Ed sheeran doing music drill now (song out) update: drill pluggedin freestyle on the way?

[Pyrexcup]

song out

 

[Supper]

Mento (influenced by Afro American gospel and Jamaican kumina)
Ska (It's literally rock and roll, wtf is wrong with you) + INFLUENCED BY FATS DOMINO AND ROSCOE GORDON
Rocksteady (it's LITERALLY ROCK AND ROLL SLOWED DOWN WITH A JAMAICAN ACCENT) INFLUENCED BY CHUBBY CHECKER.
Reggae (IT'S LITERALLY AFRICAN AMERICAN DOO WOP AND SOUL, BOB MARLEY WAS A WHOLE JAMES BROWN STAN)
@IllmaticDelta @Supper these nikkas are staunch in the cap. They've been taught, disproven, corrected, and embarrassed over 10 different times on this board regarding the same subject using the same GROWING pile of evidence.

People talk about mento as if it's some pure island folk music devoid of any so called "imperialist american" influence when even the earliest mento songs contain blatant influences from Black American negro spirituals.


(swing low sweet chariot)

Wailers earliest recording included covers of negro spirituals


(nobody knows the trouble I've seen)


(Go Tell It On The Mountain)

 

[audemarzz]

damn imma see if I can find the documentary that gives the exact timeline: that’s not how that came to be


Your thinking of afropop/Afrobashment, real afrobeats is straight Up Nigerian

here’s some examples of PROPER Afrobeats not the fusion shyt that them Nigerians in the uk be doing. Tell me which one sounds like trap. Your mocking it at this point









again which one sounds trap or dancehall, don’t worry I’ll wait

Nah they sound like HOUSE
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
got you again, BOY

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Nah they sound like HOUSE
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
got you again, BOY

Which one? Maybe the amapiano track but definitely not first 2 again stop jacking it

 

[IllmaticDelta]

He thinks music didn’t exist before black Americans.

I think it was him who even said afrobeat was from AA

afrobeat that fela kuti did was based in jazz/funk + highlife/highlife jazz

what they call afrobeats today is actually a blend of many things. Repost of mine:

Spoiler

I would say modern afrobeat has dancehall rhythms but the vocalizations/harmonies/production style owe alot to R&B/Hiphop, even EDM (house music) (afrobeatz most direct antecedent was HipLife and Funky House) to a degree. See thread

to expound a bit on what I posted before

some of the styles that lead to/precurssor to afrobeats that comes out of Nigeria and Ghana

UK funky (sometimes known as UKF or funky[1]) is a genre of dance music from the United
Kingdom that is heavily influenced by soulful house, soca, tribal house, broken beat, grime and
UK garage.[1] Typically, UK funky blends beats, bass loops and synths with African and Latin
percussion in the dem bow rhythm and contemporary R&B-style vocals.
UK funky uses tempos of around 130bpm. Drum patterns vary between tracks, using either "4 to the
floor" or a syncopated style. The drum patterns commonly also include percussion playing African
inspired rhythms. Instrumentation varies widely, but drum machines and synthesizers are common.
There are similarities to garage in rhythmic, musical and vocal styles. UK funky is highly
influenced by the tribal, soulful and bassline house subgenres. Similar genres include Afrobeat,
broken beat, electro and garage
US house producers such as Masters At Work, Karizma (with "Twyst This"), Quentin Harris and
Dennis Ferrer (with a remix of Fish Go Deep's "The Cure and the Cause"; and with "Hey Hey") have
had an influence on UK funky.

example




^^UK Funky's precursors are in Deep/Tribal House and Broken Beat. Examples below


Karizma - Drumz Nightmare




Karizma - Twist This



Quentin Harris ft. Cordell McClary - Travelling (Vocal Mix)



We Are Lonely (Quentin Harris Vocal Mix)


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You Too Can Learn How To Dance Azonto

Azonto is both a dance and a music genre. While it's totally acceptable to enjoy the
upbeat, Ghanaian house-like rhythms on their own, it's always more fun to be a participant than
a spectator. The dance is part-miming, part-seduction, and encourages competitiveness in a way
that it is reminiscent of voguing or the short-lived LA-based dance craze known as jerking.
The form integrates older drumming and dance moves from Ghana with cues from contemporary house
and hip-hop. It became a viral phenomenon in Ghana, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom beginning in
2011

You Too Can Learn How To Dance Azonto
you-do





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It's Called Afrobeats And It's Taking Over London
Afrobeats (with an "s") is bringing the sounds of Ghana and Nigeria to British dancefloors.

What has come to be known as Afrobeats (note the "s") is an umbrella name for mostly
Ghanaian "hiplife" and Nigerian "Naija." Broadly, the sound draws on the rich legacy of highlife
and Afrobeat (à la Fela Kuti), contemporary American hip-hop and R&B production, a bit of
Jamaican dancehall swagger, and Britain's grimy take on house music.

It's Called Afrobeats And It's Taking Over London
over-london






February 11, 2015

Having produced Afrobeats for a while I wanted to push myself in different ways, to fuse
that African sound with EDM, or soul and make something that cuts across markets,” he says. “Big
songs in Nigeria – good songs – haven’t been big over here, because people can’t relate to them.
So when an African decides to make a song that people here can understand, then that’s a
different thing. They react to a song like ‘Confam It’ way more than they do to songs that are
more ‘African.’” Inspired by “Confam It”’s positive reception, Omeiza is moving forward,
planning to mix the aggression of trap with the traditional music of the Hausa people.
The thing that all producers agree on, is that no matter how far they may travel from the chart
hits Fuse ODG has delivered, they are all still making Afrobeats. There is no attempt to throw
up genre walls and pin the sound down to one tempo, one set of sound tools, or one rhythm
pattern. The prevailing attitude is that a slow winding R&B-influenced number can be just as
much an Afrobeats track as a hyped up four-to-the-floor pounder. In some ways, the term has
become a less problematic, African version of “urban” – it contains a huge diversity of sounds,
but, unlike “urban,” doesn’t serve to obscure the music’s origin

Red Bull Music Academy Daily


August 30, 2016
One Africa Music Fest: Showcasing the Rise of Afrobeats

In conversations with DJs and artists, you could feel those winds of change. When we met
young artists in Ghana in 2013, they were not all embracing the term “Afrobeats.” One rapper,
still holding to the hiplife label, said that Afrobeats was a term used more in the diaspora.
Not anymore. Today, like the term “Afropop” before it, Afrobeats has become a big tent. The nod
to Fela Kuti is noted, but Afrobeats is not a style per se, like Afrobeat. It simply means the
new sounds of Africa, part roots, part rap, part reggae/dancehall, part r&b. Crooning works as
well as a dancehall growl. It’s wide open. Whether the term lasts, time will tell.

Afropop Worldwide | One Africa Music Fest: Showcasing the Rise of Afrobeats


so I checked some of the newer stuff thats hot right now

R&B vocals with jazzy horns



R&B vocals + "tropical beat" + bluesy malian guitars



reggae lilt + an "afro" beat with jazzy horns



this could be a Khalil R&B song if not for the accent



has an "afro" beat with those house-techno synths and R&B vocals




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the stuff from South Africa (the newer stuff) is pretty much based on this stripped down skeletal form of House music that existed in the USA.



and obviously Deep House

 

[audemarzz]

damn imma see if I can find the documentary that gives the exact timeline: that’s not how that came to be


Your thinking of afropop/Afrobashment, real afrobeats is straight Up Nigerian

here’s some examples of PROPER Afrobeats not the fusion shyt that them Nigerians in the uk be doing. Tell me which one sounds like trap. Your mocking it at this point









again which one sounds trap or dancehall, don’t worry I’ll wait

First one dude saying NAHMEAN in the hook wholetime, y'all just can't leave us alone.
Dude mentioning Jay-Z and Hova in the Speed Rap verse, let's not.
So yeah, definitely some AMERICAN HIP HOP INFLUENCE IN THE FIRST SONG.
GOOFY
The Rap VERSE in the 2nd song was definitely trap/US hip hop influenced.
Including the slang for a German Car....LMAOOOOO goofy
Oh and ol boy talmbat some "back in the days" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA FOH
the Amapiano song is quite obviously house.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

O

First one dude saying NAHMEAN in the hook wholetime, y'all just can't leave us alone.
Dude mentioning Jay-Z and Hova in the Speed Rap verse, let's not.
So yeah, definitely some AMERICAN HIP HOP INFLUENCE IN THE FIRST SONG.
GOOFY
The Rap VERSE in the 2nd song was definitely trap/US hip hop influenced.
Including the slang for a German Car....LMAOOOOO goofy
Oh and ol boy talmbat some "back in the days" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA FOH
the Amapiano song is quite obviously house.

are we talking about the lyrics or beat cause you switching the goal post now, Again at this point your jackingggg it and grasping for straws.

