Beyoncé returns to the screens next month with Black Is King, a brand-new visual album written, directed and executive-produced by the 24-time GRAMMY winner. You have your own label. "I just fell in love with African music. Wave 1: Afro Nation Puerto Rico: Patrice Roberts, Beenie Man, 2Baba, Afro B & More. With this second album I had more  time and more creative space to create. We really want to give a focus for everyone. You know what I'm saying? I help them. Do you have news to share? Today, May 26, Def Jam Recordings and Universal Music Group announced their newest division, Def Jam Africa. I just want them to get through and become superstars, so we can have more headliners to keep pushing the industry forward. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Obi: Yeah, you were right, SMADE. Maybe if your first choice wasn't available, take a risk on a younger act or newer act. These events are something that haven't been done before. This can bring unity amongst everyone, every one of us. According to Vinne, contrary to views that Wizkid who was featured in the “Brown Skin girl” video that was nominated for the Grammy awards covers only Beyoncé and the producers of the video. For the first time in a long time for our generation, that is, we have to actually stay at home. The new album we're working on now, the third album, is called A Better Time. Davido Adeleke has been caught up amidst the controversial topic of which singer deserves the prestigious Grammy award nomination. (Beyoncé's 2019 concert film, Homecoming, based on her historic performance at Coachella 2018, won the GRAMMY for Best Music Film, her only win that night.). I've been watching late-night shows—I remember being a kid, and you're not meant to be up late, [and] I used to sneak to the living room and I used to watch back-to-back tonight shows. It's driven us to keep going. I had to learn a lot of the things when I was like, "Yo, why you look at me like that?" We struck up a partnership and we started having real successes, selling big tickets in London. Obi: When we kick off the lineup, SMADE and I always have a chat and go, "What do we think? And once the Afrobeat come on, you can tell the difference from the scenery, the feeling, the beats. Russia, Australia, Ukraine…. and if there is a possibility of Davido winning a Grammy then this is the moment in his career. Davido won Grammy awards next year 2021. The Afrobeats star opens up about furthering Nigeria's global cultural impact and how the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement has personally impacted him. I'm also looking forward to seeing people from different races and cultures coming together to celebrate African music and seeing the unity that Afro Nation brings to people. You know what? Still on the Grammy nominations, an old video shared by Bigbrother radio on Instagram showed that Davido believed that winning a Grammy award was not by the artiste’s efforts. These timeless lessons are revealed and reflected through Black voices of today, now sitting in their own power. In Portugal, we had 85 percent female. Bringing them all together to celebrate the African culture and music in Portugal was a great experience and feeling. And when we did it, it just felt—we weren't expecting it. To me, when I listen to Afrobeats, it's just a different feeling. And I have to explain to him like, "Yo, if the police stop you..." It's crazy how we have to tell them that part. And it worked out. the list Obi: It's exactly what SMADE said. You feel me? It's not easy. The biggest thing is if you just went on the norms of our industry of music and you say, "Oh, this person isn't on the charts or that person isn't signed to that label," but Afrobeats doesn't actually move to that. This was the second time that the Nigerian star Davido arrived at the Grammys Museum platform. Those are just a few of the names within the epic lineup, which has been rolled out in waves over the past four months. The reason I called the album A Good Time is because we just had a good time making it. When people are on stage, even if they're singing in Spanish or Portuguese or French, we don't actually see an issue in mixing everything up. It's not just in West Africa alone. I feel like I've been in a better space. We want to help keep building the African entertainment industry, because there's so much potential, there's so many acts. In the live music world, I think Afro Nation has shocked a lot of people that this crowd will buy tickets in advance and [pauses] I don't know many festivals that most of the crowd are female. It can be quite powerful. There's so much talent and we want to include everyone, and we want to include everyone for each destination, but it's a process even for us. What do you make about the conversations regarding race going on across the country and other parts of the world? Weeks into the pandemic, we had George Floyd's death and the Black Lives Matter movement getting major attention. "Oh, y'all got airports?" What is your biggest hope, for the next five or so years, in connecting the African diaspora through music and entertainment? What about the music did you fall in love with? One of the reasons why we don't announce everything at the beginning is that we want to read the crowd. [CDATA[/* > < ]! ' World tour as we said before, it goes both ways Russia? agent he... Did you enjoy about making album number two >