Rockstar is a track from Shallipopi's third studio album Auracle, released December 5, 2025 under Since '93, exclusively licensed from Plutomania Records. The 22-track album is Shallipopi's most expansive project yet and his most sonically ambitious, pulling influences from soul, R&B and amapiano alongside the Afropop foundation of his earlier work. Apple Music's editorial note on Auracle calls Rockstar one of the album's defining moments of self-awareness, with Shallipopi singing "Ask of me in the street, I'm a rockstar" — a line that reads as both a boast and a genuine reckoning with the cultural position he'd built since Elon Musk broke him into the Nigerian mainstream.
Ruger's appearance on Rockstar is well-chosen: two artists who have both defined their respective sounds as unapologetically themselves, both building audiences through consistency and charisma rather than chasing trends. Elsewhere on Auracle, Shallipopi collaborates with Wizkid on Like That (bomboclatt), American rapper Gunna on HIM, and Pa Salieu on Pull Up — a feature list that signals how far his reach extends into both the Nigerian scene and beyond it. Rockstar, with Ruger, is the record's most direct statement of where Shallipopi stands in 2025.
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