Afrobeats - Nigeria's groove goes global | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Niniola, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido: In dance clubs around the world, musicians from Africa are stars. And no wonder - Afrobeats, which pairs West African musical elements with hip-hop, dancehall or house music, is great to dance to.
For the music industry, the global trend from Africa is rapidly turning into a goldmine - while amplifying the continent's cultural identity.
Initially completely apolitical, some Afrobeats artists have started to use their popularity to take a stand. After scandals involving police violence in Nigeria, for example, musicians defended the victims.
This film takes us on the road with notable Afrobeats artists. We visit their musical homeland, Nigeria, and also Kenya, where East African musical offshoots are forming.
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Why are some Africans so concerned with what the West thinks of us? Who cares?
Abi, some Africans are too thirsty for western approval, it needs to change.
@@laifakumo8183 the western people came all the way to Nigeria & Africa to do this document I don't think we are the one that are thirsty lol
It matters what everyone thinks of us. We need everyone's money.
Any producer who doesn't care what potential consumers might think about them does so at their own expense.
@@missethio7394 Yeah maybe the west should care at all about you...
Just ignore the whole continent of africa.
I hope you're fine with that.
Afrobeats are spreading the West and gettin the attention of Americans. It’s not y’all are concerned with what they think
Nigerian youths put Afrobeats on the map from Fela to Wiz Kid. They made it mainstream...period.
Tuface,dbanj, wandecoal and lot more pave the way for them wizkid to come in, we should show them respect
Not sure that Niniola's song is the best representation of Afrobeats at the beginning
Love Afrobeat, plus the videos are very creative.
Fela Kuti is the only person who is a legendary of Afrobeat
@@mzee5533 He is legendary, he had strong political stance, and he was a pioneer.. I’m a 58 year old man of Caribbean background who recently started to watch music videos again, I love music so I have proper set up with large TV.. subs proper hifi speakers. So I’ve been streaming through RUclips. I did start the listening in my car, but never new what most of the artistes look like. Anyway let me get the point. To me these new artiste have a sound that I find enjoyable, Fela had a lot of Jazz influence I know Jazz was very big in his day. The music now has Jamaican influences of Ragga and Bashment , plus RNB soul and hip hop The difference African artiste are more refreshing to me, Jamaicans descend from Nigerians and Ghanaians and other Africans so the similarities are there. To me these young artiste give me pleasure everyday, I come home from work. The videos are works of art, I have background in media and have produced myself. African music videos have excelled beyond recognition. Big up to all the young lions and lionesses. We have to be careful not to see our present stars. 50 years time people will have other legends who have passed., It’s a exciting time for Africa music.
@@sandi8596 That’s nice you dance now.
I completely agree, her version of afrobeats is extremely western, whereas with other artistes you can hear the distinct afrobeat
Personally I have done my role in promoting the genera and now I deserve a ticket to wiz kid concert 😭
Lol he just came to Miami this past weekend
My sister got us tickets
You're doing an Afrobeat documentary and open with a Niniola SOUL track?!
She's afrobeat too
@@Danorous I know and she has a plethora of actual AFROBEAT songs to pick from like SICKER, ADDICTED etc but they had to pick a soul number is what is a bit confusing.
@@hajisaid9364 that's because the German press DW that is doing the documentary, feels more comfortable with the more western Pop style of music...trust Europeans to always try to dictate the narratives. They know that featuring her Afrobeat side, might not endear the feature to their eurocentric audiences whilst giving too much originality to the Africans success story
@@efemzyekun900 then they had no business covering this Afrobeat story to begin with if they don't unpack it right!
@@hajisaid9364 we are still saying the same thing dude.
The Afro Best scene came a long way, and I'm old enough to remember when DJ EDU from BBC used to blaze tunes back in 2002. He put me up on Wizkid and Sakodie and I been hooked ever since.
Sarkodie is not Afrobeats 😅
Edu put me on too. Way later in 2015. I got hooked on kwamz and flava
@@missethio7394 he is a rapper Tru. Bt he does AfroBeat too
The underlying narrative from the West must always be that Africa is a poor continent, but I am yet to see German music dominating the airwaves worldwide. Africa, by the way, is the world’s most richly blessed continent, the table from which much of the rest of the world has feasted for centuries. It is the continent with the world’s youngest population and is therefore, by definition, the continent of the future. Making a global impact with our music and our culture is just the beginning.
It's literally the ONLY thing.
@@allopez33 Actually it is not the only thing. Africa is resource rich. The continent will be taking over control of its resources in due course. The party will end and Africa will return to where it is supposed to be. The narrative of Africa as a poor continent is a European construct and it is false.
