Afrobeats taking over! ❤️ 🖤 💚

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Not trying to sound like a hater but we've seen this before. In the 90s we thought reggae was here to stay. Their videos were along side playlists on MTV Raps and BET. Then you had rap and reggae collaborations. Now, not so much. The industry determines what's hot and eventually moves to the side what they get tired of and people adjust accordingly. :manny:
 

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My thing is, where's the line drawn? Because I've heard people call this song Afrobeats:




But it just sounds like dancehall to me.
 
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Not trying to sound like a hater but we've seen this before. In the 90s we thought reggae was here to stay. Their videos were along side playlists on MTV Raps and BET. Then you had rap and reggae collaborations. Now, not so much. The industry determines what's hot and eventually moves to the side what wthey get tired of and people adjust accordingly. :manny:
Reggae is from a small island of less that 3M people.

Right now West, East and Southern Africa have developing music industries with west Africa having been global for years. Over a billion on the continent. African music is here to stay.

African music has gone mainstream in the US, the music is playing in grocery and department stores in Europe and amapiano hasn’t truly gone global yet and that is inevitable.

This isn’t comperable to dancehalls run
 

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Me waiting for the Afrobeats/Amapiano "takeover" y'all have been promising since 2016

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Reggae is from a small island of less that 3M people.

Right now West, East and Southern Africa have developing music industries with west Africa having been global for years. Over a billion on the continent. African music is here to stay.

African music has gone mainstream in the US, the music is playing in grocery and department stores in Europe and amapiano hasn’t truly gone global yet and that is inevitable.

This isn’t comperable to dancehalls run
Amapiano is already having Caribbean subgenres developing in Europe from it. Only those not tapped in are unaware of its popularity


African music has always been popular in the Caribbean and Europe. Africans bringing back Caribbean sounds from Paris which is one of the big mayor Black cities in Europe (Amsterdam, London and Paris) is just one example of the symbiotic relationship of the Diaspora.

It’s like people forget it was Europeans doing the enslavement, so ofcourse the main European countries involved and their (ex)colonies are gonna be flooded with Black people.

Burna Boy blew up in those two regions outside of Africa first because of the close musical, cultural and historical relationships.
The Diaspora influencing eachother is nothing new.

Afrobeats is clearly influenced by dancehall sounds as well.
Burna has spoken about this plenty of times.

I love observing and experiencing how we as Black people can connect with eachother through music.
It’s amazing how the rhythms connect us.
 
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FBA proponents aren't gonna like this :mjpls:

Song is fire
Here we go again you obsessed ass nikkas constantly bringing fba up for no reason y'all butt hurt for what?

nikkas don't have this energy when carribeans claim their islands are Africans claim their country even though moving to America changed their lives.
 

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Here we go again you obsessed ass nikkas constantly bringing fba up for no reason y'all butt hurt for what?

nikkas don't have this energy when carribeans claim their islands are Africans claim their country even though moving to America changed their lives.
Oh you big mad :umad:
 
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