This has nothing to do with anything, but I just want to say how much I love Sauti Sol and how much I love this thread for telling me when there's a new single out.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
Finally checking out the Mr Eazi album and this one with Burna Boy is superb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHztnu5WM-w
pvmic, but I also dig the one with Chronixx
― rob, Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
Two groovy tunes from Naija for the holidays:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUKZeOjsuw4
Maleek Berry • Doing U
(his “Wait” is good too)
...and this one features Wizkid and it’s excellent, but I’m posting it here because Reekado owns it: “oya, turn up tha... /mtcheww/ speakers!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p6zc1wbg3Y
DJ Tunez ft. Wizkid & Reekado Banks • Turn Up
― breastcrawl, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
Keep forgetting to post Joey B’s “Stables” (one of OkayAfrica’s Ghanaian selections) here. It got some traction on the EOY lists thread and has now been nominated for ILM’s EOY tracks poll:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Ej0aTITk4Joey B feat. La Même Gang • Stables
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 22 December 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
In a surprising development, DJ Sumbody now has the number one hit in South Africa. The link posted back in September is now dead, so here's the official video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CwMuQUr4Do
DJ Sumbody feat. Cassper Nyovest, Thebe & Vettis • Monate Mpolaye
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 22 December 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 22 December 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
Critic Jason King mentions Burna Boy in his essay in the Slate critics roundtable
Though Africa has largely fallen off the American news radar, the music rocketing out of the continent remains straight fire. Projects by GuiltyBeatz, Aka, Fatoumata Diawara, Seun Kuti, Femi Kuti, Emmanuel Jal, Burna Boy, Muzi, Tal National, and Ammar 808 are all worth streaming. My favorite contemporary record this year, however, was I’m a Dream, the sophomore set from Gambian-Swedish chanteuse Seinabo Sey.
https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/2018-music-both-directions-at-once-coltrane.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
...as well as GuiltyBeatz. “Akwaaba” is his #10 song of the year.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 27 December 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
Another Slate roundtable contributor Rawiya Kameir mentioned afrobeats and dancehall:
There was a similar rejection of artifice across the Atlantic, in the dynamic, compelling world of Afropop. It’s been thrilling to watch as some of the genre’s stars abandoned the shiny, transparent attempts at American crossover of recent years. Instead of paying top dollar to collaborate with household-name rappers or drenching strummed kora with arpeggiated 808s, many leaned into traditional Naija sounds and motifs. It’s not that they hadn’t found success beyond their borders—Wizkid’s “Soco” and pretty much any recent Davido single blared from cars outside my Brooklyn window all summer—but maybe simply that the efforts, largely unreciprocated by American artists, no longer served them. Burna Boy’s excellent Outside seems to have lasted, even though it was released way back in January.
https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/pop-music-earnestness-kacey-musgraves-mitski-snail-mail.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
New thread for 2019:
rolling Afropop / Afrobeats / Afrodance 2019
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
Goodbye 2018 and good job everyone, I think we did good and had good taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QxY7afI0tQ
― Nabozo, Friday, 4 January 2019 11:18 (five years ago) link
Actually, there's no reason this thread shouldn't continue being used for a while
My friend sent me this (Racheal M - Mpalampalampa) from Uganda. Always liked this rhythm. She's 12.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jECyKs-l1ok
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
Ok let's do it
A Pass - Didadada (groovy, from Uganda)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM19YRkJYhs
― Nabozo, Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link