There is a sound in pop music you’ve been hearing a lot lately—it’s called Afrobeats. And behind that sound is a story of how one African country’s music went …
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Afrobeats is the Nigerian sound taking over pop music
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What a wonderful documentary. I'd never heard of this genre before and it's rare that I get to see the face of music like here. This is exactly why I subscribed <3
It is the sound of Nigeria not Lagos, stop invoking the spirit of separatism
Shout out to gk
I disagree with the part that afrobeats is only about love, sex, and money. Artists like Burna boy or lagbaja talked about political concerns or tell a story about their life growing up in their songs. There is much more to afrobeats than love, sex, and money. Loved the video tho
Afrobeats ending in "S" is not a unique Nigerian sound. Not to be confused with the AfrobeaT of Fela and the movement of the 70.s
This so late, us Londoners have been on afrobeats since the early 2000s Oliver Twist 1st tune that was a big tune. The artist was a Nigerian security guard from a supermarket.
Terrible music
It’s guys like SARS
who have destroyed
African music.
No band, no real
singers.. dreadful
music
"One Dance" sounds like standard caribbean music. How is this Nigerian?
Nigerians having a big head feeling superior bc of their popularity atm but Liberia ?? is coming. First and only African to ever win ballon d’or the one and only George Oppong Weah. Don’t be surprised guys when Liberian artist wins Grammy Award after all these years of being behind wouldn’t put it pass us. So let all these countries keep talking we just here plotting and planing.
Afrobeat is a sound from Ghana highlife music? ???????????????? Afrobeat is ????Ghana not Nigeria. Fela only came to Ghana to learn highlife music from Ghana. He is not the founder of Afrobeat. Afrobeat is Ghanaian music genre which was in Ghana since 1920. Nigerians was influence by Ghanaian Highlife music in 1970. ????????????????????
6:39 Yeah right terrible, like you can make a lot of money with spotify xD
Great video also great content
You might have also heard about Kizomba, Funana and Morna from the Cape Verde Islands and Angola?
I was looking for that Ghanaian metal core band and somehow ended up here
"While afrobeats takes on influences from afrobeat, it is a diverse fusion of various different genres such as British house music, hiplife, hip hop, dancehall, soca, Jùjú music, highlife, R&B, Ndombolo, Naija beats, Azonto, and Palm-wine music". The majority of afrobeats songs I've heard sounds like the beat of dancehall and soca that are Afro-Caribbean. I want to hear more african rhyhtms with pop/RnB/hip hop could someone may reply me examples of that? Pleaseeee
Love it! Afrobeats is so fire!
I love afrobeats. Much love to Nigeria & all the african nations. I just love how the beats make me feel.
Interesting.
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Low-key kinda sad they didn't form their own record label. The networking from universal would be nice, but I don't like the idea of that label in all those artists' pockets
I dey see so many Ghanaians for hia claiming afro beats, me I dey fear oooh, make them no go claim big brother 9ja or nollywood one day ooh.
Bobzy-J dance videos
still waiting for disco polo to take over the world
It's not afrobeats, its afro-hip-hop. Afrobeats is the figment of a London based DJ
afrobeats is so real!
It's dominating pop music in my home country Mauritius
but I'm ngl hardly anybody knows where it's from
I didn't where it was from until this video so…
Afrobeats was and will be forever an identity.
1:57 Are you even a Wizkid FC if you don't know that flash drive?
Naija to the world
Afrobeat is unique it's african sound, but it is hugely influenced by Jamaican Dancehall Music, sometimes even afrobeat artist sing in jamaican patois
Teachers teache's their students to become doctors likewise Ghana thought Nigeria and they wanna say they thought their selves lmao.. impossible!! By the way Nigerians our former students
It's your time Naija so enjoy kk.
Ghana is out so take over we are making another sound kk. So come again and pick them out okay.
So no one is going to talk about the elephant in the room? Afrobeats sounds exactly like dancehall…
Oh lord everywhere it is so nice and enjoyable. You can hear the happiness in the song. Well done
I like nigeria and art form!
There is a lot of wrong information in this video/documentary
Aftobeats is a general name for the new contemporary sounds coming out of African, with Nigerian sounds and artists being more popular. It’s a mixture of traditional African sounds with RnB, HipHop, auto tunes, 8o8 tracks and more. You have South African house, Angolan house, west African afrobeats, Kenyan and Ugandan Swahili Afro sounds, Ivory Coast/Congolese coupe Décalé mix sounds. Then you have London and French aftobeats sounds. I could go on!
You made a documentary about Afrobeats and there was No mention of the Burna Boy, Davido, and the rest.
My Name is Afrobeat,who wants to adopt me now.
One Dance is not Afrobeat
I love Nigerians.
Afrobeat genre is real authentic african beat sound (drums etc), not only nigerian or ghananian but the whole of Africa.
Afrobeat is Nigerian people stop trying to deceive people. Fela Kuti is the founding father of afrobeat. Music in general has lots of influences from every country. Have u all forgotten that Nigerian music was poppin worldwide in the 70s and early 80s. Such that we had pretty much all
The big music companies rooted in Nigeria. Sorry but not sorry afrobeat is Nigerian and was made Huge by Nigerians, Oliver Twist was huge u all forget that long before azonto so they guy who wanted to school
Me school
Have all
His facts and if u think am
One like u lot who don’t know how the sound known as afrobeat came to be. Myself and a lot of my friends now in the music industry (afrobeat) put a lot of beliefs and time way back when u lot was listening to American hip hop. Now the genre is poppin people wanna take credit lol
Yo bruh! You’re about to Piss off A LOT of Africans. How the hell are you missing out all the other countries including Ghana as one of the major contributors of Afrobeat(S) wtf! It’s a mix of Afrobeat ie. fela kuti’s music, Ghanaian hip-life.
Somebody has misinformed you.
It’s not just Nigeria bro! Afrobeat. Is fella. But AfrobeatS is west African. ?