Asake with Uncle Waffles at The Greek Theatre

“Sunday at the Greek. Yoruba street fuji folded into amapiano…”

Some records only make sense when a few thousand people are moving in the same direction at once. Play 'Sungba' in headphones and you get a very good song. Play it outdoors in a bowl full of people who have been waiting for it and you get something closer to weather.

Asake got there by folding Yoruba street fuji and amapiano into Afrobeats until the result stopped being a genre and started being an instruction. Uncle Waffles opens the door wider, the Eswatini-born DJ who turned one clip into an entire movement, and the bill becomes a full night of the African dance music that has quietly taken over global pop. The Greek's open-air bowl under the trees is the right cathedral for it.

Griffith Park, a Sunday evening in September.

This is the show your cousin texts you about before the presale. Do not make them ask twice.