Burna Boy, a Nigerian artist, concert just sold out in the Netherlands. Even Europe embraces afrobeats
Africa is poor ! Resources don’t make you rich. They are just that! Resources.
@@harrybomaye Wrong! Africa is the most resource rich continent on the planet. The world's unfair economic system has made Africans poor, but the continent itself is rich. The poverty in Africa is man-made and it is within our power to reverse it. That Africa is poor is a false narrative, coined by those to whose benefit it was for the people of the continent to remain poor. Shame on you 😕
Davido is not a US/Nigerian superstar lol, He is a Nigerian superstar. That's it lol and thanks DW for showing only the bad places in Lagos and Kenya. This is why you got no real Afrobeat ''superstar''.
I don’t know much about Davido, is he is based and grew up in America maybe that how you describe him. Because where ever you live has a impact on you culturally. Eg The Nigerian Actor in Star Wars forgotten his name. He is often described as a British Nigerian. We can get uptight these naming, but we can also chill and stop picking holes because it’s a Western documentary. Maybe you right about locations shot, but I guess they love the narrative of rags to riches are they find it interesting how poor people use their talents. We don’t know the factors why some of the superstate were not present. Maybe it was hard to schedule them or they didn’t have any interest.. The doc was great for me..
Davido was born in the USA
@@historyonthego well said, great question, not everyone will be satisfied no matter your intent.
Davido is based in Nigeria and the doc is trash, he grew up in Nigeria.
The narrative of rags to riches distorts the history of Afrobeats, Fela who popularized afrobeats was from an affluent background, he was an elite. Afrobeats is for everyone, they clearly did not do any research, which is shamefully. Davido was born in the US but was raised in Nigeria, literally all his life.
Twenty years ago, I had a DVD of a Nigerian-made movie about a young orphaned woman who survived day-by-day, living in the forest by herself. The village people called her a witch. As poor as the acting was, the story was a good one and I still remember it. It gave me a fresh respect for Nigerians.
@Chris Maloney 😂
Haba Chris. No carry Buhari matter hammer this fella na
@Chris Maloney 🤣🤣
@Chris Maloney 😂😂
Yes but the Nigerian movie industry has changed and grown better now. The industry is now worth $10 billion
Nigerians tell good stories.
I am proud to have been a part of many people promoting the Afro beats. I got hooked in 2009 during the Psquare era with songs like Ifunanya, then came Yori yori with brackets, Flavor with Ashawo. To me these were the Legends of that decade. Then we came to the last decade where new African stars were born, Sauti sol, Wizkid, Burna boy, Davido, Skales, Timaya, Diamond platnumz, Mejja-okwonkwo, Harmonize, Tekno, Simi, Tiwa, Yemi, Octo and so many more. Today we have fresh superstars doing the most, the likes of Nikita Kering, Sol generation, Omah lay, Joe boy, Ayyar starr, Rema and many many young people who are setting even higher standards. Afro beats is a lifestyle. and its in safe hands. Am a proud fan forever!
These names from East Africa don't make the same music as Nigerians.
I know how you feel I’m from London uk 🇬🇧 the call me Jamaican Guy Who Loves Afrobeats
@@chikarayleigh4534 but Diamond 💎 platinum do Afrobeats too
@@ochieprudence5977 the documentary is garbage. Period.
@@chikarayleigh4534 OK you can go re do it
Afrobeats from Fuji, Juju, and Tugba, Fela went to Ghana doesn't mean comes from Ghana, If Afrobeats Truly comes from Ghana 🇬🇭 then nobody can steal it from Ghanaian bcos Ghanaian are educated before Nigerians remember Ghana must go, stop all the envy and Jealous, bcos Nigerian worked for it, and give Nigeria the credits for lighting up Africans to the world. We all enjoying Afrobeats breakthrough by Nigerians. Nigeria touchup Jollof rice which was originally from Dakar, anything Nigerian touch turns to Mega. Just like Mega churches, Food, movies, music, law and sport and medical.
Keep lying to yourself, Ghana showed Nigeria the way when it comes to music, football and jollof rice
@@nanakay121 lol 😂 in your dream, and If Ghana show Nigeria then thanks to British who shown all of us way too, but Nigerian brought everything to global world, Nigeria bring out Afro music, food, films, fashion, bussiness to the global stage. All Africa is achieving the results not only Nigeria 🇳🇬 benefiting do stop the jealous.
