Noticed too late to attend that Kizz Daniels was in DC Friday night. Folks on twitter said he was likely just singing over tracks
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 30 June 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
Sweet stuff, taking off across Africa. But he’s (Nigerian-)American, so who knows, a potential US hit, post-“Fall”?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7oo1QmZ1ecRotimi • Love Riddim
― breastcrawl, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
Digging the new Adekunle Gold, “Kelegbe Megbe (Know Your Level)”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MucSft25l6I
― breastcrawl, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
The new Diamond Platnumz... “bangs” is not the right word, it rocks and it rolls perhaps, but either way it’s great. Fantastic production. (and 4 million YT views within a week? that’s huge) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBWdmypdkYIDiamond Platnumz • Kanyaga
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
I’m so happy there’s a new Malumz on Decks album. Lots of great groovy SA house jams (although the first two tracks may not be the strongest), including two remixes of “Shayi’number”. This is one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caf5HbibuVoMalumz on Decks ft. Indlovukazi • Cwebetela(btw, on Spotify the album (which is titled Find Your Way) is m/l hidden in the Compilations section of the Malumz on Decks artist page - all the more confusing as their debut album, The Journey from 2017, has been reuploaded as a 2019 release in the regular Albums section)
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 6 July 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
I fixed the date on The Journey and the album type on Find Your Way...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 8 July 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
Thanks Glenn, great job!
― breastcrawl, Monday, 8 July 2019 06:08 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SldyCVP02VMZERO12SFINEST ft THAMAGNIFICENT2 -Baby are you coming (Official Video)
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 8 July 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Yes, that’s a thread favourite, so no harm in reposting it, I guess.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 8 July 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
Got things to say about the DJ Maphorisa/Kabza De Small “EP” mentioned upthread that’s now on Spotify and Apple Music, but first it’s...The Revenge of Gqom:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87pF9M1IF1kBig Mike & Jive MaWeekend ft. Abafana Bo’Msindo • Umnqongo
― breastcrawl, Monday, 8 July 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
...a/k/a Banomoya is back, baby!Interesting: Distruction Boyz are following the Banomoya trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHKtmRP7DfcDistruction Boyz ft. NaakMusiQ & DJ Tira • SinenkaniBut fasten your seatbelts. This one does my head in. Can’t believe how good it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnmaRBz5GI8Mampinthsa ft. TNS • Joburg(and I hate that it’s Mampinthsa who brought out the Banomoya-best in TNS, but here we are)
― breastcrawl, Monday, 8 July 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
This awesome track by Soft dropped last Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OJs_h32rNASoft • MoneyThere is a remix with Wizkid now.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
There’s a video for “Boda Sodiq” already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs4KfzL1gU8
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 11 July 2019 07:14 (four years ago) link
Playing catch-up this morning. That Adekunle Gold track "Know Your Level" is really good--great to see it as I haven't enjoyed much he's done in a long time. It would fit nicely in the Nigerian wing of the House of Sun-El
― rob, Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
That’s a connection I would never have made! Not sure I can hear it like that though, it feels more of a piece with the Burna stuff to me.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
Yeah it's not like a huge break from other naija stuff or anything, but Gold is such a gentle presence (compared to someone like Burna) and, especially, the little break at 2:00 gives me some of the same feeling as...whatever we'd call that Sun-El microgenre. If that moment was stretched out I think it would connect even more strongly.
― rob, Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
― breastcrawl, Monday, July 8, 2019 2:06 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
weird, my bad, ctrl f failed me
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
Interesting times:https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a28409499/beyonce-the-lion-king-album/
(I guess the url could have been better)
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
More good news - Juls and Mr Eazi reunite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju9khTsPUk4Juls ft. Mr Eazi • CakeNew mixtape (Juls’s, that is) dropping next week.New A-Star banger, with significant help from GuiltyBeatz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXbww6W3O3EA-Star ft. GuiltyBeatz • Bogada
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
maybe I should post the tracklist? https://critiqsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Beyonce-The-Gift-Tracklist.jpgxp
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 18 July 2019 04:24 (four years ago) link
It was a difft thread where you guys talked abt shared love for zero12finest fyi
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 18 July 2019 04:37 (four years ago) link
Oh dear, so much for your “failed” Ctrl F efforts.Maybe refrain from these kinds of pronouncements when you clearly haven’t been following this thread (or the Summer Jams one, for that matter).Either way, scroll back to June 10 and start reading from there.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 18 July 2019 05:32 (four years ago) link
i do follow this thread but its being perpetually posted in...the name 'zero12finest' was literally mentioned once in this thread before
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 18 July 2019 06:06 (four years ago) link
you want more ppl to participate in this thread but get mad i dont catch every glib conversation abt a video idk what to tell you
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 18 July 2019 06:07 (four years ago) link
More people would be nice, more people like you maybe not so much.Anyway, you’re a clown (I’m being polite here) and I’m not going to have this thread spoiled by engaging (with) you any further.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 18 July 2019 06:29 (four years ago) link
doesnt sound very polite! Looking forward to posting in this thread again
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 18 July 2019 06:40 (four years ago) link
Here’s hoping we don’t like the same song a couple weeks apart in the future
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 18 July 2019 07:07 (four years ago) link
