Why AfroBeats is Sweeping America
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- Whether you’ve been to the continent or not - AfroBeats is the musical trip that requires no passport. Join our host, Monique Kelley, in conversation with Lisa Yaro, Nigerian singer songwriter and CEO/owner of Music Corner LLC; Greg Johnson, President of the Arts Council for Long Beach, CA and host & producer of AfroPop Radio and Abdul Karim Abdullah, CEO of AfroFuture Fest (formerly Afrochella) and CEO of Culture Management Group.
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Nigeria gave birth to Afrobeat!! 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🔥🔥🔥💯💯🎤🎤🎤 Respect that ✊
Y’all stole it from Ghana 🇬🇭
@@jmxsounds Shut your trap losers . We are about to cancel all y’all jealous mofos. Bitter souls
only bitterly envious ghanaians believe this@@jmxsounds
@@jmxsoundsEverybody steals from ghanians😂😂😂 u guys are pathetic
@@jmxsoundswhat exactly did they steal from Ghana ? Rubbish talk
Afrobeat is a Nigeria owned Genre and was established by Fela Kuti.
Afrobeat is spiritual, it connects you to Africa through music, movies, art, lifestyle, struggles, the hustle, love, food and everything.
You have spoken well, thanks
There is nothing spiritual about Afrobeat.. Period... now you can mix it with different elements, but it has nothing todo with culture or anything.. just an Art form
Nigeria is the only country leading this wave of global dominance. South Africa is not very far behind with Amapiano.
Same Nigeria are helping South Africa move the amapiano sound internationally
@@Don_Jagadonafter jerusalema, I have not heard any of their artist push add, but I give it to them, the sound is heavenly.
@@arubuolaebenezer9986Jerusalema is not amapiano 😂😂. Y’all love to talk on South African music but it’s clear most of you don’t even understand the amapiano genre or how it grows
@@Don_Jagadonnooo tiktok is helping to push amapiano internationally Nigerians are just hopping on it because it’s popular and they don’t want to miss the market opportunities
Afrobeat is Nigeria
Afrobeats is Nigeria and South Africa 🇿🇦
Liar.
Afrobeat is Nigerian music.
It has nothing to do with South Africa.
@@solomonobihan9465 you can’t read I said Afrobeat is Nigerian and afrobeats is Nigerian and South African notice the S
@@sentientbeingsnews1098 Still a lie. Afrobeat or Afrobeats are all Nigeria. Period!
@@Obalufon all your Nigerian acts are using ampiano in their music so that means what ? Lol 😂
Nigeria is Afrobeats and Afrobeats is Nigerian 💪💪💪🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
and Ghana as well.
Nigeria is the owner of afronation. We are bringing it back to nigeria no more ghana
Interesting. More info please.
Fela went to Ghana and learned it there, then took it to Nigeria. My dad told me that, he was Nigerian
how come it’s no more going to be in Ghana?
@@fereenewalker4297 Fela never learnt any afrobeat in Ghana, stop misinforming. If anything its hi-life he was exposed to which may have influenced afrobeat he created.
@@fereenewalker4297so because Fela was in Ghana doesn’t mean he learned music from Ghana. This is the same way you guys are claiming Shatta brought Burna boy into music just because he visited your tiny nation. You people should have sense please
Am so happy 😊 for Nigerians as a nation of music 🎶 🎵 🙌
west africa
@@TheKofinyarko Nigeria
@@TheKofinyarko Nigeria! If you have a problem with that, go hug a transformer
Afrobeats is not a west Africa thing......they all jumped on it....... Afrobeats is a Nigerian sounds......that has all the Nigerian sound elements of 250 cultures....
Could this like the U.S. East Coast, West Coast debate of the 90's.
@@thelivinglegendsfoundationinc
You asked: *"Could this like the U.S. East Coast, West Coast debate of the 90's?"* No, it is NOT. East Coast, West Coast debate is within one Nation: the United States.
Africa or West Africa is not a Nation. African countries are distinctly different as the US is different from Canada or Mexico. Afrobeat is Nigerian. But Diaspora always wrongly attribute it to Africa. It's like saying Reggae is Caribbean, instead of Jamaican. Afrobeats is Nigerian. (But Nigerians don't mind Africa as a whole basking in the glory)
Afrobeats is a collection of different local genres with african origin. Afrobeats is for all of africa. Contemporary African músic. Afrobeat is Nigerian. Popularized n originated by the great Fela Kuti.
who told you its solely Nigerian ? aimọgbọnwa
"Afrobeat" is a genre created by Nigeria artist fela Kuti. "Afrobeats" was coined by a U.K based Ghanaian Dj, as an umbrella term to refer to modern music coming out of west Africa.
