But when they get killed/locked up the label makes more money.

​@@rodneymiller2500short term yea. once the content dries up the potential lost is insane

Excuses lol. Well they do t commit crime

​@@rodneymiller2500do you see burna boy hang with criminals? Or davido? Or bad bunny?

@@rodneymiller2500 what does that have to do with anything. You are arguing that the reason why rap is on the downhill is because rappers are getting locked up and I’m tagging that as an excuse!

What are you taking over?

I dont hear no Nigerian music in America lmaooo absolutely nothing

Taking over what

email scams! And selling human meat in Resturaunts @@broadwayjoeclub

That only thing I'm worried about is you guys assimilating and throwing away your culture in exchange to succeed in the North American market.

Facts

we is crazy

That’s why niggas like yeat, destroying Lonely and Lucki outselling these “street rappers” without as much promo

Not everybody rap bout dat, ppl are just bots and only listen to what’s popular

​@@snupedummyFacts dababy just did a show in Africa. Lol they are just pushing this lane shyt that's gonna flop.!!!

Exactly

Afrobeats in many cases is also about the struggle. However translated in a more positive way

@@truethots3088 afrobeats is not a self destructive genre

That’s facts‼️

@@DarshawnDriggins_1999 Gunplay been said that years ago “rapping was a art, now this shit a jug”

People treat it like an art already. I think the problem was that rap alienated it’s non black audience. Rap and hip hop have gatekeepers that clown non black participants. Non blacks who cover hip hop and rap are considered culture vultures. Just imagine a skinny white kid listening to NBA youngboy. We automatically think it’s kinda funny. I truly believe that the non black audience got alienated and went to other genres that they feel more comfortable being seen listening to in public. White people went to Morgan Wallen and Latinos went to bad bunny (generally speaking). At least that’s how it feels where I live

Says rappers like bad bhabie, blue face, sexy red… folks like them is just in it for the cash and quick fame

@@divineintervention212 where did I say white kids are listening to Afrobeats? I just said they’re listening to other genres

Vocal Prostitutes - Master P

thats what im saying. I liked it better when it wasnt so popular

@@1Guyharveyyou were listening to hip hop before it was popular? 😂

@@windchime9792said who? 😂

@@windchime9792nobody over here listening to German or Dutch lol. Hip hop is trash but we still not listening to foreign rappers

​@@windchime9792 speaking mad disrespectful to black Americans who invented hip hop. chill

Amapiano is so good.

Amapiano is growing fast

Thank god for that, about time people stop listening to these wack ass new age rappers

Mainstream RAP has always been trash. Mainstream Labels don`t sign or promote HIP HOP! Drill and all this Butt Cheek Prostitute and Serial Killer Rap is NOT Hip Hop. Afro Beat and Latin music are being consumed by people OTHER than so called Black Americans. We are ALWAYS going to be the Pulse with Art, Fashion, Music, etc. I live in Tokyo Japan now. K Pop is Mainstream. They not listening to Afro Beat or Latin. THEYRE STILL DOING HIP HOP! Main Stream music is for Popsicles, Teen agers and Twerkers

Amapiano has taken over and I’m here for it

This is why Drake is so versatile .

@@markjohnson3196he’s one of the reasons hip hop fell off. Don’t let Drake fool u

​@@markjohnson3196drake is your boyfriend

@@crazycaecrazy You seem insecure you hiding something.

STOP BLAMING LABELS. Young black males are dying because they sing these songs and commit these deeds. Where is the personal responsibility???

Innit lol

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Facts, I hate when ppl bring up first week sales. That’s so annoying

@@dmdubb3129only in hip hop do they care but it’s only because if u don’t make a classic album nobody cares to listen after the 1st week

Facts remember TI said that shyt

Facts

@@windchime9792😭

Tik tok should had been organic growth though in the US we literally had artist making records that would ring off on Tik Tok and everyone knows 15 secs of the song lol.....the style in overseas music has remained the same its their time

Every culture around the world comes and steal sound from black people in America then travel the world like they've created something. The labels in America will not push you if you rap about woke / conscious things but you rap about killing another black man they pay millions then just to say yall rap about the same shit we lookin for new afrobeats artists 🤦🏾

Exactly if you go to a afrobeats party your chance of getting shot or fighting is low

🎯

You said it all

Afro beats will remain forever because the sound is a combination of other sub genres of the sound... The afro beats sound will always change and every afro beats artist doesn't sound the same.

