Afrobeats
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Where Is Ycee Now? The Full Story of One of Nigeria's Most Gifted Rappers and His Place in Afrobeats History
The bassline drops, a snare kicks in, and a voice that sounds like it is grinning through every syllable announces itself: "Jagaban, omo Jagaban." For a stretch of 2015 and … Read more»
Davido's "I Know Who I Be": The Story Behind the Song and What It Reveals About His Artistic Identity
A four-word phrase, posted to social media with a crown emoji, did most of the talking before a single note arrived. "The journey to the throne begins," Davido wrote, announcing … Read more»
Why African Artists Still Struggle to Sell Out on Ticketmaster - and What It Means for the Afrobeats Live Economy
Sixty thousand people filled London Stadium to watch a Nigerian headliner, and the world treated it as proof that Afrobeats had finally arrived. The image was real, and so was … Read more»
Brazil's World Cup Legacy and the Afrobeats Artists Who Sampled Samba - A Cultural Deep Dive
When the lights came up at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on June 12, 2026, the official anthem of the FIFA World Cup did not sound like a single country. … Read more»
Mr Eazi - From Accra to the World: How Africa's Most Unconventional Pop Star Built an Empire Beyond Music
Picture a young engineering graduate in Kumasi, Ghana, selling phones and laptops to fellow students to fund his weekends, then noticing that the parties he threw to move that stock … Read more»
Asake and Wizkid's 'MMS' - What the Spotify Numbers Reveal About Afrobeats Collaborations That Actually Work
Two of the biggest names in Nigerian music sharing a single track should be an event in itself, and for a while the assumption across the industry was that pairing … Read more»
Every Major African Artist Who Has Won or Been Nominated for a Grammy
Inside the Crypto.com Arena in February 2024, a 22-year-old from Johannesburg stepped onto a stage that no African artist had ever stepped onto in quite this way. The category had … Read more»
Burna Boy's Journey to Global Stardom: The Making of an Afrobeats Ambassador
Floodlights swept across a packed bowl in east London on the night of June 3, 2023, and the roar that answered them did not sound like a normal concert crowd. … Read more»
Tyla's Meteoric Rise: How South African Pop Conquered the World
Fifty-five years. That is how long it had been since a solo South African artist appeared on the US Billboard Hot 100 before "Water" pushed its way to number seven … Read more»