Has time ran out on Dancehall, with overseas events & labels now buying into Afro Beats?

[@markmendez1014]

I see even Muslims and conservative Christians making Afrobeat TikTok’s because it’s clean music unlike Dancehall. This is their big advantage. Too much violence and vulgar language in modern Dancehall.

[@jydeade8944]

For real, I love both genres but with dancehall, you have to be careful when you have kids or old people around.

[@TrueYarn]

Am a Ghanaian that grew up on reggae dancehall but unfortunately now the dancehall music is about killings and gang like rap and that’s why folks are picking up Afrobeats because it’s feel good music

[@adrien1623]

Just wait until they sign to those labels and start switching their sound. Rema seems to be on the way already.

[@altonmckenzie8587]

Dancehall always was based on slackness... U nah listen to yellow man, Nicodemus, Supa Cat, Bounty..... Always, sex, violence.....

[@charlesbarclay8181]

Dancehall had it's turn. Why can't Afrobeats have its turn. And it doesn't even have to replace Dancehall. There's enough cake for everyone to make.

[@frederickbartholomew6290]

Exactly 💯 I keep saying that

[@romeomills7936]

“Dancehall had its turn” to saying “There’s enough cake for everyone to make” Sounds a bit fucked up to say honestly. Given that Afrobeat uses dancehall styles and instrumental as well

[@dseph7852]

I'm Jamaican myself by heritage and the truth of the matter is nobody cares make better dubs. If you do that and utilise social media you can bring up the sound again, simple as that. The listener is looking for more feel good cleaner music, koffee chronixx and the like need more ppl flying the flag for that. Nigerian do not complain they just make music and we need to do the same

[@charlesbarclay8181]

@@romeomills7936 Yeah Dancehall had it's turn at having a huge portion of the cake now another genre can have its turn and dancehall can get a portion based on the work it's artiste are putting in, in comparison with other genres. And do you homework Dancehall is using Afrobeats (African ) rhythm not the other way around.

[@abayomiajomale2127]

Respect👊🏾

[@ozzytrait4777]

First of all lyrical content we want dancehall tunes that we could play in the car with kids 🇱🇨🇲🇸🇬🇧

[@sentientbeingsnews1098]

you cant play pum pum music and gun shots at function nobody wanna hear that alien music

[@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799]

Dancehall is a problem to society

[@ozzytrait4777]

@@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799 It's not it's just the lyrics 🇱🇨🇲🇸🇬🇧

[@denisturay9183]

Thank you, I wish they can read your comment

[@ozzytrait4777]

@@denisturay9183 Am I right or am I wrong 🤔

[@CodingExpress]

I love Afrobeats....it's a beats from the motherland!

[@charlesbarclay8181]

Burnaboy isn't new. He's been around for a decade plus so has Wizkid and Davido(the three main figures). The point is these guys has built a solid fan base. They're not global by chance or luck

[@kingsofkingsservant9734]

When reggae and hip hop for matter of fact left there uplifting and positive vibes it lost its soul and the world market will tolerate it until something better comes and Afro beats is that fresh air the world was waiting for.

[@conradlomo4096]

Saying Afrobeats has its roots in reggae is funny. Negates everything you guys have mentioned. We enjoyed dancehall together and worked towards where afrobeats is today, so it’s disrespectful to downplay the hard work. One directional talk.

[@illrizzocgg1009]

People make all kinds of excuses for afrobeats success but fail to realize people connect to Afrobeats because it's spiritual music that connects with the soul, you can't compete with the original source. On a side note this whole conversation is sad because if afrobeats wasn't doing what it's doing you wouldn't have no issues with the performance of dancehall. You guys think your the original source of the type of African rooted music you do buit in actually it's the other way around why afrobeats is undeniable.

[@mrfade5410]

True we are always competing against each other and that's why we keep losing . I pray we learn from each other and focus on getting better

[@afrobeatstime]

Best comment

[@InnocentJapaneseMaples-rr4lp]

Jamaican culture started any music that has to do with blck people "hip " reggaeton and afrobeats is nutered by reggae and dancehall . The instruments lead back to Africa. In my opinion it's almost 50/50 rastas like Ghanaian ppl practice same beliefs . Get along ,share ,unity is the key

[@illrizzocgg1009]

@@InnocentJapaneseMaples-rr4lp Janaican music started afrobeats? Stop the ignorance and do a little research instead of gge overdose of arrogance. Also Jamaican culture would be totally different without the African roots.

