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the Amapiano thread has technically been superseded by the Rolling Mzansi thread.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
if I may redirect you to this, which is just the thread for it:🀄️🀄️ Martinique to the world: 70 SHiiNE x Nacho • DOMINO 🀄️🀄️
Martinique c'est pas l'Afrique !
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 11:52 (three years ago) link
Good point, apologies. Completely forgot we had the Martinique thread
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
Sorry if this has been mentioned already but THERE IS A NEW TENI ALBUM OUT AND IT'S CALLED WONDALAND!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGnjtVMaIQI
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
Listening now. If there's anything half as catchy and lasting as "Shakeam" on this, it will be worthwhile
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
I give up
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 12:33 (two years ago) link
I haven't totally fucked it again have i breastcrawl? tell me i haven't
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
ah i can see it was mentioned upthread. late to the party as usual! I was trying to F5 "Teni" but it highlighted every instance of "lisTENIng" and I gave up
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 12:43 (two years ago) link
lol
please don't give up, breastcrawl - we need you
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
yes, breastcrawl is doing god's work across the various threads i'm steamrolling all over
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
new sound alert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20JVqt9UqogZlatan ft. Davido & Mayorkun • Cho Cho
(not to mention the dance)
(P.Priime producing)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 24 April 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
I posted "Door" from the (outstanding!) Joeboy album back in February, but it's now the new single, in a version with Ghana's Kwesi Arthur:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjzzE1v1RDkJoeboy ft. Kwesi Arthur • Door (Remix)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 24 April 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
video for "Too Correct", a song that is otfm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRQsG8WKETg
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 25 April 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
My taste axis seems to be tilting more to South Africa this year, but I really liked Blaqbonez ft. Amaarae & Buju • Bling (still listening to the Amaarae album regularly). BBC remix was good too--maybe it's the obvs dancehall referencing? but the filthiness was less remarkable to me compared to the Naira
I'll need to check out the Joeboy album as I *really* like that "Door" (and "Lonely")
Rema is a total star, as soon as his bit starts I forget what Crayon even sounds like. Don't get me wrong though, that's a great track: it's still surprising me how good naijapiano can be
― rob, Sunday, 25 April 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
Burna is back from the G-hole
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 30 April 2021 07:15 (two years ago) link
it's still surprising me how good naijapiano can be
never underestimate the power of the alchemists of the Naijapop machine!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 30 April 2021 07:50 (two years ago) link
Speaking of Rema, I think Dimension belongs in here even though it's not strictly Afro. One of the best songs out, imo.
JAE5, Rema & Skepta - Dimensionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QWCjiZSdGQ
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 30 April 2021 08:36 (two years ago) link
“Dimension” is very good. Rema is also on the new Justine Skye single, “Twisted Fantasy” (once again mirroring a Wizkid career move in the process)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 30 April 2021 08:40 (two years ago) link
(and one for the reggaeton fans: he’s also on Bad Gyal’s “44”, in Spanish!)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 30 April 2021 08:43 (two years ago) link
Yeah, he's quite obviously positioning himself to be *the next wizkid*. Which means he'll probably enjoy even more success than wiz internationally in the long run. It's all very exciting.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 30 April 2021 10:07 (two years ago) link
Rema is a total star, as soon as his bit starts I forget what Crayon even sounds like they should cut Skepta from that song...sorry, I realized recently he just doesn't work for me on afropop, always sounds stiff and awkward to my ears. Jae5 kills it though!
― rob, Saturday, 1 May 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
Angola:
sensational: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wp7NH0iBPwElenco Do Rangel • Rangel Já Não é o Mesmo
ever-delightful, ever-entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u7zcMg9sPAScró Q Cuia & Nerú Americano • 5 Milhões (produced by Crazy Baby & *Vado Poster*)
Mozambique:
mozampiano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTkmSCEG4ZQKK Angel ft. Macache DJz & Ana Flores • Sk'Ngidinga
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 1 May 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
two tracks from Malinese rapper Ami Yèrèwolo’s new album AY, which goes *hard*:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaweQdfiTMkAmi Yèrèwolo • Je gère
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFj30weUzYkAmi Yèrèwolo • I bamba
(Yerewolo was one of Lafawndah’s collaborators on the Ancestor Boy remix album and also part of the second edition of the Amazones d’Afrique project)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 2 May 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
New guy out with a short album starring Mayorkun, Terri, Joeboy and Tenihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2P_vjYXisILaycon - Fall for me (feat. YKB)
― Nabozo, Sunday, 2 May 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
Ami Yèrèwolo has great energy - wish the production was more my bag.
love the panning on the Laycon track!
― sean gramophone, Monday, 3 May 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
oh hello!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSXIW_RuZ7UBlaq Jerzee ft. Marioo & Eddy Kenzo • Sokoma
(another collaboration with East African artists, album in this vein on the way apparently)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 3 May 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
speaking of (as for now imaginary) collaborations, how about Dawn Richard on that alté tip?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1xF3iLeCegLe Mav ft. Tay Iwar • Supersonic
(you all know Tay Iwar, right? my days, when I'm not with you baby...)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 3 May 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
some absolutely blinding posts over the last few days.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
tell us more, dl! (how did you like the Teni album btw?)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
wow that Le Mav song is giving me LIFE
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link