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The song's beats are said to resemble the popular four-beat of house music, but in fact follows the 3–2 or 2–3 of Afrobeats. This beat is known as the clave and mixes a rhythm with a normal 4/4 beat, it is commonly seen in many forms West African music.
Tyla's official music video for her song "Water" was the winner at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards for MTV Video Music Award for Best Afrobeats Video. [3]In her acceptance speech, Tyla chose to identify with South African "amapiano", distancing herself from Nigerian "afrobeats", which ended up causing mayhem on social media as Nigerian on-air personality Do2dtun went on to call Tyla a ...
Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk [1] [2]) is a West African music genre, fusing influences from Nigerian (such as Yoruba and Igbo music) and Ghanaian (such as highlife) music, with American funk, jazz, and soul influences. [3]
The song's entire instrumental was recorded under 30 minutes. [5] The accompanying music video for "Oleku", which was released in 2011, features cameo appearances from M.I, Jesse Jagz and Wizkid. [6] Ice Prince also told Factory 78 TV that Chocolate City did not like the first cut submitted and told the director to redo the video.
The song's music video broke the records for the biggest music video premiere on YouTube, with 1.66 million concurrent viewers, and the most-watched music video within 24 hours, with 86.3 million views in its first day. [49] It became the fastest video to reach 100 million views, in just 32 hours, [50] and 200 million views, in seven days. [51]
Boeremusiek (Afrikaans: ‘Boer music’ or 'Farmer's music') is a predominantly instrumental form of folk music that originated in South Africa.Initially intended to accompany informal social dancing, Boeremusiek developed through a fusion of European, African, and American musical traditions.
It features vocals by South African singer Musa Keys and was released on 11 April 2023, as the second single his fourth studio album Timeless (2023). [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] "Unavailable" peaked at number 1 on the UK Afrobeats Singles Chart for five weeks and reached number 3 on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart.
The song is heavily influenced by tropical music, [1] [2] as well as dancehall, [5] [6] [7] having a Latin beat. [1] It is also marked by clipped phrasing over a minimal beat [2] with trendy Caribbean vibes, [18] Afrobeat instrumental [19] and icy drum patterns. [20] The instrumentation also features collage of electronic beats and tropicalia ...