Afrobeat's Takeover: Rotimi's Number #1 Album, Walk With Me, on R&B Charts

[stave]

That nikka Dre from Power can sing?

Yup. Was a singer way before Power. I used to see his promo page on Facebook back in like 07-09ish

Him and Big Sean were constant page suggestions

But he better pay 50

 

[WSFGDan]

That nikka Dre from Power can sing?

 

[LiveFromLondon]

owe dancehall music

But where are the roots of dancehall from

 

[Roid Jones]

Afrobeats only the typical c00ns who hate their African heritage will talk slick

 

[Roid Jones]

wrong on all counts.. nothing militant about my post. "afrobeat being summer white girl music" is a dead ass giveaway that you don't interact with people outside the internet. Ed Sheeran running anyones summer is tragic

Breh is an idiot ignore him

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

When I see the word "Afrobeat", I immediately think of Fela Kuti type music.

Anyway thanks to Nigerians for bringing Afrobeat to the world outside Africa.

This. The modern version that sounds more House, Dancehall, and Contemporary R&B-influenced is often labeled as AfroBeats.

 

[Blessings]

The only back in the days 2007-2011 uploading CDQ Nigerian CDs on sites like Boxden and Cybereagles

These tracks still get play among real Nigerians and Ghanaians

 

[badtguy]

Rotimi shyt was wack tho
But congrats to that nikka

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

the next single I think will over, they play it here in Atlanta all the time.

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

Even gold link. going in...



Nigerian, AA, German/Haitian mix ,

 

[newworldafro]

Here's the thing about Afrobeats, I assume f8r it to get a foothold on U.S. charts it would need to be in English, although the song is fiyah...

 

[Strapped]

 

[UpAndComing]

It has been a great last year for Afrobeat my only pet peeve is that in America, they always play the same records over and over again (i.e Davido - Fall, Davido - If, Wizkid - SOCO, Wizkid feat. Drake - Come Closer, these records are almost two years old) when there is so much more out there including records that sound nothing like dance hall or caribbean type records and are the best records out. Then again I believe some of the success attributed to those records is because of the Caribbean vibe but I do think records that do sound "authentically African" are better.

The guy right now who is on fire is Burna Boy and he performed at Coachella just hope he can cross over like his other counterparts:

Breh, which are the best Afrobeat albums in the past 5 years?

List them breh

 

[Majestyx]

When I see the word "Afrobeat", I immediately think of Fela Kuti type music.

Anyway thanks to Nigerians for bringing Afrobeat to the world outside Africa.

same, nikkas be talkin bout afrobeat, i got hype thinkin it was some Fela sounding shyt... but its not
i dunno how this stuff became afrobeat. i need to do my googles.

 

[theworldismine13]

No disrespect to Rotimi but that sounded like some 2010 R&B with an Afrobeats beat. And that's #1?

If I'm looking for an Afrobeats song with a R&B feel that should be #1, then I'll have to go with this:

The hip hop stations in New York play "Fall" like 3 times an hour

oh ok, never really heard it before but i was at the reggae spot and they played this song and everybody went crazy, i was completely out the loop, i thought it was dancehall tho