Afrobeats Weekly

In this week’s episode of Afrobeats Weekly, Tunde and his co-host, Showontstop, discuss sampling in Afrobeatsfollwoing the Darkoo and Mr. P controversy. They also touch on news making the rounds in Afrobeats this week and all the major songs that dropped this week.
OUTLINE
00:00 - Introduction
02:13 - Catch up
03:25 - Burna and Chloe..rollout?
Asake snippets/face tattoos, leaving YBNL
Artists confirmed to drop. Davido, Omah Lay, Burna
Any bold predictions for 2025?
25:40 - Navigating Sampling Rights in Afrobeats: Lessons from Darkoo and Peter Okoye's Feud
33:55 - The Charts
38:00 - Sign out

APPLE MUSIC PLAYLIST LINK HERE
https://music.apple.com/ng/playlist/afrobeats-weekly/pl.u-ZmbllN1c5oReEx

SPOTIFY PLAYLIST LINK HERE
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7AqankpaKQODcyBD1OlK8f?si=UEXCpVEtRCinVl5Kp0fYug&pi=e-C39FtBhyRWyr&nd=1&dlsi=0e78d5e0c64342f1

Creators and Guests

Host
Sho
Afrobeats and Hip-Hop fan
Host
Tunde Adediran
Tunde is an all-around curator of African music with an emphasis on West African sounds and has hosted several web music shows in the past. He currently writes and A&Rs for record labels in Nigeria.

What is Afrobeats Weekly?

Afrobeats Weekly is a podcast about African music that podcast highlights some of the biggest news around the Afrobeats genre and the people behind it - the musicians, producers, writers.