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Divine Ikubor, the popular Nigerian singer, who is also known as Rema, has harped on the need for Nigerian artists to maintain afrobeats’ culture to ensure the country’s dominance of the African music scene.

Daily Post reports that there has been a heavy infiltration of South African genre, amapiano into the Nigerian music industry in recent years.

Speaking in an interview with Apple Music, Rema admitted that amapiano is a great genre but maintained that Nigerian artists must sustain afrobeats’ influence on the continent.

He noted that his recently-released sophomore album, ‘HeIs,’ was heavily inspired by afrobeats legends like Don Jazzy and the Mo’hits crew, 2Baba, Olamide, P-Square and Timaya.

“I had to go back [while creating my new album]. I took a lot of inspiration from Mo’hits. For the first four seconds, when a Mo’hits’ song comes in, you already know it’s a Mo’hits’ song. Don Jazzy just goes crazy on the beat,” he said.

“The times when Olamide used to drop crazy songs, he still drops crazy songs. At the time when an Olamide song comes on you still know. P-Square, 2Face or Timaya. There used to be times when the beat just…

“Amapiano is great, it is fire but there used to be a time when Afrobeats production used to be so insane that nothing can survive it in the clubs in Africa. I’m not saying we’ve lost that but I’m just saying that we need more of that. I don’t want us to go too far away from that. We need to sustain it.”

The ‘Raves & Roses’ album of Afrobeats star, Rema has hit a milestone, surpassing 100 weeks on the Billboard 200 Global Chart.

This achievement was boosted by his mega-hit single ‘Calm Down’.

This achievement places Rema’s ‘Raves & Roses’ second only to Wizkid’s ‘Made In Lagos,’ which has spent 133 weeks on the chart.

Rema’s latest accomplishment adds to the numerous records he has set with ‘Calm Down,’ including a Guinness World Record for being the first-ever No. 1 song on the MENA chart.

‘Calm Down’ has seen significant success in the United States, reaching the highest peak (#3) for a song by a Nigerian artist on the Billboard Hot 100 and maintaining the longest charting presence (over 52 weeks) by a Nigerian artist.

Additionally, ‘Calm Down’ has been declared 4X RIAA Platinum and made history by becoming the first African song to garner 1 billion streams in the United States, marking a monumental achievement for the Nigerian music industry.

Afrobeats star, Rema has opened up on what he would do if he ever gets into trouble.

The ”Calm Down” crooner disclosed the first action he would take before contacting the police.

The singer from Benin City, Edo State, stated that he would turn to his Benin brothers for help before reaching out to the police.

He wrote: “Na my Benin brothers I go call before I call olopa o if anything KPA O! 🪓”

See reactions to his post below;

Trey said: “Abeg don’t call me for that one o”

Ebenz wrote: “I HOPE SAY NA LYRICS BE THIS”

JBRANDY said: “Nah music I come stream o which one be axe ? 🪓”

stylebyeso wrote: “All these hype is only on social media 😂they don’t like themselves every day killing in the city 😒 🙄 I don’t know what they mean by love”

perckss_ said: “We nor get your time now, we are focus on our big wedding”

uwa_bg stated: “We no even need olopa‼️…Edo to the world 🌍💯✍🏾”

While Nigerian Afrobeats powerhouse, Rema, was dazzling at the Louis Vuitton’s Men’s Spring-Summer Show during Fashion Week in Paris on Tuesday, his global hit ‘Calm Down’ was plucking trophies at the 2024 ASCAP London Music Awards.

‘Calm Down’ snagged the coveted Song of the Year and Top Streaming Song awards.

The song’s co-writers and co-producers, Michael Hunter aka London, and Andre Vibez were also credited as winners.

The wins bring Rema’s American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, ASCAP’s awards tally to three; the most by a Nigerian/African artiste.

Rema is the most awarded African artist in 2024, with six awards won so far.

He has won 1 Trends Awards in Brazil, 1 iHeartRadio Music award, 1 ASCAP Pop Music award and 2 ASCAP London Music awards.

Recall that ‘Calm Down’ recently became “the first Afrobeats song in history to earn over 1 billion on-demand streams in the US,” according.