Asake's Money & the Afrobeats Monotony Debate

📩 Join the R&R newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/rhythmandrhymes🎧 Listen everywhere: https://linktr.ee/RealRandRAJ 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 impressions1:00 – Is Afrobeats getting monotonous?4:30 – Producer choices, repetition & the "hunger" question7:00 – Ranking every Asake projectR&R is Modern Radio for global black sounds.