Afram DOS is the goat musically

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Didn't know this. What would be an interesting topic would be discussing african americans influence in global african music.

I was just rewatching this live performance of Fela.



His live performances are the best. But I love how he fused our jazz and blues sound with native melodic rhythms and sounds. The amount of culture in this video is just .

But even when you look at Sade and how she just embraced jazz.



We have a significant impact on global african music. And it makes sense why considering we're this synergistic blend of ALL of west africa and parts of west central africa.

I wonder if we can break down our music to a point that we can identify influences back to each region from which the slaves were imported?

That Sade video gave me goosebumps

 

[Black Haven]

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One of the best falsetto songs ever right here :

 

[K.O.N.Y]

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i think little michael killed them

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I see your Miles Davis and I raise you John Coltrane.

 

[Black Haven]

at @K.O.N.Y I like both versions bro I was just giving props to the stylistics falsetto version though lol

 

[EndGame]

The guitar is OUR instrument

 

[Roland Coltrane]

jamaican brehs do yo feel like Peter Tosh is slept on?

I've heard from various folks that Peter Tosh was actually the driving force behind a lot of Bob Marley's more famous joints.


i'm not an expert on either but Tosh always struck me as more militant, a Malcolm X to Bob's MLK. is that an accurate analogy?

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Black is fine, thank you.

AADOS

 

[Roland Coltrane]

say brehs, I made a playlist for work the other day and I basically had a lot of 70s soul and r&b like Stevie, Bill Withers, Earth Wind and Fire etc and I also had a lot of neo soul on there(Jill, Erykah, D'angelo..) and I gotta say that the neo soul stuff really pales in comparison to that stuff from the 70s. it's like nowhere near as good, not even in the same universe. looking back on a lot of the neo soul movement I think it resonated so much because of the state of contemporary r&b at the time. but if you wanna compare the arrangements and songwriting and all that it really doesn't hold a candle to the OGs. anybody else feel that way or is it just me?

Who is Jill Scott holds up pretty good tho

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Curtis Mayfield was incredible and totally underrated as a writer and a musician. He is just a little bit behind Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder in my book. Mayfield wrote stuff like this:

 

[Cadillac]

9 of 10 of the most sampled songs in music history are by Afr'Am artist. The only other one was done by two culturally Aframfied west indians engaging in an Afram art form.

8 of 10 were by straight AADOS men. The only woman on the list was an AADOS woman who had her song written and produced by a straight AADOS man.

Straight Afram MEN(bout %0.26 of the world population) are the goats musically. Lets get that shyt clear as day since it seems to be okay to single out our demographic for anything negative. I say we keep the same energy when it comes to contributions and let it be known this is exclusively OUR shyt.

Nothing else to say but... AA men are the kinds of this shyt

 

[IllmaticDelta]

When a completely underground sub-genre of Hiphop from the hoods on the southside of your city has a huge secret cult following among a bunch of white and other non-black edm/alternative hipsters that spawns a bunch of other contemporary genres.

DJ Screw’s Legacy: Seeping Out of Houston, Slowly

Witch house (genre) - Wikipedia

Vaporwave - Wikipedia

Seapunk - Wikipedia

^^^^Screw's b*stard children.



@shopthatwrecks @K-Slim @Southside Swangin @SouthLife281 Ya'll hearda this shyt?

reminds me of how the amen break spawned jungle and drum and bass

 

[96Blue]

I'd say yes, BUT when it comes down to PRO-BLACK/BLACK EMPOWERMENT music, US (AADOS) and JAMAICANS make the BEST PRO-BLACK/BLACK EMPOWERING MUSIC IN THE DIASPORA.

James Brown - Say It Loud, I'm Black And I'm Proud


Sizzla - Black Woman And Child


Those are just 2 examples.

 

[FeverPitch2]

say brehs, I made a playlist for work the other day and I basically had a lot of 70s soul and r&b like Stevie, Bill Withers, Earth Wind and Fire etc and I also had a lot of neo soul on there(Jill, Erykah, D'angelo..) and I gotta say that the neo soul stuff really pales in comparison to that stuff from the 70s. it's like nowhere near as good, not even in the same universe. looking back on a lot of the neo soul movement I think it resonated so much because of the state of contemporary r&b at the time. but if you wanna compare the arrangements and songwriting and all that it really doesn't hold a candle to the OGs. anybody else feel that way or is it just me?

Who is Jill Scott holds up pretty good tho

You're absolutely correct.

 

[Budda]

I’m surprised that went over some of these nikkas’ heads. You got some Africans claiming African American when they know precisely what country and specific ethnic group they hail from whereas African Americans have an African ancestry that’s mixed with more than 20 different ethnic groups who hailed from different civilizations in West, Central, and Southeastern Africa. You could run into an African American who’s African ancestry was a mix of Igbo and Bambara or Fulani mixed with Kongo or Yoruba mixed with Asante as a result of American slavery for example.

Africans had endured colonization while African Americans had to endure being stripped from our original homelands in Africa and undergone perpetual enslavement and tramatic institutionalization in a completely new alien culture, environment, and continent. As far as I’m concerned, the term African American or African American Descendant of Slaves should remain EXCLUSIVELY defined as not only being a clearly visible ethnic group with its own rich and unique culture and sense of identity but also as part of the specific history our Ancestors had to endure during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery in the American Colonies and Republic, and Jim Crow, as well as the psychological inflictions slavery has brought upon us (PTSD or Post-Traumatic Slave Disease or Disorder).

Agree but even these groups such as Igbo Yoruba etc couldn’t tell you more than 300 years or so off their history, couldn’t tell you their origins and a lot of them are actually mixed with other African groups as well.