Time we bring those Afrochella, Afronation Afro music festivals into NIGERIA 🇳🇬. No where else in the continent can do it better than 9ja. And the so called Afrobeat is organic to Nigeria. Gotta have those festivals over there. Its a travesty. Stop all that insecurities excuses. It must be held in 9ja. Period. !!.
The next one is , thank goodness!!
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@Aframaco
It's been a whole load of insult to 9ja, that some of the organisers and actual owners of those events are Nigerians, yet they taking such economic outsourcing activities into other countries but their own home nation, just because there's some nonsensical insecurities and political instability narratives been spearheaded by the western powers against Nigeria. It won't surprise me to see haters of Nigeria attempt several strategies to scuper our best efforts during or before hosting. They could try to sabotage it to prove their point about the lies they pushing about 9ja. They may even assign inside jobs to do the dirty work. We must stay on guard to ensure we get it together when we play host. No dulling !!. 9ja stand up 🇳🇬 💪🏿.
Power to your voice. This was how we held musical awards, headies in particular, in the West. I don't know when the Grammy award will be held in Africa. Inferiority is a problem for us in Africa.
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Afrofuture can never make it in Nigeria until they work on security issues. Ghana 🇬🇭 is peaceful enough to accommodate all. Nigeria 🇳🇬 needs to work on the power system. Only advantage is the numbers against Ghana.
Oh by the way afrobeat is west African music fusion like highlife, hiplife, jazz and more including amapiano. Nigerian should realize that now. Ghana use to be on top before they lost the sound to their brothers next door. SA is really pushing as well. One African ❤
proving once again our music is universal and it all comes from the cradle of civilization
Much love 💕 from Nigeria
All music started from Africa. Traditionally, african music is meant to make people happy
Thats cap
Lisa Yaro 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬.
Gotta feature Tiwa Savage.
Ayra Star, Tems, everybody. Big up Yaro Yaro 🔥🇳🇬🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
Hi my sister please find time to go to Nigeria and ask the originality of afrobeat.
The home of Davido, Wizkid, Burna boy, Asake, Tiwa Savage, Rema, Fire boy, Tems, Ayra Starr and many more.
Nice content, I'd also add that as far as entertainments, commerce, tourism e.t.c if you have no foot in Nigeria you're missing out because it's the hotspot in that region.
Some misinformation in your video:
(1) Afrobeats is NOT a generic term that define African Music in general!
(2) Burna Boy is NOT a *trail blazer* with the creation of Afrobeats. He is just a recent phenomenon. Before Burna Boy, artists like P-Square, D'banj, and many others were already long established in the genre. You guys just became exposed to Afrobeats in the era of Burna Boy.
I agreed
Ture
Burna is AfroFusion
Guys, lets be frank to and with the fact that The U.S is very late to the global reach of Afrobeats. Afrobeats had already conquered Africa, The U.K, Europe long before the U.S caught wind of it. Afrobeats seems to be Nigerian in attitude, Culture and even fashion, but I feel the Black American diaspora should collaborate with artists from Africa more, which is one way of closing the gap if they want to embrace their Africanness.
We are not trying to here that jungle music over here foh
@@MrMakingcake Your jealousy is obvious. Jungle music? So, rap with its disgusting lyrics is better than afrobeats? It's not. Everyone knows its dope.
Wonderful conversation about the music of our homeland
Who's homeland?
This is a lovely interview. Please promote it higher
Thank you for watching and for your suggestion.
Beautiful program l really enjoyed it.
Outstanding interview, great Conversation and great vision. I pray that Yahweh will put his hand upon whatever each of you is doing as descendants of Jacob to enlighten and unite Africans. One love to Black Africa across the globe.
African music is the origin of all music it as a spiritual connection
spiritual art afro
Afro future fest I love to be there and show to everybody my music
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Brilliant ! Wanted in Gambia & Will be appreciated. Used to have Roots Festival. Bring Africella < Afrifuture.
American should not steal this beat from Nigeria because they worked hard for it
Lisa please Nigeria and Nigerians needs you.
Come closer to our legends, made yourself known to Nigerian Celebrities.
Join the crusade to export african perspective, to change the narrative and wrong perception labels against Nigeria and black race.
