Asake's Money & the Afrobeats Monotony Debate
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AJ and Antonio break down Asake's new album "Money" and use it to ask a bigger question: is Afrobeats getting monotonous, or is that just an outsider's ear? One of us thinks Asake made the same album twice and his catalog peaked at "Mr. Money"; the other says you can't be mad at a great artist for running his best play. Somewhere in there, Asake gets called the African DaBaby.
0:00 – Asake "Money": first impressions
1:00 – Is Afrobeats getting…
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