Ask First by AYOLITH, out now

APort is a founder-related client: Uchi Uchibeke founded both APort and Nity.

“Ask First” is out on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes and Amazon Music. Released on October 7, 2026, it is the first single from AYOLITH.

The song opens with someone being useful. A pot is boiling, so they empty it. The keys are hanging up, so they take the car. A bill is waiting, so they pay it from somebody else's purse.

You did it all to help me, and the helping made it worse

AYOLITH answers with two words. The lead says “Ask first” and a stack of her own voice says it back. The record sits in Nigerian street-pop, with Afrobeats percussion and a log drum beneath the call and response.

The second verse revisits the same objects. This time the person asks. The salt needs adding. The wall holds the roof. The bill needs proof. Asking changes what happens next.

You asked me for the wall, and I said, that one holds the roof You asked about the bill, I said, then let me see the proof

The commission

We made the record for APort, whose software checks an agent's proposed action before it executes. The lyric uses a kitchen, a street and a gate instead of a software explanation.

LOOPCHILD's “Not in the passport” tells the story from the side of the agent that keeps going. “Ask First” gives the answer to the person whose car, wall and money are involved.

AYOLITH

AYOLITH is a character, not a person. Her records pair a bright lead with her own voice stacked in reply. There is no invented childhood or real performer behind that face. Meet the artist.

Credits and disclosure

Written and produced by Uchi Uchibeke. Performed by AYOLITH. Released by Nity Entertainment on October 7, 2026.

The words are ours and a person edits every line. Drafting is machine-assisted. The voices are synthetic, the artist is a character and no living performer is imitated. This is an AI-assisted record.

Produced for APort by Nity Entertainment. How we make records.