Bounce is SOTY so far.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 29 March 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
Yes. It just goes. And by the time it peaks, Rema's in an absolute frenzy going "bootybootybootybootybootybooty" and I know the narrative arc is simple and the subject matter played out, but it just works
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, 29 March 2021 23:53 (three years ago) link
bouncing booty will never be played out, lol
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 11:13 (three years ago) link
i can see this one crossing over into the soca fanship realm (not that this should be discouraged ofc)
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 11:54 (three years ago) link
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Thanks for the link, beast.
2012 is also my personal ground zero year for afropop
Alright one more archival request then I'm done: is there a thread where the semantics of "afropop" vs "afrobeats" vs etc etc was hashed out?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link
it's a good question and it has been hashed out a fair bit. as with all genre distinctions, it's grey areas and blurred lines all the way. whether "afrobeats" refers specifically to contemporary West African pop music or not is a question in itself. whether it's even a useful definition at all is a question. is all music from Nigeria and Ghana "afrobeats"? What about East, South and North? It can becoem quite a messy business. Where possible, I try to use Naija-pop, Ghana-pop etc but it's not always so useful tosilo everything into dozens of subgenres if you want to talk about music that shares a lot in common
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 12:31 (three years ago) link
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 12:42 (three years ago) link
I still don't like Bounce, but hard to say what my SotY is. Southy Love has proved its immense replayability but I guess it's from December.
This is no "One Leg Up" but I actually like the flat beat.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-rbG6h_1kUBlaq Jerzee, Mr Eazi, Harmonize - Falling For U
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
And since we're in confessional mode, my zero year is 2014 with SOS from Yung L. I discovered a few things (Burna Boy) on my own, and then a little while later friends of my roommate introduced me to the South African scene on the dancefloor of our living room with Kohna, Xigubu or Shumaya and suddenly what looked at first like a curiosity was the beginning of (probably) a life passion. I also married one of said friends. She says I dance better now.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
2012 for me. The Oliver Twist thread on this board pushed me in a certain direction and I've been adrift ever since.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 1 April 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
that’s lovely, Nabozo. can’t claim for African pop to have impacted my love life like that, but hearing Sarkodie’s “U Go Kill Me” changed my musical life for good - and for the better!anyways, sorta forgot about “Hallelu”, but it’s good. hadn’t played “Southy Love” much either, because of my (non-musical) aversion against Peruzzi, but have to admit it’s a great track - P.Priime proving he’s also great at naijapiano.always happy when other posters give me a reason to go back to a particular track that I didn’t rate enough initially or that just fell thru the cracks. another case in point: dog latin having Worlasi’s “Fkn Guy” in his Q1 highlights list. I posted it here myself and then basically forgot about it, but it’s great!let’s see what you all think of the new Eltee Skhillz. it’s produced by Krizbeatz, who in 2016 had the hottest sound in Africa with Tekno’s “Pana” but has been nothing more than solid since. this track however... it’s not naijapiano, like Eltee’s “Lucy (Remix)” with Niniola, but it’s going all kinds of places. EDM and dancehall came to mind, and that is also how it is described in the YouTube blurb, but I never heard anything like it before tbh:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2hlM7BIXZsEltee Skhillz • Galala
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 3 April 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
Speaking of the past, it's 10 years since Oleku but Ice Prince is still here. Oxlade is especially great here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts19iSWEvdsIce Prince - Kolo feat. Oxlade
The song is not really excellent, but the video and dancing is (I'm in love with Nife, the girl with blue hair).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejNMVMVFWqQEugy & Chop Daily - My Touch
― Nabozo, Saturday, 3 April 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link
Too much autotune but still got somethinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5J9oB3tdoRuger - Ruger
I like the adventurous production on Galala, there are good ideas there, but the chorus does not work for me the way it's placed
― Nabozo, Saturday, 3 April 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
Happy Easter!In case you’re ready for the second coming:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAhmUNl62mcNaira Marley ft. Busiswa • Coming(produced by Rexxie)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 5 April 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link
(biggest song in Naija right now)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 5 April 2021 11:28 (three years ago) link
Bounce - the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxMTgqNjZGo
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
Oh my.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
Coming is massive, btw. Vroom vroom!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
I've kinda been on the fence about Naira Marley until now, but this one is undeniable. And yes, Rexxie is a major problem.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
it’s the long overdue answer to the question “Baby Are You Coming?”Naira leaving behind a thread of amapiano awesomeness (I deeply regret where this is taking me)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
lol I like the production on that, but I'm going to be sad if I eventually have to put naija alongside dancehall in the "can't play this out loud in company" category
― rob, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
seems like a good moment to deflect and finally post Naira’s previous moment of glory, “Soapy”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q6Rixmvujc(seriously, this track, one of the defining African hits of 2019, was never posted on ILM. my lame excuse is that I never got around to finishing the accompanying thesis I was working on in my head. did manage to squeeze it into my EOY track noms tho)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
sorry, that was bound to happen. Zing has been playing me all day today
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
took two doses of soap to clean the thread ;)
― rob, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
the things you can do with soap!
