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Introduction/History
What Is Afro Beat?


Afro beat is a combination of traditional Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk, and chanted vocals, fused together with percussion and voice styles, which started in Africa in the 1960’s. Afro beat features chants, call response voices, and complex interacting rhythms.
Afro beat originated from the southern part of Nigeria in the 1960s. Where kuti had experimented with many different forms of contemporary music, at the time. 
The main creator of afro beat is, Nigerian multi – instrumentalist and band leader, Fela Kula. He is the one who gave it it’s name who used it to revolutionize musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria
The term “afrobeat” was first coined by Fela Kuti. 
This music is fairly new, beginning in the 1960s. Although it is relevantly new, afrobeat has expanded it's horizons significantly during the past 50 years to point where we even have artists like NSG (orginal text) which are heavily influenced by this new wave of sound coming from africa.
Hip-hop is well known for providing new perspectives to old classics. We often acknowledge the presence of funk and soul in hip-hop
When Fela traveled to the United States, he learned a lot about the African influence in America. While in Los Angeles and touring, he was influenced by the writing of Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P. Newton and many other representatives of Black Nationalism and Afrocentrism. 

 New wave/ modern afrobeat
West Africa is experiencing something of a musical golden age, with artists such as WizKid and Davido attaining global stardom, almost entirely outside the mainstream, disseminating their music through social media. By 2012, Ghana had the fastest internet speed in Africa, and Nigeria the eighth fastest, and this vast improvement in internet connection, along with the viral power of Facebook and Twitter.
the success of Fuse ODG and NSG (main media text) artists are creating a homegrown variant of the sound, introducing elements that mixes in with British audiences
In conclusion, currently Afrobeats has the attention of the room, and with that the potential to provide the necessary platform for an artist to emerge with the power to inspire both a local and global audience with an infectious sound as well as a conscious message. Whether this is an idealistic and how afrobeats is portrayed in the modern day is quite questionable.

Texts that contain influence from Kuti and other Afrobeat artists;



the catchy 'Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa' verse from Rihanna music video, 'please dont stop the music' was originally said in Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango’s song, ‘Soul Makossa.’





I Will Not Apologize" by the roots used samples from  Fela Kuti’s “Mr Grammarticalogylisationalism Is the Boss.” 




Once again, Fela Kuti’s presence is felt in this inspirational song by Alicia keys that uses some rhythms from his 1972 track titled "Na Poi."





Fela Kuti  provided the creative spark for "Whatcha Gon Do" off of Missy Elliot’s 2001  album ( Miss E …So Addictive) This song samples Fela & Afrika 70’s classic, "Colonial Mentality."



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