Nice n' Sweet
by Ciara (featuring Oxlade & Moliy)

Album: CiCi (2025)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Nice n' Sweet" pairs Ciara with Ghanaian singer Moliy and Nigerian star Oxlade for an Afrobeats-laced pop groove that's built for moving and is sunny, silky, and deliberately light on its feet.
  • Ciara, Moliy and Oxlade trade flirtation like a well-rehearsed dance routine. Lines like "Feeling like pretty little eye candy" and "Know they wanna give it to me nice and sweet" keep the vibe playful rather than explicit, closer in spirit to Ciara's early confidence era on "Goodies" than the grind-floor theatrics of "Ride." It's sensual, but smiling about it.
  • Ciara, Moliy and Oxlade wrote the song with Courtlin Jabrae, Christopher Chan, and Kwaku Etwi. Ciara said the goal was to make "something that feels like sunshine, something that connects us through movement and energy."
  • The collaboration came together casually in an unexpected way. Speaking on Capital XTRA Breakfast, Ciara credited her husband Russell Wilson with playing musical matchmaker.

    She and Moliy met at the Barclays Center during a New York Liberty game, started chatting, and Wilson stepped in with the obvious suggestion: You two should make a song. Moliy later sent over tracks, one of which already featured Oxlade. Ciara heard it, clocked it as the one, jumped in the booth a few days later, and "Nice n' Sweet" was suddenly destined for the CiCi Deluxe album.
  • Visually, the song leans into motion as well. Alongside lyric videos and a visualizer, Ciara staged a Times Square flash mob, dancing to "Nice n' Sweet" alongside two other CiCi tracks: "BRB" and "Low."
  • Released in November 2025, "Nice n' Sweet" fits into Ciara's broader immersion in African music and culture. Around the same period, she attended Lagos Fashion Week and announced her citizenship in the Republic of Benin.

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