The music you refer to is not Afrobeat. Get it right. Afrobeat is Fela's music. This is pop, Nigerian pop. Do some research @nytimes.
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How can your paper travel all the way here and not interview a local journo? No one thought about what the people call their own music?
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Instead you serve this embarrassment. Afrobeat? Afrobeat? For shame.
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Interestingly, the title on the webbie says "Afrobeats" (which is still a weird idea anyways). Tweet says "Afrobeat".
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Both are atrocious. The piece itself used Afrobeat. Unless they've changed it to reflect the error the Guardian has perpetuated.
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They have, it seems. The whole is hilarious ṣá, in an unfunny way.
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It's western arrogance, this idea that, like Adam, they've been handed the right to name things.
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Here ya go. Who uses Afrobeats and Afrobeat interchangeably in Nigeria though?pic.twitter.com/SGtKRkWtmo
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oh well, better than the oil cartels
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Veryyyy bad
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So sad - not like here in the west where all the profits go directly to the artists.
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That'd be their government
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Same direction the US gov't is going
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yeah just like Mia Pia tried to ripoff our boy Phyno by stealing his music and stealing the title also
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Fascinating. Coming from a music licensing background, I can see where a culture of corruption makes this an uphill battle for artists.
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@JKFagge I thought they had found a way round this by uploading their songs and selling online as against the physical albums?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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then it's not booming it's corrupt
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