due to the heavy amount of black british who are of african descent and artists such as Wizkid D'Banj Davido just to name a few and the ghanian dance called azonto Afrobeats has taken over the raving scene in the uk since last year I would say, they even have hour long sets on popular radio stations in the UK such as BBC 1Xtra and Londons urban radio station ChoiceFM, i remember the times in clubs when they would only play one or two afrobeats songs and then the rest would be bashment but now afrobeats gets played for majority of the time the club its been played in or gets an equal amount of time as hip-hop and bashment,

Just wanna say to all my west africans, east africans, central africans and southern africans in the western world keep supporting the afrobeats scene so we can make our music a music genre standard like hip-hop or rock or pop or bashment or dance, and it provide a means for some of our brothers from back home to eat and to make us africans in the western world to be proud of being full blooded africans, we owe it to ourselves

I wanted to know what the afrobeats/afromusic scene is like in other parts of Europe and in the US where I would presume there would be alot of africans there also, is there alot of africans over there in US or is it more dominated by african americans and carribeans?

Soo true- very exciting! I still can't get over 9ice's performance at hyde park and Oliver playing at trafalgars new years celebration. It's nice to be known for positive things for a change!

queensmith: Soo true- very exciting! I still can't get over 9ice's performance at hyde park and Oliver playing at trafalgars new years celebration. It's nice to be known for positive things for a change!

yeh thats definitely true, just gotta keep pushing it more and more, D'banj single Oliver Twist is out in the UK so every african whos in the UK or has access to itunes support it and buy it wherever you buy your records from and lets get it to number one here in the uk

Notin dey happen for California. Plenty of Africans in the US but California's dulling. We have great shows and parties, but Afro anything is still very much within the African community, unless it's Nneka or Asa we're talking about. Maybe New York, DMV, and Texas peeps can give us their 2 kobo.

I know, I'm so exited! lol, sounds over dramatic but I get SO exited when I put on mainstream stations like Choice or Kiss even and hear it lol.
honestly, I pay out money for this stuff even if I'm not that into it, just to support the whole thing, ya know
but same way i buy that Reggae Reggae Sauce just to support black business lol
I think its blacks in general moving forward, not just us

ogugua88: Notin dey happen for California. Plenty of Africans in the US but California's dulling. We have great shows and parties, but Afro anything is still very much within the African community, unless it's Nneka or Asa we're talking about. Maybe New York, DMV, and Texas peeps can give us their 2 kobo.

arr man thats a shame, u lot gotta push it out there more, we repping it hard over here, u should come to a club in London and see what its like right about now, we got the club scene on smash right about now

CocoNilla: I know, I'm so exited! lol, sounds over dramatic but I get SO exited when I put on mainstream stations like Choice or Kiss even and hear it lol.
honestly, I pay out money for this stuff even if I'm not that into it, just to support the whole thing, ya know
but same way i buy that Reggae Reggae Sauce just to support black business lol
I think its blacks in general moving forward, not just us

lol i dont even buy that reggae raggae sauce shit, let them jamos buy it lol, but yeh anything thats african I will buy and support,

personally I havent noticed blacks moving forward in general over here, We are still behind black people in the US in being represented on tv, thats why people abroad think theres no black people in the UK lol, only in the music charts in the uk you could say blacks are being represented slightly as there are a few black uk artists who are topping the UK charts like Tinie Tempah, Tinchy Stryder,Labrinth, Dizzee Rascal,Chipmunk,Wretch 32, Wiley (and hopefully D'Banj) which is the most uk black artists that I can think of thats in the charts at the same time,

but us as africans have moved forward heavily in terms of being represented in the uk raves and stuff whereas before you wouldnt hear no afrobeat songs in the club and only bashment and I would have to listen to afrobeats in my house lol

true lol.
convo I had as a kid once-
white kid: Are you Jamaican?
me: no
white kid: why are you black then.

yea... I think we've moved forward lol. But now, white people think all blacks are either Jamaican or Nigerian, nothing else lol.

CocoNilla: true lol.
convo I had as a kid once-
white kid: Are you Jamaican?
me: no
white kid: why are you black then.

yea... I think we've moved forward lol. But now, white people think all blacks are either Jamaican or Nigerian, nothing else lol.

wow i just saw this comment now lol, yeh its true i think its because there are more Jamaicans and Nigerians in the UK than any other black countries, white kids think were all the same anyway they cant even tell the difference lol

oh just incase you never knew Dbanj Oliver twist went to no.3 on the UK Top 40 chart, well done to Dbanj! , now hes gotta make another tune which is going to top Oliver Twist which is gonna be damn hard

and theres going to be an event called Love Afrobeats, psquare wande coal and may d are gonna be there, and theres gonna be another one with Dbanj and Davido but im not sure what its called, afrobeats is doing alot,im proud to be african!

Check out http://www.afrotapes.com/, has a lot of good UK afrobeats stuff, but also afrobeats from around the world. Theres a new interview with Fuse ODG on it now

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