Afro Trap Media is the house behind the tours, the rooms and the nights that helped build modern Afrobeats culture across Europe — a movement started by one seventeen-year-old with a broadcast mic, still cultivating the next chapter.
Afro Trap Media was not built as a company. It was started by a seventeen-year-old with a broadcast mic — and it was built, from day one, as a movement.
We don't chase what's already trending. We cultivate what's next: the routes, the rooms, the visas, the trust of artists who let us carry their name into a new country. A culture shifter doesn't wait for the room to fill — it builds the room the culture needed and lets the audience find it.
Thirteen years on from that first broadcast, the instinct hasn't changed. Get the artist there. Get the room right. Shift the culture forward.
One seventeen-year-old, a broadcast mic, and the conviction the culture deserved better staging.
MMXIIIRoots in legacy broadcasting — OHTV Sky London, MTV Africa, Trace Africa and Vevo — sharpening the ear for what an audience wants.
MMXIV—XVIOperational nodes across Holland, France, Belgium, Turkey and England, carrying Reekado Banks, Spyro, Odumodu Blvck, Peruzzi and Iyanya to new rooms.
MMXVII—XXIIIOff the back of the ten-city Iyanya European Tour — among the fastest-rising cultural promoters on the continent.
MMXXIV—VNew routes, new rooms, and a growing archive — the next chapter of the movement is being booked now.
MMXXVI —Three practices, run by the same team, at the same time — getting an artist and their audience into the same room, properly.
Routing, visas, logistics and the hundred small permissions that turn a booking into a working European tour.
The room itself — staging, lighting and flow, built so a night reads as considered rather than assembled.
Market placement and route planning for artists entering new territories, grounded in thirteen years of knowing which rooms work.
A running crate of the tours and nights currently on our books.