did the same thing with afrobeat and they did not - with afrobeat and they did not budge — with afrobeatd not budge. and here we are - with afrobeat and they did notl budge. and here we are today. with afrobeat and they did not - budge. and here we are today. let’s budge. and here we are today. let's be clear first — budge. and here we are today. let's be clear first and _ budge. and here we are today. be clear first and foremost, afrobeats is not nigerian, it is ghanaian and nigerian. the originators of hiplife were a bit too precious about what it should be. so as new versions sonically were happening, you could hear people saying, this is watered down, it's not real, this thing, always the idea of real. you have to evolve or perish, that's what any music form has to understand. those that were holding onto hiplife refused to acknowledge the evolution and a thing must evolve. a thing must evolve for it to survive. the thing must evolve. # shut up and bend over... # now— # shut up and bend over... # nowa— # shut up and bend over... # nowa new_ # shut up and bend over... # now a new gene

but without hiplife, - there would be no afrobeats.tomorrow no dey... for them, '99 was like a watershed moment for them and, '99, ghanaians already had megastar hiplife artists. if you were to take the music that they were doing and compare it with what was happening in ghana, what you will find is that it was more like the pre—hiplife american imitation sort of music, and it didn't have an identity. but as time went on, they fused in the pidgin, the local language, just like hiplife did. nigeria carried the torch but ghana lit the torch. i we dropped the soap. we should have stood by that brand. because our cousins next door did the same thing with afrobeat and they did not budge, and here we are today. let's be clear, first and foremost — afrobeats is not nigerian, it's ghanaian and nigerian. # like cabernet sauvignon. # strangers wondering what we on... the originators of hiplife were a bit too precious about what it should be, so as new versions sonically were happening, you could hear people saying, "0h, thisjamba. "this azonto i