Afrobeat all sounds the same to me?

[JaytheOne]

@GrindtooFilthy this shyt that you posted is fire breh



Who's that first breh on the chorus?

Yeah he went in on the chorus

 

[Conan]

I like the deep house amapiano

You should see a groove in Johannesburg. Just people dancing and having fun to deep house. Beautiful stuff.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Yup, still all sounds the same to me.

I actually listened to every link posted thus far.

Sounds like background music playing in a documentary about the Carribbean.

Not my thing.

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[Astroslik]

You should see a groove in Johannesburg. Just people dancing and having fun to deep house. Beautiful stuff.

Yeah I need to be there in person. I rock with Majorleaguez and Kelvin Momo. I was thinking of visiting Cape Town for my first trip to SA but I think Joho might be the move. Plus the womens asses are fatter…per capita.

 

[invalid]

This was probably the first West African song I heard while in college at a house party. Had all the African girls lit. Ass just shaking everywhere.



First time I was like yeah I can get down with this.

 

[Dad]

nikkas really in their feelings cuz songs sound the same .

Drill beats sound the same. Some gospel sounds the same, dance music sound the same,etc…

 

[JadeB]

nikkas really in their feelings cuz songs sound the same .

Drill beats sound the same. Some gospel sounds the same, dance music sound the same,etc…

You dissing #foreignflagset's culture

 

[Dad]

You dissing #foreignflagset's culture

I made a thread about Afrobeat a while ago & how every pop singer is living off it.

Brehs from the continent thought they were profiting cuz Afrobeat is the current wave not realizing the deck is stacked against them like it is/was for us. We lived through the Elvis’, Beatles, etc but the consensus was they aren’t tryna hear it.

So as ADOS we should sit on the sideline and let cacs b*stardize their sound

 

[Yehuda]

You could argue that stylistically a lot of genres have way more similarity that difference.

Being 90s hip hop kids with its crazy shifts and influences with wild creative imperative spoiled us in that sense because other genres are way more staid in their evolution and don't often veer from their lane in terms of instruments, arrangement, pace etc...

An old dude once commented on hearing a 45 minute House mix in the gym "That was a very long song"
He genuinely thought it was one track due to how little variation there was in the set because it all filtered into one lane. Same way I suppose all wine tastes like vinegar till you develop a palette that can differentiate but I get what you're saying OP.

The mainstream by its very nature is formulaic.

I agree, I just look at it as bourgeois notions of originality and genius being common sense at this point although that has not always been the case. Music genres have formulas and patterns to them, it is what it is. As funny as it may sound, music wasn't always about trying to express one's individuality or going against the grain or something along those lines.

 

[Busted_Toes]

If you can't see how this is fire I don't know what to tell you.

But to answer your question, you can listen to some afrobeat with a similar ear that you would listen to a Young Thug singing track.

this sound exactly how i expected it to sound

 

[the bossman]

Seems like Amapiano was derived from African American house music.

Nah South Africans have been house music juggernauts for decades now. Amapiano is a natural progression for them.

 

[NoirDynosaur]

I can't tell the difference between a good afrobeat song and a bad one.

What makes Wizkid and Burnaboy special? Vocals? Lyrics? or am i looking at this through a Hip Hop lense?

The real and best Afrobeat is the Fela Kuti sound that came out in the 70s. The "Afrobeats" label is just Nigerian Pop mixed with Hip Hop & R&B.

Best examples




The Best African Music is from these countries: Congo, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Senegal, Cameroon etc

 

[Astroslik]

Nah South Africans have been house music juggernauts for decades now. Amapiano is a natural progression for them.

And house music has been around for MANY decades.

Every amapiano dj I’ve seen in interviews admits that it’s heavily influenced by house music with its own twist. Also spoke to several South Africans who said the same. You even have Africans in this thread saying it as well.

I fukk with amapiano music and can appreciate the influence that AA house music has upon it. That’s the beauty of music

 

[Busted_Toes]

The real and best Afrobeat is the Fela Kuti sound that came out in the 70s. The "Afrobeats" label is just Nigerian Pop mixed with Hip Hop & R&B.

Best examples




The Best African Music is from these countries: Congo, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Senegal, Cameroon etc

i fukk with Fela Kuti..

this modern afrobeat literally sounds the same. is there a difference between Ghana afrobeat and Nigerian afrobeat? is there regional afrobeat because i can't tell.

 

[audemarzz]

If house music is your thing then check out their scene. It’s kinda interesting though how amapiano took off and gqom didn’t, that era came and went by so fast

Gqom has a more aggressive sound...Amapiano uses Gospel/Soul chords...anybody who grew up in church or on R&B soul will gravitate toward amapiano. They grew out of Kwaito (house based) and got HOUSIER somehow...