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“Afrobeats is a convenient term. I won’t say I love the term… I think over time I started to see the effects of that overgeneralization.”
“It’s kind of like the way you can’t just call Western music White music or American beats or European beats, you know? There’s rock, there’s jazz, there’s dancehall, there’s all kinds of stuff, all kinds of sounds. So that’s the same way I feel about African music.”
“I feel Africa has over 50 countries, more than 50 cultures,” he adds. “Nigeria alone has over 36 ethnic groups with different languages, food, music, rhythm. With the music, they also have their own instruments … So, coming to a whole continent and just calling everything Afrobeats, you know, if you think about that, it’s not the most apt.”
“I think consistency and being committed to the journey is key, and I like to just accept and embrace my responsibility as a trailblazer. I try to create trends, not follow them. I try to create sounds, not copy them. I try to build on the legacy and history of what our ancestors made and take it to the next level.”
“innovated the sound, advanced the culture, and made the world a better place than I met it.”