Junior And Pretty Are The Originators Of Afrobeats – Independent Newspaper Nigeria

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Music executive and the Di­rector-General, National Council for Arts and Cul­ture, Obi Asika has said that 90s boy band, Junior and Pretty are the originators of the present-day Afrobeats sound.
Going down memory lane in a recent interview, Asika said that the music duo, who ruled the airwaves back in the day, approached him with their music in a studio. According to him, they were rapping in American accent and singing about unrelatable topics.
“I was like guys, where are you from? They said Ajegunle, and I said where’s the accent from? I don’t un­derstand. I’m like, you know what? Do me a favour and go away. We used to record once a month. Come back next time. Think about just being yourself
“Where’d you go to school? How’d you go to school? What do you eat? How did you even get here? You jumped two buses and two bikes. Rap about that. Rap about something that the guys you see every day in your area will recognise. I forgot about them to be honest. I thought nah those guys are not ready,” he said.
According to him, a month later, Junior and Pretty came back and they had written about five songs
“That changed everything because these guys came back and they had this song called ‘My Ghanaian Lov­er’. They were rapping in pidgin. It was a total game changer. We moved straight into the studio literally for the next six months with these guys and we recorded. and I brought in Jimmy Jatt to scratch on the records people looked at me like I’m mad
I don’t know why you guys have a DJ here. Why you doubling the base? What was all this? I said don’t worry
“So ‘Junior and Pretty’ to me are the originators of Afrobeats because Afrobeats really is a domestication of hip-hop. That’s what it is,” Asika added.
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