Seeing Burna Boy on Friday; expecting a very very live crowd.https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/bric-celebrate-brooklyn-festival/burna-boy-sampa-great-DJ-tunez
that lion king playlist is both terrifying ("Blue Ivy featuring" now?) and exciting; would love to see this break yemi alade big in america
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
aw man report back -- I'm going to be out of town when he's in Montreal :(
― rob, Thursday, 18 July 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
I hope Burna Boy is better than when I saw him at the Howard Theatre in DC last year. Sounded then like a disinterested rapper vocalizing over tracks. My fave live afrobeats related act is still Yemi Alade who sang, danced, and was accompanied by a great band in her DC gig.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
A-Star ft. GuiltyBeatz • Bogada
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 4:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i really like this
i follow this thread but i don't really post because i don't know shit or have anything to add, but there's always cool stuff...i suspect this thread has a high level of lurkers vs. posters
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
Good to hear you’re enjoying the thread, ums!I’m in the mood for some more Ghanaian stuff. Ladies first!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VVurZqsEg8🔴Sista Afia ft. Medikal & Quamina MP • Weatherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcT0fhSpG0🔴S3fa ft. DopeNation • Shugahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUwgFVxMTxk🔴Petrah • Tiasohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8jNU1US2k🔴Eazzy ft. Medikal • Awayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWCPdWbqMCo🔴Wendy Shay ft. Shatta Wale • Stevie WonderAnd to finish off, some gospel I can get with:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-kUAha1Y4🔴Obaapa Christy • W’agye Me
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 18 July 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
Nigerian intermezzo: As current Tiwa-featuring jams go I prefer this Spellz-produced jam to the Young John-produced one with Kizz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tu1_XxkgjYZlatan ft. Tiwa Savage • Shotan
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 18 July 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
regardless of tha beef... zero12finest.... BUMPS so hard
― ||||||||, Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
for damn sure
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
Thread for the AmaPiano awesomeness that is “Baby Are You Coming?” by Zero12finest feat. ThaMagnificent2
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 18 July 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
Je kiffe (vachement): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kHnFYzYC-0Sidiki Diabaté ft. Safarel Obiang • BKO-ABJ(as in ‘from Bamako to Abidjan’)
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 20 July 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
ha wow was not expecting the kora at the end (is it illegal for Diabatés to not use one?). damn, that song goes
"Shotan" is wonderful too
― rob, Saturday, 20 July 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Of interest, perhaps: the LiON KiNG: the GiFT <<>> where Beyoncé meets with Afropop
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
A couple of weeks old, but I loved this quote from Iris Xie’s blurb for “Dumebi” in The Singles Jukebox: ”Listening to five hours of Afrobeats songs in a community setting really hit it home for me — this is a genre of gentle but incredibly lit bangers, that helps create an atmosphere that allows for complexity and different levels of energy to all exist in a single space, but in a really harmonious manner.”(btw, TSJ seems to finally be shaping up a bit when it comes to African pop, better late than never)
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
really like "Shuga" from that longer Ghanaian post above.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
i'm also catching up, tbh, so please forgive me if i enthuse insanely for the next day or two. "Body Sodiq" is dope tho i don't think as good as "Designer"— vocal lines aren't as hooky. and "Bogada" is doing me in, it's everything i love.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
Enthuse away! I might post some new stuff as well if I can muster enough energy in this hot weather.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 25 July 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
Not as high profile as the Burna album obviously, but Colour, the new Juls mixtape, is quality. Dig that opening track:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwWg7Gjoo2UJuls ft. Worlasi • Nyafu Riddim
― breastcrawl, Friday, 26 July 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
More Ghana - with a dash of Naija, which holds true for the Juls tape as well. Did anyone say “azonto”?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfedeSgAjHkE.L ft. Falz & Joey B • Ehua
― breastcrawl, Friday, 26 July 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
having trouble searching for it, but...is "bogada" slang for money? all i can get is that it means "pages" in Yoruban? just trying to figure out what i've been singing while doing pretty much everything for the past few days lol.
"Anybody" is a sneaky earworm, love it. also love "Tshikwama," but you posted a fan video apparently! there's an official one that has some really fun moments, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIRS17BDK3w
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 July 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
I don’t know what “bogada” means either, but I doubt it’s a Yoruba word, because it’s a Ghanaian track. Producer GuiltyBeatz (do check out his awesome “Akwaaba” from last year if you don’t know it!) also worked on Beyoncé’s Lion King: The Gift project, including on this highlight:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zEj2LJSoQYBeyoncé ft. Shatta Wale & Major Lazer • Already
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 27 July 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
(and thanks for the “Tshikwama” video. I don’t think it was available when I posted the track. Still love that song!)
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 27 July 2019 09:49 (four years ago) link
Yeah, i just got super confused in my searching for what it means...also a slang term for penis in some Indian dialects? "Bogada" *does* mean "pages" in Yoruba, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense since obviously A-Star is from Ghana via the UK.
this is the sort of thing that bothers me enough that i might have to join twitter just to tweet at A-Star.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 July 2019 12:07 (four years ago) link
To be clear, I wasn’t trying to say there is no such Yoruba word, just that it didn’t seem very likely here.As for that Indian option however...
In studio with an Indian Artist Jaz Dhami.Slowly connecting afrobeats to different cultures— guiltybeatz (@GuiltyBeatz) July 24, 2019
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link