@@nanakay121🤣🤣🤣 Jollof Rice didn’t even come from you Ghanaians it’s from Senegal stupid
You typing giberrish
@@koollifetvno one is jealous bro. You guys know the truth and just doesn't wanna accept it. Sia man, can't you hear Highlife in your Afrobeats sounds? What's Nigeria sound sef. Afrobeats wouldn't have existed without Highlife. Read your books cos RUclips comments dey sweet you.
The Nigerian youths are really producing good musics and beats. If not of bad Government and those b*stard SARS making things hard for them
When talking of Afrobeats, we can't fail to give credit to Congolese instrumental beats as well.
South Africans and Congolese showed us the way, Nigerians held the light up
South Africa and Congo didn't show us anything maybe those of you down south.
Afrobeat is not a real genre, there is a show that's on Bbc and they play African Music, they have been those different genres Beats from Africa ( Afrobeat).
That Afrobeats Nigerians are claiming to be theirs came from Ghana. The original genre is call Highlife.
Fela Kuti came to Ghana to learn the beat and take it back to Nigeria and add a couple of things. He didn't even name the thing.
@@richiecharger3423 you are very right. But of the things the Nigerians added, are some Congolese beats. In the 90s backwards, Almost the entire Sub-Saharan Afrika used to listen to Congolese and South African music during the times of Brenda Fassie, Yvonne Chaka Chaka etc
@@richiecharger3423 continue with the lies. Afrobeats started from Ghana 😂😂😂😂😂
@@worldwide8587 You obviously don't know anything about Africa music history. You are not my mate.
@@richiecharger3423 continue to tell yourself that if it helps you sleep at night😂 the whole world knows where Afrobeats comes from. Nor be only Ghana 😂😂😂😂😂😂
All hail to the Late Baba Fela kuti the founder of Afro Beat. Baba may your soul continue to Rest in paradise forever! You forever Live in my mended heart ❤! Water E no get Enemy! ( All Love from oakland California)
Started listening to Afrobeats about 2 yrs ago. Heard Tekno's Pana and I was hooked.
Where you from?
In as much as I like the subject of this doc. I also think the producers should have used someone close to Nigerian culture as narrator. It sucks whenever I hear Nigerian names been mispronounced by Caucasians who wouldn't make an effort to say our local names properly. I couldn't even see it to the end.
Hi Andy , you should teach white people ( oyingbo ) how to pronouce Nigerian names ! I would be happy .
@@connys.a2412 While I would gladly teach whoever cares to learn, I would add that the crux of this matter is for the media to become culturally sensitive and aware. Too often in the industry we find great stories like this narrated by someone who cannot pronounce African names. I learn everyday to be better at knowing other people's culture-to be able to say names properly, appreciate their food, how they dress and all that because not doing it right can be perceived as rude.
If that is the biggest problem you have, its a great world.
I just love they way the world 🌍🌍 is claiming all Nigerian Artists ,this is hilarious 🇳🇬🇳🇬 Nigeria is just the best in the world 🌎 I have seen it all ,the whole hatred they get from their fellow Africans and the western countries are too much on Nigerians ,I will always love Nigeria and their afro beats forever no matter what they say wrong about them,they are world best
Facts
Thanks we love you too
Reminds me of the origins of Hip-Hop in the 70's and 80's don't let it be corrupted by money, greed and rachetness.
*Rema is at the moment my favourite artist 🇰🇪
*Skales in a Travis scott imprint shirt
*Tho this doc ended up being another poverty in Africa story...why not highlight poverty in India, Philippines or South America.?
Thanks for this statement
What about poverty in America? I live here; it's as bad as anywhere else. These bias western medias.
I really don’t understand why too
Afrobeats to the world🔥🔥🔥 254 in the house🇰🇪
Proud of Nigeria. Love you guys from Ghana 🇬🇭
No disrespect love ghana back but I never understood why some of your people are trying to say afro beats originated from ghana just because fela kuti was influenced by ghana high life music
@@eniolabakare6839 very very soon Ghanaians will claim they created God and Nigeria now stole Him and then made Him popular 😂
@@eniolabakare6839 very soon banku villagers will claim they invented language
I was expecting a doc on Afrobeats but instead you did another "There poverty in Africa" doc.
@Chris Maloney Octopizzo who is not even a Afrobeats artist but we had a whole section of him in his slum neighborhood on the other side of the continent.
Sorry there is less creativity in fancy places
@@kdsenabulya8572 there's zero Afrobeats in Kibera Kenya. That's my point.
valid point..Europeans cant tell an African story without a poverty background
At the very least it's taken from a different perspective for once. Over here in Europe we normally don't hear a lot about African music. People here only tend to focus on what Africa doesn't have which is a shame.
The Ghanaian legend is a Nigerian, that says it all.