@@gbogboz hiphop does this and still phased out... it will get boring trust me... like how dancehall use to be the top thing and is played out. HipHop will die too then eeryone will do something else... rn hip hop isnt edgy anymore... its too mainstream so it will die. Once it dies... all the ones in it for money will leavee and it will come back gritty... then the world will jump back to it becaus it will talk about deep topics of the hood. which other counrties for some reason never do well. Then ppl will jump back to it and ruin it again

@@gbogboz 50 yrs is a good run

For what culture?

​@@thechocolatedelegate9830black culture. What else?

@@Darrytheprince what's black culture? What ethnicity are you talking about? Because there's no universal black culture.

Its still pretty good. Must genres don't even make it into the mainstream or die out extremely fast like dubstep.

Yeah this is low key disrespectful honestly. There’s so many dope Artist outside of the popular ones that you automatically get combined with their lane and it’s unfair. And coincidentally they set this tone around 50 years of hip hop. Time for a reset

This is pre planned letthe blacks from abroad get in. Let them have the board and see what comes out of it. If u know you know.

🧢 no they don’t

@@amenx ok

​@@228pfthey don't heck we still mentioning hip hop ALBUMS

It’s called strip-hop 😂

@@scarletsletter4466strip hop is hilarious 😂

So basically chicago killed rap

Hip opp

@@longlivefredo4938Yup those are chicago words 😂

This is so true. Rap needs to get back to having melodies or at least chorus & hook that has musical value. That’s what makes ppl like it universally. I lived in military base in Germany as a little kid & I recall my older brother talking to locals about music. They loved 50 cent & Nelly & Em. You’d even hear that music being played. But now when I travel for work to Europe I almost never hear rap

Facts as a Nigerian Afro near is feel good music not attached to anything toxic or violent

​@@francisikwueme1688igbo kwuenu. Afrobeats is not getting money like that.

@@scarletsletter4466 eh rap is still the most listened to genre Nd the most growing the past decade . Afrobeats has always been poppin the past couple years it’s just Rema song and One dance with wizkid are the few that actually break through the mainstream barrier . While hip hop songs are breaking through barriers daily. I’d say UK rap is the second wave rn with central Dave stormzy etc

​@@ttg8966keep sleeping about irs only Rema having monster hits.These labels are moving the direction they are going for a reason.

I agrée . When you go overseas they don’t listen to the new hop hop mainstream BS. They listen to 90s or early 2000s hip hop

Facts. No more originality. Drill and mumble is trash. The Afro beats and Latin music i just cant get into though.

Most Latin music sounds the same also

@@D2OFFICIALUKposts user fr3jy9is5f that is a fact 😂 but it has a major following that doesn't seem to get sick of it

@@BKLYN_TZU it’s jealousy their tired of black men dictating the culture. They want non black men to get some shine. They’re tired of black men being the trend setters.

Spoilt .. lmao

Or the music sucks dawg

Naw nigga it's because they chose to make it like that. Hio hio was always hip hop

Those fans r the sames ones that do t listen to anyone else but lil baby and Durk

The labels created to be like that

We dont need to keep hip hop revenant unfortunately we are better without it Kids and their parents dont have moral values or codes anymore throw hip hip rap in the trash let's try Gospel ...?

Tbh I don't care about new rappers myself at this point all I listen to is older rap at this point I'm so fed up with rap fans and rappers myself constantly defending hip hop culture it is god or something is sickening.

Drake? And Nicki? Nah bro

@@crazycaecrazyWym nah Drake and Nicki been in the game 10 plus years these new rappers aren’t having careers like that

@@crazycaecrazyDrake and Nicki are 2 of the biggest astride this decade what you mean. Regardless It you like em or not

Please know that the labels knew exactly what they were doing. This isn't an accident. They could've pushed other artists if they wanted but had ulterior motives as to why they didn’t.

@@cald4aprps628 Of course, I'm well aware of that.

Exactly

good point

We’ll just have too see cause with tha internet nothing will die if u think about it where in different times now

Yup as much as i love hip hop since i was little i agree and have said this to folks even those who are deep in the culture but they scoff at me saying im hating or not truly embracing just cuz i told em this amazing genre has already peaked and its past his prime now eveey genre has had that happen from classical music to blues then jazz then techno/pop after it was rock and alternative and it has been hiphop/rap the last 2 decades with the same pattern now folks are gonna start repping afrobeats and latin music(which is spanish speaking afrobeats anyway 🤷🏾🤷🏾)

Scary theory 😢

Hip hop let the gang culture take over. And that’s why it’s trash today. It’s a self destructive music. Afrobeats is a positive vibe. That you can listen and enjoy quality time with your love ones

Amapiono is never going to be big as Afrobeats, though. Nigerians are the ones who popularized Amapiano to the world. South Aficans can't even fill any staduims or Arena outside of SA. Amapiono is more of house music done by DJs. If Nigerians decides to drop Amapiano and stop doing it like tomorrow, it will be relegated to just South Africa. Have you seen people paying to attend Amapiono concerts in the US or UK?

​@@2LETLIVEand yes there are people who pay to attend amapiano concerts in the US and UK... even in Portugal and Belgium. Go Google "Amafest" and see a purely south african lineup making people dance to the real piano that expresses our musical genius and creativity.

@@2LETLIVE there I can agree and I'm from SA This is mainly because of population differences across the world SA diaspora isn't in every corner of the world like nija to help make it mainstream worldwide but you have to admit nija version is a rubbish

@koketsok7391 It is Naija or 9ja. Not Nija. Outside of SA, no one knows any Amapiano artists. None. Lol .... Rubbish? Please be civil. Nigerans are making millions of dollars with that "rubbis music." Again, South African music is literally house music. It's good for DJ gigs. It's the same beat. Always. Nigerians are the ones putting DJ Waffles and TXC on, on their international stages. Not South Africans.

That was a lie cooked up by the competing fanbase to burna. He never said that. Stan culture is a big problem in nigeria and funny enough they are male stans. its crazy. There are more male stans than female stans in nigeria music scene. Its crazy & weird.

Fax I was tryna explain this before on twitter. You can’t even recite rappers verses no more like you could back in the day. Ppl used to get lyrics out on shirts, tatted, used for picture captions, etc. you can’t do that with most current hip hop

Foreal and that goes for beats also, you used to be able to feel that in your soul, I haven’t felt that in a while now

“Who this fa???? “😂😂 that’s bout all I can think of

Yes Sir

98 lol. What were you listening to?

It's true. Not sure if you're from the UK but in the UK we've been showing love to afrobeat. We're a lot more accepting of other cultures, I think that is why

​​​@@SubieFrancisthere's no "black/white American" culture in the UK so there's less of a barrier to get music through, those ppl weren't receptive to anything from outside America for the most part, now they are because the rest of the world is

98? You are probably getting mixed up with Dancehall.

Afrobeats as it is today is more like Afropop. The sound today is mostly an evolution that occurred 10 years ago. You can say you've been listening to Afrobeats since 98, but ain't nobody in America would have listened to Lagbaja and Awilo 😂

Exactly

No it’s getting trash that’s all

they said the same about rock

That’s silly! First off even many of these other artforms like AfroBeats and Reggaeton do get some of their influences from American rap, R&B and funk music. This notion it was created in a vacuum is 🧢. American artists have toured internationally since the commercial airliners. That’s more 🧢. Fela Kuti who is known as one of the godfathers of AfroBeats, lived in LA for a few years and was a member of a funk band. You think that didn’t effect his musical direction? Fela’s ex-bandmate Sandra Izsadore has interviews talking about this. She discussed how his music sounded when he first arrived to LA. Americans started those autotune vocals back in the 80s with Roger Troutman. Then T-Pain came along in the early 2000s ushering in the new formula, which inspired the next generation of record producers. Same way males in Africa stated wearing skinny jeans, after they became the wave in America. You watch old Nigerian movies from early 2000s, no males were dressing like that Latin artists aren’t making music for everyone. They’re making music for their folks, same for AfroBeats artists. Now that it’s crossing over like rap music did in the early 90s, people want to post their crackpot theories and revisionist history. Rappers weren’t making music to crossover in the early days and those who did, got excoriated for watering down the culture. Once the big money and corporations came into rap/hip hop, the genre started to go downhill, stifle creativity and become a copycat genre. Most of these dudes are rapping with the Migos/Future flow now.

