{"id":48497,"date":"2024-09-12T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/tyla-kicks-against-boxing-of-all-african-music-as-afrobeats\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:06:13","slug":"tyla-kicks-against-boxing-of-all-african-music-as-afrobeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/tyla-kicks-against-boxing-of-all-african-music-as-afrobeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyla kicks against boxing of all African music as Afrobeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>South African singer, Tyla, has spoken out against the categorisation of all African music as afrobeats by the West.<\/p>\n<p>Tyla, who spoke while accepting her award for Best Afrobeats Song at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday night, said Afrobeats has opened a lot of doors for African music but it was wrong to categorise every music from the continent under the genre.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that she is from South Africa and represents the Amapiano genre.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cThe impact that \u2018Water\u2019 has had on the world proves that African music can be pop music, too. This is so special but also bittersweet. Because I know there\u2019s a tendency to group all African artists under Afrobeats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though Afrobeats has run things and has opened so many doors for us, African music is so diverse. It\u2019s more than just Afrobeats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come from South Africa, I represent Amapiano. I present my culture. And I just want to shout out all the Afrobeats artists in this category with me. Shout out to all the Afrobeats artistes Tems, Ayra Starr, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Rema and Lojay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyla kicks against boxing of all African music as Afrobeats<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African singer, Tyla, has spoken out against the categorisation of all African music as afrobeats by the West. Tyla,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7964,4,15,1165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afrobeats","category-entertainment","category-news","category-tyla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}