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Nigerian recording artiste, David Adeleke who is otherwise known as Davido has denounced the Afrobeats genre.
Davido has now joined the elongating list of artistes who are claiming to produce, ‘Afrofusion.
His statement is coming after his colleagues in the music industry, Wizkid and Burna Boy denounced the music genre which originated from Nigeria.
Appearing on the latest edition of the Business Untitled Podcast, the ‘Back When’ crooner lamented the “boxing” of all African artists into the Afrobeats genre regardless of their musical styles.
He said, “The first place that accepted African music outside Africa is the UK before America later join. The UK termed African music Afrobeats.
“Afrobeat is a sound that was originally pioneered by Fela Kuti. But now all African songs are termed Afrobeats. If an African artiste sings pure R&B, sounding like SZA, Summerwalker, they put them under Afrobeats. If an African rapper rapping like Drake, they still put them under Afrobeats.
“I don’t get offend when we’ve been categorized as Afrobeats. I mean, we need a genre. It could be R&B or Afropop. I call my music Afrofusion but I’m not big on ‘O put Afrofusion on my song.’ I know how long it took for African music to become mainstream.”