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Nigerian recording artiste, Divine Ikubor who is otherwise known as Rema has admonished his colleagues to desist from demeaning the music genre, Afrobeats so as to embrace the South African-owned music genre, Amapiano.
In recent years, several Nigerian musicians have embraced the Amapiano beat, also, some notable artistes such as Wizkid and Burna Boy have come out to claim they no longer affiliate with the Afrobeats genre.
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Speaking in an interview with Apple Music, Rema admitted that amapiano is a great genre but maintained that Nigerian artists must sustain afrobeatsā influence on the continent.
He noted that his recently-released sophomore album, āHeIs,ā was heavily inspired by afrobeats legends like Don Jazzy and the Moāhits crew, 2Baba, Olamide, P-Square and Timaya.
āI had to go back [while creating my new album]. I took a lot of inspiration from Moāhits. For the first four seconds, when a Moāhitsā song comes in, you already know itās a Moāhitsā song. Don Jazzy just goes crazy on the beat,ā he said.
āThe 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 justā¦
āAmapiano is great, it is fire but there used to be a time when Afrobeats production used to be so insane that nothing can survive it in the clubs in Africa. Iām not saying weāve lost that but Iām just saying that we need more of that. I donāt want us to go too far away from that. We need to sustain it.ā
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