This song reminds me of my time with Egypt 80 from 1985 to 1989. I was there when this composition rehearsal started. It sounded like a jigsaw puzzle as each instrumentalist learn their parts. No lyrics nor chorus yet, just the guitars and drums and Fela occasionally on piano feeling the music out or giving parts. By the second or third week, the music started to shape up as more instruments came in. The bass especially tied the whole structure together as both the clave and shekere maintained the tempo. In a few weeks, the music became robust, not knowing how the lyrics will be laid down by Fela. But when he started singing the shrine was already filled up with the crowd even spilling out to the Pepple street. At this time, just after he was released from prison, he introduced a large drum to the arsenal of drums. I enjoyed playing alto sax on stage on this number "Beast of No Nation", a great and memorable experience for me playing with the great Egypt 80 band. Long live Fela, long live Afro-Beat.
@nkechidouglas55415 жыл бұрын
Wow...invaluable contribution! You are part of history!
@oluggbal30055 жыл бұрын
Baba Boye Adegbenro....i cant place the name, but im sure i will DEFINITELY KNOW THE FACE.....i was at most of tbe rehearsals of this tune...while in the uni back then....i cant remember missing "choir practice" ( as we call it then) every Wednesday and Thursday...and oh what a pleasure it is going to campus or being on Campus singing a song you know a lot of people have not heard...what a joy it was then....didnt know i was witnessing a great man, a legend at work work then.....Alabi yellow baba...sun re onile!!
@babalolaolusegun35985 жыл бұрын
Waoh you are also a legend sir
@abobs30444 жыл бұрын
Respect!
@akinawojobi27894 жыл бұрын
You are a part of history, consider writing a book about your experience with the late great abami eda
@siqklinx20214 жыл бұрын
Beast of No Nation is the first song Fela wrote in 1986, after he was liberated from prison-serving two years from a five year prison sentence for trumped-up foreign currency violation charges. Everywhere he went after his release, people were asking him what he was going to sing about: ‘Fela wetin you go sing about? Them go worry me!”. People wanted to hear him sing about his prison experience, like he had done with the songs like: Alagbon Close, Kalakuta Show, and Expensive Shit. Finally, he decided to sing about the world we live in-with particular reference to Nigeria. He said when he was in prison he called it ‘Inside World’, out of prison he called it ‘Outside World’. But for him it is actually ‘Craze World’. Otherwise, what name can one give a world with: police brutality, army oppression, courts without justice, magistrates who are supposed to uphold the law, obviously seen bending the law to please some special interest. As further proof of the craze world, he sings about the judge who sent him to jail for five years on a trumped up charge, only for the same judge to visit Fela in a prison hospital two years after. The judge apologized, claiming he was under pressure from the government to convict. This could only happen in a Craze World, Fela reasons. It can only be in a craze world that people sit and watch governments shoot down protesting students with impunity, like in Soweto(South Africa), Zaria and Ife(Nigeria). Bearing in mind that Nigeria like all craze world countries, condemn the apartheid regime in South Africa, yet committing crimes against humanity in their respective countries. Turning to another aspect of craze world policy of the Nigerian government. In 1983, the Buhari/Idigabon military regime launched a public campaign dubbed ‘War Against Indiscipline’. This was the regime’s solution to corruption inherent in the Nigerian society. To justify this campaign, the Nigerian head of state, General Buhari and his deputy General Idiagbon publicly used words like: ‘…my people are useless! My people are senseless! My people are indisciplined!’ to describe Nigerian People.For Fela, only in a craze world can such remarks be made. Moreover, such statements could only have come from an ‘animal in human skin’. How could these two animals use such words to qualify a people who feed them? This being so, other leaders from other countries must either be animals themselves to associate with, or accept to co-habit under such an umbrella as the United Nations with a head of state that considers his people useless. Turning to the United Nations, Fela saw it as a majorly unhealthy organization that suffers major inadequacy in its organizational principles. It is absurd to organize the UN principle bodies; the Security Council and the General Assembly, in such an undemocratic manner as one member’s cote can veto the decision of the majority. Is this Democracy? “What is United about the UN?” Fela asked. Thatcher went to war with Argentina over Falkland-yet both counties are members of the world body. Reagan and Libya were at war. Israel versus Lebanon. Iran versus Iraq. East-West cold war. It looks more like a group of disunited nations, so how can such a body work to promote and encourage respect for human rights? For Fela, that is another kind of animal talk. How can people talk about ‘individual’ rights? No one has the right to deprive someone else of what belongs to the individual-only an animal would try to take away another person’s legitimate rights. People who hear Fela say things like this reminded him that he was sent to prison for having such opinions of government. He, in his defense, said it was not him who called members of the UN animals. It was Pik Botha, the former South Africa President at the peak of the anti-apartheid struggle, in reaction to the persistent riots against the racist regime. He came out with a statement that his regime would act more brutally if the riots did not stop: “…this uprising will bring out the beast in us”. Fela’s reminded us that President Reagan advocated: “..constructive engagement with the apartheid regime” among member nations of the UN. The same policy as Mrs. Thatcher - an indication that they were sharing the same friendship and animal characteristics as Botha. If this is so the UN can only be an assembly of Beasts of No Nation - felakuti.bandcamp.com
@pluggedscope30074 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@KimiiWrldd3 жыл бұрын
🧢
@rogerbaudoin75603 жыл бұрын
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@kuntakinte68713 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the explication. It s hard for an european like me to understand all the lyrics and their meaning. Teachers should teach schoolboys and girls about Fela Kuti when talking about Afrika. This would make pupils comprehend better the situation in that continent
@princedavido3 жыл бұрын
@@kuntakinte6871 where you from?
