...as well as GuiltyBeatz. “Akwaaba” is his #10 song of the year.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
Another Slate roundtable contributor Rawiya Kameir mentioned afrobeats and dancehall:
There was a similar rejection of artifice across the Atlantic, in the dynamic, compelling world of Afropop. It’s been thrilling to watch as some of the genre’s stars abandoned the shiny, transparent attempts at American crossover of recent years. Instead of paying top dollar to collaborate with household-name rappers or drenching strummed kora with arpeggiated 808s, many leaned into traditional Naija sounds and motifs. It’s not that they hadn’t found success beyond their borders—Wizkid’s “Soco” and pretty much any recent Davido single blared from cars outside my Brooklyn window all summer—but maybe simply that the efforts, largely unreciprocated by American artists, no longer served them. Burna Boy’s excellent Outside seems to have lasted, even though it was released way back in January.
https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/pop-music-earnestness-kacey-musgraves-mitski-snail-mail.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
New thread for 2019:
rolling Afropop / Afrobeats / Afrodance 2019
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
Goodbye 2018 and good job everyone, I think we did good and had good taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QxY7afI0tQ
― Nabozo, Friday, 4 January 2019 11:18 (five years ago) link
Actually, there's no reason this thread shouldn't continue being used for a while
My friend sent me this (Racheal M - Mpalampalampa) from Uganda. Always liked this rhythm. She's 12.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECyKs-l1ok
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
Ok let's do it
A Pass - Didadada (groovy, from Uganda)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM19YRkJYhs
― Nabozo, Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link