[@tembosoundsshow9867]

Excellent conversation, I’m having a hard time finding family and office friendly new dancehall songs to play on my radio show.

[@juliensaunders1528]

Afrobeats content is way more viable and commercial at this time

[@jeffmeikle4467]

The Allstar Weekend was held in Salt Lake City Utah ,Not Minnesota.

[@fjdstudios4485]

Exactly, a White community

[@EmanuelJohnson-ih9wk]

big up chin am african frm the continent of africa and reggae music is african music so you people are only bigin up the divison and we dnt need that in this times love reggae and love afrobeat cause we are brothers

[@fitzroywilliams2696]

We don’t have the sales because dancehall not making good music. Afrobeats have the sales because they make good music.

[@omoakin5619]

Honestly that’s it. Period

[@phantasytv5878]

What is good music? Ding dong,teejay,masicka,laalee is not doing good music? Sheensea not doing good music?....africa is a continent with 1.2 billion people we hardly have 3 million....dem have internal support than us

[@phantasytv5878]

@@omoakin5619 charlie blacks....most reach 300 million views isnt that good music kmt

[@kayodebanjo]

@@phantasytv5878 but Africa had 1.2b b4 in the 90’s and Jamaica Dancehall was sweet and beautiful. Dancehall dominated in Africa then. Try that again and see what happens. Nobody wants music that portrays people as beast. There is so much beauty in Jamaica and the Caribbean why glorify the ugly bits

[@danfiesta1]

​@@phantasytv5878Yhe country flagging Afrobeat is Nigeria. It took them years to get to this point

[@OGuncleRich]

I am a Nubian born in America. I must let everyone of the world know that we need all of the music. From Jamaica from America and from the motherland. The R&B influence on Afrobeats is why it’s really big here on the radio. Although the language is a barrier, no problem in the long run. Bless.

[@Nemby2]

The “popular “ “music “ or noise coming out of Jamaica is absolutely horrible. And I believe that it’s bigger than non talented entertainers that are pushed to the forefront and presented as “artists.” We cannot blame others from developing reggae.

[@kenlarthompson6011]

You couldn't say it any better 😅

[@chukilo]

Its not about competion people,its about collaboration. There's your own Honorebel doing his thing with Naija Afrobeat artist Jo el and as you can see,he looks like he's having fun !.

[@glenroylowe6053]

It's afrcan music time now, give them their flowers...our time will come again

[@candy12355]

💯🙏🏿💃

[@aframaco9491]

Africans previously gravitated towards Reggae and Dancehall because we found it the most familiar! Interestingly enough Nigerian music/culture surpassed that

[@OGuncleRich]

Afrobeats started back in the 70s in Nigeria. Fela Kuti is the grandfather of Afrobeats. With technology in the amount of people in the motherland they can’t lose. Think about the amount of people there. Bless.

[@Mista736]

Dancehall music customers were probably more DJs than the fans. Riddims sold 45s and 12 inch. Fans bought mixtapes. So now we in streaming era, it’s not translating with DJs downloading free instead of buying physical records. So that contributes too. Not much mixtapes anymore. Maybe some podcasts with mixes.

[@amlegion.547]

Afrobeat is Natural, the noises in dance Hall songs in unbearable.

[@AceShowtime]

as a nigerian there is something the world seems not to noticed .. there is something called the nigerian spirit.. that go get it spirit.. its in our dna... hence why we are taking over .. we aren't just succeeding.. in music .. fashion .. life style and its Nigeria that is holing up the real african culture ... we are on our own lane ..loud and proud that the world have no choice but to pay notice.. there are so many amazing artists in nigeria that are still under ground waiting to blow up .

[@dseph7852]

I think this is more obvious to ppl in places with a mixture of diasporans i.e London and Toronto. From our point of view not only do we love and appreciate afrobeats as those of Jamaican heritage we know the go getting spirit of Nigerians and it was only a matter of time.

