Kumi Naidoo Naidoo spent four days in a Greenlandic prison after scaling an oil platform owned by Cairn Energy, as part of Greenpeace's "Go Beyond Oil" campaign. He was deported to Denmark where he spent a short time in Danish custody before being released in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has been a vocal critic of the failure of bodies like the World Economic Forum, to go beyond "system recovery", "system protection and maintenance" instead proposing a system re-design. Kumi Naidoo uses the WEF to amplify environmental messages to business leaders and politicians and lobby for green business practices and transformational changes in the
DNA (Koda Kumi album) South Korean group SF9 for their song "Fanfare" in July along with Albin Nordqvist. The lyrics to "HUSH" were written by Kumi and TEEDA from the group BACK-ON. The song "Guess Who Is Back" (track #9) was utilized as the theme song for the fourth season of the anime "Black Clover." This made it the first time since 2012 that Kumi performed a theme song for an anime, with her previous being "Go to the top" for the anime "Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse". Along with the music video for "Hush", three new videos were created and performed for the album: