{"id":118,"date":"2022-12-27T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2023-11-19T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T12:20:53","slug":"asake-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/asake-bio","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Asake: multi-talented afrobeats star shaking up the music scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Asake\u2019s first commercial releases may have gone unnoticed, but with the release of his 30-minute album, &#8220;Mr. Money With The Vibe&#8221;, in September 2022, the <a href=\"https:\/\/popxd.com\/tag\/nigeria\">Nigerian<\/a> singer and rapper has risen to global reckoning, thrilling audiences with his broad range of music styles, voices and attitudes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His sold-out shows in <a href=\"https:\/\/popxd.com\/tag\/atlanta\">Atlanta<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/popxd.com\/tag\/london\">London<\/a> and collaboration with Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage on the hit &#8220;Loaded&#8221; have cemented his place in the Afrobeats scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asake&#8217;s music is characterized by his tongue-in-cheek delivery, jocular persona and self-deprecating rhymes with hip-hop influenced consumerist themes. He effortlessly blends different styles, from Afrobeats to R&amp;B, hip-hop, and Jamaican dub, to create a unique sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asake - Mr Money (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sfIgqBGpBqM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Asake &#8211; Mr Money music video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His music also includes Yoruba street lingo, fuji, and amapiano, a South African house music subgenre, which he&#8217;s been embracing lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born Ahmed Ololade, Asake is a highly inventive student of Nigeria&#8217;s Yoruba language, which he uses to create slang fresh from the streets, coupled with expressions popularized by fuji and the entire Isale Eko (downtown Lagos) army of street-dwelling miscreants. He brazenly embraces urban &#8220;hood&#8221; culture and its seductive promise of social rebellion, yet at the same time, he&#8217;s also endowed with a winning comic gift and a bad-boy-on-the-mend sort of aura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asake&#8217;s debut album is an exquisite piece of sonic art. His mastery of different styles, pacing, and sequencing is impeccable. The album&#8217;s blistering pace is one of its most distinctive features, followed by its seamless splicing (editing). He&#8217;s able to convert gospel-sounding ditties into profane and rabble-rousing secular anthems, which is one of the secrets of the album&#8217;s somewhat unexpected artistic success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of Asake&#8217;s videos off the album are shot by TG Omori, a leading West African music video director who captures the frenetic pace and layering of the songs. They are eclectic and quirky, shot in different locations from Arizona to Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asake&#8217;s free-wheeling sonic eclecticism is the key to his meteoric success. His joyous choral singing, ebullient fuji trimmings, repurposed iconic R&amp;B grooves, street patois, good-natured urban hooliganism, immediacy, and openness make him difficult to categorize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South African amapiano stars such as DBN Gogo and Major League DJz have expressed their awe and admiration for Asake\u2019s album, stating that he&#8217;s amapiano. However, Asake is not just amapiano; he is a multi-talented Afrobeats star shaking up the music scene with his unique blend of music styles, attitude, and talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian singer and rapper has risen to global reckoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,60,59,58,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}