Bounty Killer On Why Afrobeats Has Taken Over The World And Dancehall Is Still Stuck In His Country

[RealCrownHeights]

I wish there was room for both because the Afrobeats shyt gets stale after a while. I’m trying to hear about informa getting shot up and how no gyal can style me not the soft melody shyt all the time

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Afrobeats is a fad. Enjoyed it one summer now it makes me sick.

Dancehall needs to go back to the 90s. Vybz Fartel and Frauvado helped run it into the ground.

It’s only fad to people outside the culture

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

dancehalls way forward is not pop music like afrobeats

it's to get closer to hip-hop/rap/trap/drill



i been spinning that max volume in the v

ha


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Afrobeats will actually head towards that hiphop/rap phase soon provably within the next 2 yrs or so. It’s already bubbling in the uk

 

[spacewraith]

I'd be lying if I said I could follow what he was saying.

 

[010101]

Afrobeats will actually head towards that hiphop/rap phase soon provably within the next 2 yrs or so. It’s already bubbling in the uk

street culture will always look for representation in music

so i definitely can see more african artist choosing to speak on it

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[papa pimp]

Dancehall had its time. Afrobeats is having its time.

"Taking over the world" is a bit hyperbolic but its definitely having impact on pop music.

Most genres only have a decade or two run before burning out.

Rap is an anomaly and that should not be the expectation for other genres.

 

[staticshock]

Afrobeats took over the world....



I must be

You & me both. Swear every afrobeat song has the same beat. shyt is like that reggaeton wave back in the day…everyone sounds the same and shyt gonna fade out

 

[Blessings]

Peak dancehall for me knew every dance from 05 to 2012, getting on Johnny Wonder’s 21st Hapilos Digital Distribution list…getting 320kbps of all dancehall/reggae riddims+singles

Dancehall from the riddims is hard to find on the DSPs…Apple Music/Spotify/Tidal do a terrible job playlisting dancehall

 

[Oatmeal]

The lyrics too raw for mainstream, but that's why I listen to dancehall. Folks talk about rap music being explicit when they never heard Lady Saw in her prime, hitting the Jamaican after hours spots in the mid-late 2000s PHAT PUM PUM GYAL! I prefer sex in my music over violence though.

 

[cheek100]

Amapiano got it right

 

[old pig]

Great build from The General. Interesting he doesn’t have a seizure trying to explain that all music is from Africa.

The vulgarity in modern Dancehall is almost some Clockwork orange shyt..I remember that one joint that literally begins with “I have a penis for your vagina hoooole” being a defining song of the 10s

Like what type of shyt

oh wow I remember this now lmao

 

[BigMan]

It’s weird folks saying afrobeat getting stale when IRL it’s getting bigger and bigger every day and ladies love it. There’s also a huge diaspora of Nigerians and other Africans so it will be here to stay

 

[Kasher Juan]

The truth is, they need to make Dancehall less explicit.

The melodies and production is there.

The explicitness makes it unnecessarily difficult to market across larger audiences that don’t already like Dancehall.

One of the best examples I can give is

Alkaline - Moving Mountains

The song starts off with beautiful instrumentation.
Only for Alkaline to go: “I have a penis for ya vagina hole ”
Wild unnecessary

Any wise adviser woulda told him to cut all explicitness off in the studio and turn it into a classic love song.


I still love the song, but I can’t play it casually around a lotta ppl because of its explicit content.

We see this flaw in R&B all the time as well.

R&B and Dancehall was/is simply better quality and marketability wise when it’s not as explicit.

Very valid point. Alkaline has good songs but the vulgarity is forced.