Lila Iké’s New Album Includes Savvy Nods To Garnett Silk, Peter Tosh

Lila Iké’s debut album Treasure Self Love will land next Friday (August 22). Of the 11 songs on the album, four lean purposefully on classic Jamaican songs—an approach that underlines the Jamaican singer’s ear for foundational melody.

On the album’s opening track, Scatter—which she premiered on the COLORSxSTUDIOS platform on Wednesday as a live track—Iké sampled Peter Tosh’s invocations on Igziabeher (Let Jah Be Praised) from his 1976 debut Legalize It.  She also interpolates the devotional lyrics from Garnett Silk’s 1994 hit Complaint —echoing Buju Banton and Silk’s 1995 ’Til Shiloh version, which itself drew from Tosh’s Let Jah Be Praised.

Love in a Lovely Way, the album’s closer, which is still unreleased, will reportedly offer another nod to Garnett Silk, borrowing from his 1992 hit Place in Your Heart.

She does the same on All Over The World, her August 1 release with Protoje, built around a hook that’s traveled across multiple genres and decades. It interpolates Rascalz’s 1999 Top of the World with Barrington Levy and K-Os—a Hip-Hop track that itself reworks the refrain from R. Dean Taylor’s 1970 pop hit Indiana Wants Me . It’s the same motif Levy nodded to on his 1991 hit Dance Hall Rock with Cutty Ranks, linking Iké’s single to a well-worn lineage.

On Romantic, Iké reimagines Patra’s 1994 hit Romantic Call , a crossover that originally featured rapper Yo-Yo and peaked at No. 55 on the Billboard Hot 100. Iké’s version flips the dynamic into a fresh duet with Dancehall star Masicka, while Patra herself appears in the intro and outro—a nod of approval from the original Queen of the Pack.

All Over The World and Romantic join the album’s other three singles: Fry Plantain with Joey Bada$$, He Loves Us Both with H.E.R., and Too Late To Lie , each of which received an official music video.

Treasure Self Love will be released via Wurl Iké Records and In.Digg.Nation Collective, under exclusive license to Ineffable Records. 

Here’s the full tracklist:

1. Scatter
2. Too Late to Lie
3. Sweet
4. Fry Plantain (ft. Joey Bada$$)
5. All Over the World (ft. Protoje)
6. Romantic (ft. Masicka)
7. All That and More (ft. Maverick Sabre)
8. He Loves Us Both (ft. H.E.R.)
9. Serious
10. Brighter Days
11. Love in a Lovely Way