Daily Post Nigeria ‘Stop ditching afrobeats for amapiano’ – Rema tells colleagues Home News Politics Metro Entertainment Sport Entertainment ‘Stop ditching afrobeats for amapiano’ – Rema tells colleagues Published on July 17, 2024 By Sunny Green Itodo Popular singer, Divine Ikubor, aka Rema, has harped on the need for Nigerian artists to maintain afrobeats’ culture to ensure the country’s dominance of the African music scene. DAILY POST reports that there has been a heavy infiltration of South African genre, amapiano into the Nigerian music industry in recent years. Speaking in an interview with Apple Music, Rema admitted that amapiano is a great genre but maintained that Nigerian artists must sustain afrobeats’ influence on the continent.
He noted that his recently-released sophomore album, ‘HeIs,’ was heavily inspired by afrobeats legends like Don Jazzy and the Mo’hits crew, 2Baba, Olamide, P-Square and Timaya. “I had to go back [while creating my new album]. I took a lot of inspiration from Mo’hits.
For the first four seconds, when a Mo’hits’ song comes in, you already know it’s a Mo’hits’ song. Don Jazzy just goes crazy on the beat,” he said. “The times when Olamide used to drop crazy songs, he still drops crazy songs.
At the time when an Olamide song comes on you still know. P-Square, 2Face or Timaya. There used to be times when the beat just.
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