There’s a quiet kind of courage that comes with finishing something you once abandoned. Tolani Otedola’s debut EP, Sh!t I Never Finished, feels like the sound of that courage taking shape. It arrives after years of holding ideas close but never quite carrying them to the end, years of beginnings that sparkled and middles that went still. This project is her declaration that hesitation is no longer in charge.

Across seven tracks, including a collaboration with producer and artist Pheelz, Tolani steps into a version of herself she once doubted she could reach. She calls the EP her answered prayer and her offering. It feels like both. The music carries a softness that doesn’t shy away from honesty, the kind that grows when an artist finally decides to show up fully for her own work.

She frames this moment with a verse that has clearly followed her for years: “Finishing is better than starting, and patience is better than pride.” It’s Ecclesiastes, but it’s also a mirror held up to her creative life. Her message is tender and unfiltered: she has been the girl with beautiful openings and unfinished middles, songs that never grew beyond a voice note, dreams paused before they had the chance to breathe.

This year, she chose a different story. She made a vow to finish something. The EP became a promise to honour her gifts, to choose discipline instead of doubt, and to build faith strong enough to outweigh the fear of being misunderstood. Even on the days when support felt scarce, when inspiration wavered, when the familiar whisper of “it’s not good enough yet” crept in, she kept going. The result is a project shaped by resilience rather than rush, sincerity rather than spectacle.

Her thank-you to the people who kept asking for new music feels especially poignant. She reminds them they were not cheering into a void. Their belief held space for her, even in seasons when she barely held space for herself.

Listen to “Sh!t I Never Finished” on Apple Music.