Afrobeats taking over! ❤️ 🖤 💚

[Spectre]

LMAO OP you're mad late

What's next? U gon talk about Burna Boy "Last Last"?

Afrobeats been took over

 

[GreenGhxst]

song fire, but frumpy ass selena gomez

im sick brejs

 

[Reality]

Yeah, this shyt is different from the reggae wave. I've become a big fan over the last year, and I consider myself a solidly, 6-9 months pre-mainstream explosion kind of person

Afrobeats also blends fairly well with reggaeton in playlists, so the crossover potential is bigger. I've been to clubs in the US & South America where they're interwoven in playlists because BPMs and drums are similar. The Latinas in S. America dance to it without skipping a beat .

Passport brehs, spin up a reggaeton & afrobeats playlist in Colombia or Venezuela and see what happens.

Don't say I never did nuth'n for ya.

 

[hood b. goode]

LMAO OP you're mad late

What's next? U gon talk about Burna Boy "Last Last"?

Afrobeats been took over

Put me on

 

[concise]

How many of these songs they gonna give to these white pop stars!? This like 4th time a huge afro song for co-opted like this

It's not co-opted, it's just not being closed off to getting new fans. A lot of Americans won't listen to these artists without hearing them on a track with Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez, Chris Brown, or Drake first.

This is just business.

 

[ReasonableMatic]

Yeah, this shyt is different from the reggae wave. I've become a big fan over the last year, and I consider myself a solidly, 6-9 months pre-mainstream explosion kind of person

Afrobeats also blends fairly well with reggaeton in playlists, so the crossover potential is bigger. I've been to clubs in the US & South America where they're interwoven in playlists because BPMs and drums are similar. The Latinas in S. America dance to it without skipping a beat .

Passport brehs, spin up a reggaeton & afrobeats playlist in Colombia or Venezuela and see what happens.

Don't say I never did nuth'n for ya.

Not one lie told.
I’ve been saying the same shyt on here FOR YEARS.
Dance Culture is HEAVY in the Diaspora.
nikkas just need to travel and experience the Diaspora to fully understand the magnitude of it.

The Diaspora is bigger than the US.

There’s a HEAVY dance culture over in the Caribbean, Latin-America and Africa.

Add the Black Diaspora living in Europe to that list and it makes even more sense.
Europe is flooded with Black people because of slavery and colonialism. (Cities like Amsterdam, London and Paris are the best European cities because of this imo.)

Bad Bunny’s concert sales and interactions are a reflection of what’s happening over there on the ground at the parties. ALL the baddies love Bad Bunny.

The global success of Bad Bunny and Burna Boy (Afrobeats to a bigger extend) is a testament how humongous and popular dance culture is in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin-America.

Their concerts abroad were some of the most fun experiences I’ve ever had in a while. Definitely recommend if you’re into dancing

nikkas that travel KNOW how lit the Diaspora is.
Nothing like experiencing the joy of all our different Black ethnic groups and musical expressions at Diaspora parties.

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

Afrobeats >

I am past 30, I would look silly listening a lot of these new rappers out there. You can play afro beat anywhere.

 

[Spectre]

Put me on

Aight I'm just gonna post some classics and let the algorithm lead you to what you like. Some aren't exactly afrobeats but close enough.

Also posting for the lurkers out there

I was at a musuem after dark rave and band was playing afro beats instrumentals live without vocals. Whole floor was a vibe that nite, looked like this but spaced out

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Only those not tapped in are unaware of its popularity

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole point of popularity was that people didn't have to tap into it

 

[Conan]

Yeah, this shyt is different from the reggae wave. I've become a big fan over the last year, and I consider myself a solidly, 6-9 months pre-mainstream explosion kind of person

Afrobeats also blends fairly well with reggaeton in playlists, so the crossover potential is bigger. I've been to clubs in the US & South America where they're interwoven in playlists because BPMs and drums are similar. The Latinas in S. America dance to it without skipping a beat .

Passport brehs, spin up a reggaeton & afrobeats playlist in Colombia or Venezuela and see what happens.

Don't say I never did nuth'n for ya.

nikkas travelling to Venezuela?

 

[CashmereThoughts]

It's not co-opted, it's just not being closed off to getting new fans. A lot of Americans won't listen to these artists without hearing them on a track with Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez, Chris Brown, or Drake first.

This is just business.

Americans listened to “To the moon” (Gambia), “Peru” (Nigeria) by the millions before anyone jumped on them.

Justin Bieber or ed Sheeran get on some African kids global smash and then mainstream radio says “new Justin Bieber” plays Justin’s verse only, your shyt has been co-opted. They used your sound to extend some CACs relevance and don’t even mention you

 

[CashmereThoughts]

nikkas travelling to Venezuela?

The women there are extremely desperate. You do the math

 

[CashmereThoughts]

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

Where do you live?

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Yeah, this shyt is different from the reggae wave. I've become a big fan over the last year, and I consider myself a solidly, 6-9 months pre-mainstream explosion kind of person

I knew African music was going to be ubiquitous in 2014 when Ojuelegba by wiz kid was going crazy here in NYC.

From my perspective the explosion happened around 2017 when Davido, wande coal, runtown ETC Was killin shyt

 

[concise]

Americans listened to “To the moon” (Gambia), “Peru” (Nigeria) by the millions before anyone jumped on them.

Justin Bieber or ed Sheeran get on some African kids global smash and then mainstream radio says “new Justin Bieber” plays Justin’s verse only, your shyt has been co-opted. They used your sound to extend some CACs relevance and don’t even mention you

this is so false

They became big in America once the Western friendly remixes came out.