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Fuck Shit Up w/ Your Booty Bouncin Bump Bump.

That could definitely be used to describe some different current musics of the African Diaspora. Baile Funk, so sure. Jungle/Drum’n’Bass, no question. Hip-Hop/Rap, mos def. Coupé-Décalé? What the shit is that?
Its like the Carnival of Soca, Samba, Baile Funke, Zouk, Kuduro, and Chicago House. Coming out of the Coups, Civil Wars, riots, political and social firestorms, of the last…well, 9 years more or less (the ’99 Coup, the ’02 Fuck-all, the ’04-’07 Explosion, the current oppression by Soro) Coupé-Décalé is Côte d’Ivoire’s up-tempo response that’s being picked up all across the UK, France, and apparently much of Western Europe.
This is a mixer spotting:

Tony Allen v Bonde do Role w/ “Awa Nare Remix”
Usher v. Chief Boima w/ “Love in this African Club”
Bablee w/ “Tout Est Dedans”
Elephant Man v. Chief Boima w/ “Free Your Soul”
Angola’s DJ Znobia w/ “Mono Mono”
Radioclit w/ “Secousse”
and
Konono No. 1 w/ “Paradiso”

Coupé-Décalé

Now Bonde do Role can border Baile (if only because they poke fun at it at times), but this is minimized and refixed so as to let the West African underpinnings buoy up. Chief Boima mixes Usher, which ain’t my drinkydrank, but Boima stills kills it. Bablee’s Tout Est Dedans is next with some ridiculous polyrhythmic-ity that apparently is only a 3-minute cut from the tracks 19+min build…I’m loving this cut so Imma have to find that madness.
And then there’s “Free Your Soul”. Which is the jam.
Shit is the JAMMMMM.
And the seamless segue way into Znobia’s Kuduro hitter is…yep.
“Secousse” drops the second-to-last bit, actually weighing more on the Kuduro side, but it makes for a good set-up to Konono #1’s “Paradiso”.

Check the video for some visuals: