
Afroswing
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Search complete. 5 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Afroswing".
Oct 12, 2026
#254: Taking Gifts Back After a Breakup - Petty or Fair?
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61:17T9HOST
No, but he actually just ghosted.
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61:19Hustle HustlerHOST
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
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61:26T9HOST
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
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61:36Hustle HustlerHOST
took out a couple years later nah he did still I don't know Dave took out like years I
‘Men Deal With Friendship Breakups Too!’| FT Mayorkun | EP 225 [Part 2]
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37:42DTHOST
I don't know why that hangover-
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37:43UziHOST
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.
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37:51DTHOST
Mm.
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37:51MayorkunGUEST
Yeah.
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37:52MayorkunGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
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37:52MayorkunGUEST
I remember the Afroswing.
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37:52UziHOST
And there was like a heavy-
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37:53UzimaHOST
Yeah.
Capital Xtra Legend | "It's The Best Time Ever For UK Rap" | DJ SEMTEX
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31:12SemtexGUEST
So I think the biggest wins is when music connects when people don't think it will.
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31:19SemtexGUEST
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.
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31:33SemtexGUEST
Like, I think for me, that's more important.
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31:35SemtexGUEST
Like when people do things like that.
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35:03SemtexGUEST
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.
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35:14SemtexGUEST
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.
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35:30SemtexGUEST
The rise of UK Drill, Afro Swing, and UK Rap, and now we've got Underground UK Rap.
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35:38SemtexGUEST
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.