Popular Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, best known as Davido has shocked many over his recent declaration on his genre of music as a singer.

The singer who was present on the Business Untitled podcast, bemoaned the classification of all African Artistes into the same genre “Afrobeats,” despite their different style of music.

According to the singer, he stated that his kind of music is Afrofusion. He said;

“The first place that accepted African music outside Africa is the UK before America later join. The UK termed African music Afrobeats.

Afrobeat is a sound that was originally pioneered by Fela Kuti. But now all African songs are termed Afrobeats. If an African artiste sings pure R&B, sounding like SZA, Summerwalker, they put them under Afrobeats. If an African rapper rapping like Drake, they still put them under Afrobeats.

“I don’t get offend when we’ve been categorised as Afrobeats. I mean, we need a genre. It could be R&B or Afropop. I call my music Afrofusion but I’m not big on ‘O put Afrofusion on my song.’ I know how long it took for African music to become mainstream.”