# Asake's Money & the Afrobeats Monotony Debate

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Podcast: [Rhythm and Rhymes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhythm-and-rhymes-6393755)
Published: 2026-06-20T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realrandr/episodes/Asakes-Money--the-Afrobeats-Monotony-Debate-e3kpo31
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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.

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