I love Afrobeats❤️ Nigeria has beautiful music,food,great singers,rich culture…everything man…yes,you should be proud!! Afrobeats is taking over the music scene on the global stage and I’m glad to see that!!
AfroHouse from Angola❤️ Lots of love!
It's Nigerians time to shut down the entire world with our tune I'm unapologetically 🇳🇬
@@servethesongs na your pman go dey very disappointed beta find beta thing do na depression go later pkai you las las
This is like Jollof all over again. You do realise Afrobeats is West African?
@@ganju_san2675 because other countries are doing it doesn't stop the fact that is a Nigerian beat, are you guys really this slow?😩 The whole world is doing hip hop does that mean it's not an American beat
@@destinyokoduwa1888 wasn't the sound invented in early '20 & '30s Ghana and called Highlife? Then Fela Kuti & Tony Allen built upon on that sound creating what we call Afrobeats today. Its like Kardashians refusing the existence of Paris Hilton
@@ganju_san2675 I can't even argue with a person this dumb🤦🏿♂️, if I ask you to bring one highlife music that sounds like fela music you can't provide any, and you are going about saying some trash you saw on Wikipedia that was probably writing by a Ghanaian 😂, for your information highlife is also known as traditional sounds, and every single west Africa country has their own traditional sounds, aside from afrobeat Nigeria still has highlife sounds, they are two different things, Cameroon has their own special traditional sounds known as highlife same thing with other west Africa country, highlife is the sound that is found in almost all west Africa country not afrobeat, there was nothing like afrobeat until fela came up with the sound. Now run along with your Wikipedia information you premature Clown 🤡
ONE AFRICA ... we are a Giant if we one
Go to south africa 🇿🇦 again
My favorite song from Africa is Makambo, speaks to the SOUL! Nothing is like African music ❤️
I'm old Chicago house DJ from back in the beginning days. I watched Steve Dahl blow up Disco records, 1979. Next day at De La Salle it was the big joke amongst some "privilege kids". Destroying a rich struggle in expression & joy amongst people of color was being oppressed yet AGAIN! Thats when I dedicated myself to house music. Now, our collaboration of Filipino, Black & Hispanic home brewed house music has made it home to motherland Africa. Afrobeats is our "second home" for house music, but the ancient past & struggles of African slaves have globalized it. So excited when I heard this music for the first time. Now, that Bitcoin & Block-chain technology has come out artist can be compensated fairly & justly for their creativity.
Westerners need to start showing the beautiful parts of Africa in their films.........not slums slums slums. Why didn't they show the beautiful neighborhoods that Davido grew up ????????it breaks my heart EVERY TIME they show ghettos and slums
And why are u interested for such places to be shown?
@@flpcity9016 why would you not be interested. I’m tired of seeing the same inaccurate depictions when there are so Much beauty and development to see
@@greenhornet8262 one thing i do wonder is, why hurt ourselves in potraying the good roads and mansions/skyscrapers to other people just feel good?
@@flpcity9016 It’s good for tourism. Would you wanna go to Afghanistan, Haiti and Somali based on the media propaganda about them. These countries have beautiful parts, tourism, a thriving economy but they don’t get shown. I do agree with you on thing though, we don’t have to rely on the West to show the good part but we should it do it ourselves which Wode Maya is brilliantly doing
@@flpcity9016 good roads, infrastructure, electricity, running water etc. is not about making you look good to other people. It’s about making living better for the people who live in the country. The livelihood of the country’s citizens should be a priority to every country
Nigerian's 🇳🇬 are like black American's of in Africa 🌍 they have somuch in common Accent and they way they live so similar.
Most of us Black Americans are descended from West Africa and Nigeria to be specific
I hope one of these Nigerian musicians have a tour in The United States
Everytime I see videos trying to outline the Nigerian achievements I come closer to the reality that's It's us (Nigerians) against the world.
I’m telling you my sister. The hatred and animosity against Nigeria nor be here o.
Afrobeat is now and the future 🔥🔥🌍
Niola is not the queen of “afrohouse” please correct that 😂
Can you imagine😂 I got a shock when I heard that, I have been listening to Afro house for years. I doubt they even know what Afro House genre sounds like, anyway I love Niniola's music.
@@Karl3Lang South African house is the real "AfroHouse" lets be honest!!
@@Bill325 You are absolutely right, Afro House gained its popularity in early/mid 2000's when SA producers were making their own version of House also other countries like Angola followed, Afro House also gained popularity in the UK because of some similarities to UK & deep House. West African region was never really into that kind style of music until very recently in the last few years and still doesn't have a large audience.