Undoubtedly Burna boy is the Nigerian trailblazer for Afrobeats......he took it to stratospheric level. The connectivity of the internet help music to slap globally. So the switching up of things instead of going through label, etc. has helped tremendously , in communicating things,
Not true , Wiz kid is the main man.
😂😂😂😂😂 the comments here reck of ignorance, where will you put 2face, tony tetulla, rugged man, wande coal, Don jazzy and dbanj
You r also late to the party. Wizkid is the trailblazer,he almost singlehandedly delivered afrobeat to the UK. Years later Davido came onboard n then burna boy n they hv all done magnificiently well for afrobeats but Wiz can't be overlooked in the afrobeat journey.
No lies , WIZZ opened the international market and he was the sole artist that paved way for other afrobeat artists. .
WIZZ remains the 🐐 of the genre and nobody can downplay his immense contributions to this genre
@@user-kw9vd9uk7knot years later, it was almost the same time davido came not years, the likes of tiface, dbanj, wandecoal, psquare, and the rest of them pave way for the likes of wizkid, davido, burna boy and the rest, we should respect those guys please
Need to start interviewing Afrobeats artists like Wizkid, Burna Boy, Tems, Rema and others.
FYI - Wizkid was the first Afrobeats artist to introduce Afrobeats to the world, he has over 30 international awards. Wizkid is the richest and highest paid Nigerian artist.
Wizkid achievements
1. Wizkid the first African artiste whose video hit 1 million within 24 hrs of it’s release
2. Wizkid is The first Nigerian to Win An ASCAP award
3. Wizkid is also the first New Generation Nigerian artiste to make it to the top of Billboard Charts.
4. Wizkid becomes the first and only Afrobeats artist to make it to the number 1 on Billboard Hot 100 with One Dance.
5. First Afrobeat Artist To Hold A Top 10 Position On Billboard Hot 100
6. Wizkid Is The Artiste With The Most Award Nominations in Nigeria
7. Wizkid is the youngest African artist to be nominated for Grammy in 2015.
8. Wizkid has 4 Grammy nominations and 1 win for Best Music Video in 2020
9. Wizkid remains the first African Pop Star to perform and sell-out Royal Albert Hall In London
10. Wizkid is the only Nigerian Afrobeats that has sold out the 02 five times, 2018, 2019 and 2021 (3x)
11. He is also the first African Artiste to bag seven Billboard Nominations
12. Also, the first Nigerian to win three Billboard Music Award.
13. Wizkid is the only Nigerian musician to have ever made the number one spot on the iTunes World Chart and went as far as maintaining that top spot for more than one week.
14. Wizkid is the first Afro-Pop artiste to appear in the Guinness World Records
15. Wizkid was the youngest African artist to win a BET award in 2011.
16. Wizkid is the first Nigerian musician ever to model for fashion giant Dolce & Gabbana.
17. Wizkid is the first Nigerian singer to win an NAACP image award
18. He’s the Most Followed Nigerian Celebrity on Twitter
19. Wizkid is the first African musician to sell out tickets to a concert in 2 minutes
20. Essence was the Most Shazamed Song in the US
21. Wizkid is the first Nigerian artiste with an album peaking at number 3 in the US iTunes history.
22. Starboy jerseys made Wizkid the first African artist to have his own official jersey from Nike.
23. Wizkid has the longest charting album for an African on the Billboard World Albums Chart as 'Made In Lagos
24. Wizkid becomes the first African musician to hit over 1 million sales in the United States with just one song
25. Wizkid has become the 1st African artist to ever have a song to go PLATINUM in the United States.
26. Wizkid's 'Made In Lagos' album has now surpassed 1 billion streams and has also become the first and fastest Afrobeat album attain such achievement.
27. The first African artist to hit over1 million views in 24 hours
28. First Afrobeat Artist To Hold A Top 10 Position On Billboard Hot 100
29. The African Artist With The Highest Platinum Certification In The US
30. First African artist to have 6 certifications in US and 12 in UK.
31. First African artist to have 6 #1 hits in US.
32. Made In Lagos" by Wizkid Becomes The First African Album To be certified RIAA Gold.
33. Wizkid is the first African artist in history with Platinum/Diamond certified songs in the US, UK, Canada, and France.
