anyone else not really feelin afrobeats like that?

[Nkrumah Was Right]

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.

 

[ignorethis]

This one of the dope Wiz songs, the problem is every Afrobeats artist biggest songs are always love songs, so they get pressured to keep making those type of songs once they get the initial success.

Like dude, you guys live in the poorest nations on Earth, with ridiculous amounts of political and societal unrest. You guys can’t be in love all the time lol.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

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.

Suprised you not rockin with that Dominican afrobeat

 

[Doctor Wily]

 negged.

Why so breh?

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

This one of the dope Wiz songs, the problem is every Afrobeats artist biggest songs are always love songs, so they get pressured to keep making those type of songs once they get the initial success.

Like dude, you guys live in the poorest nations on Earth, with ridiculous amounts of political and societal unrest. You guys can’t be in love all the time lol.

That’s because diasporic Africans don’t get sentimental love songs in rap or R&B so you latch onto Davido. Don’t blame us!

Davido’s ‘Fall’ probably sounded like a revelation.



Why do you want us to sing about hardship all the time? Africans can’t love?

Essentialist wahala

 

[Reptile]

shyt is probably worse than Detroit trap.

 

[ignorethis]

Most Africans have not been exposed to world music and that’s fact. To make a transcendent hit in this day and age you need influence from all type of genres ranging from hiphop to country.

The biggest rappers in the US are rapping over EDM/House inspired beats while getting their music mixed and mastered by the guys who did Selena and Vampire Weekend.

Lol go to the village, if it’s not Afrobeats, African rap, Afrofunk, or highlife, they haven’t heard of it. Sometimes they’ll be hip to American rap, Grime, or UK Drill but that’s about it.

 

[DoubleClutch]

Not a big fan.

I prefer congolese music, RnB and zouk.

Put me on to some good Congolese music/artists please

 

[Jean Jacket]

Afrobeats has the best drums for the past 7 years or so. It's kinda peaking now.

The biggest artists are getting repetitive and the new talent is taking a cookie cutter approach.

I still like it better than modern dancehall.

 

[Budda]

Most Africans have not been exposed to world music and that’s fact. To make a transcendent hit in this day and age you need influence from all type of genres ranging from hiphop to country.

The biggest rappers in the US are rapping over EDM/House inspired beats while getting their music mixed and mastered by the guys who did Selena and Vampire Weekend.

Lol go to the village, if it’s not Afrobeats, African rap, Afrofunk, or highlife, they haven’t heard of it. Sometimes they’ll be hip to American rap, Grime, or UK Drill but that’s about it.

But that’s enough, House Rap Rnb etc is what most black youths all over the world listening to, very few black people listening to shyt like Country and Metal, House is obviously big in Africa too.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Afrobeats truly sucks. The new shyt. Give me Fela Kuti any day over this garbage. It all sounds the same and is cookie cutter, all it’s doing is cheapening the music and letting CACs and Asians steal the sound.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Most Africans have not been exposed to world music and that’s fact. To make a transcendent hit in this day and age you need influence from all type of genres ranging from hiphop to country.

The biggest rappers in the US are rapping over EDM/House inspired beats while getting their music mixed and mastered by the guys who did Selena and Vampire Weekend.

Lol go to the village, if it’s not Afrobeats, African rap, Afrofunk, or highlife, they haven’t heard of it. Sometimes they’ll be hip to American rap, Grime, or UK Drill but that’s about it.

Most Africans probably listen to more genres within their country and outside their country than the average American who listens to drill murder music and yodel music from Tennessee.

You need to speak to actual Africans before spreading lies.

 

[ignorethis]

Most Africans probably listen to more genres within their country and outside their country than the average American who listens to drill murder music and yodel music from Tennessee.

You need to speak to actual Africans before spreading lies.

Now I don’t speak to actual Africans like I don’t know the people that these artist are signed to and managed by and I don’t have family in the village that I talk to all the time lmao.

You got it

You can’t have any real music business/industry discussion on this site, people are stuck in fan mode.

Hip-hop got kids sampling Metroid, Jeopardy, and Halloween for melodies, three different sounds from three different mediums, kids pull influence from video game music, movie scores, TV shows, and other music genres both National and international.

It’s not like Afrobeats is a hyper-technical genre, it’s DAW loops and drum programming just like hiphop production. Hip-hop kids just use their DAWs to reference a higher variety of sounds and melodies than Afrobeats producers, because they’ve been exposed to more having unlimited internet access since childhood. I wouldn’t think this would be hard to understand.

Afrobeats production isn’t nearly as diverse as drill/trap production that’s just facts, people want to act like the Afrobeats isn’t using basic tropical loops from Splice on majority of its production.

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Put NaS’ vocals over it. You’re welcome

 

[keond]

It’s too repetitive and generic, like an African Reggaeton.

I say the same thing about Afrobeats, Reggaeton and Soca. Nobody wants to admit that about Soca because its a party music, but its literally one long song