These artists are so sound smart and intelligent
It's obvious that Kenyan guy does not know anything about Afrobeats in Nigeria lol
Imagine him saying before there were only 2 people doing it and it just became popular 🥴
We've actually been grooving to afrobeats for decades in Nigeria
So true. It just became global.
Awesome 👌 Naija Afrobeats to the world. Proud of this. Nice one DW👍
Brother, what happened na? We don't see you on tv like that anymore.
amazing docu!!! loved it!!! Africa and afrobeats are the future of the world! Nigeria I hope to visit soon
Congratulations,my brothers! As Africans also we must invest in technology,space and sciences because never African win Nobel Prize for economics,sciences,Medecine We must make Africa great again like Tombuktu in Meadle Age with universities
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lmao
Become the leader you wish” you’re the leader you’ve been waiting for
Afrobeats is the best music from Africa. I am proud to see musician Octopizzo singing his way from the slums of Kibera to the global stage.
I Love it! I've been a Big Fan of the AfroBeat culture for as long as I can remember growing up as a child & Im very inspired & influenced by the movement. It feels so good know its finally being noticed around the world. Much Love to Africa! Keep up the Greatness!✊🏿🌍🖤
Thank you for this video, DW Documentary! You guys are the best!
I stan with Oxlade... he's going far with this Afropop genre
Everybody fighting over who started AFROBBEAT But I’m Just Loughing at TENI And the Traffic Officer 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm not sure this documentary was well done
I agree!!!
Thanks for your comment! What do you disagree with?
@@DWDocumentary more like a lot could have been done differently!! I cant write it all
@adetayo adesola as a kenyan I'm wondering why kenya was in this documentary? The documentary is not done well as usual very lazy when it comes to Africa.
@@DWDocumentary Nonsense, next time can you just focus on the topic at hand without those stale constant denigrating self projecting western narratives which is not even true to a very large extent to well informed discerning minds that Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world??..It is apparent most of you guys hate Nigeria/Nigerians..but i hope yiou guys understand as to the fact that we apparently don't really care??..as a matter of fact you guys would have to try a bit more harder for us to at least care??..smh..your violations is becoming too much.
You guys are the same people that intentionally aired so called Nigeria Mafia gangs group documentary titled by you interestingly and unsurprisingly on our very Independence day Oct 1..if that is not shameful on your part in contrary to the Nigerians/Nigeria you guys are trying so hard to denigrate more-so demonize at every turn??..i do not know what else is..I thought this was supposed to be about the Afrobeats..why go into the social issues which is common amongst all nations of the world?..?as if we cant say the same as regards your Germany..abeg you guys should receive sense and have some damn integrity for once..Oshi..Aye yin o ni da.
Music is us we are Music black is Music
Afro beats is life.
I have watched this whole documentary. Thank you DW for highlighting African music and Afrobeats in particular. However, I feel that you never really gone into how Afrobeats went global and what has made it global. There are many recent achievements that could have been mentioned. Even the fact that some Nigerian Afrobeats acts are at the moment holding record breaking and successful tours in America or even winning Grammy awards.
You could have also spoken to more artists (especially in Ghana while you were there) and music producers. The latter are the hit makers. The producer in studio with Skales is Krizbeatz there is no specific mention of his name and role in pushing the genre yet these are the engineers of Africa’s biggest Afrobeats tunes.
You could also inserted relevant songs to the topic in the documentary as some inserted like Niniola’s is Afro House / R&B music and even Skales’ inserted video clip is Amapiano sound - veering off topic. Yet Skales is a great Afrobeats artist and could actually be asked better questions as to the Genre’s development and some other artists who paved the way for him.
I also loved Octopizzo’s interview on point but the rest of the clips should have been another documentary all together. They weren’t relevant to the documentary. You could have tried to get more industry professionals to talk about the genre or it’s influence across Africa.
Your Ghana interview with Eazi was great and important, because he’s one of the Afrobeats stars from Nigeria who has kept a very close relationship with Ghana for many years. In fact at some point people outside Africa thought he was Ghanaian. However, you should have also spoken to other Ghanaian stars on the genre and industry.
I hope that you can do more research to make proper documentaries on African music. I am a music publicist and journalist based in Africa.
This is well pointed out...thank you for mention this Awoko!
My exact thoughts. Couldn't agree more. It is important to highlight that Africa is a whole continent with a mixture of sounds which we all take influence, drive creativity and inspiration from. The sound entails but not limited to, taking beats from south Africa, add a Ghanaian dance touch, and a najia tone to make the tune.
We acknowledge feats of the najia music industry but it is important to highlight that the culture is hugely diverse and each sound from specific parts of the continent contribute to the whole genre of afro-beats we have today. Hope such research is taken into account not to give an "unseasoned" narrative.
