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Nah anthony you need to stop, stick to reviewing hip hop because clearly you don't know jack about african music.

Yeah, it's not like modern Afropop isn't influenced by a myriad of cultures and sounds, which is basic fact. We'll just ignore facts now.

You want to know what's great? A white man telling Africans about African/Caribbean music. Thank yourself for the slayage in your mentions.

Are you telling me a black person can't talk about the works of European classical musicians(as example) because they aren't white?

Dude nobody cares about wale. Wale is meh compared to other rappers. I've never met anyone that says yea Wale is my favorite rapper!

Wale sold 22k you "non millennials" don't support your rappers lol

Still haven't addressed his qualm at all, which is that he's attempting to cash in on the dancehall craze. Elements of dancehall DNE biting.

I think it is. He brought on a trio known for bringing that sound and they did, lol

*whispers* B-but Wale has worked with Diplo numerous times before...

even tho he's never explored that before, and he does so only in a handful of tracks, he does them at baseline quality that everyone uses

Okay this is silly. Wale doesn't have to achieve some arbitrary level of 'africanness' in his music. He just IS African.

He can integrate his people's culture into his other people's culture any damn way he sees fit. That's where artistic expression comes in.

so where was he "repping his culture" in 95 percent of his songs that sound like generic pop rap with some flourishes here and there?

Is he not a pop rapper? Does that somehow undermine his ability to work within the realm of his people's music. Boi gtfo my face wit that bs

Also, props on doing ya Googles. At least we know you now know what afrobeats/afropop is.

He knows his shit, and clearly you don't know shit about him

Lol nigga I've been watching Fantano since his MBDTF review. His foreknowledge on afropop leaves a LOT to be desired.