IllmaticDelta
Veteran
Fela invented what later became known as Afrobeat, the discussion of who came after him in that genre is of a smaller importance.
Ed sheeran doing music drill now (song out) update: drill pluggedin freestyle on the way?
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Fela invented what later became known as Afrobeat, the discussion of who came after him in that genre is of a smaller importance.
StretfordRed
Afro-European
That’s the whole point. We’re talking about those before him. Fela isn’t the beginning of African music.
Canada and UK look so corny and lame for mimicking american music
For real though . As a born and bred Londoner this shiit is so cringe .
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Swahili P'Bitek
Absorbingpovertywithoutlimitations
I think that's where a lot of people get confused. Africans do make RnB, hip hop, Soca, Reggae, House etc. Then you have the fusion that Fela and others did, then you have the straight up traditional music that people still love and has an audience all over the world as "world music" and was the first to actually take off on the world stage.
This is RnB, and we can't do what other people do and start renaming genres and all that.
This is more fusion, with all the percussion involved being African, and a piano providing that extra dimension. But if you hear the drums, you know it's a west African thing immediately.
This is very pure, percussion and the kora involved, even the singing style.
K.O.N.Y
Superstar
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
Killigraphy
Banned
You're from the UK and don't know he's been hanging out and making music with several UK artists? 
Let me talk shyt for a min, that nikka had me tight lol
Is U.K. drill really different from Grime? - the tempo of U.K. drill beat is 140-150 bpm range just like Grime (unlike any sound coming out of the US). The only difference is how they rap on the beat. And that’s understandable since UK drill originated from South London.
Granted there’s influence from Chicago that showed the pioneers how to paint a grim picture of their hoods on wax like those from Chicago were doing. But that’s where it ends. And U.K. drill has evolved over the years and the latest evolution started with the Harlem lot from Kennington.
I remember asking M.Darg (one of the pioneers of U.K. drill with Stickz and Grizzy) if there’s anything he would change about U.K. drill. And he said it’s the name. If they had named it something else - it won’t be as controversial as it’s now.
But regardless, the name has its blessings despite all the curses attached to the demonic sound because since it became mainstream - it made U.K. artists much more global and a lot of people are eating and music in the U.K. is as lucrative as it has ever been. Same with the Afroswing sound that originated from the U.K. via Afrobeats. Say all you want but you can’t hate on avenue for a lot of bruddas to eat.
If anything is corny in U.K. music - it’s the mumbling ATL sound imported to London by these Somalis. I can’t stand the mumbling American ones and definitely can’t stand the Somali ones in London. But one of them like “Born Trappy” is eating now and you can’t hate on that.