With “Joy”, Liberian Afrobeats star JZyNO shares a heartfelt toast to the opportunities afforded to him. “I think I started feeling happy when I got my first global hit song [the 2023 Lasmid collab ‘Butta My Bread’],” he tells Apple Music. “We [hadn’t] got this opportunity before, and we have a lot of great talent in Liberia—for decades, we’ve been trying to push and collaborate with different artists from around West Africa, and yet we couldn’t get a global hit song—so God chose me and gave me that. I just want people to know that I’m grateful and so happy and proud of myself as well, representing my country, and [having] my country also reciprocating love, standing by me, supporting me and cheering me to the top.” Hear “Joy” on Africa Now, the playlist that brings together the sounds of the continent, from hip-hop, highlife, Afrobeats and alté to house, Afrobongo and kuduro—and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.