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
Soapy is his other great track, yes. And I do think the raunchiness of Coming... uhhh... hits the right spot. It’s almost sweet - the song sums up what most people have been longing for these past thirteen (?) months perfectly. Who doesn’t like coming?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link
on a bit of a Naira kick atm. his only long(ish) form so far, the LOL (Lord of Lamba) EP from Dec 2019, is good stuff, as I remember it. best track is “Oja” imo.but discovery of the day is this track from last July from Marlian labelmate C Blvck:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8OMxVrDduUC Blvck • All The Best(again produced by Rexxie, all of this and the above before the naijapiano conversion obv)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
all of this and the above
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
get vour bling on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haLN5b85PGcBlaqbonez ft. Amaarae & Buju • Bling
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 9 April 2021 22:50 (three years ago) link
Digging this (Akay ft BM - Flexing):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIgnbmz92_Q
― daavid, Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
nice one - it’s that UK afro thinghere’s a hot one from Tanzania:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkroWpr7BfgNavy Kenzo • Nisogelee
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 18:51 (three years ago) link
nice one - it’s that UK afro thing
Oops, wrong thread, I guess. I couldn't find where the artists are based.
― daavid, Monday, 12 April 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
I'm curious, other than origin is there something distinctive about UK afro?
― daavid, Monday, 12 April 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
didn't mean anything thread-policey by that! I just like to specify tracks a bit, because Afropop/Afrobeats is not a country, so to speak. we've had several UK tracks in this thread already.
there is a UK-specific thread as well tho: UK afro - thread for discussing MoStack, J-Hus, Kojo Funds, Abra Cadabra, Belly Squad, Yxng Bane etcsome of it ends up in the rolling UK grime & rap threads, this is the current edition: Grime and UK rap 2021...and let me plug J Hus and Pa Salieu while I'm at it: j hus - dem boy paigonPa Salieu: Send Them to Coventry
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the links!
― daavid, Monday, 12 April 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
So I guess specifically for Afropop/Afrobeats there is this thread, the South Africa one, the Amapiano, and the UK afro? Anything I'm missing?
― daavid, Monday, 12 April 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
everything South African goes here this year:MZANSI MUZIQ 2021 🇿🇦 Rolling South Africa thread
...unless it's artist-specific:TRESOR, the Congolese-South African singer with the heavenly voiceAzana - IngomaTHE HOUSE OF SUN-EL: Sun-El Musician, Simmy, Mlindo The Vocalist, and other related artists🎹🎹PİANO! PİANO!🎹🎹 - a song appreciation thread for “eMcimbini” by Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa ft. Aymos, Samthing Soweto, Mas Musiq & Myztro
the Amapiano thread has technically been superseded by the Rolling Mzansi thread.
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
the second time around is better than the first time:
TRESOR, the Congolese-South African singer with the heavenly voice
Azana - Ingoma
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
replacing a broken YouTube link:Ethic Entertainment ft. Konshens • Figa (Remix)(there seems to be a real effort going on to erase this track from all platforms)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
Lots to explore! (I usually only check this thread)
Thanks again, breastcrawl
― daavid, Monday, 12 April 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
I finally made that Spotify playlist with (almost) everything posted in this thread, as well as afro(-adjacent) tracks posted in other threads this year. we’re at 74 tracks and counting (including a Canadian cuckoo’s egg):ILM rolling AFRO🔹pop🔸beats🔻2021
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
South(ern) African sister playlist: ILM rolling 🇿🇦 Mzansi MusiQ 2021 🇸🇿 🇳🇦
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
added two more:
1) an Angolan banger:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IogfQFSymvoNerú Americano ft. Os Tik Tok & DJ Vado Poster • Salta na Areia
2) and this Nigerian master jam:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPOeKgO6LIprettyboydo (or Prettyboy D-O) • Police N’ Teef
watch the video till the *very* end for a surprise appearance (first afropop claimed Justin B., and now...)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
(and you're welcome, daavid. looking forward to checking out your Middle Eastern x Balkan x cetera beats thread!)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
(sorry for adding ^one^ more too many)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 April 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
one for rob's can't-play-this-out-loud-in-company playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhIqfu8l05oBlaqbonez ft. Tiwa Savage • BBC (Remix)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 17 April 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
Police N' Teef is excellent, and I like the nasal high-pitched voice. At first Amapiano was just copy-pasted into the beats, but now there are a lot of songs that have integrated it much more tightly and subtly.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 18 April 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
Man, Martinique just quietly churns out dark, minimalist hip hop banger sand I'm here for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eehtz8NPQQ
Meryl x Akiyo - BB Compte
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, 19 April 2021 11:22 (three years ago) link