[@maronutrientsandagroltd1623]

Jamaicans need to embrace Afrobeats to push the dancehall genre

[@sro951]

How Jamaicans should use Afrobeast to push dancehall and it's fucking up the world mash up the place bill board charts me as ah Jamaican not even the know seh Africa excited seen 2022 go sleep Afrobeast crap just the riddim

[@Future.20Op]

Dancehall died in the 90s Jamaican youths making hip hop beats.

[@buravan1512]

DANCEHALL sound changed a lot recently... now nobody knows what it is.

[@mikebaptiste1895]

There is no popularity without the sales and no sales without QUALITY!

[@jeffmeikle4467]

Afrobeats is danceable ,Dancehall is more dependent on the popularity of the artist

[@Future.20Op]

Jamaica said Africa Africa until Africa took over the music

[@illrizzocgg1009]

This right here is Super Facts!! Actually took back the music get it right, all that was African rooted music. A lot of people are showing there true colors.

[@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799]

Fool Africa is a continent the Afro beat is Nigerian 😊

[@kayodebanjo]

@@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799 why the insults man let’s be respectful of our diasporan family

[@NativeNomad10]

Jamaica said Africa until they learn Africans after taking from them, deny this claim. Jamaica still support Africa, just not people who appropriate the culture

[@supremevibezradio7578]

People internationally gravitate more to 90's dancehall music which indicate that the content is what needs to be address for nowadays artistes. Songs like Everybody falls in love , Murder she wrote and Beenie Man Sim Simma still a rock circuits worldwide and those songs were produced years ago.

[@ayenioluwaseun-sd8ye]

Well talk

[@Gagzicool]

Facts

[@jermained6123]

The NBA ALL STAR GAME wasn’t in Minnesota it was in Utah.

[@Carvalhouk]

Is anyone aware the impact that 90's dancehall still has even in todays dancehall.

[@chinxrootsmusic]

Today's Dancehall sounds nothing like 90's Dancehall.

[@InnocentJapaneseMaples-rr4lp]

We can stRt off by turning 4th of july to Juneteenth. Christmas to kwanza, love thy self love all my blck n browns i love being Jamaican decedent who admires afrobeats and notice the connection between reggea to afrobeats & even pirated reggaeton too .

[@nmg1909]

It has nothing to do with number game, man. Africa is divided across culture and language. Afrobeats has nothing to do with number. It is Afrobeats time to shine.

[@tankelvis6255]

Africans buy the music cuz it's good. Dancehall lost it's soul. Watch the video I have below let dem pray it never gets taught in Africa 😅 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWmvo2BtZZmUedUsi=9WFbPVQk1ItNeAnd

[@Wavecurve]

It is funny how Jamaicans always attribute AFROBEATS to Africa. It's like attributing Reggae to the Caribbean, instead of Jamaica. Afrobeats is NIGERIAN.

Lol and what you call afrobeat now is all copy of amapiano from south Africa... Fela kuti who created afrobeat was a panafricanist so is afrobeat.. Stop with your tribal mentality.

[@sereroserera367]

@thank you. And we saw what this kind of tribal mentality has caused in Nigeria specifically. No need for this at all.

[@deegowiko3051]

​@a copy of amapiano? You must be sick in the head. Amapiano as a genre was created not more than a decade ago. Afrobeat has had a longer existence.

[@Obalufon]

@ Nigeria is not of one tribes. Nigeria has more than 400 tribes, and he didn't mentioned any tribe here. He only said Afrobeats is Nigerian, and that's the fact. What's tribal about that?

[@lonalxaia]

What???

[@corsinivideos]

Come to London bro, danchall still huge.

[@_Tenshan_]

Sales have a lot to do with it for real. Record labels are in the business to make profit.

[@andregoodger4247]

You right. Sales are down because a lot of the younger artist seem to want to make dancehall music with hip hop (trap music). As well as to me, a lot of them sound like Vybez Kartel. The isn't enough individuality in the music. The reason why people loved our music was because nothing sounded like it, regardless of roots to slackness, there was lyricism, as well as the ability to put on a live performance. Afrobeats is beating Dancehall out because Afrobeats is strickly Afrobeats. They might have other influences and collaberations. We need to find ourselves again. If they would make better music, we would buy the music.

[@buravan1512]

*-DANCEHALL has declined, i remember SHAGGY, CHAKA DAMUS, ELEPHANT MAN, SEAN PAUL, their Music was huge in AFRICA... anyway, everybody loved SHAGGY.* -But guess what? later on, the DANCEHALL SOUND started changing, into goofy move that had nothing of excellence. i think the "CURRENT DANCEHALL GENERATION" ruined everything when they fixed a problem that wasn't there at all.

[@onlyhuman776]

We’re family. No competition. We love reggae

[@abayomiajomale2127]

JAMAICANS should bring back I-ROY, and U-ROY types of tunes and mix them it Afrobeat

[@edsmith4821]

The Joke is that we dont understand a word of Afro beats its just the beat and the flow of the artists that mash it . Dancehall beats feel lame in comparison Our Artists need to find something new

[@2LETLIVE]

So, you think Africans that have supported Reggae/Dancehall for over 50 years understood a word ya sing about in your records? Now you guys are being ingrate and hypocrites.

[@edsmith4821]

@@2LETLIVE not hypocrite at all the opposite in fact our reggae beats are okay for age 13 to 25 after that it sounds boring gang gang related music

[@djslyse8649]

Sales have a lot to do with it and also management and most reggae & dancehall artist don't have the discipline and knowledge about the business to get them to that level. Chin could but he's scared of the problem that comes with it in my opinion

[@SoundChatRadio]

They are too stubborn and resist being coached and then are quick to sully your reputation

[@jonson6676]

Dancehall is our music too because you are our blood

[@carbon6951]

They said the same thing about reggaeton and we saw how that turned out. Lol 🤣

[@dalucci3757]

Jamaica gave birth to reggae tone and abandon it , Puerto Rico ,Mexico and other Latin countries took it and made millions of dollars out of it. The new consumers of music want simple songs but dancerable that they can related to. The new crop of dancehall artist promote violence but Afro beats promote love , up lift and inspires

[@Wavecurve]

Jamaica did not give birth to Reggae. Listen to CUMBIA, and get back. And the country that has been playing Cumbia since slavery freely admit that Cumbia came from Africa. Listen to Cumbia with open mind.

[@truethots3088]

These guys must have Ghanaian heritage.. Instead of addressing thier own issues they are trying to down play thier brothers success...lol

[@fjdstudios4485]

The Caller is on point.

[@jeffmeikle4467]

Mutabaruka warned that this was a reality nearly eight years ago, which is fast .

[@Borgointer]

😂😂 let’s not fight naija lol you mention dinosaurs to compete with naija that have more that 15 songs on billboards every year!

[@Wavecurve]

Jamaican and the rest of the world just became exposed to the groovy, happy, sensual, seductive, pulsating and melodious rhythm we have been dancing to since creation. And everyone claims Afrobeats originated from their music. Afrobeat is mostly a creative repackaging of Nigeria's ancestral rhythms, using modern musical instruments. Reggae, Dance, R&B, and Jazz are not even half as groovy as the ancestral rhythms that influences Afrobeats. Here is a video of your fellow Jamaican recently talking about her experience with Afrobeats long before it became popular. She said: *"We will go to Africa, and see this Afrobeat, and say, why the hell is this not huge? It was a treat to us when we used to go to Africa. This Afrobeat thing was just amazing! And I am happy now to see Afrobeats doing their thing."* Africa is the root of rhythm, and when our native beat is played with modern musical instruments, people hear whatever rhythm they are used to: Reggae, dance Hall, Jazz, etc. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJeal5uXl8uGj80

[@NativeNomad10]

Current Afrobeat has influences of multiple genre, why wasnt it big when you were growing up and why didnt it sound the same? Stop lying to yourself, no one want another taking credit for their culture

[@denatora7142]

@@NativeNomad10 I agree that mordern afrobeats has infusion of multitude of genre for sure. So its hard to pin down exactly what the sound is. Its definitely not just reggae or dancehall b/c there is gospel, there is incantation, there is islamic style of call to prayer, there is makossa, there is even a deep spiritual sound to it. The genre is very dynamic and always changing so it cnat even be pinned to any thing. Certainly not dancehall or raggae. Its a vast array of sounds from everywhere.. even there is oriental sound in it. Go listen to Mogbe---Asake OR Eli---Fireboydml.

