Ayomide Tayo calls out American rap star Fat Joe over Afrobeats creation
Nigerian content creator and Pop culture curator, Ayomide Oluwasegun Tayo aka AOT2 has called out American rap star, Joseph Antonio Cartagena aka Fat Joe for erroneously claiming that Jamaica started
Nigerian content creator and Pop culture curator, Ayomide Oluwasegun Tayo aka AOT2 has called out American rap star, Joseph Antonio Cartagena aka Fat Joe for erroneously claiming that Jamaica started Afrobeats.
In his response to the claim, AOT2 said, “It’s 2026 people, let’s stop this bullshit. Jamaica did not start Afrobeats, England did not start Afrobeats, Liberia did not start Afrobeats, Ghana and Nigeria created Afrobeats. It’s getting really frustrating when people you really think should know better use their platforms to spew nonsense.”
Going further, the music analyst admitted that there are dancehall elements in Afrobeats but still doesn’t mean Jamaicans created the Afrobeats genre. In his words, “Are there dancehall elements in Afrobeats, yes there is but that doesn’t mean Jamaica started Afrobeats for God’s sake. Colonisers and alternative truth merchants should sit back and allow the true custodians of the culture to speak on Afrobeats but this is what happens when you don’t gatekeep your culture. Vampires knock on your door, you let them in and they burn the house down.”
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In a recent episode of the Joe and Jada podcast, Fat Joe claimed that the Jamaicans created Afrobeats during a conversation with Reggae and dancehall music star, Buju Banton.
He said, “Jamaica started the Afrobeats,” and the claims have spurred reactions from Nigerian pop culture and music writers.
In the same video, Fat Joe also took shots at singer BNXN, who was formerly known as Buju on the Nigerian music scene. The rapper ridiculed the Nigerian singer saying he heard an African act calling himself Buju and he told him right away that the only Buju the world knows is Buju Banton and the African artist ran back home to change his name to something else.
However, Buju Banton in his response admitted that he doesn’t own the full rights to his stage name as he also took Banton from a popular Jamaican MC, whose name was Burr Banton, while Buju was a nickname his mother calls him. Buju Banton was originally born Mark Anthony Myrie.
