Afrobeats has better artists than reggae dancehall says music exec Murray Elias

[Scottie Drippin]

This needed to happen. Dancehall started falling off at the Vybz fukkery lyrics and low quality recording era and people clapped while it happened.

The sheer musicianahip in riddims and dubs vanished. They chased low quality mp3 hits aping American style while the world has been obsessed with recreating the feeling and quality of peak 70s-90s Jamaican music.

I'm happy he went into specifics and mentioned names. Someone like Shensea has been pushed and presented almost entirely like just a Jamaican version of the American rap girls. The whole industry is missing.

 

[010101]

it's not a matter of talent it's a matter of marketability

afrobeats artists friendlier/safer more ready for mainstream

dancehall got too much criminal gangster street related shyte tied in

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[Wild self]

Dancehall has to kill that drill movement

Afrobeats gotta knock out Trap music from the airwaves and the clubs.

Get rid of negativity from black music on the mainstream level.

 

[3rdWorld]

Dancehall and Reggae are two separate genres.

What is “Reggae Dancehall”?

Like Hip hop RnB..thats what I meant.

 

[Blessings]

Kartel's run from 2007 - 2009 was epic..

Movie Star Riddim still get play in 2024

 

[Bondye Vodou]

If Dancehall wasn’t high on a pedestal it wouldn’t be compared in the first place and for 1000th time, it was never supposed to be for public consumption.

The industry had beef with dancehall artists for not selling out 20 years ago so this jargon is nothing more than executives wailing they didn’t get to pimp Jamaican artistry at its height of popularity.

Burna himself said Afrobeats is nothing but ‘good time’ music because the artists ain’t never been outside

The Love, Damini star expressed, “90% of them, have almost no real-life experiences that they can understand, which is why you hear most of Nigerian music, or I’ll say African… I don’t even know what to say, Afrobeats, as people call it, it’s mostly about nothing, literally nothing. There’s no substance to it.” - Burna Boy


They gotta raise the frequency.

What worked back in the day was reflective of the times but it doesn’t translate well now.

So nikkas going full trap beats and raw/extreme lyrics isn’t selling out to you? Nikkas promoting bisexual women and oral sex ain’t selling out?

 

[Bondye Vodou]

Dancehall and Reggae are two separate genres.

What is “Reggae Dancehall”?

True but nikkas like putting both together. shyt we can even call out reggae cause them “riddims” sound more like RnB than real reggae. Nikkas done sold tf out.

Meanwhile, Afrobeats and Reggaeton incorporated the formula Jamaicans created and are now more successful than yardies.

 

[Blessings]

As long as artists prioritize either dancing or meaningful lyrics dancehall will be around

 

[Bondye Vodou]

U even got that Trinidad danchehall (Trinibad) which is essentially Island-drill. Nikkas getting killed weekly over demonic music.

 

[MikelArteta]

when dancehall went from the capleton/sizzla to just tlakin about killing you and puzzy good riddance

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Non issue

Theres room for all of them. Music thats fun and lighthearted always gonna be more popular

 

[tuckgod]

Nigerian/Jamaican beef

 

[LV Koopa]

This needed to happen. Dancehall started falling off at the Vybz fukkery lyrics and low quality recording era and people clapped while it happened.

The sheer musicianahip in riddims and dubs vanished. They chased low quality mp3 hits aping American style while the world has been obsessed with recreating the feeling and quality of peak 70s-90s Jamaican music.

I'm happy he went into specifics and mentioned names. Someone like Shensea has been pushed and presented almost entirely like just a Jamaican version of the American rap girls. The whole industry is missing.

I remember seeing all the hype around her and thinking she was straight garbage. Not one memorable song and I don't think she can sing at all.

 

[Bondye Vodou]

I remember seeing all the hype around her and thinking she was straight garbage. Not one memorable song and I don't think she can sing at all.

Lol plus she can’t freestyle, she doesn’t really have charsima, but she sexy af.

 

[mbewane]

New chapter in the diaspora wars just dropped