Whether you actively listen to African music or not, it’s likely that by now you’ve heard Amapiano. The South African genre, which fuses deep house, Kwaito basslines, high pitched melodies, and captivating percussion has taken over in recent times. So what is Amapiano and why has it become so popular? According to DJ Moma, Amapiano stems from New York’s soulful house movement, “Especially on the drum programming, because it just has that African sound.” In the mid-1990s, kwa