Maleek Berry‘s list of credits is long. Since spending a family vacation in Nigeria in 2011, the South London-raised producer and songwriter has collaborated with some of the world’s best-known afropop artists, including Davido, Wizkid, and Wande Coal. These days, he’s stepping out from behind the shadows of the studio and building a following as an artist in his own right. On the brand-new “On Fire,” Berry tries on the growing genre of afrotrap: he drapes a glacial self-produced beat in layers ranging from classic afropop melodies to an Atlanta-indebted rap flow. It’s a whole trans-Atlantic trip in three minutes and 30 seconds.
