Has Afrobeat Overtaken Reggae/Dancehall in Global Popularity?
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South African have more than house. They are in my opinion more explorative or sounds and really keep an indigenous sound in their music. Love my west Africans music but it’s too commercialized sometimes. I also love that South Africans aren’t ashamed of singing in their own language.we have seen. South African house wave was already a thing
Many years ago I tried to tell the coli about the influence of Jamaican music in Africa being dominant over the Western forms. Many posters disagreed.
WePifffyMane
Top Notch
Jamaican music especially the old school is much more relatable to the common African... from the drums to the subject matter.
DaRealness
I think very deeply
As a Jamaican, I'll admit it pretty much has at this point.
Everything has it's time, plus dancehall fell off a long time ago.
Everything has it's time, plus dancehall fell off a long time ago.
A1aaa
Respectful Fade Runner & Card Puller
All facts. I haven't been to Ethiopia or Kenya in a long time... but this was a big cultural difference in musical taste I noticed from being in the West.
A lot of people may not realize the diaspora ties which literally go back decades, such as:
1) Haile Selassie donating land in Ethiopia in the 1950s for AA/Jamaicans to emigrate, many of whom that still in that town (Shashamane) being Rasta.
2) Pre despot Robert Mugabe inviting Bob Marley to perform at the independence day celebration of Zimbabwe in 1980 after white Rhodesians got that work in the bush.
3) One of the GOAT reggae artists, Sizzla, temporarily moving to Zimbabwe from Jamaica
List goes on but I digress...
the only way that would ever happen is if Nigeria became a powerhouse economically
get these nets
Veteran
Facts don't matter to certain members. You could have the program directors from the top Black music format stations in the country saying ON CAMERA that Afrobeat songs are on playlists and charts, and people would still be saying the same things.Don't Rush is currently #9 on the the Top 10 hits on our local Hip Hop radio station in Chicago.
So much for ADOS not embracing afrobeat.
As far as that mentality, It's like this though. I'm tired of folks, closeminded folks. It's like these artists have demos and ain't nobody trying to hear it. But it's like this ,though. The Afrobeat artists got something to say.
MajesticLion
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From what I've heard so far, as an American, if I had to rank my favorite regional music from this thread, South Africa is #1. I may be biased because I'm from Chicago and grew up on House but also I really like the rhythms of that gqom music and the distinctive, what I'm thinking are Zulu harmonizations, in their music. The West African afrobeat I like next.
gqom seems like it's rhythms are a bit more complex though. Although from what I heard, it sounds like they do a lot of rapping more than singing.
Oh wow I thought you are were South Africans. Awesome! I prefer the South African sound because it is both modern and authentic to the African rhythm and if you have probably notice they incorporate their own indigenous language in most of their music. West African artists try to make commercial music with an African twist.
South Africans make music for the African ear...if that makes any sense.
Yeah, I like this alot.
Odd thing is I've heard the chorus from somewhere and made a mental to try to find the song but I must've later forgot.
Thanks for dropping.
You thought I was South African?-lol
Yeah I agree, I like the singing/rapping in Zulu, too.
As far as what you are calling "commercial", could it be that because there are large numbers of younger West Africans in the west - England and America, that they are trying to appeal to their musical sensibilities too knowing that they have also been brought up on Western music? Also, are many younger Nigerians in the west still speaking Yoruba/Igbo? I recall some of my friends being envious of others that could speak the language because they themselves could not...and wanting to "get back to their roots" and learn.