‘Calm Down’ crooner Divine Ikubor a.k.a Rema, has called on his fellow musicians to stick to Afrobeats rather than experiment with Amapiano. Nigerian tops acts like Davido, Burna Boy and Rema himself have released songs in the South African originated Amapiano genre these songs include Woman- Rema, July 2020, I Got A Friend- Davido ft Mayokun & Sho Madjozi, September 2020 and Monalisa- Lojay & Sarz, April 2021, However, Rema stated in an interview with Apple Music that the Afrobeats genre must be sustained by Nigerian artists as the genre remains influential in Africa. “I had to go back [while creating my new album]. I took a lot of inspiration from Mo’hits. For the first four seconds, when a Mo’hits’ song comes in, you already know it’s a Mo’hits’ song. Don Jazzy just goes crazy on the beat,” Rema said.
“The times when Olamide used to drop crazy songs, he still drops crazy songs. At the time when an Olamide song comes on you still know. P-Square, 2Face or Timaya. There used to be times when the beat just…
“Amapiano is great, it is fire but there used to be a time when Afrobeats production used to be so insane that nothing can survive it in the clubs in Africa. I’m not saying we’ve lost that but I’m just saying that we need more of that. I don’t want us to go too far away from that. We need to sustain it.”
