During her acceptance speech at the 2024 VMAs, the South African superstar chose to identify with South Africa’s Amapiano music after winning the Afrobeats category.
After accepting the Best Afrobeats Award at the 2024 VMAs for her hit single ‘Water’, Tyla expressed her gratitude for winning the category while also pointedly deciding to offer the organisers a crash course on muddling up all music from Africa as Afrobeats.
“I know there’s a tendency to group all African artists as Afrobeats. Even though Afrobeats has run things and opened…
