Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emerging in the 2000s, Afrobeats is a popular style of West African music that employs polyrhythms and syncopation and draws ...

While many African artists have been able to ride the wave of Afrobeats’ international popularity, musicians including Tyla and Burna Boy are now pushing for global recognition beyond the genre.

In his new “Leg Over” music video, Nigerian-born Afrobeats star Mr Eazi carries a big black bat into the confession booth at Our Lady of the Holy Souls church in Kensal, West London. In between scenes ...

The "Big 3" is a novel term in the Nigerian music industry that came with the advent of social media and the international success of Afrobeats. Like in Hip Hop, what determines the biggest artists of ...

The narrative of Afrobeats has often been at the mercy of its most preeminent target audience: the perceived holy grail of crossing over to the United States mainstream music market, its corresponding ...