@angelawoods72294 жыл бұрын
Any nigerian here in 2020??. Fela had talked about the current situation a decade ago. A true Legend.
@ahmedbashir30864 жыл бұрын
I'm here. Indeed I've been very moody all day. I miss baba even as I never knew him in person. I just believed in him from the first day I heard his song. The man was a prophet. He talked and warned us about our leaders even Buhari. May he continue to rest in piece.
@sirclint0n4 жыл бұрын
A decade?? You mean many decades. Haha
@chikezieokoli43204 жыл бұрын
🙏🏾🙏🏾💔💔
@alvarogarciaherrero82404 жыл бұрын
He died in 1997
@bolanl2114 жыл бұрын
@@sirclint0nclose to four decades
@cyprinebintian4963 Жыл бұрын
2024, we still dey
@mcfunk90624 ай бұрын
Me too forever
@markhookdrums970529 күн бұрын
2025 still sounds amazing
@Agognan__K11 ай бұрын
Stuttgart 2024 but Fela still dey 🖤✊🏾
@sirnilu15562 жыл бұрын
This is spiritual not ordinary music.i have listened to this track more than 100 times
@MaybeDHitHim2 жыл бұрын
I'm an atheist and I can agree. This ain't coming from this dimension.
@dickie748 Жыл бұрын
Truly.
@beautifullifemedia2733 Жыл бұрын
💯
@the.studio Жыл бұрын
@@MaybeDHitHim😊
@jaywow6973 Жыл бұрын
Indeed
@AAde-or3qz4 жыл бұрын
Listening to this after the Nigerian government opened fire on peaceful protesters in Lekki, Lagos 20/10/20. These protesters were protesting police brutality ironically. The government that did that,.. is the Same government headed by Buhari called ".. an animal in human skin.." in this song by Fela. What foresight. What genius! Nothing's changed in 40 years!.. but change is coming soon with an apocalyptic force.
@brightonpoint80114 жыл бұрын
Change is coming in full force I’m not Nigerian but I stand with my fellow Africans we are all going through almost the same situations #EndSARS
@Methadone4Life4 жыл бұрын
@@brightonpoint8011 I am obviously not African, but I stand with all of the oppressed out there!!! One day the elitist pigs will get what they have deserved for 400 years. I'm with all of you fighting out there in Nigeria...still feel you are my brothers and sisters of the human race!
@kylecrider88764 жыл бұрын
me too
@davidhugh23444 жыл бұрын
Y’all saying you’re not African , are you black ?
@chidibenson90213 жыл бұрын
History repeating itself, am sorry for that country
@matteo34334 жыл бұрын
i discovered fela by my father i'm 19yo white guy from France, i listen fela since i was a little baby, fela is a legend this man is brave and a real warrior, all songs by fela have something unique, the atmosphere is so good, positive vibrations, fela was the best prophet for Africa, for Nigeria, he was The Beast of the Nation. Love fela kuti and real afro-beat, fela watching us in the sky, he's always here with his music, keep fighting with the passion for the freedom in the world 🙏
@bobrossantichrisst4 жыл бұрын
I’m half Liberian and American. I was raised by my American family to more or less reject my african roots. After a period of self discovery and living in west Africa. I cannot day how proud, humbled, and excited to apart of such a rich culture. Filled with the most beautiful people I have ever seen, inside and out. The spirit is there, it’s underneath all this colonial globalization. I will carry the african flag till the day I die.
