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NNEKA GOLD

Ngong Road, 5AM

Ex-gospel choir lead who found four-to-the-floor

style

  • afro house
  • deep house
  • tribal percussion
  • log drum
  • soaring female vocal
  • powerful belt
  • Swahili chants
  • euphoric
  • festival-ready
  • east african accent

the numbers

bpm
123
key
F# minor
energy
0.73
dance
0.93
valence
0.52
vocal at
3.3s
length
2:53
language
En

lyrics

(Ngong Road! Ngong Road!)

Matatus start at five and so does everything else
The city changes shift and nobody announces it
I have watched it happen four hundred times exactly
(times exactly)
It is the closest thing to a miracle I can prove

Church taught me to wait for morning (for morning)
Nobody said I could go and meet it

Ngong Road, five a.m.
(five a.m.!)
Where the night hands the city over
Ngong Road, five a.m.
Everybody still standing gets to see it

Hawkers, nurses, DJs, and the very devoted
All on one road, all going opposite directions
Nobody judging anybody at that hour
(at that hour)
Five a.m. is the only truly fair time of day

(a cappella, layered)
Twende... twende...
(HANDS, CLAPS, DROP)

Ngong Road, five a.m.
(five a.m.!)
Where the night hands the city over
Ngong Road, five a.m.
Everybody still standing gets to see it

(Ngong Road...)
Ngong Road, 5AM — NNEKA GOLD · FERAL