vtek - producer (track 1,6,11,13,15) and extra vocals (track 15)
• Krizbeatz - producer (track 2,12)
• Jimmy Huru - producer (track 3, 8, 11)
• Egar Boi - producer
• Yung Felix - producer
• Fiokee - guitar (track 2, 12)
• Max Meurs - guitar
• Vegedream - featured artiste
• Estelle - featured artiste
• Dadju - featured artiste

Singles from the album charted in Top Triller Global(billboard)[11]