Why Somali music sounds like Reggae?

[maestro]

Noticed Cadaan, black, Asians as well keep asking us Somali music sounds like reggae music. (Songs like Nagma). Always thought our people copied Jamaican music but apparently it is the other way round.

It was reggae that actually copied from Horn African music. The Ras Tafaris with their Ethiopian obsession completely jacked our style with no shout outs. Bob Marley is the main culprit smh

No wonder Reggae sounds so good though

 

[Thatsomaligirl]

Now if only they stopped using auto-tune

 

[DuctTape]

I've never even understood why Rastafarians literally worship Haile Selassie and call Ethiopia the "motherland".
It's baffling.
I wonder if this love extends to related peoples from the Horn of Africa

 

[maestro]

Now if only they stopped using auto-tune

yeah this Autotune trend gotta die

I'm too embarrassed to show any non Somali any recent Somali song. They're just gonna die laughing

 

[maestro]

I've never even understood why Rastafarians literally worship Haile Selassie and call Ethiopia the "motherland".
It's baffling.
I wonder if this love extends to related peoples from the Horn of Africa

They consider Somalia and most of Eastern Africa as part of the homeland > Ethiopia. Ras Tafari are mad weird but I respect their belief simply because of their Music

 

[Thatsomaligirl]

yeah this Autotune trend gotta die

I'm too embarrassed to show any non Somali any recent Somali song. They're just gonna die laughing

Same wallahi, it's too embarrassing

 

[DuctTape]

They consider Somalia and most of Eastern Africa as part of the homeland > Ethiopia. Ras Tafari are mad weird but I respect their belief simply because of their Music

But Somalia =/= Ethiopia
You know what, I'm not going to question it
In my opinion they're as weird as those "Black Israelites" that claim to be the real jews, both are claiming places that have literally nothing to do with them, except these guys worship a man that, if he were alive today, would hold nothing but contempt for them
But their music is good so they will be spared

 

[Prince of Lasanod]

They consider Somalia and most of Eastern Africa as part of the homeland > Ethiopia. Ras Tafari are mad weird but I respect their belief simply because of their Music

No they don't consider Somalia as their home land, who on earth told you that?

Nor does Somali music sound like Reggae.

Why are you trying to force a connection? Are you insecure?

 

[maestro]

But Somalia =/= Ethiopia
You know what, I'm not going to question it
In my opinion they're as weird as those "Black Israelites" that claim to be the real jews, both are claiming places that have literally nothing to do with them, except these guys worship a man that, if he were alive today, would hold nothing but contempt for them
But their music is good so they will be spared

Yeah their beliefs are strange and believe in the whole Zion iyo balaayo but Bob Marley...

 

[maestro]

No they don't consider Somalia as their home land, who on earth told you that?

Nor does Somali music sound like Reggae.

Why are you trying to force a connection? Are you insecure?

Are you an Arab ass licker?

 

[DuctTape]

No they don't consider Somalia as their home land, who on earth told you that?

Nor does Somali music sound like Reggae.

Why are you trying to force a connection? Are you insecure?

A lot of Somali music has a similar 'rhythm' to Reggae, it's like this offbeat rhythm that plays in the background that is also a major part of Reggae
This makes people think that Somali music and Reggae sound similar

 

[Inactive]

Somali lyrics are all the same and have similar beats and instrumentals.

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

They consider Somalia and most of Eastern Africa as part of the homeland > Ethiopia. Ras Tafari are mad weird but I respect their belief simply because of their Music

They're either geographically illiterate if they think all the people in HOA are Abysinnian/Ethiopian or agree with Haile Selassie's dream of conquering the HOA.

 

[DuctTape]

They're either geographically illiterate if they think all the people in HOA are Abysinnian/Ethiopian or agree with Haile Selassie's dream of conquering the HOA.

It's definitely the first one, the Horn of Africa is not a region of the world that people know a whole lot about in terms of demographics, and if they knew about Haile Selassie's dream of conquering the HOA, then they'd know about some of his more unsavoury beliefs and would probably not worship the man in the first place

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

I remember one time my Abti claimed AAs copied some aspects of Somali music to create hiphop lol

 

[Hemaal]

Reggae is much better, how dare you compare the two?

 

[DuctTape]

I feel like our friends at the Coli will catch wind of this thread and another shitstorm will begin

 

[maestro]

I remember one time my Abti claimed AAs copied some aspects of Somali music to create hiphop lol

He's on to something though. Wasn't P Diddy supposed to be a Farax? One of the biggest hip hop stars

 

[bluebird]

How can somali have influenced reggae when somali music pre 90s didn't sound like this? somali music used to be a lot more calm and soothing. But someone had to introduce them to the electric piano

 

[Yahya Liban-Lewis]

How can somali have influenced reggae when somali music pre 90s didn't sound like this? somali music used to be a lot more calm and soothing. But someone had to introduce them to the electric piano

Somalis like to copy trends

Nothing new here

- Yahya Liban-Lewis