Has Afrobeat Overtaken Reggae/Dancehall in Global Popularity?

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I think outside of South Africa isn’t as popular but A lot of Afrobeats songs take South African house instrumentals without the general listening populace even realising, basically most House outside of S.Africa has been incorporated into a broader Afrobeats

Davido is trending right now for this new piff. Nigerians on Twitter are calling Amapiano theirs now @GrindtooFilthy .

 

[Budda]

Started my weekend early, smoked some bud, and I’m vibing to all this shyt in this thread.









Davido is trending right now for this new piff. Nigerians on Twitter are calling Amapiano theirs now @GrindtooFilthy .

I haven’t heard this props sounds good...



This is the new hot afrobeat song right now I think, Tik Tok made it explode..
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Dancehall 4eva

 

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I haven’t heard this props sounds good...



This is the new hot afrobeat song right now

This is a banger, too.

 

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another afrobeat x afrohouse x amapiano hit.



really liking this fusion of the genres.

 

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It’s Afro beats.. I was in Dakar Senegal back in June and was at an outdoor cafe called Sen’ burger and this joint was playing.. shyt was smooth

 

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I dunno bro there’s a new style of dancehall music that’s emerging from Brooklyn called flex dance music or FDM for short which I feel like solved that not being able to merge contemporary sounds problem you mention look up hitmakerchinx he’s a pioneer of this genre And he was on Rihanna’s anti tour.

I fuccs with this heavy. I can definitely see myself getting more into this style of dancehall. Part of it, I think, is that it doesn’t seem to register as dancehall which means you’re right, it has solved the problem of not being able to merge more contemporary sounds.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

I fuccs with this heavy. I can definitely see myself getting more into this style of dancehall. Part of it, I think, is that it doesn’t seem to register as dancehall which means you’re right, it has solved the problem of not being able to merge more contemporary sounds.

I think that's what's throwing you off is the BPM, dancehall is usually between 90-100, while FDM is between 105-110

I really wish I could post some of my tracks on here that I'm working on (but you know wolves in here be lurking ), but i'm in the process of fusing afrobeats and afroswing with other ethnics sounds like salsa, middle eastern music, and chinese instruments

here's an example from another artists to give you an idea. He mixed amapiano and afrobeats with oriental sounds

 

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Bumping my Ragamuffin playlist omw 2 work
I'll play some joints as to the reason why it's Dancehall 4eva and Afrobeats is number 2

 

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Na, Afrobeat overtook Dancehall but it isn't bigger than reggae proper; it has no chance in hell to get bigger than HipHop because HipHop has the ability to appear colorblind in a way that makes people regardless of ethnicity/race want to "join" in and become a part the "culture". True globalness is when you cross not only intraracial lines but most of all, interracial borders.

I agree with this. HipHop has taken over in a sense that not only is it globally exported, but a global genre as well, with different artists in their native countries taking part. And this is only mentioning the music, not the fashion, dancing, and art that goes along with it. Other genres such as Pop, Rock, Jazz, Reggae, and Techno have reached this level of global participation as well.

Afrobeat, Reggaeton, and even Dancehall still havent managed to get over that hump despite being globally listened too and popular imo. I do think your right that there needs to be a type of crossover artist to make it on the same level culturally like other American genres.

No shade tho. I like a couple afrobeat artists myself and respect it.

 

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