Has Afrobeat Overtaken Reggae/Dancehall in Global Popularity?

[Ya?]

Under all seriousness. Dem fellas been listening to reggae/dancehall, calypso/soca, zouk, kompa, the whole nine, for decades, and they've been learning and incorporating all kinda good vibes into their own artforms. It's a beautiful thing to see, really. Everything really is connected.

Africans love all black music, its news to me that AFricans hate on AADOS music, glad you like it, btw.

 

[Budda]

AADOS as a whole ain't jamming to no tropical music in their regular lives period.

Kpop is more influential than AB and DH put together among aados, and that's pretty much among teenage girls only.

African Americans have been playing Dancehall in their regular lives for years upon years. From Bob Marley to Shabba Ranks and Supercat to Sean Paul Shaggy and co all these guys were huge megastars worldwide, and AA was not exempt from that influence not one bit.

Your point is a bit juvenile because you fail to point to the big influence the Caribbean has had on Hip hip culture, from Kool Herc to Biggie Busta Rhymes Nicki Minaj Cardi B all the way to Pop Smoke and Kodak Black these guys are influential in AA music and by extension within the culture, so if these guys have grown up and are listening to Dancehall Reggae and so, there is a chance that that same influence extends beyond to other regions.

Regardless though what you say is a moot point, because if you step out your house and go to clubs in the big cities that are popping you will definitely hear at least 1 afrobeat tune, which wasn’t the case 20 years ago, so the influence is spreading, and this is backed up by the number of collaborations between Afrobeat and AA hip hop artists, which like I said wasn’t happening 20 years ago.

It was happening with Dancehall, and if Afrobeats ever gets as big as dancehall was in the 90’s and early 00’s(which would be hard) there’s no way you would be able to deny it’s impact, unless of course you are living an isolated life surrounded by people who don’t come out their house.

 

[Supper]

1. Houston isn't representative of the whole America. You still have MIA, ATL, NYC, LA, DMV, PHL who the fukk you think you are corleon

Houston's aados community is going to function pretty much the same as others in that regard. Our music taste are insular.

2. I was just kickin it in alief, the aa community there has definitely been put on to afrobeats since the African community runs adjacent to them especially to these kids under 21, nikka even people like BEATKING have made a joke about how they might start doing afrobeats instead of trap, that should tell you something

You spent a day in Alief with some Nigerian immigrants and think you know how the aados community functions there.

Boy, African immigrants in the H by and large live in the burbs with whites and asians not in aados neighborhoods. Y'all ain't represented in anything here, like WIs are in NYC and MIA are to some degree. They're a few in Alief, but the AADOS in Alief ain't rocking out to no ABs any more than the Asian, white, or hispanic people are. In fact they're prolly more likely to jam it than us. African immigrant kids listen it, but that's it.

The non-ados in Houston that AADOS intermingle with the most are Cen Am and Mexicans, yet you wont find any AADOS over here jamming some Mariachi music or some shyt. So, why the hell would we jam AB? Quit making shyt up, dude.

again you keep proving you don't go outside and actually mingle with folkst

You right I hang around other aados in aados circles. I don't hang around African/Nigerian immigrants, so I don't know about they shyt. Never claimed to.

You keep proving that y'all non-ados are try hards who wanna pretend to be apart of something you're not because you listen to some rap music behind your parents back, and get in your feels when you're reminded of that.

 

[mykey]

African Americans have been playing Dancehall in their regular lives for years upon years. From Bob Marley to Shabba Ranks and Supercat to Sean Paul Shaggy and co all these guys were huge megastars worldwide, and AA was not exempt from that influence not one bit.

Your point is a bit juvenile because you fail to point to the big influence the Caribbean has had on Hip hip culture, from Kool Herc to Biggie Busta Rhymes Nicki Minaj Cardi B all the way to Pop Smoke and Kodak Black these guys are influential in AA music and by extension within the culture, so if these guys have grown up and are listening to Dancehall Reggae and so, there is a chance that that same influence extends beyond to other regions.

It was happening with Dancehall, and if Afrobeats ever gets as big as dancehall was in the 90’s and early 00’s(which would be hard) there’s no way you would be able to deny it’s impact, unless of course you are living an isolated life surrounded by people who don’t come out their house.

This is true. Hip-Hop and Reggae always converged especially in New York with its huge Caribbean population.







I'm expecting similar Hip-Hop / Afrobeats collabo considering that in the last 20 years West Africans have settled heavy in New York and the South.

 

[MajesticLion]

Africans love all black music, its news to me that AFricans hate on AADOS music, glad you like it, btw.

I don't know where that "hate" talk came from because black American music has been and still can be some of the greatest anywhere; it's a lazy and stupid lie so I don't even bother.

Music is one of the true universal languages, everybody can learn a little about everybody else.

 

[Ya?]

I don't know where that "hate" talk came from because black American music has been and still can be some of the greatest anywhere; it's a lazy and stupid lie so I don't even bother.

Music is one of the true universal languages, everybody can learn a little about everybody else.

So which Afrobeats music have you listen to lately.

 

[T'krm]

I have no problem admitting Reggaeton is bigger than Afrobeat in north and south America. you latinos are loyal and support each other no matter what brand of ados and other forms of music yall swagger jack.

