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
interesting!!
also "Bogada" is hopelessly stuck in my head.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 27 July 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
Burna Boy has dropped an album
― Nabozo, Saturday, 27 July 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
Read all about it here.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 27 July 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
Enthusiasm was faster than information. As an excuse, some dancing on Inama if you haven't yet seen those moves grown popular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTh5B5QZZY0
― Nabozo, Sunday, 28 July 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
Bogada shmogada, it’s now Solege time!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plvRti2sbVcA-Star • Solege(produced by Kel-P, no less)
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 07:29 (four years ago) link
thats sick
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 09:27 (four years ago) link
dope
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 10:45 (four years ago) link
wait, I just realized I had conflated the producer tags for Kel-P beats and Guiltybeatz in my head. They're not the same person? Sorry for my ignorance here.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
GuiltyBeatz = Ghanaian, “Akwaaba” etc.Kel-P (“it’s Kel-P vibes”) = Nigerian, most of Burna’s post-Outside hits, and Niniola’s current one.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
(GB uses “another Guilty Beat” as his tag)
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
Yeah that makes sense, but A-star is ghanian, isn't he? Maybe that's why I heard it wrong?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
Yep, and his previous one, “Bogada”, was in fact a GuiltyBeatz production.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
Right. That should explain my confusion, lol.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
So what does everyone think of Davido’s power move?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSgXrOsE5hEDavido ft. Chris Brown • Blow My Mind
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
Not bad but not really touching the best stuff out?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
It’s no Dumebi.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
Naija jam alert:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5RTQ2FSAEUIdahams • Amayanabo (The King)
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 07:23 (four years ago) link
Amapiano - baby, keep it coming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3OTClCxDykJobe London & Mphow69 ft. Kamo Manje • Sukendleleni
Live performance.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 2 August 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
HOLY SHIT SOLEGE
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 3 August 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
i kind of love this track that came on random shuffle on YouTube—the vocal harmonies are pretty dope, and i dig it as a liberation anthem.
Dj Maphorisa x Kabza De Small ft Mhaw Keys - Koko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0fuyILii2g
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 3 August 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
Just heard Davido's "Fall" on my local DC rap/r'n'b station so that marketing push for the song mentioned upthread in a January Rolling Stone article (and a later Rolling Stone article) must still be going...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 3 August 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 3 August 2019 06:21 (four years ago) link
it seems like a lot of other people like it, too, given that it had garnered approximately 60,000 more views in the past 18 hours
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 3 August 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
*has.
It is pretty massive. I could see him crossing over to more mainstream audiences in a big way tbh.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 3 August 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
and of course i'm an idiot, and i don't mean "mainstream," i mean "western/US". way to look like an asshole, table. [hides under rock]
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 3 August 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
I'm thinking that it's interesting and instructive that Davido and Wizkid have both opted for Chris Brown collabos as if they think *that's* the audience that will help them cross over - while Burna Boy piggybacks off Dave's Location straight into the brit charts.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 5 August 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
ummm so I'm supposed to be talking to a documentary film maker about possibly being a researcher for a new film about afrobeats. interesting!
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 5 August 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
can anyone recommend a site where i can order physical copies of some of these sent to an south african address?
― Heez, Monday, 5 August 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
enjoying busiswa being joyously sweary herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cY0nFJpos0
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
xpost,
I don't think there are a lot of physical copies of this stuff at all, Heez!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
not even as dubplates?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link