Nigerian artist King Ugee has released his new single “Pim Pim,” out now via TKS Entertainment on all major streaming platforms. The song introduces the clearest statement yet of what the artist calls the Kingdom Soldier Sound — a street-gospel fusion built on highlife guitar, an Afro-pop bounce and a reggae pulse.
Recorded in the space between the church and the street corner, “Pim Pim” is structured as an appeal rather than a proclamation.
“Most gospel songs tell God what He already knows,” says King Ugee. “I wanted to write the part people don’t say out loud — the knocking. You’re not declaring, you’re waiting on an answer. ‘Shey you dey hear my Pim Pim’ is what it sounds like when a man is still standing in the same place he prayed six months ago.”
The single extends a catalogue King Ugee has built steadily since his 2022 EP
he has released a sequence of singles that have sharpened a sound few Nigerian artists occupy: gospel that keeps its rhythm intact and refuses to separate the dancer from the doxology.
He positions the territory as a calling rather than a genre — the work of a believer whose assignment happens to be a microphone. As Nigerian music continues to widen its international reach, “Pim Pim” arrives as a record that expects to be danced to and prayed over in the same sitting
If somebody dances their way into meeting God through this song, then the assignment is complete.”
“I was born a singer, but I was made a soldier,” he adds. “That is what the Kingdom Soldier Sound is — the gift you were given, conscripted into something that was already an assignment
King Ugee is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, and the originator of the Kingdom Soldier Sound — a street-gospel fusion of highlife guitar, Afro-pop bounce and reggae pulse, sung across Yoruba, Igbo and pidgin. Born a singer and made a soldier, he writes on a single subject: the goodness and grace of God.
“Pim Pim” is out now on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Boomplay and all major platforms.
