Is ATL's run ever gonna end?

[CHERUB]

ATL just got hip to Afrobeats?? Slow to catch up as usual...

 

[Biscayne]

Its gonna be Afrobeats and Latin music taking over the ATL clubs as well as the Globalized music market to dethrone ATL setting trends.

Once those hoes go to Afrobeats while Trap money start to gradually dry up, watch how the likes of Gucci Mane and them start talking shyt about foreign blacks like *certain* contrarians.

Those genres will always be popular amongst those demographics. But not to the point where it will “dethrone” trap music as a replacement genre to sub genres of rap. If you like rap, you like rap. If you don’t, you don’t. Afrobeats and Latin music aren’t a replacement.

 

[Wild self]

ATL just got hip to Afrobeats?? Slow to catch up as usual...

Once it catches on, it will dominate.

 

[Biscayne]

So the south invented Hip Hop?

Talk about rewriting history. South ain't gonna be running an international music scene in this current market. I came from NC a week ago. They played more Afrobeats, some Reggae, and 90s RnB at a club of people unfer the age of 30 than most of Trap. Outsode of Jeezy, Future, and a couple of Gucci Mane songs, broads were more responsive towards beats that actually makes everyone happy.

That has to have been an African club. I’ve been to many clubs in NC, and when they play Afrobeats, they usually play it in a short melody of the most popular Afrobeats songs that they group together. Like a speed run. After a while, the crowd tends to want to get back to contemporary American music, not limited to rap, but also American RnB. I think a genre like Amapiano may have more long term success in American if the cards are played right. Afrobeats ain’t it outside of African clubs.

 

[Biscayne]

Its globalization. As in, international artists going to take over American airwaves soon, and the South gonna react like them NY rappers in the mid 00s when the south took their food. When you see the like of Burna Boy take over the interests of American IG hoes over a Future, is when you'll understand.

Why would a Burna Boy be a replacement to a future or any ATL artists, when his aesthetic is shaped after American Southern fashion? Burna Boy was just doing a more traditionally American record not too long ago. This seems like wishful thinking for the decline of American artistry moreso than something that’ll become a reality. The rise of the most popular AfroBeats artists, won’t necessarily coincide with the declination of American artist, aesthetic in America. Ppl move here and many adapt to what’s hot and popular. Burna Boy wouldn’t be the first foreign artist to pop here. Before Afrobeats, there was the Reggaetone wave. Nobody outside of the Latin American communities are all that familiar with Daddy Yankee, Tego, etc outside of their most popular songs during that one niche reggaetone run in the early-mid aughts. Even LatinX-American rap artist who did some reggaetone to capture that market, all but abandoned it to go back to American music(Nore, Fat Joe, etc).

 

[Wild self]

Why would a Burna Boy be a replacement to a future or any ATL artists, when his aesthetic is shaped after American Southern fashion? Burna Boy was just doing a more traditionally American record not too long ago. This seems like wishful thinking for the decline of American artistry moreso than something that’ll become a reality. The rise of the most popular AfroBeats artists, won’t necessarily coincide with the declination of American artist, aesthetic in America. Ppl move here and many adapt to what’s hot and popular. Burna Boy wouldn’t be the first foreign artist to pop here. Before Afrobeats, there was the Reggaetone wave. Nobody outside of the Latin American communities are all that familiar with Daddy Yankee, Tego, etc outside of their most popular songs during that one niche reggaetone run in the early-mid aughts. Even LatinX-American rap artist who did some reggaetone to capture that market, all but abandoned it to go back to American music(Nore, Fat Joe, etc).

That was 20 years ago with the Reggaeton wave. Globalization was nowhere near as powerful as it is now.

There is over 1 billion people living in Sub Sahara Africa, and even a fraction of that billion in support of Afrobeats already smashes the support of the American market. Its a numbers game, and music execs see the long play here. Its Only going to get bigger from here, and yes, it will clash with Trap music for airtime.

 

[Biscayne]

That was 20 years ago with the Reggaeton wave. Globalization was nowhere near as powerful as it is now.

