rolling Afropop / Afrobeats / Afrodance 2019

lol, accurate

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=7TMrCktOmmE

where (and how) the magic happened

my YouTube is weak these days...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TMrCktOmmE

^^
where (and how) the magic happened

Nice.

Spectacularly good new gqom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_R_AOhzPx4
Material Culture ft. King Lee • Ngenzan

Their whole Skhothane EP is wild.
File next to Angola’s Os Santiegos, I suppose. Same setup: four dancers/chanters working with a beatmaker. Shame they don’t have videos for these tracks**. Also - imagine Busiswa working (with) these beats!

**(but this is them last year, dancing to King Lee’s amazing “Street Fight”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwO1ie-LhQ)

AmaPiano fortissimo:

https://youtu.be/0N2fID9FpZQ

Vusinator ft. Soso & Killa • Gigabyte (also known as “Gigaba”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2fID9FpZQ

That beat is everything.

Can’t wait to hear what NaijaPiano is going to sound like.

Noticed too late to attend that Kizz Daniels was in DC Friday night. Folks on twitter said he was likely just singing over tracks

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=f7oo1QmZ1ec
Rotimi • Love Riddim

Digging the new Adekunle Gold, “Kelegbe Megbe (Know Your Level)”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MucSft25l6I

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=aBWdmypdkYI

Diamond Platnumz • Kanyaga

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=Caf5HbibuVo
Malumz 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)

I fixed the date on The Journey and the album type on Find Your Way...

Thanks Glenn, great job!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SldyCVP02VM
ZERO12SFINEST ft THAMAGNIFICENT2 -Baby are you coming (Official Video)

Yes, that’s a thread favourite, so no harm in reposting it, I guess.

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=87pF9M1IF1k
Big Mike & Jive MaWeekend ft. Abafana Bo’Msindo • Umnqongo

...a/k/a Banomoya is back, baby!

Interesting: Distruction Boyz are following the Banomoya trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHKtmRP7Dfc
Distruction Boyz ft. NaakMusiQ & DJ Tira • Sinenkani

But fasten your seatbelts. This one does my head in. Can’t believe how good it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnmaRBz5GI8
Mampinthsa ft. TNS • Joburg

(and I hate that it’s Mampinthsa who brought out the Banomoya-best in TNS, but here we are)

This awesome track by Soft dropped last Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OJs_h32rNA
Soft • Money

There is a remix with Wizkid now.

There’s a video for “Boda Sodiq” already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs4KfzL1gU8

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

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.

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.

Yes, that’s a thread favourite, so no harm in reposting it, I guess.

― breastcrawl, Monday, July 8, 2019 2:06 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

weird, my bad, ctrl f failed me

Interesting times:
https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a28409499/beyonce-the-lion-king-album/

(I guess the url could have been better)

More good news - Juls and Mr Eazi reunite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju9khTsPUk4
Juls ft. Mr Eazi • Cake
New mixtape (Juls’s, that is) dropping next week.

New A-Star banger, with significant help from GuiltyBeatz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXbww6W3O3E
A-Star ft. GuiltyBeatz • Bogada

maybe I should post the tracklist?

https://critiqsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Beyonce-The-Gift-Tracklist.jpg

xp

It was a difft thread where you guys talked abt shared love for zero12finest fyi

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.

i do follow this thread but its being perpetually posted in...the name 'zero12finest' was literally mentioned once in this thread before

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

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.

doesnt sound very polite! Looking forward to posting in this thread again

Here’s hoping we don’t like the same song a couple weeks apart in the future

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

aw man report back -- I'm going to be out of town when he's in Montreal :(

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.

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

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 • Weather

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcT0fhSpG0
🔴S3fa ft. DopeNation • Shuga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUwgFVxMTxk
🔴Petrah • Tiaso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8jNU1US2k
🔴Eazzy ft. Medikal • Away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWCPdWbqMCo
🔴Wendy Shay ft. Shatta Wale • Stevie Wonder

And to finish off, some gospel I can get with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-kUAha1Y4
🔴Obaapa Christy • W’agye Me

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_XxkgjY
Zlatan ft. Tiwa Savage • Shotan

regardless of tha beef... zero12finest.... BUMPS so hard

for damn sure

Thread for the AmaPiano awesomeness that is “Baby Are You Coming?” by Zero12finest feat. ThaMagnificent2

Je kiffe (vachement): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kHnFYzYC-0

Sidiki Diabaté ft. Safarel Obiang • BKO-ABJ

(as in ‘from Bamako to Abidjan’)

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

Of interest, perhaps: the LiON KiNG: the GiFT <<>> where Beyoncé meets with Afropop

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)

really like "Shuga" from that longer Ghanaian post above.