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Asake's Money & the Afrobeats Monotony Debate
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- Rhythm and Rhymes
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- Jun 20, 2026
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- 657
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📩 Join the R&R newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/rhythmandrhymes 🎧 Listen everywhere: https://linktr.ee/RealRandR AJ and Antonio break down Asake's new album "Money" and use it to ask a bigger question: is Afrobeats getting monotonous, or is that just an outsider's ear? One of us thinks Asake made the same album twice and his catalog peaked at "Mr. Money"; the other says you can't be mad at a great artist for running his best play. Somewhere in there, Asake gets called the African DaBaby. 0:00 – Asake "Money": first impressions 1:00 – Is Afrobeats getting monotonous? 4:30 – Producer choices, repetition & the "hunger" question 7:00 – Ranking every Asake project R&R is Modern Radio for global black sounds.