Also, what Buju Banton is saying about Afrobeats is that it lacks an edge and a critical point of view.
The reason why Fela Kunti had to look at American funk music and particularly James Brown for his implementation of Afrobeat is because James Brown had the pain and minimalism in his music.
What makes Black American music and Jamaican music and even Reggaeton and Urbano which is a derivative of Jamaican and Black American music...is pain and a criticalness.
You know what Afrobeats is, it's African surfer music. It's happy and cherry and about nothing. Even Burna Boy said it.
The reason why Black American popular music has transformed and mutated all over the world because it's a manifestation of the human experience in it's totality.
Nobody wants to hear about happy motherfuckers.
Hip Hop music is the most important artistic movement in the last 100 years because of its blunt, critical amorality, including the excesses and exaggerations because it's succinctly can crystalize the human experience in two to three verses.
And the only group of people can do that is the people that has experienced the most in the shortest amount of time.
