The London-based musician Nao has released a collaborative track Antidote with the Nigerian artist Adekunle Gold. The duo also released the accompanying offical music video for the single today on YouTube, seen below. Neo described the new releases as the remedy to 2020; it’s a song born out of lockdown which was something that affected everybody’s lives all over the world. She continued to explain her decision to work with the Nigerian artist, saying that uniquely they had both had daughters born weeks apart during this time, they lifted our vibrations and we wanted to share that good energy with the rest of the world.
Nao continued to explain Antidote by stating that the song is a perfect description of how I feel about my daughter. Love usually feels like a concept, sometimes invisible, but with her it’s so tangible because she’s right there. I’m so obsessed with her that if she wasn’t around me, I wouldn’t be OK, I guess that’s what antidote is, a cure, a loving cure to the things that ail me.
Nao’s most recent record was released in 2018 called Saturn. She released two singles before the album was dropped which had some success in the UK and US, the singles were called Another Lifetime and Make It Out Alive. Saturn was nominated for Album of the Year in 2019 for the Mercury Prize and recently received the nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2020.
Nao has also experienced previous success through collaborations with other artists, including the American 6lack and more recently with Lianne La Havas on the track Woman, now Adekunle has been added. In 2015 when she was first beginning her musical career she was featured on Disclosure’s album, Caracal which went #1 the year it was released.
She was also one of the co-writers on Stormzy’s first studio breakout album Gang Signs and Prayer, skyrocketed her to acclaim in the R&B/ Hip Hop universe.She went on to receive Brit Award nominations and many other critically acclaimed honours in the years before her second studio release. In 2019 NAO went on tour in the UK and US briefly to promote her album Saturn and newest collaborative singles.
