On Twitter, the late Kuti's name has been tossed around yet again while fans discuss his impact on Nigeria and the world beyond but not without some contention.
On Twitter, a debate is currently raging between fans who are going back and forth over who is the better artist between the "Black President" and red hot superstar Wizkid.
Hip hop producers are known for digging deep in the crates for the records they use to create the songs we all know and love. No genre is immune from being sampled!
Though it can be said that Afrobeat never died, in recent years its seen levels of exposure that would’ve seemed unheard of when the genre was first created in the 1960s.
One of the hottest tickets on Broadway is the musical “Fela!” which details the life of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the father of Afro-beat music.
With Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti’s catalog being reissued in the United States and the Broadway play based on his life becoming a huge success, one of his biggest fans, ?uestlove of The Roots, points out the parallels between his life and the story of Hip-Hop.