 

[DonDadda]

He had an entire album with grime artist features before he was even signed.

 

[WaveGang]

Beats fire I can't lie

Content, lyrics, fashion, instrumental choices ALL = INFLUENCES.
and cool it w/ that extra'd out New York nikka talk you super Ghanaian

This brudda wyling

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Content, lyrics, fashion, instrumental choices ALL = INFLUENCES.
and cool it w/ that extra'd out New York nikka talk you super Ghanaian

1. I was born in Boston let’s start there you dikkhead
2. I’m Nigerian another fail on your part
3. This was about Music influences not fashion choices, lyrics or whatever and you still moving the goal post
4. Ah yeet on dead dogs you need stop jacking it and reaching for straws

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Beats fire I can't lie



This brudda wyling

Fam What is my man on, such wasteman activity cuz

 

[audemarzz]

Fam What is my man on, such wasteman activity cuz

nikka you sound weird as shyt talking about some "wasteman"
"stop jacking it"
"on dead dogs"
Internet college boy wave riding 3 different areas at once for an identity.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

1.Doesn't matter, you still a fufu eating nikka anyway
2.Doesn't matter, you still another fufu eating nikka anyway
3.Lyrics and fashion are part of music, I didn't move any goalposts at all. Trap isn't just the instrumental, goofy.
4.You don't have any dead dogs, you were in the house.

Man get this hatin ass weirdo tf up
Outta here. I know you’re problem now. You one of those non passport having xenophobic ass black people that don’t wanna give other black people there just dues. Becauses there’s no reason to be this mad and salty about shyt

What you think black people and black culture only exists in America. Clown

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

nikka you sound weird as shyt talking about some "wasteman"
"stop jacking it"
"on dead dogs"
Internet college boy wave riding 3 different areas at once for an identity.

I’m from the north east dummy. Caribbean’s and Africans run Up here. Stay mad

from dc all the way to Maine

you wouldn’t say This to anyone who was Haitian, Nigerian, Jamaican, Dominican, or Ethiopian, Ghanaian up here foh

 

[StretfordRed]

afrobeat that fela kuti did was based in jazz/funk + highlife/highlife jazz

what they call afrobeats today is actually a blend of many things. Repost of mine:

Spoiler

to expound a bit on what I posted before

some of the styles that lead to/precurssor to afrobeats that comes out of Nigeria and Ghana



example




^^UK Funky's precursors are in Deep/Tribal House and Broken Beat. Examples below


Karizma - Drumz Nightmare




Karizma - Twist This



Quentin Harris ft. Cordell McClary - Travelling (Vocal Mix)



We Are Lonely (Quentin Harris Vocal Mix)


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You Too Can Learn How To Dance Azonto




You Too Can Learn How To Dance Azonto
you-do





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2013

It's Called Afrobeats And It's Taking Over London
Afrobeats (with an "s") is bringing the sounds of Ghana and Nigeria to British dancefloors.




It's Called Afrobeats And It's Taking Over London
over-london






February 11, 2015



Red Bull Music Academy Daily


August 30, 2016
One Africa Music Fest: Showcasing the Rise of Afrobeats




Afropop Worldwide | One Africa Music Fest: Showcasing the Rise of Afrobeats


so I checked some of the newer stuff thats hot right now

R&B vocals with jazzy horns



R&B vocals + "tropical beat" + bluesy malian guitars



reggae lilt + an "afro" beat with jazzy horns



this could be a Khalil R&B song if not for the accent



has an "afro" beat with those house-techno synths and R&B vocals




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the stuff from South Africa (the newer stuff) is pretty much based on this stripped down skeletal form of House music that existed in the USA.



and obviously Deep House

Is Fela the only African artists you have heard of?

This is why this discussion with Americans is hilarious as you think one artists = the whole of the genre.