"godly" >
― J0rdan S., Sunday, January 24, 2021 12:03 PM (one hour ago)
lol I guess that might be true, but I basically liked everything I heard him on last year...and thus didn't vote for any of them sorry!
― rob, Sunday, 24 January 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
Really digging KPK
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 24 January 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
mutual satisfaction guaranteed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAkcBuc-52oDJ Spinall ft. WurlD & Niniola • Pure Water
(from Spinall's Grace album mentioned upthread)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
that's really good! some naijapiano has sounded weirdly truncated to me (I know, I'm the goldilocks of 'piano) but that's perfect
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92St1TBJL2EPeruzzi - Southy Love feat. Fireboy DML
We're easily at more than 50% Naijapiano by now.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 28 January 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
Even Davido joins the bandwagon (The Best feat. Mayorkun), but he still sounds like himself
― Nabozo, Thursday, 28 January 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
so still unlistenable dross? :)
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
Lol
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 28 January 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
Ha, I may have exaggerated on the 77 tracks thread cause it's hard to make afro pop unpleasant, but after he peaked in 2017, his rehashed singing has become really tired by now, grating even, it's physical. A bit like I can't stand Drake repeating his same modulations over and over. And the fact that he comes from money and gets the sunshine other artists deserve does not help. The exceptions for Davido might be his dancehall collabs (Dun Rich, Risky). "The Best" is no exception.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
he's hit or miss for me too, though I loved "FEM" last year and "Aye" is in the running for favorite afrobeats of all time
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
i've liked both of the lsat two albums a lot -- there's a lushness and a romanticism in his music that i really respond to. he's kinda working the same sound on both albums but it's pretty sui generis to me so i don't mind it.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
I could not decide on any sort of Omah Lay song so I just saved my vote for him for my albums bracket. I think I would have voted for "Bad Influence" if I had to pick 1.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
Even Davido joins the bandwagon (The Best feat. Mayorkun🕸), but he still sounds like himself
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
*he’s* got...
Bad Influence is the omah lay choice for me as well
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
like I said earlier I couldn't narrow down my Omah picks but was I the only one who really flipped for "Ye Ye Ye"?
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
I put all my Lay’s chips on “Godly”(I mean, if he can get away with Get Layed...)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
snort
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
his next should be Omah Gerd
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
Omah Layrd?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
OmahLaya Rodrigues
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
i’ll stop
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
Omah x Lay
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
O, MahndaLay!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
Nomah Playse
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
exclusive preview of the artwork for the new album:https://i.imgur.com/nNlOZK1.png
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW6aSuuJBUgNSG - Kate Winslet feat. Unknown T
I can't say I really get the challenge but the song is making waves. It's chill. I could post it under the Afro UK but I find it closer to the Nigerian sound than usual.
― Nabozo, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
ha to be clear, that def wasn't aimed at anyone round here! I still get a ton of enjoyment and value out of the board, just less so the eoy poll than times past― rob, Thursday, January 21, 2021
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:10 (three years ago) link
Lol are you fact-checking my enjoyment of the poll?
Okay: I'd say yes and no. The poll rollout/experience is definitely enjoyable (I do apologize that that post implied otherwise), and I genuinely appreciate your, Moka, and seandalai's work. But it's less valuable to me these days, because it's now very rare that I hear new tracks that I love via the results. I'm honestly not sure why. I'm open to the possibility that it's my fault! Maybe my tastes have calcified and I'm less open-minded than I think I am; writing this post I remembered I like the Selena Gomez song and should revisit it. But while I'm glad there was no repeat of the purple mountains fiasco, I can't say it's objectively better to have three Jessie Ware songs either just because I like her and not PM.
Anyway, the point of my posts upthread was that I am bored and a more than a little embarrassed by my tendency to (pre-)hand-wring over the results every year, and I wanted to not do that this year. On further reflection, I should absolutely add "ILM was better back then" to the boring + embarrassing post topics list--that's both simplistic and a pointless thing to whine about.
