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Part 2

The Afrobeats Visual Code

Gold dominates before the artist steps in

Every cover starts with sun-yellow filling the frame — it is the genre's signature, not background noise.

Hard flash turns a studio into a stadium

35mm flash with no diffusion — just light hitting fabric, skin, and smoke at full intensity.

Typography carries weight like a bassline

Chunky condensed caps stacked tight — display for the title, accent for the stamp, never lowercase.

The kente stripe anchors every frame

Color bands at the borders tie each composition to textile lineage older than any streaming platform.