Africa as lots of potential and opportunities to become the next hub of music production and artists grooming given the right atmosphere and investments and curbing corruption has the potential to create millions of jobs for their young educated youths
WIG HAIR land.
@Chris Maloney Companies, Labels, teachers, established artists can create that environment, waiting for political leaders is a waste of time
@@no.reply_ CHARLES TAYLOR in uk jail.
Niniola by far the best female voice in Nigeria 🇳🇬 hands down
Being African American, I think AfroBeats is dope.
I appreciate these documentaries! ...
I waited to hear afrobeat history from Nigeria, going back in time, to mention
O.J.Ekemode, who formed The Nigerian All Stars Band (and preceeded by the late Master Babatende Olatunji!)
O.J. was a friend and teacher to many in the Bay Area of California, Oakland, in the 80s, and to this day!
Ashiko!
Many African musicians opened up Americans to thier homelands music, when it became easier to travel to America and be accepted as Teachers of thier culture, in certain universities, like the n the university of Washington, State n Seattle...
If things are not mentioned on line, much is forgotten or lost with time.
The power of African music is still having some of the same 'issues' in this generation, we see here!
You cannot copywrite, steal or profit from a song that is hundreds of years old either..🌟🙏🌟
So the traditional music of people around the world, might still be subtly repressed,
exposed and promoted only to audiences who seek it out.
RUclips algorhythms try to steal views as well🤨
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
No matter what country in Africa we will support it for global recognition,for God and my continent
9ja to the world!!!!!!! (Auchi to be presise) ( All Love from oakland California)
to everyone making the mistake...
AFROBEATS not afrobeat....
Please don't confuse one for the other or FELA's ghost will haunt you for life!
Please do a documentary on music from South Africa!
They will need to do a thorough research because we go along way with music!!
@@LadyT06 Die Antwoord is all I need .
Documentary lacks depth. You could have explored the origin of the afrobeats sound/genre
It's pretty disappointing. Like how difficult is it to research? Not like they don't have money
Correction mr Kenya, MI Abaga is one of the Nigerians rap artist. Theres YC, Laycon just to mention a few.. and they are very popular not just in Nigeria but worldwide!!!!
Na who Sabi MI? 😂
@@tok1879 you!!!!
@@doolittlefirstking6388 obviously! But na who me i be? 😂 😂 😂
@@tok1879 one out of millions
@@doolittlefirstking6388 my point exactly!! You too!
Afrobeat's been global for a long time. I'm guessing the documentary makers just caught on. Just like "discovering" places other people already live in. Typical... 🙄
What are you talking about?! Barely anyone knows about this!
Bro these are just a bunch of western civil libris . No use talking to them
@@thecopercoper5533 lol continue to live under a rock
@@thecopercoper5533, speak for yourself and don’t make a general statement..
Lol yes piss on positive glowing exposure... don't be naive please
I think Amapiano from ZA has a lot of potential to be more widely recognized, even out of Africa. It's poetic and experimental but also perfect for clubs.
Here you go again. They are talking about Afrobeat and you are talking about Amapiano. What a shame…
Nobody is comparing anything. Calm down
@@Peterjev6, I never mentioned comparing. Go back and read my statement.
No offense but Amapiano is very limited to SA. Afrobeat isn't exclusively Nigerian, you have Sauti sol from Kenya doing it, Diamond platnumz TZ, Meddy from Rwanda.. R2bees from Ghana etc. But Amapiano has no capability of moving out of SA it's exclusive. In fact Amapiano isn't new at all, just the name has changed, few yrs ago we had DJ maphorisa & the likes of mafikizolo doing their thing, but still it didn't go past SA. Today the only thing popular about Amapiano are the dance moves because Africans generally love dancing, besides that one can hardly mention a single amapiano artist. It's more of a DJ feel good mix than a Genre.
@@mwangigitau286 , I beg to disagree with you. You have other types of genre in Kenya and Bongo music from Tanzania. Afrobeat is Nigerian period. They came up with name, promoted it and it’s now Global. What more can I say? You guys need to respect Naija period and stop bickering…
Many of us in NYC, London and SF believed in 1979 that the fantastic sounds coming from Africa, Jamaica, Paris and New Orleans would become the dance music of the future. But something else happened.
Omg I LOVE NINIOLA. IM AMERICAN BUT I LOVE HER
AFRO HOUSE IS THE MUSIC🎶🎵
Afro beats is the deal, it’s obvious. King!
What's Afro house??? GTFOH
I wish all of them much success. ❤️🔥
I’m happy to see oxlade finally got the world wild exposure he deserves with ku lo sa!
