EVO’s Opening Track Packs Afrobeats Rhythm and Pop Appeal Into Under Two Minutes
Wine by Silo Black runs for just under two minutes. It fills that time with the rhythmic push of Afrobeats and the easy reach of commercial pop. A Montreal singer, songwriter and producer with Malian roots, he put it first on EVO, his November 2024 EP. For this reason, it is still the quickest way into his music.
Silo Black’s opening track from EVO is in the playlist below, alongside our Afrobeat and Afro-pop picks. Wine reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news sites. Put it on, then stay with the story below.
Who Wine by Silo Black Is For, From Francophone Afrobeats Fans to Playlist Builders
First, start with the listener who fits the song best. They like the steady drive of Afrobeat and Afrobeats. They also want tunes that fit a mainstream pop playlist. Wine sits right at that meeting point, and on SoundCloud he sums it up as a vibe about finding love on the dance floor. It does not ask for patience, either. In fact, the song gets going quickly and ends before the two-minute mark. As a result, it suits anyone building playlists for a party, a commute or a run.
Second, there is a listener closer to home. Silo Black writes his video notes in French, and his social profiles carry the flags of Mali and Canada beside a Montreal pin. Many of the replies under the Wine video come back in French, too. So for French-speaking listeners in Quebec and across Canada, Wine is Afrobeats from their own city. It is not an import from Lagos, London or Paris.
For Fans of Tayc and Aya Nakamura
The artist’s own tags on the video point to one reference in particular: Tayc. Tayc grew up in Marseille, and his parents have Cameroonian roots. In 2020 he took his mix of R&B and Afro-pop to number one in France with Le Temps. Then his debut album, Fleur froide, followed that December. Listeners who found French-language Afro-pop through those records will hear what Wine reaches for. In other words, it chases the same pairing of rhythm and pop appeal, in a much shorter song.
Aya Nakamura is the other useful point of comparison, and here the link runs through Mali. Her story begins in Bamako, the Malian capital, in 1995. Her 2018 album Nakamura, with the singles Djadja and Copines, carried Afropop and R&B into the French mainstream. Later, she performed at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Silo Black shares that Malian heritage, and he has the same instinct for making Afro rhythms work as pop. So fans who keep her songs in rotation are a natural audience for Wine.
The Early Response and the Montreal Community Around the Song
The official video for Wine arrived on 23 November 2024, three weeks after EVO came out. By September 2026 it had passed 80,000 views and 1,000 likes on YouTube.
The comments give a clear sense of who is listening. For example, friends and supporters congratulate him in French, English and Spanish. One viewer checks in from Montreal, and some praise the video as much as the song. Overall, it reads like a home crowd in the best sense. These are people who know the artist and back a step forward in his music. Meanwhile, the notes under the video ask viewers to help the channel reach 10,000 subscribers. That says plenty about how he is building this audience, one share at a time.
From Rap to Afro-Pop, With a Small Team Behind Him
Montreal has long been home to French-speaking musicians with roots in West and Central Africa, and Silo Black belongs to that story. His SoundCloud bio introduces him as a Montreal rapper of Malian origin who moves between rap, R&B and trap. His Instagram, meanwhile, adds Afrobeat to the mix and lists him as a singer, songwriter and producer.
Indeed, the catalogue shows that shift clearly. His album Melodie Des Hombres arrived in early 2023, with eight tracks in hip-hop and rap. The single Hope followed that June. Then EVO, which he calls his second project, changed direction. Stores file all four of its songs, Wine, Poco Loco, No Time and Moulaga, under Afrobeat. Next, EVO, Pt. 2 arrived in August 2025 with Joana, Eyes On Me, Dis Moi Oui and Boni & Clide. Since then, the singles Déjà Vu, My Way and Always And Forever have kept new music coming into 2026.
Around him is a small, close team. AKELA MUSIC appears in the credits of every release since Melodie Des Hombres. The label also recorded, mixed and mastered Wine, while Rich Photography Studio shot the video. That is the community the song grew out of: an artist, a label and a filmmaker working together. Add the audience in the comments, and the circle is complete. Before EVO, there was also X, a single from August 2019, and an older Linkfire page for X still points to it.
GetMusic.News’s curator team:
“We would drop Wine into the middle of a longer Afrobeats playlist. Its short running time resets the pace without breaking the mood. For listeners in Quebec, it is also a local record by a Montreal artist, which is reason enough to give it a place on the list.”
Stream Wine by Silo Black and Follow Him Across Platforms
Stream Wine on Spotify and Apple Music, then play the rest of EVO from there.
Follow Silo Black across platforms: Spotify, SoundCloud, Deezer, YouTube channel, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X. His ffm.bio link page gathers the rest in one place.
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