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Afropop queen, Tiwa Savage, has praised Beyonces’ “Lion King” album, which features African artistes.
The “49:99” crooner also described “Queen Bee’s album as “authentic’ while speaking with Billboard.
Billboard magazine publishes The Billboard Hot 100, the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs.
Recall that Beyonce recently featured alist African artistes like Tiwa Savage, Wizkid, Yemi Alade, Mr Eazi, Tekno and Burna Boy on her ‘Lion King’-inspired album, ‘The Gift’.
Speaking about “Lion King,” album Tiwa told Billboard, “The project came out really well and it was very authentic.
“It’s easy when you’re not an African and you want to do a project like that, for Africans to be like, ‘Nah this isn’t Afrobeats.’
“But she did a great job, so huge shout-out to her for putting so many of us on that kind of platform,” she said.
On her she became part of the project, Tiwa said, “Someone called me and said, ‘Beyoncé’s putting an album together and she wants to make it Afrobeats.
“Your name popped up’. I was just like, ‘Oh my God, please don’t get excited for no reason,” she recalled.
Tiwa also explained the history of Afrobeats when asked if she felt the album favoured more West Africans, a controversy around the album.
She said, “The world is calling this genre ‘Afrobeats,’ and the godfather of Afrobeat is Fela Kuti — he’s Nigerian.
“So it only makes sense that a lot of the attention is going to be towards West Africa, because that’s where the pioneer really came from.
“But the beautiful thing about African music is you get great sounds from each region.
“If you hear some of the records from South African artists like Moonchild Sanelly and Nasty C, they are incredible,” she said.