African ears are naturally sensetive to musical beats.... Truly superior musical ears
racist :O
@@4ll4ll how ?
NIGERIA IS AFRICA
u delusional😅
Nigeria is IN Africa.
@@tsimoi273, not just in Africa- the biggest black nation in the whole World. You have to respect that…
Yes, we know... surely we know it.
@@moham.279 Also with a lot of poverty
You could do with introducing the artists (writing their names) to the audience. Not all of them know who they are
Beign famous matters less than do good to people with ur influence. """This kid doesn't know my song but his hungry""". So true what you do for people is what matters.
23:56 The way Teni talked to that lastma guy 😭😭🤣🤣😂😂
Teni makanaki
Teni is a baws! 😂😂😂
that wasn't lastma, those are estate securities
Get your Facts Right, Lagos is Africa Largest City💯
Correct!!! Lagos is 24 MILLION Africa's largest city.
With all the great afrobeat artistes in 9ja y'all choose the one no one knows🤧
If I could emit constructive criticism I would highly suggest that the next time you come up with a music documentary, insert the titles of the songs you add throughout the documentary, for instance when you introduced Niniola & Octopizzo to us, it would've been great for us to tune in with their music & discover the artists' music a bit more. That's an element you mustn't overlook when creating a documentary whose main focus is music !
Why did the Kenyan rapper guy sound so bitter towards Nigeria? "Nigeria is not Africa, Nigeria is a country". Pele, Uncle.
Bro, the hate is real. I just responded to someone making a comment about Amapiano while the topic is about Afrobeat…
Sound bitter, how?? I don't think so ur just imagining things...stop projecting.
@@moham.279 o
@@mauricestrokowsky9132, yes oooh. Lol
Where is the lie, Africa has soo much genres, in Kenya for instance, Rumba is more popular and Tanzania's bongo music.
And the Winner and Best Afro Beat Track 2021, " Everybody "
They should make an AMAPIANO version 👀👀👀piano to lefatshe ✊✊
Yebo lefatsheng siyabangena nomakanjani...HAIBOOO!!!!🔥🔥🙌👊🏾🇿🇦🇿🇦
Afrobeats is The Leading Sound Globally Today ❤️❤️❤️
No 🤣🤣
I'm so happy many racists in the comment section feel intimidated with our Afrobeat tune awwnnn 😊 we're fierce beware 🇳🇬
@Justin Divetta Why so bitter? 🤭🤣
@Justin Divetta, hahaha, you cared that’s why you made a bitter comment. Lol
@Justin Divetta, The opposite of your opinion is what others think about Afrobeat. Just as a reminder, millions adore and love Afrobeat with or without your opinion.
We are aware..........of just how unimportant your country is aside from what's under the soil.
Let them stay mad. Their generic pop music is boring and outdated.
S/O to Afro Beats & Amapiyano is a next big thing
The first artist(the woman artist in the beginning) is heavily influenced by South African afrohouse music, she’s not afrobeats I doubt that very much. Her one song was big here in SA, the Maradonna song & most ppl found it surprising it wasn’t a SAn artist who produced it…it sounds so SAn afrohouse. Interesting reportage but a bit all over the place as it confuses genres in Nigeria and the continent. Also not every music out of Nigeria is Afrobeats as per the first woman’s sound, she’s afrohouse which is mostly South African
That’s what I was thinking. Why not give South Africa credit, it’s obvious that that’s a South African Afro house.
@@theonly6359 it’s these DW reporters, they seem to be clueless westerners talking $hit about African $hit they know very little about. Should have had arts& culture journos from west Africa do this supposed afrobeats report for them
You guys really want to take credit for everything 🥴
Maradona is an afrobeat song, Nini is and has always been an afrobeat artiste
Where is all this coming from
There are lot of SA music that has become popular in Nigeria like Khona, Jerusalema and we gave them their due credit as being pure South African music
Why are you trying to make what is clearly a Nigerian song which she even sung in Yoruba about South Africa???
@@thandisilec835 I'm from Zambia, I agree. It's all over the place. Just use African journalists to cover these documentaries. In Zambia, we have Zamrock and Kalindula. And just like Congolease Rhumba, Afrohouse, Amapiano, Kwaito...those are their own genres from Afrobeat. We celebrating the richness of African cultures, and it's important to gets facts rights.
Maradona is an afrobeats song , keep deceiving yourself
LADY THAT FIRST COMMENT MAKES ME SO PROUD.BE BLESSED 🙌.