34. First African artist to 420 million streams after 5 months on all platforms for MIL
35. First African artist to surpass 1 billion streams on Apple Music
36. Wizkid ranked among the top 10 most awarded artists in the world. He was the only African artist in the top 10.
37. Wizkid, made history as the first African and Nigerian to win an American Music Award.
38. Wizkid is the youngest African artist to win a MOBO award in 2011
39. Most awarded African artist in MOBO Awards history
40. First African artist to earn three Platinum singles in the US.
41. Sound from the Other Side was the first African album to chart on Billboard 200.
42. Wizkid is the youngest African artist to perform at the Wireless Festival.
43. Wizkid is the first and only African artist to win MTV Worldwide Artist Award in 2016.
44. Wizkid is the first male African artist to win Soul Train, 2017.
45. Superstar is still the best selling album to date in Nigeria.
46. Made in Lagos the biggest, best and longest charting album to come from Africa.
47. First Nigerian album to spend a year on the Billboard World Albums Chart with Made in Lagos.
48. Won Best Collaboration award at the BET Soul Train 2021 awards-ceremony with the hit track ‘Essence’.
49. First Nigerian artist in history to simultaneously chart on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 (16 weeks).
50. The first artist to introduce Afrobeats music to the world was Wizkid. He is from Nigeria and has been a big influence in Africa.
51. Wizkid is the first-ever African artist to earn three Platinum RIAA in US
52. Wizkid is the first African and Nigerian to win an American Music Award.
53. Most BET Awards (3) for an African artiste
54. He is also the most awarded artiste in The Headies award history
55. Most awarded African artiste at the Soul Train Award (2), Billboard Awards (3), Mobo Awards (4) and iHeartRadio Awards (2)
56. Wizkid is the only African artist who has won 30 international awards
Oh wowso you took time out of your day to write this long epistles ,we get it you love WizKid but darmn
He isn't the first to introduce afrobeats
People like dbang did it before him
Put this in a book. It is too much for this platform. Like🙄
Guy you tried for wizkid life history infact you need awards
Ok now we know ❤🤪
Chris Brown has learned the rope😂
Please leave American celebs outta this conversation. Nigerian celebs are standing on their own. Colonization and West got y’all by the neck.
Afrobeat was created by Fela Kuti in 1960s, he called it 'High Life', it is a way of giving a voice to Nigerian culture and protesting against imperialism. His son, Femi Kuti would then recreate and form the Afrobeat we know today,in a way, Femi Kuti became the true founder of Afrobeat, his Afrikawide hit song "Beng Beng Beng" is what set the fire for the Afrobeat style we know today.
It was never called high life! Get your fact right. The high life is a genre different from the Afrobeat genre created by Fela.
femi took a faster beat for the younger crowd
Are you slow? Fela never called his music Highlife. So, stop the cap!
When did Fela call his music highlife? LIAR!!!
@@edzico1908 watch the documentary you little dummy there is a whole documentary on Fela Kuti stop embarrassing yourself
Where is this Afro Beats, what radio or satellite stations is it played on? I only hear it when I search CZcams.
Its all about the truth nd d happenings over human life its the people's rythme give it to baba fela anikulakpo kuti abami eda himself
Lagos is pronounced as lay-gos
Nope..it’s Lay goss
@@chiefpharoah ye just the lay is ok not la
Error on spelling Afrobeat music explanation is the opening typo alphabet character no S' character in Afrobeat sorry !!
😂😂😂😂😅😅😅 yeah OK sure it is
Its medicine for the world's illnesses..
Love it. Thanks for tuning in.
Aloha from Hawaii, I love Afro beats, 🎵🔥 first got exposed to it ,in 🌍West Africa over 8 years ago. My friends from the U.K got it and gone with it ,way before the U.S. Jamaican Artist , Reggae ect. Have made music with Afro beats artist. Plus this is a Youth African ❤ Music. Happy music 🎉 with many ‘languages. ‘ 🤪Americans can not copy this energy, Naija vibez . Now the 🌍world can not get enough of it. Leah Tunkara
Black have made black music, in USA, Afro we got to surrender, its more than us
Here's my babe,Lisa. I want me some
Amapiano is the real deal right now.All Africa know that Congolese artists are the one who inspired a lot artists in Africa.Give respect where it’s due shout out to Congo
Amanpiano?😂😂😂😂 U must be capping.Amapiano never going to be as huge as afrobeat.cos its just like an instrumental with very little lyrical contents.
As a nigerian i dont think afrobeats is a nigerian thing.. Its origin is from nigeria and spread to other regions of africa and now to the world. I wud love to see hw flexible it cud be if mixed with other styles of music.
@@emmybizzz-hb9ud😂😂😂😂
Abeg Dey your Dey! Na so People take sell their birth rights
I support you
You guys are discussing what you don't know how it all starred..... Nigerians have been so busy creating afro beat which is now all over the world 🌎
Highlife Music is the mother of Afrobeats. U can't discuss Afrobeats without mentioning Ghana.
