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Beyonce scrapped Fela Kuti-inspired album
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 27 March 2015
Prior to her 2011 album ‘4’, Beyonce recorded and then scrapped an entire Afrobeat album, according to producer The-Dream.
All that remains of the project now is ‘End Of Time’, which appears on ‘4’ and features horns and percussion inspired by Fela Kuti. That there was more where this came from was revealed by The-Dream on the Genius page for the track recently.
“We did a whole Fela [inspired] album that didn’t go up”, he wrote. “It was right before we did ‘4’. We did a whole different sounding thing, about 20 songs. She said she wanted to do something that sounds like Fela. That’s why there’s so much of that sound in the ‘End Of Time'”.
He continued: “There’s always multiple albums being made. Most of the time we’re just being creative, period. We’re talking about B, somebody who sings all day long and somebody who writes all day long. There’s probably a hundred records just sitting around”.
That’s a lot of potential surprise releases.
