Ayra Starr is not asking for your attention. She’s commanding it. The Mavin Records star just dropped Hot Body, and it’s everything the summer needs: bold, sensual, and dripping with the confidence that has turned her into Afrobeats’ global face.
From the jump, this isn’t a record that tiptoes into your playlist. It bursts in like the life of the party, a rhythmic bassline running under percussion that feels warm, alive, and ready to make the world move. Ragee, the man behind her global smash Commas, returns on production, and you can hear the magic in the details. This is sound engineered for big speakers, sunlit rooftops, and nights that stretch till morning.
Ayra floats over it all with the kind of vocal ease only she can deliver. Her tone bends between playful and provocative, her lyrics teasing like smoke curling from a candle flame. It’s Afropop at its most polished, but it never loses that raw Lagos energy that raised her.
Hot Body arrives on the eve of her UK tour with Coldplay, sold-out stadiums, including Wembley, waiting to see a girl who once dreamed in the streets of Surulere now rewriting history on global stages. This, after she already etched her name into the books as the first Afrobeats artist to perform at Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage.
Her 2025 has been a blur of milestones: a MOBO win, the first for a female in 16 years. A BET Award. A Met Gala debut with Ozwald Boateng. A record with Wizkid that’s crossing 22 million streams without breaking a sweat. And now, her first film role alongside Viola Davis and Idris Elba in Children of Blood and Bone.
But all of that fades when you hit play on Hot Body. It’s not just music. It’s energy bottled up and thrown into the air like fireworks. Ayra Starr is showing her cards, and the message is clear: this isn’t a wave. This is an era.
Listen to Hot Body by Ayra Starr below:
