(1) These beats listen to the stylings of a variety of drumbeats across West Africa as well as the traditional African genre Afrobeat .
(2) These beats harken to the stylings of a variety of traditional African drumbeats across West Africa as well as the precursory genre of Afrobeat .

Do these two sentences mean the same thing?

Options are:
[a]. no;
[b]. yes;
[a].