{"id":2397,"date":"2011-03-14T13:47:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2011-10-15T13:51:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T19:51:39","slug":"african-music-rise-swizz-beatz-blends-fela-kuti-classics-hip-hop-beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/african-music-rise-swizz-beatz-blends-fela-kuti-classics-hip-hop-beats\/","title":{"rendered":"Swizz Beatz Blends Fela Kuti Classics With Hip Hop Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u201cthe James Brown of Africa,\u201d Fela Kuti and African music in general is making waves in mainstream American music. People are looking for something new and exciting in music and it seems like Africa has what they are looking for.<\/p>\n<p>African music is becoming such a staple in mainstream America that heavyweight hip hop producer Swizz Beatz can\u2019t resist the infectious sounds of Nigerian legend <a title=\"You need a Fela Kuti in your life\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/2011\/fela-kuti-life\/\">Fela Kuti<\/a> . In a recently released mixtape titled <em>Swizz Beats vs. Fela Kuti<\/em>, Swizzy blends Kuti classics such as \u201cYellow Fever,\u201d \u201cAfrican Woman,\u201d and \u201cNo Agreement\u201d with some of his biggest hits, including \u201cTouch It\u201d and \u201cTambourine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some have argued that African music is becoming too \u2018American,\u2019 it looks like American music is the one becoming more African.<\/p>\n<p>So if you thought that was all , try this beyonce Swiss Beatz on Fela:<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OV6R_BLG2pY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"635\" height=\"390\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Orijinal Question<\/h4>\n<p>What do you think? Is Africa here or what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubbed \u201cthe James Brown of Africa,\u201d Fela Kuti and African music in general is making waves in mainstream American music. People are looking for something<br><a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/african-music-rise-swizz-beatz-blends-fela-kuti-classics-hip-hop-beats\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":2402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2172],"tags":[4803,4823,4836,3673,372,206,3671,3672],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-underground-news","tag-african","tag-beyonce","tag-fela-kuti","tag-money-in-the-bank","tag-music","tag-nigeria","tag-swizz-beats","tag-the-james-brown-of-africa"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/swizz-beatz-fela.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}