Afropop
Noun
Meaning
Afropop (uncountable)
The pop music of Africa.
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David Adeleke, a Nigerian Afropop singer known as Davido, performed and kept his promise to be the best man at the wedding of Tunde, his driver.
DenG first shot to limelight on a song with R&B singer Emma Smith titled ‘I Want to Go’, but later became an artist in the hipco and Afropop genres.
“Mount Everest”, the first single off the album, had featured South African iconic rapper AKA, who brings a fresh combination of urban- electro sounds and alternative Afropop melodies.
Unlike the mélange of sounds — Afropop, dancehall, hip-hop, and soul — that I’d heard up to this point, the accompanying ballad, “Otherside,” was such a sonic break from the high-tempo energy that I paused the stream several times.
OkayAfrica’s Mzansi Heat & Naija Beats host Nigerian Afropop superstar Yemi Alade, multiplatinum Afropop house producer DJ Maphorisa, and New York’s own DJ Tunez (August 2).