“I’m trying to make tracks that remind people of hip hop,” he starts, “I DJ, and most of the time when I play I’m trying to mix different genres – when I hear DJs mix ‘Wo Onane No’ with hip hop or bashment, that’s exactly what I wanted to happen. Mista Silva’s 2012 break out hit “ Bo Won Sem Ma Me” is a perfect example – the beat is lifted from Accra-based duo 5 Five’s hit “ Move Back,” then laced with Silva’s lively spitting, pushing the track to a grittier place. Artists such as Mista Silva, SKOB and Tribal Magz – having cut their teeth in funky raves – began looking to the staccato house rhythms of Afrobeats for inspiration, drawing more and more West African slang into their lyrics, and knocking out UK remixes of the rawer grooves coming from their (or their parents’) homeland. Numerous previously successful MCs found themselves locked out as the scene distanced itself from the boisterous MC-led skanks of funky. This process has been percolating since UK funky turned towards deep house around 2011. The word on everyone’s lips is fusion, with the syncopated rhythms, up front drums and distinctive vocal melodies of Afrobeats purposefully laced with the flavour of UK street sounds. Producers are running Afrobeats through the same syncretic process that saw jungle chop up hip hop samples and 2-step repurpose disco classics. ![]() Inspired in no small part by the success of Fuse ODG, artists are creating a homegrown variant of the sound, introducing elements that chime with British audiences. For the last couple of years a new generation of UK producers, largely first and second generation West African immigrants, have been responding to this influx of music.
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