@ObaOrisha4 жыл бұрын
Tabitha Timbuktu. You made the right decision brother
@gregoryonyx14 жыл бұрын
We are proud of you, Africa unite ✊🏾
@afrizak4 жыл бұрын
Which part of w Africa?
@gregoryonyx14 жыл бұрын
afrizak Nigeria
@bobrossantichrisst4 жыл бұрын
afrizak Liberia, and Senegal
@shulestuff Жыл бұрын
Grew up in Kenya in the 70s listening to "African Woman", then saw Fela in Baltimore in 91 when he opened for Jimmy Cliff; 2
@aluwanijuniortshila7816 Жыл бұрын
Respect to the big tree Mr Fela Kuti, Nigeria will never ever produce a musician like Mr Fela Kuti again, continue to rest in peace the legend.
@Lilla-Mika Жыл бұрын
Even in 2059 we will be here. Legends live forever ❤
@mamemimomunt5 ай бұрын
43 2. say everything
@ellooku2 ай бұрын
2025 We are coming oo.!!! Beast of no Nation is still my favorite. I grew up with it. The song come make more sence in what Nigerians are going through right now.
@seanbeukman95638 күн бұрын
Thats right ellooku! This song caught me very very late in my journey of loving Dr Kuti. I was ITT, Sorrow Tears and Blood, and Colonial mentality. Never forgetting Gentleman of course. This one however is top of the range Fela. Such magic.
@chrisosty83726 жыл бұрын
Just this week, on a fluke, as I was flipping channels on my radio in my truck a college radio station was playing water no get enemy and as I listened for the very first time, I was completely hooked, and I am almost 50 yrs old, It's a shame America`s typical radio stations, plus the government and or whoever else hid my ears and eyes from this amazing BEAUTIFUL BROTHER / MUSICAL ARTIST !
@Samuelkings5 жыл бұрын
This song awakens the soul either black or white, but the elite wont have it
@R.0.A4 жыл бұрын
Follow this Man and read about it and see how great he is. What he said in the 70s is exactly what Nigeria is going through right now like he's Nostradamus or something. Greatest African Musician to the world. Fela Anikulakpo Kuti
@MrTimesetter4 жыл бұрын
Better late than never!
@bolaowoade7 жыл бұрын
Personally I rate Fela as the best musician to come out Nigeria and one of the greatest saxophonists on earth. His composition of music was just brilliant. How many musicians can right a single track that spans over 15 minutes and still capture your attention. I don't know of any. Even if you disagree with aspects of his lifestyle you can't fault his talent. The man was just exceptional.
@habibabdulmalik54176 жыл бұрын
Great Words
@mimzswaggatainment13646 жыл бұрын
Mobolaji Owoade makes me think about the future and I think we have to do is get it right and the rest is a a a a a a a a lot about how to use it as a a a a a a a a techie to 30th and 6th 9th 4 years old and 630th and 6 pm 4
@noireverite93624 жыл бұрын
Family I'm In America NO Musician Is As Genius and As Epic as FELA ✊🏽💜💯
@juanestadian84713 жыл бұрын
Its a toss up between him and Hugh Masekela for the title of greatest composer from Africa. I give fela the nod for his ability to connect seemingly disparate rhythms into one polyrhythmic groove.
@lordydaddy3 жыл бұрын
Agree!! additionally, Lets also not forget most of Africa's great Musician are unknown worldwide and some tended to have long songs and were brilliant with instruments e.g. Franco and TPOK, Cesaria Evora, Ali Farka Toure, H.Masekela, Manu dibango, Oliver Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo, Toumani Diabate, Baaba mal, Salif keita, tinariwen etc etc so many
@thenewsroomtv4024 жыл бұрын
This song foretold Nigeria of 2015 and to date. Fela was a prophet. He saw tomorrow.
@OutlawStarkiller9 жыл бұрын
I'm half Nigerian and only just starting to embrace the other side of my heritage. I found it sad that I can't even speak my own language and know little about my culture, so my mom recommended this as a starting point. I was NOT disappointed!
@OLAODUS-cs5sl9 жыл бұрын
+OutlawStarkiller Good of you, welcome to the fold! Your aka is interesting though.
@IowaCampaign9 жыл бұрын
+OutlawStarkiller what else does your mom say!?
@dawsonkoons93359 жыл бұрын
+OutlawStarkiller murica?
@mingotubman37909 жыл бұрын
gotta start from somewhere...
