IS AFROBEATS NEAR ITS END?
The recession of Afrobeats — or the culture — isn’t surprising. It’s something that’s been predicted. But because stanship is cheap, your idolos hand you gunpowder, and you gladly load it into cannons, firing at anyone bold enough to speak the truth.
Gunna brought in three Afrobeats artists for his album, and all three features svck. This isn’t the Asake we praised when he was featured by Friday. He landed his biggest feature yet, and guess what? Well… he tried — at least better than the other two. But the wildest take? Some people think adding Yoruba is embarrassing. Just look at what inferiority complex has done to Nigerians.
That same complex reflects in the artists they stan. Burna and Wizkid now present themselves as ex-Afrobeats artists. They spent years shaming the culture, and one even offered an apology — after dropping an underwhelming album.
And then he followed up with yet another underwhelming performance on Gunna’s album. The world has either forgotten Afrobeats or will soon, because the so-called “top two” foreign-facing artists can’t hold their weight on global projects. We now live in an era where snippets sound better than the actual release.
Now, since these tracks are nothing to write home about, two of them have started throwing tantrums online. Fans no longer vibe to good music — they dine on beef cooked by bruised egos that failed to represent the culture.
Some will say, “But these songs hit Billboard Hot 100.” Okay — but is it really Afrobeats that charted? Or just Gunna’s star power lifting weak features?
Shame on you.