Sparkling House

Jorja Smith Image via Twitter @JorjaSmith

Sparkling house vs amapiano: Twitter weighs in on Jorja Smith’s new song

Sparkling house or amapiano? South Africans insist that Jorja Smith should’ve consulted with our star DJs before releasing ‘All of This’.

Sparkling House

Jorja Smith Image via Twitter @JorjaSmith

English songstress Jorja Smith released her new song All of This today. The Blue lights hitmaker’s song didn’t go down too well with most of South Africa with some labelling her single, ‘sparkling house’ and not amapiano. 

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JORJA SMITH’S ‘ALL OF THIS’

Smith’s single was produced by Grammy-nominated producer Guilty Beatz. The Ghanian DJ has worked with several incredible acts throughout his career, including Wizkid and Mr Eazi. 

Smith shared that she met the successful music producer at a writing camp in 2019. The pair finished the song remotely with Smith mentioning that Guilty Beatz has shared amapiano playlists with her before. 

SPARKLING HOUSE VS AMAPIANO

South Africans weren’t too happy about Jorja Smith dabbling in amapiano without the assistance and advice of amapiano producers in South Africa. 

Several of our DJs and producers shared their frustrations on Twitter, thus sparking the ‘sparkling house vs amapiano’ debate. 

DJ PH commented, “Sparkling house to the world” under Jorja’s post. Popular hip-hop DJ, Venom emphasised that it is not considered amapiano if it’s not from South Africa. 

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DJ MAPHORISA PUTS HIS FOOT DOWN

Star producer DJ Maphorisa got involved in the conversation reiterating that it’s not amapiano if South African’s aren’t involved in the making of it. 


“if u dnt involve us its not amapiano then trust me u cnt eat alone on amapiano its a community movement but we dnt mind sharing thou”. 

Maphorisa later revealed that he received the original music files from Jorja Smith’s team to make a remix of the song. 

“We fixing it just got the files to do a remix i think this one needs De Mthuda his on his way just called him Amapiano to the world”