@Jubanen129 жыл бұрын
+OutlawStarkiller your mom is wise :) Fela Kuti is amazing
@lucasamtab5 жыл бұрын
i would never immagine I would be able to hear a 28 minutes song and once finished repeat it again few times . Great Fela. Respect from italy
@ogaf35784 жыл бұрын
I also thought so too, I can't believe it
@tonyroyal84494 жыл бұрын
Ikr
@noireverite93624 жыл бұрын
FACTS 👏🏾
@MajorrBison4 жыл бұрын
Type of songs you play when you take road trips, by the time you listen to 3 tracks you are half way into a two and half hr trip.
@africarib4 жыл бұрын
It's just perfect
@casualquest845 жыл бұрын
Some legends can never be forgotten, This is one of them.
@Methadone4Life8 жыл бұрын
I can't quit listening. Fuck....so damn good!! I feel like a kid with a new toy, just loving the music and now am soaking up knowledge of the man, his people, his offspring and the plight of Africa. We must all stand together to fight greed, slavery and corporatism! How did I live 50 years without being turned onto this great music? I love R&B, Blues, Jazz, Hip-Hop but this is just something else altogether! When you learn about the man it makes the music even better if you know what I mean!
@akhenchamp73258 жыл бұрын
i feel you
@jimmorrison55208 жыл бұрын
Word.
@complexpassions8 жыл бұрын
Real talk man. I remember thinking the same things when I discovered his music ten years ago. Haven't stopped listening since.
@efosaosahon97288 жыл бұрын
Yeah pretty addictive and futuristic as well. He sure lives on.
@Avshalom4448 жыл бұрын
Efosa Osahon o0
@Babatundey9 жыл бұрын
Whoever Disliked this music is an IGNORANT... The greatest Artist that ever graced Nigeria and Africa at large
@JerseyMcgee819 жыл бұрын
+Babatundey Not just Africa...
@BubbleManxx9 жыл бұрын
+Babatundey He's respected across the planet.
@dengueberries9 жыл бұрын
He's respected across the solar system.
@michaelburke77429 жыл бұрын
+Babatundey Why even waist time on them dislikes?
@Methadone4Life8 жыл бұрын
Agree Baba...have to be ignorant not to love and respect the man and his music
@viqwinner5 жыл бұрын
I'm close to tears right now, not necessarily because I miss Fela - which I do - but for the dept of emotion it evokes. It's a true massacre of the soul: painful, yet uplifting; sad, yet joyous; diversified, yet uniting; disconcerting, yet enlightening. To enjoy Fela listen to each song various times, trying to digest one segment, instrument, lyrics etc at a time. I remember when Fela was locked up in Binin prison, Edo state. A motley group of us guys and galz would take giant cassette tape players beside the prison walls and blast Fela songs and dace. It was mind-blowing when Fela was released and he mentioned the fact that in his cell he heard us playing his music from across the prison wall.
@j1w1704 жыл бұрын
so true
@tanksmakau76722 жыл бұрын
I was there too
@sojiadamo52122 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@TorEtCetera2 жыл бұрын
That’s beautiful
@seanbeukman95632 жыл бұрын
How beautiful!
@gdibiz10008 жыл бұрын
I'm also half Nigerian, after visiting my ancestral home 5 or 6 years ago I changed my surname to Dafe. My happiest days are when I'm in Nigeria. Its the one time I feel closer to my late father Ovie Dafe. Thanks for posting this.
@yogiemota12776 жыл бұрын
Na man you be
@yogiemota12776 жыл бұрын
You must be from Delta my neighbour
@akikiaovie5 жыл бұрын
Urhobo waddo my fellow brother our history is very rich I can trace my roots more than 6 generations back
@chrisoghenetegamaloney57995 жыл бұрын
Cian Dafe oniovo mavoo how d matter Dey go na?
@akikiaovie5 жыл бұрын
One thing are you from Australia? A lot of Urhobos go to Australia that’s our place.
@otobongpius94427 жыл бұрын
i am a full blooded Nigerian and i never tire to listen to the great lyrics of this African Legend. Sadly, the ills he spoke and sang about still live with us today in Nigeria and Africa.
@qwj68boots5 ай бұрын
Worldwide, mate. Worldwide...
@Eleniyan713 ай бұрын
@@qwj68bootsagreed mate, agreed ! 😂
@kabaamiata55257 жыл бұрын
He is immortal. Current generations of Nigerian musicians must salute his memory with respect. He laid the foundation before going away forever
@qwj68boots5 ай бұрын
Every musician needs to acknowledge. Just like they should with Louis Armstrong.
