Patoranking and Olamide are back on a record together for the first time in a decade. “Welcome To Lagos”, released at midnight on Tuesday 10 November 2026, is a love letter to the city both men call home, and the fourth single from Patoranking’s forthcoming fifth album.
The song was produced by Ctea, who has worked with Patoranking for years. It sets a chant-ready hook over rolling bass and busy, syncopated drums, the kind of record built for Lagos traffic and Lagos parties in equal measure.
Patoranking and Olamide: ten years since “Mama Aboyo”
The last time the two shared a song was “Mama Aboyo”, from Patoranking’s debut album God Over Everything in 2016. That album also carried guest spots from Wizkid and Phyno and made Patoranking one of the leading dancehall voices in West Africa.
A lot has changed since. Patoranking has released three more albums, Wilmer (2019), Three (2020) and World Best (2023). Olamide has built YBNL into one of the most important labels in Nigerian music, launching Fireboy DML and Asake along the way.
A song about Lagos, by two sons of Lagos
The subject suits both of them. Patoranking was born in Ijegun-Egba in Lagos State and went to school in Epe and Iponri before moving to Ghana in 2007. Olamide was born in Bariga in 1989 and has rapped about the city for his whole career, most obviously on his 2017 album Lagos Nawa!.
What “Welcome To Lagos” means for Patoranking’s fifth album
“Welcome To Lagos” follows three earlier singles from the new project: “No Jonze”, “African Soldier” with the Jamaican reggae great Buju Banton, and “Shake That” with Ruger. Patoranking has not yet announced a title or release date for the album.
The timing is good for Olamide too. His own new album, Time and Space, is due on 17 November, so this guest verse arrives exactly a week before he returns with a full project of his own.
For more from both artists, see the Patoranking and Olamide profiles on AfroYard.
