Kizz Daniel Sets The Table For His Next Era With Surprise New EP ‘Uncle K: Lemon Chase’

Kizz Daniel has opened a new chapter with ‘Uncle K: Lemon Chase’, a seven-track EP released as a surprise prelude to his forthcoming album, ‘Uncle K’. Framed around the “lemons to lemonade” idea, the project positions itself between sweetness and sting, an exploration of how grief, celebration, devotion, and calm can coexist.

Rather than a B-sides dump, the EP reads as a thematic sketchbook: concise, curated, and aimed at showing where his head is before the full album arrives. It’s also a pragmatic move for an artist coming off a heavy 2024, keeping momentum while giving listeners a clear narrative through-line to the main record.

Across the tracklist, Kizz Daniel uses collaborations to widen that narrative without losing focus. “Black Girl Magic” opens as a tribute to Black women and body positivity, immediately setting a tone of affirmation. “Eyo” channels Lagos-bred uplift, while “Titi” (featuring Fola) leans into steadfast loyalty. The EP’s most revealing pivot is “Peace I Chose” with Runtown, which is Kizz Daniel’s first time recording a song written by another artist, signalling a willingness to cede authorship in service of a different emotional angle.

On “Al Jannah,” Odumodublvck and Bella Shmurda join to memorialize lost loved ones with spiritual weight, before “Secure” with Zlatan shifts the frame to financial clarity over façade. The closer and lead single, “Police,” pairs Angelique Kidjo’s authority and Johnny Drille’s warmth for a playful, romantic finale that still fits the EP’s “sweet/sour” brief.

Production choices support that breadth without overreaching. Long-time collaborators RewardBeatz, Blaisebeatz, Magicsticks, AyZed, and MOG Beatz supply familiar, polished ground - percussion that moves, melodies that stick - while leaving room for more emotionally textured writing than some of Kizz Daniel’s recent hit-led runs.

Nothing here tries to out-blast ‘Buga’ or ‘Twe Twe’; instead, arrangements keep the spotlight on tone and message. The result is a set that feels intentionally scaled: big enough to live on festival stages, but intimate enough to carry the “Lemon Chase” concept.

Context matters, and the EP benefits from it. In 2024, Kizz Daniel celebrated a decade at the forefront of afrobeats with sold-out arena dates, chart-topping singles (“Twe Twe,” “Showa,” “Marhaba”), and a ‘TZA’ EP that surpassed half a billion global streams.

‘Lemon Chase’ doesn’t try to replicate those metrics in miniature; it reframes the artist we’ve been hearing at scale, highlighting reflection and collaboration as much as output. The sequencing—from affirmation to remembrance to levity—suggests the forthcoming album may lean into narrative cohesion rather than a pure singles package.

As a standalone release, ‘Uncle K: Lemon Chase’ is a compact, purpose-built listen that clarifies intent:

transformation as a throughline, community as method, and craft over spectacle. As a preface to ‘Uncle K’, it does the job an overture should, introduce motifs, hint at dynamics, and leave space for the main act to land. Whether the album expands these themes or flips them on their head, the EP’s measured scope and collaborative architecture make a reasonable case for an artist using his reach to refine, not just amplify.

Listen to ‘Uncle K: Lemon Chase’ here!