{"id":2722,"date":"2024-08-24T04:51:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T04:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2024-08-24T04:51:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T04:51:24","slug":"afrobeats-music-lacks-depth-says-flavour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"Afrobeats music lacks depth, says Flavour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Chinedu Okoli, popularly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asaaseradio.com\/yvonne-nelson-considers-releasing-part-two-of-im-not-yvonne-nelson-memoir\/\">Flavour<\/a> the Nigerian highlife singer , has agreed with Jamaican reggae icon Buju Banton that afrobeats music lacks depth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It can be recalled that Banton sparked controversy after claiming in an interview that Afrobeats music is \u201cf*ckery.\u201d He claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asaaseradio.com\/i-want-a-collaboration-with-nigerian-artist-flavour-says-amandzeba\/\">Afrobeats<\/a> had no substance and would fade with time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Reacting in a recent episode of the \u2018In My Opinion\u2019 podcast, Flavour said Banton was on point.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to him, Afrobeats lacks depth because its artists are lazy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI understand what Buju Banton is trying to say. Kids of today [present crop of afrobeats artists] don\u2019t want stress; they just want to vibe,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMaybe Buju Banton is trying to awaken our spirit.\u201d <span style=\"text-align: center;\">Meanwhile, Flavour has distanced himself from the afrobeats genre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He clarified that he\u2019s a high-life artist and not an afrobeats artist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\">He faulted the boxing of every African artist under the afrobeats genre in Western media.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asaaseradio.com\"><strong>www.asaaseradio.com<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinedu Okoli, popularly known as Flavour the Nigerian highlife singer , has agreed with Jamaican reggae icon Buju Banton that afrobeats music lacks depth. It can be recalled that Banton sparked controversy after claiming in an interview that Afrobeats music is \u201cf*ckery.\u201d He claimed that Afrobeats had no substance and would fade with time. 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