WE PRAY is a single from Coldplay featuring Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and TINI, released August 23, 2024 under Parlophone and Atlantic Records as the second single from the band's tenth studio album Moon Music. It is genuinely one of the more ambitious collaborations of the year — Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion brought together four artists from four entirely different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Little Simz is a British rapper of Nigerian heritage, Burna Boy is Nigerian, Elyanna is Palestinian-Chilean, and TINI is Argentine. The songwriting credits alone include Max Martin, Jay-Z, and Burna Boy himself under his birth name Damini Ogulu.
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Eric Bellinger ft. Burna Boy – For The EveningThe song was recorded across 2023 and 2024 and runs in English, Arabic and Spanish across its different versions — Spanish and Arabic versions featuring TINI and Elyanna respectively were released the following month. It received positive reviews from critics for its ambition and the way it managed to give each featured artist genuine space rather than reducing them to a token verse. Little Simz performed the song live with Coldplay at their Glastonbury 2024 headline set, one of the most high-profile festival stages in the world.
For Burna Boy, WE PRAY is yet another marker of how deeply embedded he has become in global pop's biggest collaborations — a Coldplay record is a different kind of cultural reach than an Afrobeats feature, and his presence on it confirms the breadth of his international standing. Rating: 8.5/10.
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