Immediately I read the two topics rolled out for this week, I knew it was going to be an interesting one as it cut across two things we argue about daily, which is fashion and music.
The very concept of music being food for the soul is sometimes more emphasized when you listen to music from other cultures where you don't understand anything, but it absolutely leaves that lingering feeling of connection.
The world today is a growing global village and since the beginning of human civilization, I don't think there's ever been a time where it's easy to share our cultures with others as we have now.
You upload one music video in one part of the earth and before the end of the day someone on the other part of the planet is listening and vibing to your art and creativity.
This brings me to the popular music genre Afrobeats which is currently taking the whole world by storm. At this point there's many explanations on how the genre started with the most popular being from legendary Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
What's interesting though is that today Afrobeats as a genre is already having a set of subgenres as well. We hear the likes of Afrorave, Afrofusion, Afropop and most recently in perhaps comical settings the Afrodepression and our very own portables Afrowahala.
Many have come up with arguments for or against why their genre is the best with African giant Burna boy recently receiving both accolades and criticism on his recent comments on Afrobeats.
This whole new phase is something I love to call AfroEccentricity.
At it's base it's still called Afrobeats, but what we're getting nowadays is Afrobeats that's deviating a bit from the norm we're used to.
You get beats fused with genres from other cultures like the South African Amapiano. (Asake will probably wake up one morning and term it Afropiano).
I wouldn't be surprised to see the DJ's come up with new beats from old genres like Makosaa which we used to listen to growing up as kids.
Apart from Asake success with popularising what's now termed the Nigerian Amapiano, KCEE did something most people weren't expecting by taking a traditional music instrument Oja flute and fusing it with Amapiano.
One musician who I absolutely love is Black Sheriff. He successfully fused trap music and drill in such a way that we can easily enjoy it in our African setting, I believe this successful attempt is not much talked about.
One thing I've got to say about the present musicians of today is that they're not afraid to experiment one cultures music with another and that's why I call it AfroEccentricity.
African music that doesn't just stick to the norm, but one that's trying to bring different cultures together.
As long as the musicians are not afraid to explore other cultures, I see Afrobeats growing way past what it is already with time.
I'm a man of peace and I don't want any vawulence, I hope y'all had a great read.