{"id":490581,"date":"2019-09-26T13:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=888977"},"modified":"2019-09-26T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:24:17","slug":"lyta-and-davidos-monalisa-should-be-afrobeats-next-radio-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/lyta-and-davidos-monalisa-should-be-afrobeats-next-radio-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyta and Davido\u2019s \u2018Monalisa\u2019 Should Be Afrobeats\u2019 Next Radio Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/davido-lyte.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The young Nigerian singer Lyta enlisted Davido to add a gritty guest verse to his feathery single \u201cMonalisa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonalisa\u201d is just the third single from Lyta to appear on Spotify. The original, released in July, is a handsome contradiction, with fierce expressions of yearning \u2014 \u201cYou get my number I go wait for your call\/And if you no call I go wait for your door\u201d \u2014 set to a beat so breezy it\u2019s barely there.<\/p>\n<p>If Lyta was in danger of floating away on his own, Davido\u2019s arrival ensures that \u201cMonalisa\u201d remains tethered to earth. His guest verse is full of raspy promises of affection and slathered with harmonies.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a busy year for Davido, whose springy single \u201cFall\u201d became a Top 20 radio hit in the U.S. earlier this year. After \u201cFall\u201d became a success, radio programmers gave Afro B\u2019s \u201cDrogba (Joanna)\u201d a try, and that became a success in its own right. The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/afrobeats\/\" id=\"auto-tag_afrobeats\" data-tag=\"afrobeats\">afrobeats<\/a>-dusted single to perform well on the airwaves is \u201cLove Riddim,\u201d from Rotimi, an American singer of Nigerian descent.<\/p>\n<p>As afrobeats has proved its commercial viability in North and South America, artists as big as Beyonc\u00e9, J Balvin, and Swae Lee have paid tribute to the genre.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lyta-davido-monalisa-remix-888977\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young Nigerian singer Lyta enlisted Davido to add a gritty guest verse to his feathery single \u201cMonalisa.\u201d \u201cMonalisa\u201d is just the third single from Lyta to appear on Spotify. The original, released in July, is a handsome contradiction, with fierce expressions of yearning \u2014 \u201cYou get my number I go wait for your call\/And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 15:36:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}