@0:47 that's Octopizzo talking 🇰🇪🇳🇬
Music going back to its roots
OCTOPIZZO (0.47) ALWAYS SPEAKING FACTS!!! HE SCHOOLED THESE GUYS HANDS DOWN 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 The African JAY-Z!!!!!!!!!!! 👑
I wish you didn't compare him to an american artist. I wish you'd stopped typing after hands down. Americans copied everything from Africa. That's a FACT!!! Africa Unite!!! 💚💛❤
Never heard of him...he must be local in Kenya. He's wrong about Nigeria not having any big rappers...they do. There is Burna Boy, Olamide, Ladipoe, Ycee, Naira Marley, MI Abaga, Ice Prince, Slimcase, Zlatan, Phyno, and Reminisce are all famous Nigerian rappers that are known on the global scene.
@@blazinghot99 He DID actually say that Nigeria has rappers. Listen again.
@@kim1570 You should listen again. His exact words were "There's no big rappers in Nigeria". My point is, he is wrong. There are big rappers in Nigeria. All of the artists I named are big rappers in Nigeria. Many Kenyans are familiar with the rappers I listed. Ironically, all of the rappers I named are bigger than him on the global scene, yet he's unknown outside of Eastern Africa. Nigerians have no clue who he is...his songs do not penetrate our airwaves. I was in Kenya 2 years ago for a wedding and Nigerian music was blasted all over Kenyan radio, parties, events, and nightclubs. It sounded like he was hating. Lmao 😂😂😂✌
Can't believe I watched this 34 mins after it was posted.
Enjoyed it. 😀
We're glad you did! Thanks for watching. :-)
Nigeria is Africa, and Africa simply is Nigeria! Nigeria is semi US by civic standards and Nigeria edges over the US by deep knowledge penetration through books and cable satellites 📡.
Delusional FC. First off, the rest of us Africans didnt let our oppressors name our countries, neither did America. 🤡
Look at this nonsense
😂😂😂😂
Yes oooo 🤣🤣
Davido is a Nigerian superstar...
The documentary was awful with a plethora of misinformation.
"Afrohouse" isn't a mixture of "Afrobeats" & "House" for example. It's a South African Genre that has no relation to West Africa! Afrohouse Genres like Gqom, Amapiano & especially Kwaito are in fact even way older than the Genre that is now known as "Afrobeats" which in fact has nothing in common with the old "Afrobeat" Genre. Burna Boy who would have been a way more reliable guest for the Interview even hates the current usage & naming of the Genre as "Afrobeats" and calls the music "Afrofusion" simply because it incorporates different Genres & Rhythmns. Niniola calling herself or being referred to as "Queen of Afrohouse" is like calling a German Rap Artist "King of Hip Hop". It's simply ridiculous!
Teni is a vibe 🔥
The documentary should be the normal 42 minutes. 25 minutes is too short
Actually, the allotted time was too long for an inconsequential subject.
As an Edo boy that shirt oxlade is wearing I want it bad!! Anyone know where I can buy it?
Octopizzo 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
African has been exporting its music outside Africa way before afrobeats and they didn't even need to sing in English Angelique Kidjo, Youssou Ndour, Papa Wemba, Salif Keita, Alpha Blondy.... the road and the street were already laid Afrobeat didn't built it. Stop Nigeria washing the history of African music relationship with the World. Because African music reached Asia and South America, not just Europe et North America, way before Afrobeat became popular
Your comment is really out of place when you consider that Afobeats is quite recent. If you checked the comment section you'll see that everyone agrees the documentary is poorly done. Also “Nigerian washing”???? This idea that Nigerians are trying to make themselves the voice of Africa only is quite odd and out of place! No sane person believes Nigerians were the first on the scene.
Cry today, cry tomorrow
Keep on crying 😂
No African genre has come this close to global recognition like Nigerian Afrobeats.
No African musician has reached global fame outside Fela Kuti, as Nigerian musicians.
Afrobeats is called a phenomenon for a reason. Go and check out the number of documentaries on Afrobeat and Afrobeats on RUclips, no African genre comes close.
Check out the number of streams, the number of awards, how stadiums are shut down globally.
How they always sneak in negative storyline in positive African stories. We need to stop these outsiders telling our story
🇳🇬🇳🇬 is the power huz for African no doubt
Afrobeat DOC Without the king wizkid and Davido cap
Niniola is my favourite but she is a super star
Can't believe y'all didn't go to Angola 🇦🇴 and include Kuduro
its about Naija's afrobeats. Kuduro is a whole different genre and its very early to mid 2000s. no longer current
Always want to jump on any positive Nigerian train
Need one for Amapiano now 🇿🇦
Makanaki ooo😂😂. No stop Makanaki abeg ooo