[@Wavecurve]

@@NativeNomad10 You are speaking from pure ignorance. Have you sampled the thousands of ancestral genre that exist in Nigeria to confidently say Afrobeat did not sound the same? Check out a video by a Jamaican Artist commenting on Afrobeats. (My comment may be removed if I attach the video.) Title of the video is: *My likkle 2 Cents on the state of dancehall music and the afrobeats takeover...* In the video, she said: *"We will go to Africa, and see this Afrobeat, and say, 'why the is this not huge?' It was a treat to us when we used to go to Africa. This Afrobeat thing was just amazing! And I am happy now to see Afrobeats doing their thing"* People who are well-travelled are exposed to truth, but ignorant people sit in their little world and express ignorance. The New generation of Nigerians creatively layered western chord progression and melodies on top of raw, ancestral rhythm. That's it! My comment may be removed if I attach a video to shows how Afrobeat is played in the rural area, without modern musical instrument. Mom and grandma still dance to it. You, too, would be moved. Here's a challenge. We challenge you to produce Afrobeat. There's nothing stopping you. You claim it as your own. So, produce it!

[@Wavecurve]

@@denatora7142 You are yet another *MUMU* who is misattributing Nigeria's music. All the elements you listed exists in Nigerian music, but you don't know it because you are thoroughly ignorant of Nigeria's diversity, arts and culture. Let me quickly educate you. With a population of 218 million people, Nigeria has 330 *TRIBES.* When we use the word, 'tribe', we mean language and cultural group. Nigerian tribes are so entirely different from one another, some times, the only similarity between two groups is skin color. Otherwise, we would be as different as a Chinese is to a Caucasian. The same differences exists in arts, culture and music. In Northern Nigeria, for instance, some of the ancestral genre sounds Arabic. In the Middle Belt, you can even hear echoes of Indian music. Each Tribe has hundreds of musical styles. So, whenever Afrobeat injects a tribal element in their music, *MUMU* like you will hear an element they may be used to, and assume it is not Nigerian. You even suggested that INCANTATION is a borrowed element in Nigerian music. How do you think an ancient African culture like Nigeria communes with ancestors, or does divination? More than 100 million Nigerians are Muslims, and you are implying Nigeria borrowed Islamic elements.

[@obinnaezealah2465]

@@NativeNomad10 Afrobeats has roots in Nigerian fuji music. It just has a sprinkle of outside influence but its essence is Nigerian.

[@cli6389-p4k]

Afrobeats is doing well. This generation of dancehall is not as palatable internationally. We (Jamaican) just need to embrace dancehall in its current state and not worry about how well it's doing internationally.

[@SoundChatRadio]

Agreed but there is cause for concern remember lots of families have earned a living from the culture

[@kenlarthompson6011]

Speak for yourself,am not into embracing Garbage

[@Carvalhouk]

Nope, Dancehall musically and production wise is awful. Probably only a handful artists are descent.

[@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799]

​@@kenlarthompson6011 hahahaha I'm Nigerian 🇳🇬 just laughing in Greek

[@chrisoghenetegamaloney5799]

​@@Carvalhouk very awful

[@blessedb3]

This years nba all star game had the lowest ratings and viewers in 23 years. Let’s also be honest Shaggy & Sean Paul is not relevant because of our support. Djs need to start buying music again and stop waiting for artists to send them music!

[@gordonmckenzie2920]

To be honest bro, I've been behind the scenes in the music industry since 1980...consumers to a great extent do not want to pay for entertainment. They'll buy $500 Gucci shoes and bitch and moan about songs that go for $1.99....???

[@AVBNOW23]

Be honest….. look at the dancehall lyrical content in general nowadays …. Who wants to consume that????

[@illusionspromotionsrecords4516]

The afro beats and Reggeaton already surpass Reggae.

[@gordonmckenzie2920]

It's a business, data shows that AfroBeats is generating 30 billion streams annually Labels ain't looking at no damn Reggae and Dancehall...(a Kingston 5 mi grow, putting that out there)

[@buravan1512]

Many AFROBEATS ARTISTS are actually independent... not all, but many.

[@gax7527]

Numbers comes with quality

[@Khem3]

Dancehall and hip hop is too slack. Who really will continue to play those lyrics around families when you see how children are so out of hand these days.

