MTV Video Music Award For Best Afrobeats Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Afrobeats Video award was first introduced at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2023. Ayra Starr and Burna Boy currently hold the most nominated artist in this category, with two nominations each. Recipients 2020s Statistics Artists with multiple nominations ; 2 nominations * Ayra Starr * Burna Boy * Davido Controversy Tyla's official music video for her song "Water (Tyla song), Water" was the winner at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards for MTV Video Music Award for Best Afrobeats Video. In her acceptance speech, Tyla chose to identify with South African "Amapiano, amapiano", distancing herself from Nigerian "Afrobeats, afrobeats", which ended up causing mayhem on social media as Nigerian on-air personality Do2dtun went on to call Tyla a Hypocrisy, hypocrite for receiving the award for Best Afrobeats in the first place before identifying with Amapiano. Tyla was also heavily criticized on social media and by notable people such as American media ...
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Afrobeats
Afrobeats (not to be confused with Afrobeat or Afroswing), or Afro-pop or Afro-fusion (or Afropop or Afrofusion), is an umbrella term to describe popular music from West Africa and the diaspora that initially developed in Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK in the 2000s and 2010s. Afrobeats is less of a style per se, and more of a descriptor for the fusion of sounds flowing out of Ghana and Nigeria. Genres such as hiplife, jùjú music, highlife and naija beats, among others, were amalgamated under the 'Afrobeats' umbrella. Afrobeats is primarily produced in Lagos, Accra, and London. Historian and cultural critic Paul Gilroy reflects on the changing London music scene as a result of shifting demographics: We are moving towards an African majority which is diverse both in its cultural habits and in its relationship to colonial and postcolonial governance, so the shift away from Caribbean dominance needs to be placed in that setting. Most of the grime folks are African kids, either the ...
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