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Song · Day Don Break

Play The Log Drum

“Play The Log Drum” is track 8 on Rob Matare's Afrobeats album Day Don Break, released July 29, 2026. Afrobeats and log-drum Amapiano from first light: play the log drum, no work tomorrow, stay for morning.

Rob MatareAfrobeats2:49Movement & Celebration

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“Play The Log Drum” lyrics

Play the log drum for me
For me
Dust dey rise for my shoe
My shoe
Speaker box dey shake the gate
The gate
Play the log drum for me

Log drum
Ay
Log drum
Ay

Nine o'clock, the street still hot
Somebody carry cooler pass
The DJ set up for the gutter side
Extension wire cross the road
Aunty sell suya by the wall
Smoke dey follow everybody face
My shirt don wet before we start
Nobody dey go house tonight

Turn am up small
Turn am up small
Make the gate dey shake
Make the gate dey shake

Play the log drum for me
For me
Dust dey rise for my shoe
My shoe
Speaker box dey shake the gate
The gate
Play the log drum for me

Jozi cousin send me voice note
Say the log drum different for there
I play am loud for Lagos street
Same shoulder, different dust
Baba wey dey sell recharge card
Him leave him table, him begin dance
Him wife dey shout him name for far
Him no hear, the bass too loud

Speaker cough, then e go quiet
One girl still dey clap alone
She clap the beat make e no die
Extension wire don pull comot
Somebody phone light dey shine
Dust settle for my shoe

Play the log drum for me
For me
Dust dey rise for my shoe
My shoe
Speaker box dey shake the gate
The gate
Play the log drum for me
Play am, play am

Dust for my shoe
Log drum

Lyrics written by Rob Matare. Written by me • made with AI. Artist visuals are digitally created.

More from Day Don Break

  1. 1Drum Dey Call2:45
  2. 2Guest List3:08
  3. 3No Space3:06
  4. 4Twenty-Two Steps3:11
  5. 5Radio Off2:40
  6. 6Gladiator3:02
  7. 7Lightbearer3:02
  8. 9Roco2:58
  9. 10Mister Rider2:58
  10. 11One Umbrella3:01
  11. 12Low Volume3:32
  12. 13Come Collect3:02
  13. 14Measure Me3:00
  14. 15Make E Be Eleven3:10
  15. 16No Expiry3:29
  16. 17Blank Cheque3:05
  17. 18Seven Seeds3:05
  18. 19This Road Know Me3:20
  19. 20Clipper Crown3:05
  20. 21No Work Tomorrow3:02
  21. 22Final Call3:33
  22. 23Stay For Morning3:29
  23. 24Day Don Break3:36

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