Has Afrobeat Overtaken Reggae/Dancehall in Global Popularity?

[Blessings]

The fact that afrobeats is gaining more international notoriety despite not being English/Spanish...is telling

 

[Kasgoinjail]

That song is too hard by Burna


I feel like the lines are becoming blurry with so many afro, yard and state side Collabs, eg, Burna, Serani and Jerimih: Secret

Songs like that can't be classified as one genre more if a mix up fusion which is why it has such broad appeal

 

[Blessings]

 

[Blessings]

Yoruba Vibs

 

[Pure Water]

I was thinking about this last week when I was at an event. It’s definitely taken over dancehall. I prefer dancehall though. shyt got the bytches moving more.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Right now

Afrobeats >>hiphop

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I was thinking about this last week when I was at an event. It’s definitely taken over dancehall. I prefer dancehall though. shyt got the bytches moving more.

more where? Most Afrobeat artists would tell you they are heavily inspired by and fans of dancehall.

i'll say it again. the content, song writing and vulgarity killed the shyt. can't play that shyt out in most places. tone it down and they back in business. I seen many eras of dancehall and the shyt today don't move much.

 

[invalid]

I was thinking about this last week when I was at an event. It’s definitely taken over dancehall. I prefer dancehall though. shyt got the bytches moving more.

I bet them bytches weren’t built like this tho.

 

[Pure Water]

more where? Most Afrobeat artists would tell you they are heavily inspired by and fans of dancehall.

i'll say it again. the content, song writing and vulgarity killed the shyt. can't play that shyt out in most places. tone it down and they back in business. I seen many eras of dancehall and the shyt today don't move much.

I'm talking about back in the day. Although that just may have been a product of time time where girls wasn't worried about getting recorded for grinding on nikkas.

 

[Blessings]

I was thinking about this last week when I was at an event. It’s definitely taken over dancehall. I prefer dancehall though. shyt got the bytches moving more.

Dancehall fell off in 2012/3....I used to go to 2-3 strictly dancehall parties a week + learning the newest dances + watching DancehallReggae clips + even apart of the DHR forum + downloading around 10 riddims a week

After Vybz Kartel/Mavado era Alkaline held it down for a bit but these new nikkas are GARBAGE and have zero appeal

 

[Blessings]

Right now

Afrobeats >>hiphop

I know we only talking about parties/clubs/kickbacks...absolutely Afrobeats>>>hiphop

 

[Conan]

Dancehall fell off in 2012/3....I used to go to 2-3 strictly dancehall parties a week + learning the newest dances + watching DancehallReggae clips + even apart of the DHR forum + downloading around 10 riddims a week

After Vybz Kartel/Mavado era Alkaline held it down for a bit but these new nikkas are GARBAGE and have zero appeal

What's a good source for dancehall mixes nowadays? I used to use mixtapepage before it got taken down

 

[get these nets]

 

[MikelArteta]

Even as a jamaican I can say Dancehall is dead

Afrobeats is like 10 laps ahead of dancehall/reggae popularity at this point

 

[010101]

easy call

afrobeats cut the gutter content out the mix

dancehall is gutter gutter gutter as street as it gets

you can't play that mainstream ha

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