Afrobeats now sounding more like R&B – ID Cabasa warns – Pulse Nigeria

A man in a white suit and glasses sits in a wooden chair reading a book, with smooth R&B tunes from ID Cabasa playing softly in the background.

Nigerian music producer Olumide Ogunlade, popularly known as ID Cabasa, has warned about the West’s growing influence on Afrobeats.

The man behind the late-2000s monster hit, Gongo Aso, while appearing on the Sunday edition of Channels TV‘s Rubbin’ Minds, expressed concern that Nigerian artistes are starting to lose their cultural identity in a bid to appeal to international audiences.

While he admitted that there are some positives to the attention Afrobeats is getting from the West, he said he’s scared we have already lost part of the…