It's No doubt that the Nigerian music industry have now found a way to spread it' s tentacles across the four corners of the world. Thanks to the current Global leading Nigerian artistes helping to make Afrobeat a huge success all around the world.
The Afrobeat sound which is a heavy, electronic music that originated from Nigeria have now been gaining a global fanbase which is giving Africa a point of pride.
One huge benefit of the sound going global is that it really helps local Artistes make real money by putting out their songs.
Now, top World artistes like Chris brown, Drake, Rickross and so many American Artiste now recognize the genre and in most cases have a favourite Nigerian artiste they listen to, Huge win for the artistes and the Music genre.
Just recently American rapper, Rickross was seen dancing and vibing to an Afrobeat artiste like it was the normal American sound.
Rickross Was Dancing To Rema's Song
American rapper, Rickross was seen dancing with his alledged girlfriend in club and while Rema's music was playing on the background.
Recently Rickross have recently been hanging out with Tanzanian model Hamisa Mobetto as they have been sparking dating rumors. The rapper had once admitted that there is a connection between him and the Tanzanian.
The Rema's song they were both dancing to was his hit track " Woman". Rema released woman in 2020 after the success of his EP bad commando in 2019.
Woman became the third single he released in 2020 as it depicts his declaration for the love for the female gender. Declaring his love for them, he was also using the song as a medium to say he loves their shape and color.
Though those that are not of Nigerian heritage would find it really hard to get what rema was saying in the song, but notwithstanding the song's dance heavy Melody is where the true power of the song lies, Hence whether the listener is from any part of Africa or Europe or America they will definately fall in love with the song.
The song woman went on to amass tons of streams on all streaming platforms, Garnering about 11 million streams on YouTube alone.
The Producer Behind Rema's Hit Song Woman
The deadly corona virus had hit the whole world and it seemed as if the entertainment industry was going to be put to a stand still too, all but for social media that made music industry still thrive and flourish.
The Covid- 19 virus also had effect on how music listeners selected their choice of music as Spotify recorded that a high percentage of music listeners in around March 2020 listened to more of "chill" music.
This general view of music fans did not prevent Youngstar Rema from doing his thing as he dropped songs like " Ginger me" which was the chill type of music fans were listening to on Spotify, " Alien", and " Woman" that was a mix of the popular SouthAfrican Amapiano sound.
The song " Woman" was birthed by the combination of Mavin in house producers, Ozedikus and Burssbrain. The duo have worked with Rema on different songs as it is not the first time together.
According to Ozedikus, he had gone to the mainland part of Lagos during the COVID 19 stay at home period and decided to work on a new wave of the Amapiano beat that was not buzzing yet.
He made something off it and sent it to Rema who fell in love with the beat. The beat was also sent to Altims also known as Burssbrain to add his magical touches to it. Altims finished it up and they recorded and made a smashing hit with Rema.
The Influence Of Afrobeat Songs Listened To By Big American Artistes
Afrobeat sound has definately been steadily making big waves in places like the United States of America in recent times though America came a bit late to the Afrobeat sound party.
Top Artiste, Beyonce had to come to Africa to eat from the sound while she was working on her Lion King: The gift albulm. Which saw the African artistes like; Wizkid, Burnaboy, Shatta Wale, Teckno, TiwaSavage appear on the albulm.
According to Popular Nigerian- London based Afrobeat producer, P2j he also recognizes that the Afrobeat sound is just Currently fresh in America but the love for it have been massive so far.
Some people might have thought it was Rapper, Drake that discovered that the Afrobeat sound was a very interesting one and brought it to America by putting Wizkid on his chart topping song "One dance".
But songs like" fall" and "Joaana" have not also failed to make their way into the international scene gaining a lot of love from the American music industry most especially.
American artistes are now seen vibing to music genre. In 2018, when Davido won the Best International acts at the Black Entertainment Television Awards, he implored the top Artistes present at the event to come to Africa and enjoy the African sound.
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