Appearing on the latest edition of the Business Untitled
Podcast, the ‘OBO’ crooner lamented the “boxing” of all African artists into
the Afrobeats genre regardless of their musical styles.
He said, “The first place that accepted African music
outside Africa is the UK before America later join. The UK termed African music
Afrobeats.
“Afrobeat is a sound that was originally pioneered by Fela
Kuti. But now all African songs are termed Afrobeats. If an African artiste
sings pure R&B, sounding like SZA, Summerwalker, they put them under
Afrobeats. If an African rapper rapping like Drake, they still put them under
Afrobeats.
“I don’t get offend when we’ve been categorised as
Afrobeats. I mean, we need a genre. It could be R&B or Afropop. I call my
music Afrofusion but I’m not big on ‘O put Afrofusion on my song.’ I know how
long it took for African music to become mainstream.”
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