fun fact: Tiwa has a track with Sam Smith, who also had one with Burna.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
*has* one
The new Adekunle Gold album, Afro Pop, Vol. 1, is a much more straightforward and concise affair (just 29 minutes against Fireboy and Burna’s 50). It’s mostly good (altho the lyrics can be a bit clunky at times), but it doesn’t make good on the promise of those great singles he released from “Kelegbe Megbe” onwards. “Okay” is the clear highlight of the new tracks.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
I’ve been converted. I’m on team afropop-beats-dance now.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
the fireboy album is a really really good pop/r&b album even if its not as distinctively west african as a lot of pop from there is. if his album last year was even better i'll have to check it out
― ufo, Thursday, 27 August 2020 10:05 (three years ago) link
Fireboy DML has cited Jon Bellion, Passenger and Wande Coal as his key contemporary influences.[3]
this is a really ridiculous combination lmao
― ufo, Thursday, 27 August 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
there's a weird full circle thing where it often resembles some of the 80s pop/rock that had vague african/'world music' influences
― ufo, Thursday, 27 August 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
if his album last year was even better i'll have to check it out
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Spotify playlist with all the tracks posted on this and other Afro(-adjacent) threads, we’re at 330 tracks now:ILM rolling ✳️all-inclusive✳️ afro 2020
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
Thank you for that! Lots of things to catch up with!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 27 August 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
tbh, not hating the sam smith collab on the tiwa album lol, tho i haven't been paying much attention to the lyrics.
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 August 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
yes tonight is Celia listening time!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 August 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
Let me post this amazing performance of "Dangerous Love" for Jimmy Fallon first (posted it on the Naija Special poll thread earlier): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXprX_vwPvc
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 August 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
I don't watch the tonight show but was not expecting Jimmy Fallon to have Tiwa Savage as a music guest. Now I'm looking at her musical guest list of this year and damn, whoever is in charge of booking acts for the show has some pretty good taste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Jimmy_Fallon_episodes_(2020)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 28 August 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
yeah I get alerts sometimes, he’s had several Afropop artists on, and I remember a recentish Bad Bunny performance that was fire.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 August 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
The first half of Celia is superb, rest is good to very good as well. Best of the current batch of big shot Naija albums so far, by far. Made in Lagos, you’re damn right! Opening track “Save My Life” (with an uncredited Terri, I think, or is it Reekado?) is total Naijapolitan bliss:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFSzmMz9H8U
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 August 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
“Bombay” with Stefflon Don and Dice Ailes is mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
also “FWMM (F*CK With My Mind)”...!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
another Tiwa track with *backing* vocals/voices
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
the production on “Pakalamisi” with Hamzaa is stunning where did I even get the idea the second half was somehow not as good
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
produced by Ozedikus (who did Rema’s “Woman” with Altims)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
had smoked a little something last night but now that I’m sober my opinion hasn’t changed one iota:This album is astonishingly good. I was touting Fireboy’s debut as one of the best Afropop albums ever just the other day, well, we’ve got another one here. This is album of the year material.I mean, I hadn’t even mentioned “Glory”.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
I listened to about half of Celia yesterday and really liked it, looking forward to returning!
― rob, Saturday, 29 August 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
Superb album! I could do without the interlude and "Celia's Song," but they're not ruinous by any means, and the rest is excellent: deep, slick, sultry.
― rob, Saturday, 29 August 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
yes, im a big fan too. don’t mind the interlude or celia’s song, they add a nice personal touch
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Saturday, 29 August 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
This Tiwa Savage album is becoming one of my favorite listens of the year. I even like the Sam Smith collab and I usually can't stand him.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 30 August 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
Oddly enough I like the second half better.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 30 August 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
of course I made a thread:next level at 40: 🌸TIWA SAVAGE’s CELIA🌸 album
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 30 August 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
someone should make a thread for fireboy too, i would but i'm not sure i can properly articulate what i love about his album
― ufo, Monday, 31 August 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
I don't why it took me months to listen to the Omah Lay ep but it is fantastic, title aside
― rob, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
A lot of afrobeats gets compared to dancehall but on “Ye ye ye” he really sounds like current dancehall in a way that I haven’t quite heard from Nigeria before
― rob, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
What? No link for the Fireboy thread?
Thraed of 🔥 Fireboy DML 🔥 and his new album Apollo
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
The tracks Nigerians are listening to the most when they’re not listening to Burna:This one is nice, if a bit generic. I hear talk of TikTok, might explain its popularity:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65O_4LXRyocOlakira • In My MaseratiThe next song makes liberal use of Brymo’s classic hook for Ice Prince’s “Oleku”, which was huge when I started discovering Afropop. It’s nice to be able to feel your own sense of history with this music. It also continues Mayorkun’s hot streak in 2020:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yH5zhQgXPYJamopyper ft. Mayorkun • If No Be YouAlso DJ Tunez’s “Pami” with Wizzy, Adekunle & Omah Lay (see upthread), and all things Omah in general, of course.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
Not quite as popular, but extremely good, with great ominous-sounding production by Cracker Mallo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIjkFCCLdcAJaido P ft. Olamide • Tesina Pot
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
heat from Tanzania, featuring Rayvanny, as is often the case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xAaGTFG0cIBaba Levo ft. Rayvanny • Ngongingo
(also seconding Lucy Anita in the comments:
Lucy Anita 1 day agoAm really waiting for a day where I will see men dancing infront of ladies almost naked while ladies in the same song are fully covered🤣🤣🤣
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 7 September 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJddptqCSz4Bella Shmurda • Dangbana OrisaI’m very much on board with producer Rexxie’s transition from zanku master to semi-spiritual vibes dealer, as witnessed by tracks like this one, Johny Kore’s “Aje”, Korede Bello’s “Morire”, and even Burna’s “Bebo”.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
love the new Olamide, produced by P.Priime:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6KWkycPh4gOlamide • Eru
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3_nqVUPBMVinka - Red Card Hailing from Uganda, clearly reminds me of A Pass
― Nabozo, Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
new Davido sounds good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lta5go9P-goDavido • FEM
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 10 September 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
that is great
his album is def in my top 10 most played of 2020
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 10 September 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
...and he is promising A Better Time with his next album!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 10 September 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
new Niniola song with soca producers Stadic and Jonny Blaze:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml2Zrvc63DoStadic x Jonny Blaze ft. Niniola • Sibe(it’s on their respective labels, not on hers, so probably not an official Niniola single)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 September 2020 11:47 (three years ago) link
Stadic does alot of soca production, no?
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Friday, 11 September 2020 11:49 (three years ago) link
the answer is right there in my post!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 September 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
More recent soca/afropop intermingling here and here.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 September 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
FEM rules
― rob, Saturday, 12 September 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
Yes, although I see some Davido haters on twitter knocking the song
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 September 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
Free speech was a mistake
― not right at all (rob), Thursday, 17 September 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link