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Batida
Batida, Portuguese for "beat", is a fast, percussion-driven electronic club style from Lisbon's Afro-diasporic neighborhoods, and also the artist project of Angolan-born Lisbon producer Pedro Coquenão.
Mbalax fusion
Mbalax fusion is the Senegalese popular music, centered in Dakar, that blends mbalax's sabar-driven core with hip-hop production and, on its melodic side, keyboard-based electronic arrangements.
Wolof urban rap and slam poetry
Wolof urban rap and slam poetry are Senegal's two principal spoken-word forms: rap, known locally as rap galsen, grew from 1980s Dakar dance culture, while slam has associations in all 14 regions.