[@fence22]

Hip hop sales are still up dancehall today is just rubbish facts

[@Khem3]

@@fence22 I can’t argue with that. I don’t even listen to hip hop old or new.

[@jamarmckay5514]

Man it was Utah not Minnesota geez

[@lloydfrancis9149]

It's over for Dancehall maybe it's a good thing. This is no longer the sound system days in London England, Jamaica or Brooklyn Flatbush New York.

[@VibezDanKeyz]

Yes, afrobeats, and even Soca replaced the dancehall .

[@phantasytv5878]

Thats the thing wen people talking about dancehall dem talk like no good song nuh sing , ching,ding don, laalee , elephant man......since dem a take bout song why nuh try push those career they have song as energetic as afro and that cant denied.....Africa has 1.2 billion people to support dem internally if 1/4 of dem support ....who is fi wi little 3 million people

[@SILVARYDAH]

Today's younger reggae artist in Jamaica have suffocated their own genre because every single song is about murder darkness guns and more murder. Besides which the new artists coming out of Jamaica have completely left the fun, sexiness and positive vibes out of the music. Plus it's almost like the young Jamaican artists don't care about women at all. They've killed their own genre. Sad.

[@patreecestewart2146]

Great conversation guys

[@Afrijots]

Africans helped a lot to push reggae and still doing. Reggae , Afro-beats, whatever you call them are good musics. When it's good people will follow. Guys claim Afro-beats as yours too and move with the flow. Mighty Bob Marley and the other greats reggae artist that in some way pave the way for Afro-beats will be crying in their grave on some of your views. ❤ to black music

[@africanherbsman9488]

Afrobeats sounds new. This is because Afrobeats can tap into different instruments across hundreds of tribes Across nigeria and Africa. Africans will dominate music now that they are making it in English. Afrobeats will not even be the biggest from Africa,many more genres are coming.. 70% of the African population is under 18years old. That comes with revolution in music and culture.

[@paulx6612]

as a long time lover of dancehall buying 45s at the record store, we have to be honest. Afrobeat and Amapiano are producing higher quality tracks. Pure dancehall is in a coma right now. NuRoots is the only thing keeping Jamaican reggae global (Chronixx, Koffee, Busy Signal still doing it as well). Dancehall producers have to up their game and think about a global audience. That's what Sean Paul, Shabba, Shaggy, Bounty, Cham and others that went global did

[@riddimrider706]

Diaspora war is hurting jamaican music

[@babarasoriginal]

Dont forget Roots reggae still hot in Europe, If Grammys drop anything it would be dancehall not reggae

[@phantasytv5878]

What happen to charlie blacks ...almost reach 300 million view thats numbers

[@a6thomas574]

Dancehall get too foolish how far you gonna get with your main content being guzu man scamming chopping trapping ghost duppy guard ring gun man and killing

[@Carvalhouk]

The irony of all of this regardless of sales is that African musicians look to JA for inspiration...reggae is rooted in West Africa. REGGAE IS STILL LOVED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD...YES WE KNOW MUSIC EVOLVES BUT JA HAS LEFT REGGAE BEHIND. The quality of the dancehall coming from JA isn't consistent enough to have a major impact. If the quality isn't there, how can the numbers change?.

[@Realer_da_Most]

🧢 do you know how many different sounds they are all over africa? Ur kidding yourself

[@Carvalhouk]

@@Realer_da_Most 😂 you do know African reggae exists?.

[@Firestar32X5]

I heard a bad bunny song with a massica flow

[@djgoldbar]

Dancehall has lost it's sound...nowadays these beats are Afro beats 😂...bring back the dancehall!!

[@michaeludeze8470]

It's worse for Reggae and dancehall than you guys think, because people don't buy music anymore. People STREAM music. People don't have to make effort to consume music. They click and listen. And people don't even make the least effort to click and listen to dancehall. Statistics prove it. Afrobeat streams run into billions!

[@akposatigbi6531]

It's so shameful non of you could Google what state nba all star took place you just talk with no fact. It took place in UTAH

[@akposatigbi6531]

Utah

[@mikebaptiste1895]

IT IS because Afrobeats is better. PERIOD. Talking heads in Jamaica have sat around and let Palmer and his boys put out RUBBISH for years that destroy musical quaity of the artform. Reggaeton took a dancehall riddim or two and surpassed dancehall. Afrobeats took the traditional dancehall composition and put some twists with it surpassed dancehall.

