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Afroswing

Afroswing

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Oct 12, 2026

T9HOST
61:17
No, but he actually just ghosted.
Hustle HustlerHOST
61:19
nah I know but like his relevancy like he was still relevant I guess in a way because when you bring up Afro Swing but other than that you know he was not relevant no but he
T9HOST
61:26
doesn't even release music anymore so that relevance was inevitable Stormzy that takes a couple years out comes back takes a couple years out can you tell me he lost relevance I don't think he
Hustle HustlerHOST
61:36
took out a couple years later nah he did still I don't know Dave took out like years I
DTHOST
37:42
I don't know why that hangover-
UziHOST
37:43
You know what, at one point, yeah, when you guys were going so hard back home, yeah, that the, it opened the gate in the UK of, like, what you call Afroswing.
DTHOST
37:51
Mm.
MayorkunGUEST
37:51
Yeah.
MayorkunGUEST
37:52
Yeah, yeah.
MayorkunGUEST
37:52
I remember the Afroswing.
UziHOST
37:52
And there was like a heavy-
UzimaHOST
37:53
Yeah.
SemtexGUEST
31:12
So I think the biggest wins is when music connects when people don't think it will.
SemtexGUEST
31:19
Like the emergence of that Afro swing genre or when Skepta came through with It Ain't Safe and Shut Down and That's Not Me, that whole run.
SemtexGUEST
31:33
Like, I think for me, that's more important.
SemtexGUEST
31:35
Like when people do things like that.
SemtexGUEST
35:03
Like I, before we were looking up to the U S and it was of a very U S centric and you had English rappers sound in U S and whatever, whatever this is years ago, decades ago.
SemtexGUEST
35:14
Um, but in the last 10 years, um, in what I call the UK Rap Renaissance, like 2015 with the rise of J-Hus, the rise of Dave, Stormzy, D-Block Europe, Central Sea, and so on.
SemtexGUEST
35:30
The rise of UK Drill, Afro Swing, and UK Rap, and now we've got Underground UK Rap.
SemtexGUEST
35:38
It is constantly going, so if you grew up If you were born in 2011, you've witnessed a lot of great moments and you've had a smartphone.

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