This is cute. But seeing how your whole style is a failed swagger Jack of my actual(Ados) culture, you still fall short on both ends. Sorry, bud

 

[Supper]

In the white community not in my community what are talking about breh!

Kpop hits among teenage girls of all demographics pretty much.

Other than that aados only listen to aados music.

 

[Supper]

I wasn't coming at you in a disrespectful manner. You came in here foaming from the mouth. Talking about foreigners (black immigrants) mocking AADOS music, like where.

Then you turn around and say more AADOS like KPOP music than Afrobeat. But you are being condescending and claim that Afrobeat artist are imitating black music but you have more respect for KPOP than other black genres of music. So Koreans are more respectful of AADOS. Like at this point you are just trying to be petty.

Like I said, if not a single AADOS ever listen to Afrobeat music, its not going to change a single thing for me or any other person who grew up enjoying the music.

AADOS is what 40 Million people and there are over 1 billion black people worldwide, I respect the AADOS musical footprint as it cannot be denied but AADOS is not the beginning nor the end of black musical art.

You came out the gate insult my culture saying modern aados music sucks. All I did was remind you that YOU take from OUR music, not the other way around, and then you tried to play the victim in typical non ados fashion.

Never said kpop was good or gave it more respect than anything. I simply said that among aados teenage girls it's a hit, currently at least.

But, hey as long as you ain't over stepping bound by trying to tell ME that ABs or DH has clout in my community then we have no real disagreement here.

 

[MajesticLion]

So which Afrobeats music have you listen to lately.

A bredren by the name of Walshy Fire runs with Major Lazer, back in the day he was a selector for a sound called Changez Disco. Cool yute. I listen to his mashups a lot. A countryman of mine named Machel Montano has been doing a good bit of work with Runtown, Mr Eazi and others. I can't claim enough knowledge of the ins and outs to know genres and subgenres yet, but I'm learning bit by bit. Machel just performed this for our Carnival a coupla months back:

 

[Budda]

You came out the gate insult my culture saying modern aados music sucks. All I did was remind you that YOU take from OUR music, not the other way around, and then you tried to play the victim in typical non ados fashion.

Never said kpop was good or gave it more respect than anything. I simply said that among aados teenage girls it's a hit, currently at least.

But, hey as long as you ain't over stepping bound by trying to tell ME that ABs or DH has clout in my community then we have no real disagreement here.

You sound like a white boy lol, wtf there’s no African American without the African stupid.

African American music is the blueprint of all modern music, but that doesn’t mean you can’t. be inspired and listen to other music by artists all over the diaspora and the continent? The best African American musicians normally have a palette of music that doesn’t just involve their region, you can go ask Nas go ask James Brown(if he was alive) go ask D’Angelo Erykah Badu Lauryn Hill and co, they all vibe to Fela Kuti, they all vibed to Bob Marley, or maybe you don’t have no rhythm?

 

[Ya?]

You came out the gate insult my culture saying modern aados music sucks. All I did was remind you that YOU take from OUR music, not the other way around, and then you tried to play the victim in typical non ados fashion.

Never said kpop was good or gave it more respect than anything. I simply said that among aados teenage girls it's a hit, currently at least.

But, hey as long as you ain't over stepping bound by trying to tell ME that ABs or DH has clout in my community then we have no real disagreement here.

I didn’t insult your culture, I know what I said. Yes current modern black music sucks but I expanded on that statement. I didn’t insult black American culture as a whole unless black American culture is solely music.

You wanted to pick a fight and it shows. You created narratives that no one said. No black culture that I know creates music for clout, but as a form of artistic impression. Musicality is in African DNA so...I don’t need AADOS validation for that.

 

[Barnett114]

People not in America chiming in on the music

 

[MajesticLion]

The muddy-the-waters crowd showed up, as expected. Dependable as the tides.

 

[Supper]

African Americans have been playing Dancehall in their regular lives for years upon years. From Bob Marley to Shabba Ranks and Supercat to Sean Paul Shaggy and co all these guys were huge megastars worldwide, and AA was not exempt from that influence not one bit.

Your point is a bit juvenile because you fail to point to the big influence the Caribbean has had on Hip hip culture, from Kool Herc to Biggie Busta Rhymes Nicki Minaj Cardi B all the way to Pop Smoke and Kodak Black these guys are influential in AA music and by extension within the culture, so if these guys have grown up and are listening to Dancehall Reggae and so, there is a chance that that same influence extends beyond to other regions.

Regardless though what you say is a moot point, because if you step out your house and go to clubs in the big cities that are popping you will definitely hear at least 1 afrobeat tune, which wasn’t the case 20 years ago, so the influence is spreading, and this is backed up by the number of collaborations between Afrobeat and AA hip hop artists, which like I said wasn’t happening 20 years ago.

It was happening with Dancehall, and if Afrobeats ever gets as big as dancehall was in the 90’s and early 00’s(which would be hard) there’s no way you would be able to deny it’s impact, unless of course you are living an isolated life surrounded by people who don’t come out their house.

The kool herc hip hop myth has been beaten to death on here.


DH outside of local NY and MIA scenes among primarily non-ados has no real influence anywhere in the aados community.

AADOS ain't jamming that in our personal lives. I can go to any parking lot during slab sundays when it's jumpin the most in any aados neighorhood here and nobody is jamming out to some damn shabba ranks, supercat, or davido, or w/e dude name is.