Dear Burna Boy ,
I write again to address you on a topic that would be historical, and it is right we put it on the right perspective for history's sake .
You've been running with the cliche that you created ' Afro-fusion' so as to be accredited an originator or sort of . And so, Davido has made assertion to it that he did . Now, let me clear the issue .
Fusion is defined as the process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity. Afrobeat has been there since Fela, and in fact, Afrobeat was created from high life, and we could say it is the fusion of high-life music with drums and percussions together with African melodies and rhythm.
You joining Afrobeat with some form of Jamaican music and calling it Afro-fusion like you created a new thing is false .
Tuface Idibia was the one who did it first, if there is anything like Afro-fusion . If you listen to Tuface's Album ' Grace to Grass' , he did a lot of fusions in it . I still don't know why this true Afrobeat legend isn't laying hold to his creation if there is anything like that. I call on Tuface to shed that humbleness and acute humility of his and say it now before history will give his works to another because they are more louder than him . This is no time for him to be quiet . History only remembers the bold and those who lay claims to it .
Dear Burnaboy and Davido , none of you created Afro-fusion because it doesn't exist . Afrobeat is already a fusion of high life in the past , and today, a fusion of other genres. A fusion can't have another fusion, on top of another fusion, but if we say it is , then the creator is TUFACE IDIBIA, not you !
Sincerely,
Tino writes ✍️ from New York.
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