Has Afrobeat Overtaken Reggae/Dancehall in Global Popularity?
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Worl Boss 1Don
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Afro beats and reggaeton Have both surpassed dancehall globally. Even though both have stole from it
So who are the best Afrobeats artists?Generally it's a little bland to me but went the latest Burna Boy album and liked what I heard. The production seemed to have more depth compared to the other stuff I've heard, granted I don't listen to it much
IDK if this afrobeats tho
SAnti and odunsi are more like African r&b. Love those guys
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I'll take it one step further, Afrobeat will overtake Hip Hop
Good prediction. Rap is in a toxic place right now. Drug addict rappers dying or rappers being randomly killed whether by gang members or other outside forces, rappers who put on a minstrel show act etc.
People are drained when it comes to hip hop. Even the “trap music” has toxic elements. Society misses the times when music was a lot more uptempo and it was a lot of dancing . This is a big reason why Chris Brown music is still so popular, nobody wants the melancholy thing. We are in a new era and people are starving for some organic uptempo music on a wider scale.
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I’ve never lived in Inglewood. It’s def one of the areas I be in when i visit LA and I’ve been to the savoy back in early 2017 and I thought it was an African spot. First time I seen that many Africans in one place in California
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Afrobeats is better production wise as well as sonically.
Rhymths are way more complex and organic.
I used to love dancehall and raggae, but it's been trash since around 2005.
Rhymths are way more complex and organic.
I used to love dancehall and raggae, but it's been trash since around 2005.
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On a global level yup it will. But I don’t see America allowing that to happen on their soil tho.
People who disagree either live in Jamaica or haven't been to a club in a couple years
I was in Jamaica a few months ago and they were playing some Afrobeats songs in the club
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Nah, it depends where you live. It isn't as clear cut as some are putting it. Even Africa is divided, its not just afrobeats ruling everything, there are places reggae is more popular, trap for others, dancehall for some, bongo flava, rhumba etc.
To put it in perspective, if vybz kartel were to visit my country today, he"ll have as large an audience or even larger than Burna Boy, who is Africa's largest artist now.
To put it in perspective, if vybz kartel were to visit my country today, he"ll have as large an audience or even larger than Burna Boy, who is Africa's largest artist now.
Being a Chicago breh I can really appreciate this.
I could tell this is from SA right away because some of the beats and background melodies are recognizable.
I have been listening to this other shyt from SA...
This my shyt.
What I wanted to know, what is this shyt? Is it still considered afrobeat or is afrobeat only relegated to Nigeria/Ghana/CoteD'Ivoire and the rest of West Africa?
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