Why Afrobeats artistes shouldn’t stick to what fans like – Rema

Nigerian Afrobeats star, Divine Ikubor, popularly known arsenic Rema, has claimed that if Afrobeats artistes bounds themselves to making lone euphony that appeals to fans, the genre won’t determination forward.

Speaking astatine his performance implicit the weekend, Rema boldly stated that helium makes euphony that helium likes and doesn’t needfully see the fans’ preferences.

He declared that helium is the “Prince of Afrobeats”, with a mandate to determination the genre forward, but argued that if helium and others instrumentality to making euphony that lone Afrobeats fans like, the genre won’t progress.

“I don’t attraction what you accidental astir me. I don’t attraction if you similar what I like. But I marque euphony that I similar earlier you similar it. If I instrumentality to what you like, Afrobeats is not going to determination forward. And I volition accidental it 1 much time, I americium the f**king Prince of Afrobeats,” helium said.

Rema’s remark comes against the backdrop of caller societal media protests implicit Afrobeats artistes infusing different sounds into their euphony and embracing different genres successful a hopeless bid to entreaty to overseas audiences.

African and accepted Afrobeats fans person been expressing disappoint...