Award-winning singer, Divine Ikubor, professionally called Rema, has emphasised the need for his colleagues in the Nigerian music industry to sustain Afrobeats’ culture.
The ‘Ginger Me’ crooner spoke on the heels of top artistes like Wizkid, Fireboy DML and Burna Boy distancing themselves from the genre.
Rema who granted an interview to Apple Music, noted that promoting Afrobeats over South Africa’s Amapiano will ensure Nigeria’s dominance of the African music scene.
This is also as the music star admitted that amapiano is a great genre. He noted that his recently released sophomore album, ‘He Is,’ was heavily inspired by afrobeats legends like Don Jazzy and the Mo’Hits crew, 2Baba, Olamide, P-Square and Timaya.
Rema said; “I had to go back [while creating my new album]. I took a lot of inspiration from Mo’hits. For the first four seconds, when a Mo’hits’ song comes in, you already know it’s a Mo’hits’ song. Don Jazzy just goes craazy on the beat.
“The times when Olamide used to drop craazy songs, he still drops craazy songs. At the time when an Olamide song comes on you still know. P-Square, 2Face or Timaya. There used to be times when the beat just…
“Amapiano is great, it is fire but there used to be a time when Afrobeats production used to be so ins@ne that nothing can survive it in the clubs in Africa. I’m not saying we’ve lost that but I’m just saying that we need more of that. I don’t want us to go too far away from that. We need to sustain it.”
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