There is over 1 billion people living in Sub Sahara Africa, and even a fraction of that billion in support of Afrobeats already smashes the support of the American market. Its a numbers game, and music execs see the long play here. Its Only going to get bigger from here, and yes, it will clash with Trap music for airtime.

Bad Bunny is one of the highest selling artist on the plant because of the Latin American market. He’s featured in American commercials, etc. His brand of Latin music isn’t played anywhere outside of those clubs and his songs are the only ones that get played on the radio. It hasn’t really bust open the door for other artist of that genre to get the same airplay. I don’t hear Bad Bunny everywhere like that. The billions of ppl in Sub Saharan Africa will support their artist. But unless they all move here, it won’t really move the needle in making AfroBeats artist into “replacement” artist to rappers. Especially if we’re talking in the context of who’s dominating the clubs and airwaves. If you’re just talking global streams, that’s a different argument altogether. There popular Asian artist who the average American doesn’t know about. Their popularity globally doesn’t move the needle here, nor does it “end runs” like in the context of this thread. Sonically, Afrobeats is too different to be a replacement genre to rap.

 

[Wild self]

Bad Bunny is one of the highest selling artist on the plant because of the Latin American market. He’s featured in American commercials, etc. His brand of Latin music isn’t played anywhere outside of those clubs and his songs are the only ones that get played on the radio. It hasn’t really bust open the door for other artist of that genre to get the same airplay. I don’t hear Bad Bunny everywhere like that. The billions of ppl in Sub Saharan Africa will support their artist. But unless they all move here, it won’t really move the needle in making AfroBeats artist into “replacement” artist to rappers. Especially if we’re talking in the context of who’s dominating the clubs and airwaves. If you’re just talking global streams, that’s a different argument altogether. There popular Asian artist who the average American doesn’t know about. Their popularity globally doesn’t move the needle here, nor does it “end runs” like in the context of this thread. Sonically, Afrobeats is too different to be a replacement genre to rap.

All I will say is that your logic and viewpoint, you sounding like NY radio back in 2004 when southern Crunk was emerging with Lil Scrappy, Lil Flip, early TI and so on, thinking that its just a fad and the south would fade away. I know you a Down South supporter and it's cultural norms like supporting strip clubs etc., its that arrogance and lack of broad thinking will suddenly leave you by Mid 2026 when Afrobeats took over 90% of airtime and none of the IG hoes would look at trap rappers anymore.

Its a whole new paradigm. Globalized music is here to stay.

 

[Biscayne]

All I will say is that your logic and viewpoint, you sounding like NY radio back in 2004 when southern Crunk was emerging with Lil Scrappy, Lil Flip, early TI and so on, thinking that its just a fad and the south would fade away. I know you a Down South supporter and it's cultural norms like supporting strip clubs etc., its that arrogance and lack of broad thinking will suddenly leave you by Mid 2026 when Afrobeats took over 90% of airtime and none of the IG hoes would look at trap rappers anymore.

Its a whole new paradigm. Globalized music is here to stay.

IG hoes gonna look at the the dudes who trick the most. That’s a whole new convo entirely. There’s plenty of IG models who go for wealthy Nigerian men as we speak. And it has nothing to do with the rising popularity of AfroBeats. Comparing the south taking out NY, is not an apples to oranges comparison of the potentially of AfroBeats replacing Trap/Rap as a the predominant genre of club music in the US.

 

[Wild self]

IG hoes gonna look at the the dudes who trick the most. That’s a whole new convo entirely. There’s plenty of IG models who go for wealthy Nigerian men as we speak. And it has nothing to do with the rising popularity of AfroBeats. Comparing the south taking out NY, is not an apples to oranges comparison of the potentially of AfroBeats replacing Trap/Rap as a the predominant genre of club music in the US.

When the money runs dry and someone deebos the club sound in the South, you gonna see a lot of haters come out the woodwork.

 

[Biscayne]

When the money runs dry and someone deebos the club sound in the South, you gonna see a lot of haters come out the woodwork.

Sub Saharan African immmigranrs have been moving to Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte etc for 25-30yrs now. The African club scene in US cities is no longer a new concept. And yet, the predominant genres in black clubs are still that of trap and RnB. The African after hours spots are just that. After hour spots.