Irock Classic is one of the producers credited on Peruzzi, Zlatan and Shoday’s “INFERNO,” a song that led both Spotify and Apple Music in Nigeria during its release week. The name is easy to miss beside three vocalists and a fast chart story. Follow the public credits backwards, though, and the record becomes a useful way to see a producer’s longer working relationship with Peruzzi, from an album cut in 2019 to a collaborative single in 2026.<\/p>\n
That history matters to a Nigerian music business that often markets a record through its performers while production work sits deeper in the metadata. The credits show who has been named for particular jobs. They do not reveal who originated a beat, how the producers divided the work, or what anyone was paid. This is a trail through published records, not an account of an unobserved studio session.<\/p>\n
The distributor-supplied description of “INFERNO” on Peruzzi’s YouTube Topic upload lists Sensei, Irock Classic, Fresh VDM and Iroko bass as co-producers. It separately names Mix Monster as mixing engineer and Loud Urban Choir as a musician credit. NotJustOk independently identifies Sensei, Irock Classic and Fresh VDM as producers and the choir as a backing-vocal contributor. The additional Iroko bass and Mix Monster roles appear in the platform description; a second readable source has not established the detail of their contributions, so those roles should be understood as metadata supplied with the upload.<\/p>\n
Four co-producer names are not four equal shares or a map of the session. A co-production line tells a listener that multiple contributors have been credited for the recording. It does not tell a manager which person made the drums, arranged the voices, played bass, or took the lead on the finished master. For that, the team would need an account from the people involved or session documents. The public credit is still valuable: it makes those contributors discoverable after the headline moves on.<\/p>\n
Apple Music dates the single to October 29, 2026 and lists Peruzzi, Zlatan and Shoday as its artists. Its release line reads “Peruzzi, with exclusive license to ONErpm.” That wording appears in the distributor-supplied YouTube description too. It identifies how this release is presented to stores, but it is not a published contract and says nothing on its own about the producers’ fees, points or publishing splits.<\/p>\n
The connection between Irock Classic and Peruzzi predates “INFERNO.” Qobuz’s track credits for Peruzzi’s 2019 album Huncho Vibez<\/em> name Irock Classic as producer of “Gerrout.” The album listing dates the project to November 8, 2019 and identifies Davido Music Worldwide as its label. A separate JustNaija listing also names Irock Classic as the track’s producer. The two sources agree on that narrow credit; neither says what happened inside the session.<\/p>\n The distinction between the 2019 and 2026 release lines is also worth keeping precise. Qobuz presents “Gerrout” within a Davido Music Worldwide album. Apple presents “INFERNO” under Peruzzi’s name with an exclusive licence to ONErpm. Those are public metadata descriptions of two releases, seven years apart. They cannot by themselves prove a change in who owns Peruzzi’s catalogue, what a distributor financed, or how his producer agreements evolved.<\/p>\n Another older collaboration appears under Irock Classic’s own artist name. Halmblog’s 2020 report on “Quarantime” lists Peruzzi and Dremo as featured performers and Irock Classic as producer. TrendyBeatz’s catalogue listing repeats those names and identifies the work as a 2020 recording, although its page was refreshed later. Taken together, the pages support the basic lineup and production credit; they do not support a claim that this record led directly to the later “INFERNO” session.<\/p>\n The visible sequence is modest: a 2019 Peruzzi album cut, a reported 2020 Irock Classic release featuring Peruzzi and Dremo, and a 2026 co-production credit on “INFERNO.” It is a set of documented appearances, not a complete discography. Missing credits on other platforms or unreleased work could make the real career far wider than this short public trail. Even this limited set makes one point clear: Irock Classic’s connection to Peruzzi appears in the published record before the latest single became a chart story.<\/p>\n InterSpace Daily’s Spotify report<\/a> documented “INFERNO” at No. 1 on Spotify Nigeria’s daily chart for October 29, 2026. Kworb’s current display of that chart shows the song still at No. 1 for November 1, with 332,680 streams that day. Our Apple Music report<\/a> documented a separate No. 1 ranking on that service’s Nigeria feed on October 30. These are dated results on specific platforms, not a measure of what each credited person contributed or earned.<\/p>\n The business lesson is in the separation. Audience numbers can tell an artist’s team what listeners did on a service. Credits tell them who the release names for the work. Neither dataset supplies a split sheet. For a producer whose name has appeared across several eras of one singer’s catalogue, the credit line is more durable than the week’s chart position, but it needs to be accurate and carried across platforms if future listeners and rights teams are to find it.<\/p>\n “INFERNO” gives Irock Classic a visible place on a current hit while the older listings show that his relationship with Peruzzi is not a new discovery invented by this week’s chart. The honest extent of the evidence is clear: the public records show repeated credited work. They leave the creative division and commercial terms with the people and documents that have not been made public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irock Classic’s co-production credit on INFERNO follows documented work with Peruzzi in 2019 and 2020. The public credit trail shows a continuing creative connection while leaving the session roles and deal terms undisclosed.","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[513],"tags":[53469,53468,53470,150,52553],"class_list":["post-25679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-careers-people","tag-inferno","tag-irock-classic","tag-music-producers","tag-nigeria","tag-peruzzi","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"\nA limited but useful public trail<\/h2>\n
What the chart result actually adds<\/h2>\n