Afrobeats taking over! ❤️ 🖤 💚

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i don't like buzz terms like 'taking over'
it just adds more unnecessary fuel to the ongoing diaspora wars



but that song is fire, as long as the melody and beat is on point. its gonna do numbers

this one use to stay on rotation
 
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CashmereThoughts said:
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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At the end of the day, the industry pushes what people listens to. That was my point.
 
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"The industry determines what's hot"


:mjlol::mjlol::mjlol:



Roll in any proper fete and these soundmen out here are playing every.thing. Nobody cares about your curated pez-dispenser playlists.
 
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ReasonableMatic said:
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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Starting in the early 80s is where western audiences were introduced to African Music. After the experimentation of Reggae and Bob Marley in the 70s, it was time for corporate interests to find a new discovery.

This is where the World Music scene in London comes. The movement was started by Peter Gabriel who worked with Phil Collins.

Paris France is the capital of African music and one of the best international music cities in general. In the 80s it was like a goldmine for world music.

Soukous music/Congolese music in general was heavily popular in the 80s and 90s just like how Afrobeats is today. A lot of Congolese musicians would tour Europe, Latin America, Africa, Canada and even the USA. Concerts will be sold out.

On your post about Caribbean and African
Music, this is very true. They influence each other. A lot of Caribbean genres such as Zouk (French West Indies), Cadence, Kompa (Haiti), Merengue (DR) just to borrow rhythm elements from Soukous music.

With the rising popularity of Afrobeats, this would also give leverage for audiences to also discover other genres of African Music.
 
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