AA, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino brehs, yall are losing by not listening to African Music

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I agree with the OP..personally cause as Pan Africanist with strong interest in the culture of my people globally naturally I tried to familiarize myself with African music while i must admit my knowledge on the music is limited on a whole i still appreciate it for what is....

here's some stuff i round recently that i dug

don't understand and anything but the message transcends words:mjcry:


sounds like a nice breezy contemporary traditional African music


this sister >>>>>any modern jazz artist regardless of continent


she remind me of African India Irie



I enjoy African music, but I don't really like the commercialized mainstream hip hop that's mostly in West Africa at the moment. I also don't like African gospel.....There's only one song that my mother would always sing that I like....People try to get me to listen to African gospel and I'm like nah......
One of my favorites by Fela is Shakara...

I disagree...i'm not even religious like taht that but .African gospel has been one of the more relatable genres of music from the continent imo cause it's very reminiscent of AA gospel without sounding forced

tell me you wasn't feeling the holy ghost when Zimbabwean Kirk Franklin sang praises to the mighty name of Jehovah:stopitslime:
 

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I agree with the OP..personally cause as Pan Africanist with strong interest in the culture of my people globally naturally I tried to familiarize myself with African music while i must admit my knowledge on the music is limited on a whole i still appreciate it for what is....

here's some stuff i round recently that i dug

don't understand and anything but the message transcends words:mjcry:


sounds like a nice breezy contemporary traditional African music


this sister >>>>>any modern jazz artist regardless of continent


she remind me of African India Irie





I disagree...i'm not even religious like taht that but .African gospel has been one of the more relatable genres of music from the continent imo cause it's very reminiscent of AA gospel without sounding forced

tell me you wasn't feeling the holy ghost when Zimbabwean Kirk Franklin sang praises to the mighty name of Jehovah:stopitslime:

I agree with the OP..personally cause as Pan Africanist with strong interest in the culture of my people globally naturally I tried to familiarize myself with African music while i must admit my knowledge on the music is limited on a whole i still appreciate it for what is....

here's some stuff i round recently that i dug

don't understand and anything but the message transcends words:mjcry:


sounds like a nice breezy contemporary traditional African music


this sister >>>>>any modern jazz artist regardless of continent


she remind me of African India Irie





I disagree...i'm not even religious like taht that but .African gospel has been one of the more relatable genres of music from the continent imo cause it's very reminiscent of AA gospel without sounding forced

tell me you wasn't feeling the holy ghost when Zimbabwean Kirk Franklin sang praises to the mighty name of Jehovah:stopitslime:




I'm not gonna lie I felt the vibrations a bit and wanted to dance LOL...African based music does that all the time
 
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Dope.

One thing about a lot of the modern African music is that it doesn't seem to have the very complex melodies and harmonization. It's very simple...that can be good sometimes and not so good other times.
 

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Habesha(Eritrean/Ethiopia) music sounds :flabbynsick: if u didint grow up listening to it. I tried to get my some of my colleagues to listen to the classics but the scalars and beats are too exotic to the western ear. It takes time to appreciate these kinds of music. The great thing about Habesha music is that is that artists have tried to stick to their roots instead of adopting western scalars(unlike most African artists) and most use traditiona lHabesha instruments like the Masenqo with maybe a sax and some synths. Its the same kind of music our ancestors were making a thousand years ago.













 
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Speak for yourself. I been rocking to Zouglou and Soukouss music for a while. Don't know about you

This joint right here is one my latest favorites



Another hot joint from same artist

 
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