Afrobeat/Amapiano thread : https://www.thecoli.com/threads/official-afrobeat-afropop-amapiano-high-life-hiplife-thread.900449/
anyone else not really feelin afrobeats like that?
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CashmereThoughts
Veteran
Fela Kuti has a full clip of them released in the 70s
CashmereThoughts
Veteran
The world hasn’t caught up and people are classifying amapiano as “afrobeats”
negged.
King
The black man is always targeted.
Noticed this too. Afrobeats is more r&b, whereas amapiano is basically house.
RealCrownHeights
All Star
It's okay and cool, I still prefer dancehall and as someone stated before, this sound is what's currently in so were stuck. bytches like it too but they not shaking ass or whining like Soca or Dancehall. And, it's a bit too positive I need some bullets for informa songs and gyallis songs.
staticshock
Veteran
Every afrobeat song I’ve heard has the same beat 
Apprentice
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Kwasia yid3n
Apprentice
RIP Doughboy Roc
Dummy
the burna boy song in black panther 2 was epic the way it was shown, issue with afrobeats imo is that every song sounds the same, also it's kinda vibey music people put on in a black space to fit the "mood"i mean, the shyt sounds good, but it doesn't make me really wanna dance and it's kind of boring to me for the most part (queue the afrobeats lovers posting videos ITT to try and convert me....which i invite and will let u know if it works, but i've listened to plenty).
Really not trying to shyt on it, but i think a lot of it has to do with a lot of the rhythms sounding similar with slight variation. It's a big reason why i dislike reggaeton, but there seems to be more variation in afrobeats compared to reggaeton at least.
I admit that I also listen to other kinds of music that is much more stimulating to me while lots of afrobeats sounds looped and the vocals seem to sound the same too with the autotune (i don't even hate autotune, not all the time at least).
a lot of the afrobeats i've heard sound too "chill" and it's like lounge music to chill back to me even though i see people in the videos dancing to it.
any of yall feel the same way?or am i about to get shyt on somethin serious
Nkrumah Was Right
Superstar
Nkrumah Was Right
Superstar
Truth be told, I like melody and old school Congolese rumba & soukous has it in spades
ignorethis
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Burna Boy is a standout in the genre, he’s one of the few one consistently pushing the genre.
Then you’ll have a kid like Ckay pop up who stuff sounds kinda forward and dope.
Rema was dope when he first came out, felt like an African take on pain music in Afrobeats form, liked the fact his aesthetic was “young black boy trying to escape the slums” vs being a lover boy. Then he caught a wave, they made his image an Uzi/Carti rip off, and started pushing him to make more cake ass love songs like everybody in the genre so they could give the songs to people like Selena Gomez.
Think Afrobeats is ultimately limited by its audience, women don’t like variety in music for the most part, and most Africans haven’t been exposed to enough different genres to objectively critique the genre and artists.
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Dancehall has been on this fake ass drill wave for well over a decade and they let Afrobeats slide in with ease. When you let cats like Kartel lead the way you see what the result is.
Meanwhile this bozo is literally killing people and is locked up and the genre is trash.
Only trying to listen to 90s dancehall and whatever came out during Sean Paul’s run in the early 2000s and that’s it. Dancehall fell off a cliff right after.