There’s an inevitability when it comes to the sounds of afrobeats and amapiano music. As the upbeat rhythms, energetic melodies, signature drum beats, and inventive productions command a speaker’s sound waves, the sounds born out of West and South Africa have the power to create a bubble of magic in a matter of seconds. That magic is felt in every lyric or shout of joy bursting through lips. Every point toward the sky or a friend. And every bounce and shake of the shoulders down to the soles of the feet.
What were once just…