The classical architecture was always under the 808s. This is the budget to show it.
Asake delivers a live studio-orchestra and choir performance in the new music video for "Gratitude."
While Western artists scramble to add orchestras to their performances for "artistic credibility," Asake's "Gratitude" proves that Afrobeats was always symphonic. We just needed the budget to show the world what Lagos studio sessions sound like with proper arrangements. This isn't genre fusion; it's genre completion, revealing the classical architecture that was always underneath the 808s.
While Western artists scramble to add orchestras to their performances for "artistic credibility," Asake's "Gratitude" proves that Afrobeats was always symphonic. We just needed the budget to show the world what Lagos studio sessions sound like with proper arrangements. This isn't genre fusion; it's genre completion, revealing the classical architecture that was always underneath the 808s.
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