[@Khem3]

Childish abc lyrics going on in dancehall now. Rasta pasta rhyming.

[@alexzanderking1556]

Afrobeats is current now but it cant currently compete with the legacy of dancehall

[@MalikMoorBeatz]

Dancehall music has very poor content. Your only mentioning older stars like shaggy. Skillibeng can’t go on that stage with his content

[@Open_Space0718]

Dancehall has too many comparisons to American black rap culture. Afrobeats is about the happy times and cultural positivity of West Africa, and historic African beats.

[@shockingvibes2000]

This convo make no sense - end of day there is “pop music” African - Jamaican - Korean - whatever pop music - it all have weak musical content and weak lyrics and weak messaging - there is also quality music - which is well composed - with quality musicianship and high production and tells some sort of story about life and the world around us - I am bored hearing there is no good reggae - KZbin is full of excellent new reggae from JA - often now produced in Europe - as Chin say it comes down to a lack of support for their own product - in Europe there are massive reggae festivals still - there are big clash events etc

[@ClementOfremu-uy3wo]

Afrobeat s global

[@fjdstudios4485]

Put out good music , people will buy as the caller said. Stop thinking Afro beats stole your thing. Remember , you are Black . you'all came from Africa. Don't think you are better than anyone. Put out good music people will buy and buy concert tickets.

[@tonyofo428]

Dancehall need to evolve. The lyrics need to be sweet with flavours. Change and upgrade the melody and reduce the overuse of slang. Collaborate with other genres and drop the rap like competition. Lastly but not the least, less of pum pum and more of true narratives and lovely perspectives.

[@mrfade5410]

We need to be sober about this. For white folks Ed sheeren, drake and all white artists are well accepted by white ppl in general. We all know division among us has been used against us for the longest time. Let's focus on what we can learn from Afrobeats. Many countries still listen to reggea. When dancehall started becoming violent suddenly the numbers dropped. My point is let's focus on our strengths and learn from each other.

[@willjohn4286]

Dancehall has gotten way too dark so it’s basically has become an underground music. Most new artist only doing music for jamaica and the diaspora not to mention nuff a dem only in music for fun . Nuff a gangster, Gun runner so as long as the music a play in jamaica their fine.. The music have no value now and it’s moved from authentic music to sounding like hip-hop

[@bissyjagun2]

You guys seat there and say things to make you all happy. Afrobeats is an entity and far from Dancehall. Reggae is beautiful and still relevant, dancehall promotes negativity period, ass, weed, murder etc.

[@anthonyfrench6617]

Whole heap a new artist is out there you digging too deep

[@dc8061]

Yall let gang culture take over dancehall music

[@carbon6951]

Ya'll let aggressive afrobeats fanboys force feed everyone afrobeats !!! You guys are really pushing it way to hard.. I like afrobeats, but please allow it to grow organically.. If you shove a music genre down everyone's throat, they will resent it, and eventually reject it.

[@dc8061]

Like how people are rejecting dancehall? You missed the point smh. People are tired of listening to all the violence and ratchetness from dancehall artists and rappers.

[@carbon6951]

@@dc8061 No one is "rejecting" Hip-Hop, R&B, Reggae, and dancehall.. You need to check the Top 100 Billboard.. Also, people are clearly already rejecting afrobeats calling it "Simp-Music"..

[@carbon6951]

@@dc8061 One more thing.. The Top 10 most popular rappers who are most streamed are NOT even gangster rappers, so I have no idea what you're talkin about.. When did Drake and Kendrick Lamar become violent ?? SMH

[@djbigmasta2041]

Dancehall is dead because of the bad music

[@Dermatino]

Coronix was the last good artist from Jamaica

[@Animalviewsworld]

All dancehall music sound the same.

[@gax7527]

It's better.accept it

[@rudebwoydread13]

Afro beats is wack. This was the lowest rating with the allstar game.

[@kingc6175]

explain how it's wack

[@garmonyusawah2760]

Jealous guy

[@shalomasaju5690]

If Afrobeats is wack,then dancehall dead and buried since 90s

[@solomonjoseph7683]

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[@jayzisthegoatbeyonceistrash]

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