For everyone looking to dominate the mainstream sector of Nigeria’s music industry, the streets, often characterized by musicians domiciled in Lagos Mainland, is one way to achieve this and what better way for Kida Kudz to do this and also, relay his desire to give his goals his best to the end, than with Bella Shmurda, a rising street king with an eye on the prize; Kida Kudz’s Ball Till We Fall is a bass teeming snapshot of this that also highlights both musicians individual strengths.
An unlikely pair, Kida Kudz and Bella Shmurda give the Genio produced single their best, making room for each other to bask in the spotlight while touting their strengths. In Kida Kudz’s time, he follows the springy synths that open the song with biting lines that address the fragility of his enemies and the manner in which he approaches them. During Kudz’s performance, Bella Shmurda pursues almost every line with head-bobbing ad-libs before he jumps into his verse wielding his signature off-kilter tempo as his weapon of delivery.
By the end of Ball Till We Fall, Kida Kudz and Bella Shmurda become a likely pair with a message fronted by music with meaning.