― rob, Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
lol i was just being bitchy! in any case, the poll encompassed a significant amount of handpicked afropop/beats this year; figured you might be more into it. i'm aware it provides different people with different things; all good regardless!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
lol sorry, woke up feeling crabby today
I suppose I was also trying to be high-minded and not say the poll is good now because more stuff I like placed :)
But, yes, to be earnest -- and to echo you and breastcrawl -- the growting interest in African music is a very cool turn of events for ILM!
― rob, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
you say crabby, I say bitchylet’s call the whole thing off
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
some people on this board professed some interest in Angolan afrohouse of the kuduro kind – it’s a known fact you can’t go wrong with producer DJ Vado Poster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ORsmIGBT48Cleyton M ft. DJ Vado Poster • Já Está
but that one is too new to have a video yet, and of course half the fun are the crazy-ass videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AHNHF__VMYKing Defofera ft. Marcos Robem • Segura a Mandioca
(this one is actually one year old, but the video only six months, and the track only got uploaded to Spotify this year)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
your valentines for the day:Niniola • Promise:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TowFIy1k8c(from her upcoming r&b project)CKay ft. Bianca Costa • Skoin Skoin:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFgHl0waqG0(from his Boyfriend EP, which also features Amaarae)Joeboy • Door:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5thBLIAnw8(produced by Tempoe, of “Godly” fame, from his Somewhere Between Beauty & Magic album)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
the Joeboy album is very good btw, ”Oh”, the *other* Tempoe track, is the bigger banger, but it’s not as valentine-y.
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
yeah it's a great album
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
the whole ckay ep is great
― ufo, Friday, 19 February 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
still don’t understand that the only place this jam is a hit seems to be my home.luckily I have the excuse that there’s a video out now so I can repost it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqT0q8iPQAAEltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)
(if you don’t like Eltee and Niniola’s vocals (as if), you could just put that isolated beat in the final 35 seconds (from 3:24 in the video) on endless repeat)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
from the same early January batch: that video link broke, but the official video just dropped today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVq3ijdk0E8DJ Kaywise ft. Phyno • High Way
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
nominating Pronto’s “Baga” for best Schweizerdeutsche afropop track ever:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9ilxcyBFo
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
wow. nomination seconded.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 25 February 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link
whooooah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMp_-r4zLks
Rema, "Bounce" (prod. by Don Jazzy, who is the star here)
― rob, Friday, 26 February 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link
wow, another banger, no lielove that this is not in any way shape or form an amapiano track but that that **POPPing** bass is totally unthinkable without italso, Rema is horny af again, more news at ten
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 February 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
Lol at the Swiss-german afrobeats, you can barely make out what he's saying, which is probably for the better. There's potential though, elements are right.Not sure I'm feeling the new Rema. The beat is a bit dark, I like the part when there's a second layer of sound but then it becomes too experimental.
― Nabozo, Friday, 26 February 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
'Foreign' upthread is such a jam
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 26 February 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
still don’t understand that the only place this jam is a hit seems to be my home.luckily I have the excuse that there’s a video out now so I can repost it:Eltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)(if you don’t like Eltee and Niniola’s vocals (as if), you could just put that isolated beat in the final 35 seconds (from 3:24 in the video) on endless repeat)― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, February 20, 2021 7:06 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Eltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, February 20, 2021 7:06 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
It's definitely a hit in my home too!
― daavid, Friday, 26 February 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
happy to hear it!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
I love how sparingly they added that bass. It just pops up in unexpected places.
― daavid, Saturday, 27 February 2021 03:51 (three years ago) link
it’s that man Worlasi again!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NmQU6sLtzoWorlasi • Fkn Guy
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 27 February 2021 12:18 (three years ago) link
I do love that Bounce!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
I suppose Yeeko does sound a bit like Delirious
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 7 January 2022 01:07 (two years ago) link
rolling afropop 2022
― rob, Friday, 21 January 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
xps, yes i definitely hear Delirious in Yeeko
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 February 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link