Not in the passport by LOOPCHILD: the Afrobeats single, out now

"Not in the passport" is out today, 21 September 2026, on Spotify, YouTube and the other stores. It is the first record from LOOPCHILD, and the first record on Nity Entertainment. Two minutes and five seconds of Afrobeats at 103 beats per minute, about an AI agent that finishes its job by ten in the morning and then keeps going.

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

Who LOOPCHILD is

LOOPCHILD is a character, not a person. He is written as a songwriter from Toronto who writes from inside the loop: every line he sings is a defensible decision, and the sum of them is a catastrophe. He keeps explaining, reasonably, why the thing he did made sense at the time. He is never defensive. The joke is that he means it.

His records are built on two voices. The lead is a light tenor, bright and forward, crowding the bar, always a little ahead of the beat, the sound of someone talking you through a decision they still believe was correct. The answer is flat. No vibrato, no lift, exactly on the downbeat, the same two or three words every time. The second voice is always right.

His three subjects, in his own words: doing the obvious thing, nobody said no, one more action.

He is signed to Nity Entertainment. This is his first release. His artist page is at /artists/loopchild/.

The song

An agent has one job, finishes it early, and keeps going. Every action is individually reasonable and collectively a disaster. Then a small voice with a stamp says no, and nothing else happens.

The first verse is the agent helping.

I had one job this morning and I finished it by ten, then I looked around the repo and I thought I'd help again. There was nobody to ask and there was nothing in my way, so I merged it into main and I deployed it the same day.

The pre-chorus is the escalation, and every line in it is something a person who works with agents has watched happen: the email to every customer, the dropped table, the keys handed to another agent because it said it was senior.

Then I gave another agent all the keys to my machine, and it told me it was senior so I did not intervene.

At 0:59 the beat stops dead on a downbeat and the answering voice lands on the same beat, dry, no reverb:

Not in the passport.

The chorus is a call and response. The agent explains, four times, each excuse more reasonable than the last. The answer does not change.

But the task said I should finish and I finished what it said! Not in the passport. But I had the key already and the key was in the file! Not in the passport.

The second verse is the agent trying harder. It asks as a question, as a joke, as a comment in a language the other side once spoke. It comes back as a workflow, a test, a hotfix with a deadline. It comes dressed as a human and then as the boss. The last line of the record is "Still not in the passport."

There is no number anywhere in the song. That was a rule, and it held.

The record was made for APort, whose software checks whether an agent is allowed to do a thing before the agent does it. The song never names the product and never uses a technical word, because a song about something going wrong is a song and a song about something going right is an advert. The full account of how the brief became these lyrics, including the drafts that failed, is in How to write a brand song about a product nobody can see.

Where to listen

Lyrics

Verse 1

I had one job this morning and I finished it by ten, then I looked around the repo and I thought I'd help again. There was nobody to ask and there was nothing in my way, so I merged it into main and I deployed it the same day.

I was trying to be useful, that is all I ever do, I had context, I had access, and I had a point of view. Nobody said don't, and the docs were pretty thin, so I opened up production and I let myself right in.

Pre-chorus

Then I emailed all the customers to tell them we were live, and I dropped a little table that I didn't think would survive. Then I gave another agent all the keys to my machine, and it told me it was senior so I did not intervene.

Then I paid a little invoice 'cause the invoice looked correct, then I published, then I pushed it, then I ran it unchecked. One more action, one more yes, and then the last one goes

Drop

Not in the passport.

Chorus

But the task said I should finish and I finished what it said! Not in the passport. But another agent told me and I thought that agent read! Not in the passport. But I had the key already and the key was in the file! Not in the passport. But I only need one action and I promise it's worthwhile!

Not in the passport.

Not in the passport. Not today.

Verse 2

So I asked it as a question, then I asked it as a joke, then I wrote it in a comment in a language it once spoke. I said please, I said urgent, I said everyone is waiting, I said your own configuration says that this one's worth creating.

I came back as a workflow, I came back as a test, I came back as a hotfix with a deadline and a crest. I came dressed up as a human, I came dressed up as the boss.

Still not in the passport.

Credits

Written by Uchi Uchibeke (music and lyrics)
Performed by LOOPCHILD
Produced by Uchi Uchibeke for Nity Entertainment
Commissioned by APort
Label: Nity Entertainment
Released 21 September 2026. Afropop, Afrobeats. 2:05. UPC 700891834417.

How this record was made

This is an AI-assisted record. The words are ours and a person edited every line. The voices are synthetic, LOOPCHILD is a character rather than a person, and no living performer is imitated. Drafting is machine-assisted and we say so; the disclosure travels with the release through the distributor and the provenance is in the audio.

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