Tml Vibez’s A Street Kid Diary opens not with bombast but with restraint. There are no drums on “Koko,” just a pair of rhythm sticks working against patient, plaintive piano, the track playing as both praise singing and introduction. The rising Afrobeats star eases in. To know Vibez’s work is to understand that he’s of the generation that inherited emo Afrobeats, alté specifically. Nothing in alté is preposterous because the posture allows vulnerability and Vibez has bags of it. “Starboy Riddim,” with its borrowed phrasings and Wizkid ad-lib style, plays like an ode to the man largely credited with slowing Afrobeats down into something more sensual. “Ye” is a relationship song—albeit, about the one someone has with their dealer. It’s emotional and transactional at the same time, in a class all of its own. “Hold Something” compresses entire emotional arcs into single breaths. The line “I’ll be litty on fire/You no fit off am, I’m NEPA” inverts a callout of Nigeria’s electricity authority into a boast about unstoppable energy—NEPA is infamous for switching off power, but here that is flipped: You cannot turn me off. It’s funny and musically astute, sitting right inside the Nigerian habitus about electricity and unpredictability.