Ice Prince Claims �Oleku� Was The Inaugural Afrobeats Anthem Nigerian rapper, Ice Prince, asserts that his 2011 track �Oleku� marked the genesis of the �Afrobeats� genre. Asserting that his team consciously added an �s� to Fela Kuti�s �Afrobeat� label,...
Ice Prince Claims �Oleku� Was The Inaugural Afrobeats Anthem
Nigerian rapper, Ice Prince, asserts that his 2011 track �Oleku� marked the genesis of the �Afrobeats� genre. Asserting that his team consciously added an �s� to Fela Kuti�s �Afrobeat� label, Ice Prince contends that this alteration was pivotal in differentiating their new sound.
In a recent interview with Echoo Room, Ice Prince emphasized the significance when �Oleku� received airplay on BBC Radio, branding it as one of the earliest Afrobeats tracks to attain such recognition. Ice Prince avowed, �They [foreign DJs] didn�t know what to call our music and they couldn�t call it Afrobeat. So, we [I and my team] told them to put an �s� it to make it Afrobeats.�
Ice Prince further challenged the commonly held belief that Ghanaian-British DJ Abrantee is credited with coining the term �Afrobeats,� asserting that it was their directive to use the label. He queried, �If not tell me who came up with the �s� at the end? A lot of people said it is credited to DJ Abrante, but guess what? Abrante was the one that playlisted the song �Oleku.� That�s my own claim, o!�
