Genesis Owusu - 'Life Keeps Going'
Genesis Owusu returns with a track as unstoppable as life itself.
After releasing “STAMPEDE” last month, the second single from “REDSTAR WU & The Worldwide Scourge” similarly wastes no time in getting started. A relentless drum & bass throughline is thrown straight in your face from the jump, and it never lets up, which given the song’s title feels entirely deliberate. The accompanying video, filmed in Ghana’s iconic Black Star Square, sets the tone immediately: Genesis Owusu shadowboxing in suit trousers and a white shirt, pacing, coiling, gearing up. You get the sense something is about to detonate.
The verses are braggadocious in the best way. Owusu is feeling himself, and rightfully so.
“Pull the S off my chest, I’m just a man / If what you’re seeing is a God, well guess again.”
Lines like that don’t land by accident. One of Owusu’s finest attributes has always been his songwriting, and here it cuts through the chaos with precision, undercutting any messianic reading of his own persona while somehow making him sound more untouchable for it.
Musically, the track is frantic by design. The DnB backbone conjures a genuine sense of urgency and disorder, and the hook leans into it, with “what is this” looping over and over, disoriented, almost bewildered. The drums mirror the song’s own thesis: life is relentless, disobedient, and it will not wait for you to catch up.
Then, in the final third, everything shifts. An atmospheric synth swells in, lifting the track to something approaching the spiritual. The energy doesn’t ease; it mutates. The verses turn more aggressive, more declaratory, and the video strips back to a shirtless Owusu, still shadowboxing, still unbroken. One-liners rain down in the closing stretch, each one landing with the confidence of a man who knows exactly what he’s building toward.
Another strong single as he bears down on a May 15th release date. His 2021 record “Smiling With No Teeth” was a cultural landmark, and the signs from these early singles suggest “REDSTAR WU & The Worldwide Scourge” is in good shape to follow suit. The promise is very much there.
Words by Alex Peters
