great music thank you
instrumental beats

There is always room for new music and that's what we be expecting and hope for.
At here,cheap disney on ice dare to dream tickets dancehall music may be suffering a malaise, as you put it, but current and imminent Jamaican dancehall artist are much too talented and driven by achievement to see their music fall by the wayside.

What is this STUPIDNESS about dancehall having derogatory lyrics??
Dont you think american rap hip hop have derogatory lyrics also?

every genere of music has a set of artist that sing dirty or clean lyrics.

Not all dancehall artist sing dirty lyrics. I cannot understand why people take shots and liberty at the same people they copy from.

So the person admit copying from jamaican and american most dominant music and compiling a beat, and now boasting and kicking jamaicans down. Was'nt it bob marley and a lot of jamaican rastafarian movement who constantly preach and sing about fighting for africa and the motherland??

As they say sorry for skinny dog the skinny dog turn around and bite you.

LMAO you can tell how insecure they are for boasting about how a jamaican brother is going down, these people make me sick to my stomach! I cant believe its the same nigerians me as a jamaican fighting tooth and nail online for the injustices that are befalling them.

Now that I know how they truly feel From now on I dont give a damn. As a matter of fact the nigerian man and his family that my husband have residing at his flat, because he lost his job and his own nigerian family and friends dont want to help them, im going to tell them to leave soon.

Afrobeat is made up of a variety of music styles, one of them being reggae. So I think it's a bit sly for Afrobeat fans/ambassadors to promote Afrobeat as this original style of music that is supposedly 'taking over' dancehall. A Nigerian artist singing/rapping over a dancehall beat doesn't make an Afrobeat song. It makes a dancehall song which is performed by a Nigerian! So in reality, it's dancehall's popularity that is growing, not Afrobeat's.

From time to time, new music arises from the infusion of other genres of music, for example reggaeton (hip hop/rap/reggae). It's great that Afrobeat has arrived on the scene, but the genres of music that help to make it happen should not be easily disregarded. Afrobeat and its' artists must pay respect to those genres of music that made Afrobeat possible. There is always room for new music and that's what we expect and hope for.
At present, dancehall music may be suffering a malaise, as you put it, but current and upcoming Jamaican dancehall artists are much too talented and driven by success to see their music fall by the wayside.
I have been to a Nigerian club and have heard Afrobeat and I genuinely love some of what I heard. It sounded mostly like regular club beat with Africans words or English words sung with an African accent. Some of the chorus was catchy and I was able to sing along. I hope to buy some of this music in the near future.
I will continue also to seek out new dancehall music that appeals to me, so dancehall music and reggae music are still a favorite for me, and will always be as long as the music is current and hip.

Afro beat is a Nigerian thing and like all thing that come from that land it is hot like fire. Anyone that knows would agree that it has advanced a lot and judging by the way its been received in the clubs right now i cant but agree with this article that Afrobeat has taken over from where dancehall left off.

Nigerians please find a sound without Jamaican input and American type swagger and don't you realise that Dancehall is not the only type of music we Jamaicans produce. Jamaica is known worldwide for its musical genius and is copied extensively.

Nigerians please find a sound without Jamaican input and American type swagger and don't you realise that Dancehall is not the only type of music we Jamaicans produce. Jamaica is known worldwide for its musical genius and is copied extensively.

Afro beats is made up of REGGAE - Jamaican music

Hip Hop - Orginating from Jamaica

Erm you point is??

It appears the Nigerians appear to have been rather jealous of Jamaica's dominance of the the music scene. Why did Nigeria have to borrow so much of Jamaica's style of music to obtain Afrobeat. You said you mixed - Reggae which is from Jamaica and Hip Hop which originated from Jamaca. Its quite funny. Jamaica has always led the way in music namely: Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae and Dancehall and Hip Hop which was taken to American by a Jamaican. Jamaican will always be the leaders in popular culture, its ingrained in them to invent slangs and for people of all races to copy. Jamaicans have seen their slang words being used in adverts, soaps and pop songs. Dancehall can die because it is not good music, but Jamaicans will invent something else for the world to copy and try to claim as their own. If the Nigerians could speak Jamaican they would be using that in the Afrobeats too. Also stop trying to dance like every American Rapper.

Yes, I have known this for a while.

My daughter told me over a year ago that they are fed up with the derogatory language used in the modern day dance hall, so actually, in the circles that she moves, as soon as the DJ starts to play people like Vybz Cartel et al, the girls go to sit down or to the ladies to freshen up. Then when Afro beats and the cleaner lyrics are played they return to jam.

Lessons to be learned I think. But as long as there are female dance hall dj's also singing the derogatory stuff, I think that the demise of dance hall may well be eminent!