You won't have peace
When you are trying to claim what's not yours it makes you look stupid, that's why some of you ghanians saying this thing always look stupid when saying it.
Why are u guys so miserable and feeling left out like a child who was left at home by his parents going to party?😂😂😂😂
only bitterly envious ghanaians believe this
I stopped reading comments bcos the most annoying is always from my country Nigeria. Fela created afrobeat and some Nigerian artists now made it popular. Now west Africa and other African got into it and all hitting it big. Afrobeat is now Africa and it means African beat. Afro is the black man so afrobeat is African music. Fellow Nigerians stop insulting hosts when they call afrobeat African music. Nonsense
They can't help but to bite American music
The first drum that was played in America came from Africa.
It that makes you feel better @@alokobaju8288
Fela Kuti created Afrobeat by mixing Jazz with Highlife
And highlife is from Ghana 🇬🇭 gifted to Nigeria
only bitterly envious ghanaians believe this@@user-jt6sc3km5i
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Afrobeats is from Ghana 🇬🇭
No evidence😂
only bitterly envious ghanaians believe this
Nonsense
Guy just carry your cross ✝️ with high life and hip life music. Run 🏃♂️ far from afrobeat invention
you're interviewing the wrong people; your guests do not represent Africa and know nothing about the subject. you should've interviewed a music executive from Lagos (pronounced "lay-gos" and not "lah-gos "), Nigeria
exactly
It's actually Lah-gos. It's a Portuguese word and it's not English. It means "Lakes"
@@Ollevo what the fuck are u talking about
@@Ollevoyou pronounce it as Lay-goss. You need to pronounce it the way Nigerians call their city. We dont care if its from Portuguese or not. We are Nigerians and we call it Lay-goss and thats what it is.
@@maryellis-eagleeyez5321I can pronounce it the way I deem fit. You're in no position to dictate how we can pronounce a language that is not yours. Pronounce it the way you like.
HAVE ADDITIONAL REPS FROM AFRICA ALEAST GHANA, NIGERIA & SOUTH AFRICA NEXT TIME.
afro beat is not sweeping America especially black America. its heavily influenced by black culture even in in its origins.
Afrobeat is not created by fela Afrobeat originated from Ghana in 1920 fela came to Ghana and learnt Afrobeat. So these lady chatting crap lying do the real research, Afrobeat is originated from GHANA
Afrobeat was created by fela kuti it's solely Nigerian
@@karine-ela Don’t be ignorant do your research don’t bring Nigerian insecurities
@@bash2268well you are right. Ive heard Ghanians say afrobeat was theirs then Nigerians took it and ran global with it.
Afrobeat was never created in Ghana. What is wrong with you people. Everything is created in Ghana but you're never good enough in what you supposedly created.
@@karine-ela Don't mind these usurpers
I love Afrobeat, however Amapiano Got them beats... still very ver very far behind POP, Rock and Hip Hop
Afro beats is not sweeping America 😂 Black Americans, we have our own music we don’t need to claim your music as our own.
I haven’t heard a car ride by yet blasting afro beats
You know what..you are talking to the wrong ppl. Sadly😮
What the hell is a Afro beats I’m from Brooklyn never herd of Afro beats
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The ignorance and arrogance of it all. You will catch up after you get a passport and money to travel outta your hood
That's all I listen to now are Afro Beats. African American hip hop and rap is trash and a detriment to society!!
Biafra is Afrobeats, Afrobeats is Biafran, all other african countries are just following including nigeria
No such thing as biafra
AFROBEAT IS GHANAIAN..(HIGHLIFE ) AFROBEATS IS NIGERIAN.. (REBRANDED)
Yo stop spreading lies
only bitterly envious ghanaians believe this
Stick with your highlife l, you don't even have afro beat artist
My second home is in The Gambia 🇬🇲. 54 countries in Africa, the big Artist , Wizkid etc. we’re rich before they came to America. Leah Tunkara
Its us Afrcan it is black. Stop all the separation. Let Africa be Africa. I don't care if Nigerian or Congo still Africa.
Afrobeats is Ghanaian
😂 I am you typed this with a joking face on.
I know you were laughing at yourself when you were typing this.
The same way Ghana tried to claim Hilda Baci
Afrobeat is Nigeria , high life is Ghannaian
@@jonathanokemute6789 Afrobeats is Ghanaian. Highlife is Ghanaian. Fuji is Nigerian. Afrobeat is Nigerian