anyone else not really feelin afrobeats like that?

[keond]

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.

Fela is a legend, but one day i realized how much he took from James Brown. Water no get enemy is my shyt tho.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

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.

I’m thinking of my relatives in Nigeria who listen to music from 4 continents and you’re talking about sampling Metroid Prime

Iberibe. Oya sit down ooo

 

[Ohene]

classic

Not a big fan.

I prefer congolese music, RnB and zouk.

 

[Jone2three45]

It’s not for me.

 

[NoirDynosaur]

Put me on to some good Congolese music/artists please

Pepe Kalle Empire Bakuba (La Rumba, Roger Milla, Ce Chale Carnaval, Pon Moun Paka Bouge, Mama Leki Ndaya, Divise Par Deux, just listen to his full albums)
JB Mpiana (TH, Ndombolo)
Koffi Olomide (Droit de Veto, Loi, Attentat, Monde Arabe, Papa Bonheur (Listen to the whole album), Papa Plus, Andrada)
General Defao (Sala Noki, Tremblement de Terre)
Fally Ipupa (he made a song with R Kelly)
Kanda Bongo Man (Sai, Iyole, Monie, Bili, Liza, Amour Fou)
Awilo Longomba (Moyen Te, Gate Le Coin, Karolina, Sequestration)
4 Etoiles (Live on London album, Dance, Enfant Bamileke, Zunguluke)
Dr Nico
Ferre Gola (100 Kilos)
Aurlus Mabele Loketo
Victoria Eleison (Kwassa Kwassa, Ata Mpiaka)
Zaiko Langa Langa (Known as the African Beatles - Jamais Sans Nous, Nippon Banzai, Paiment Cash album, too much albums just check em out)
Papa Wemba Viva La Musica (Pole Position, Foridoles,
Soukous Stars (Gozando, Pur Soukous, Nairobi Night, Soukous Attack)
Diblo Dibala (Listen to his albums)
Lokassa Ya M'Bongo (Marie Jose, Monica, Santa Isabella)
Syran M'Benza (Symboise - Icha, Biloula, Youyou)
Bongo Wende
Lita Bembo Orchestre Stukas
Dally Kimoko
Franco TPOK Jazz
Alain Kounkou (RAS - listen to the full album), Soukouss Correct Exige, Dansez - listen to that whole album, Top Millennium)
Verckys Kiamuangana (Listen to his 70s stuff - he played sax with James Brown)
Lipua Lipua (Mbondo, Temperature, Nouvelle Generation)
Orchestre Kiam

Just search Ndombolo, Soukous, Congolese Rumba. This is the best genre of African Music.

I also got a Youtube channel that promotes these artists. DM if you want that

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

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.

Did you even go through the examples I posted or are you just chatting nonsense. What cac and Asian you know doing afrobeats. You just like to hear yourself talk nonsense

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

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.

They were blasting skepta and young boy in my village. The new generation is nothing like the older generation they’ve adapted incredibly fast

 

[010101]

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[mykey]

On god. This thread is what white people were like when rap started. Sometimes popular culture leaves you behind. Accept your fate brehs

I remember.."I can't stand that jungle music " "ghetto rap" "n*gger music" ..etc etc

They said the exact same things about Jazz and Rock & Roll too.

To be fair, my black mom hated rap too and infact banned it in the house. She loved country music...like a lot of African and Caribbean parents those days.

 

[ignorethis]

They were blasting skepta and young boy in my village. The new generation is nothing like the older generation they’ve adapted incredibly fast

Youngboy the 4th most popular artist in Nigeria so that doesn’t surprise me, like I said they know some American and UK rap but it’s not like Moneybagg Yo is a well known name out there

 

[LeaveMyHairLineAlone]

What are the afrobeat classics?

Matt504 - Hiring

 

[Kuma the Bear]

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[Biscayne]

Yeah I was expecting it to sound like Fela Kuti, i.e. funkier.

why is everything mid to slow tempo now? I vape weed every day but I can't listen to slow, "wavy/vibey" lethargic ass music all day. I even fukk with ambient/drone music but sometimes I wanna tap my feet and groove to something. At least Amapiano has more of a deep house influence.

Where's the groove? Where's the FUNK? Where's the musicality? wheres the music for black people to dance too fr fr? where are the fukking BASS LINES? It's like the only dance music we can make now is house music, and i fukk with house. But if you listened to modern black music, you would think funk music never existed. And it's arguably the blackest genre of music we ever invented.

Black Americans need to bring back boogie music like the stuff from 1978-1982. It's mostly electronic so it doesn't sound too old-timey. It's groovy and you can dance to it, you can water it down a bit and make it more poppy, the subject matter is fun and harmless.

The success of Steve Lacy's Bad Habit show the audience is hungry for actual MUSIC, and bad habit wasn't even groovy like that.

Basically how I feel. Afrobeats is nice dance music for very special occasions(wedding receptions,) but I can’t really groove to it. To be fair, that’s how I feel about most diaspora dance music outside of America. The diversity of RnB, Funk, Jazz, etc is hard to replicate with new age diaspora dance music. Ionno. Afrobeats don’t do it for me.

 

[lib123]

Yeah Afrobeats can be repetitive but it’s a great mood lifter. Strongly recommend listening to 1-2 Afrobeats songs when you’re feeling down.

 

[Hannibal Fox]

This is nothing like reggae you’re ears are broken. Which example in my previous posts remotely sound like reggae

Afrobeats is a fusion of many genres, one of them being Dancehall