I'll never switch to Afribeats

@@quisomad15 hip hop will always remain #1 in my heart.. im just feeling the new stuff coming out. don’t get me wrong , there’s still good artist out but as a whole .. i’m not feeling the direction hip hop is taking. it seems like everything is about drilling, screaming, mumbling, .. it’s not for me

@@quisomad15facts hip hop and rap is to addicting

That's true too. People are overhyping this Afrobeats/Reggaeton wave. These genres are also going through the same struggles. One or two artists successful artists don't represent the whole perspective. These genres peaked 10 years ago.

​@@saintkevinofficialbrp what the fuck you mean peaked 10 years ago? AFROBEATS BEEN ON top for a long time in the mother land... and also the Jcoles Jayzs and Drakes etc are artists that are pushing 40 now... the new generation that needs to keep the ball going are not good

@@princesteez5627 I listened to a lot of Afrobeats, guys like Tekno, Phyno and so on were trailblazers. Don Jazzy was running the game in the genre like a late 2000s Birdman. But the quality has been on a dramatic decline as well. The fact that in 14 years, the same people are at the top should be worrying. Why tf is WizKid, Burna Boy, Davido and Rema (who has one hit song) still running the game. That's equivalent to Drake, Kendrick and Cole. Either you're too young or you have no idea how hot Nigerian music was back when Americans didn't care about African music. Now it's becoming homogenised.

​@@saintkevinofficialall 4 of those afrobeats singers have more than one hit songs and they also selling out in every stadium around the world so stop being jealous

@@kingc6175 you just missed the entire point. There's no arguing with you. Rema is literally 23, he does not have more than one hit. "Calm Down" was his claim to fame. Whilst the rest of them have been popping since 2009. If you people are waiting for Afrobeats to take over, you're going to be extremely disappointed.

That is a Fact. A big FACT.

How can you say rap fell off in the early 2000s when he had Jay Z DMX 50 cent Eminem Nas stop it

@@joeyskywalker1322 I didn't say everything was bad relax don't have a tumor 😂

@@windchime9792 you liked rap because it was popular it means much more than that to US‼️

@@windchime9792 I agree that POPULAR artist music sounds steam-lined and generic but the genre is more than that and the fact you said “black rap” is crazy😭😭😭I know what you are off that statement alone be blessed‼️

Its funny cos Rock fans use to sound like this

1 in every 4 black people is Nigerian. Rap has a ceiling the world’s infatuation with American culture in general is just fading.

Rqp not even big look up views on biggest rappers vs rock people they got billions of views yall still like 1 mill view etc ....

PREACH!!!

@@Lhoyte1both are right. Chicken or the egg. What do you think?

Wait til the major labels get a hold of it. There's a plan in store I'm sure.

Thing is we actually do but it is coded in the rythmn, melodies drums.. Omg, drums is the climax of afrobeats. No drums, no vibes. Also years of censorship and control has made artists unconsciously water down their lyrics that even if they are singing about such you just vibe and dance to it still. Also the audience is very diverse and you just have to watch your lyrics. But rarely do they sing about murdering cos the govt don't play about that. However, they sing about light criminal activities depending on how you look at it like scam etc. But again its coded in the rythmn, dance, melodies etc that you end up don't caring about the lyrics.

I agree.

yeah.... rock is coming back tho i noticed... rap will do the same later

Dude confused

Afrobeats is actually good though. These rappers been putting out mid the past 5 years

There was a Latin wave in the 90s...remember The Macarena and a spanish guitar in almost every RnB song? Raggae was big to, and was incorporated into hip hip...Supercat and heavy D.

Afrobeats been around for a long time

Hip hop producers are superior…this Afro beat and Latin is just a trend it won’t do another decade …how many of that same beat rhythm will the average mainstream keep listening to. Hip hop evolved more than any other genre it will again there’s always going to be a new sound in hip hop

@@raymondcarter8915you a true OG for remembering the reggae infused hip hop in the 90s!

Extremely redundant

Dudes drop 6 albums and they all sound the same. Smh

That's a fact, but the problem is that Amapiano, Reggaeton and Afrobeats are also redundant genres. It'll also get redundant soon. Right now is definitely not the peak of those genres. I remember the early 2010s when we had Mi Casa, Liquideep, Flavour, Dbanj and PSquare. Those genres are also on a decline, but they're just getting attention because Hip Hop is falling out of favour