@josafathrayon50247 жыл бұрын
I'm mexican,,,when I listen kuty I feel very spiritual
@jasonharrison57653 жыл бұрын
White male in the Midlands area of UK. The specials and bob marley brought me here, but damn Fela is beyond mere words. You just have to bow your head and thank the universe and Fela that this music exists 🎶🎶🎶❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
@abeolusolapeter1500 Жыл бұрын
I have been searching for this song for many years.... because the last time I listened to it was 2020, I told many DJ to help me serch for it but all in vain.... but today... March 2023' I told my first born 14 yrs old to help me download some old school songs.... when he told me that dad'listen to this,did you like it before I download it...I was jumping like 10 years old boy bcz of this song, the song i have been searching for over 23years ago.....I used to sing the song inside me but I don't know who sang it and title....am so glad tonight.
@cambridgelassearth36854 жыл бұрын
I’m glad I was born in the early 80s. As bad as things were in those days.I still have lovely memories growing up in Nigeria. Who would have thought when Fela was lamenting about the state of affairs in those days that things would get this bad? He was right about Buhari. Listen to when he sings.. “ Nigerian government o dem say my people are useless etc”. Exactly Buhari’s sentiments today about Nigerian youths when he labelled them “ lazy youths”. Fela’s words couldn’t be more relevant today given the current state of things in Nigeria and the world in general. RIP legend.
@omanfaruk17778 жыл бұрын
who still listens to this songs in 2016..........i do and i am a ghanaian(fela is a rock that can not be broken with time )
@kafilarosa8 жыл бұрын
agree
@kafilarosa8 жыл бұрын
agree
@ketaminemeltdown8 жыл бұрын
People with good taste :)
@starborn5998 жыл бұрын
The best...hands down
@Methadone4Life8 жыл бұрын
Listen and loving every beat and smooth transition......so damn good!! True leader and revolutionary!!!!
@giorgosktis89458 жыл бұрын
i am from Greece and believe me people who are really in to music respect and love Fella despite the fact that we come from a region with totally diferent culture . Fella cuti for me is universal he represent people's passion for freedom
Soul touching . even made my 3 year old brother relax
@bonnndegwa90358 жыл бұрын
+Imani Taylor My daughter is called Imani!... still not interested in music though... 4YO
@MommyXx28 жыл бұрын
+Bonn Ndegwa beautiful choice for name lol she'll grow to love it I think he just likes the sounds and words he's never heard his native language before
@kurajosariemen09914 жыл бұрын
The soul knows something nice when it hears it
@fredericko92942 жыл бұрын
Sounds like he released it yesterday. Legends never die!
@thelolu732 жыл бұрын
You damn right on that
@adamdude587 жыл бұрын
I'm a white dude from Canada I just found this music and it's dope! Amazing discovery today!!
@franknitty24855 жыл бұрын
That's awesome...keep discovering.
@dubemdumdum41275 жыл бұрын
Thanks bro... A lot of more fela is still around but if you sing out they ban and charge you for hate speech but they cannot silence the will of the people!!!
@robc15044 жыл бұрын
Me aswell! Listen to about an hour of Fela now...amazing music
@mwanziesaffa30714 жыл бұрын
Welcome HOME brother....Now pass us that scama...puff puff pass we know. Fela INVENTED it.
@kachyn_4 жыл бұрын
At least you have good taste
@rahulrind8 жыл бұрын
Am from India and about read about Fela in Chimamanda's book... and KZbinD FELA and am so loving Fela :-) Nigeria and its people are awesome.. Great nation..
@kudawilfred6 жыл бұрын
Rahul R me too! I discovered him in half of a yellow sun.😄
@madhuritagoswami7326 жыл бұрын
In americanah :)
@olubukonla73525 жыл бұрын
which BOOK was that?
@michaelobinna69795 жыл бұрын
Olu Bukonla purple hibiscus
@ndubanamoonde270310 жыл бұрын
My dear cousin Fred introduced me to this music in 1979. Imagine 35 years down I 'm still listening to it and getting mesmerized at the message.
@okoman5 жыл бұрын
Reagan, Thatcher, Botha, Buhari, Idiagbon. Around 1985
@bokidimi5215 Жыл бұрын
fella a warrior, a saint, a sinner, a musician. a philosopher, a poet..i bow down to my fella, fela Kuti, God B Bless you, man, Human
@easyware9 жыл бұрын
This man is the greatest musician that I have ever been privileged to listen to, bar none.
@Narikeljinjira6 жыл бұрын
You said man.
@mariusenescu69975 жыл бұрын
I hereby declare Fela Kuti one of my favorite legends. His music and his beliefs are beyond ordinary human understanding. I humbly bow before his talent and vision. I am following his Nigerian spirit and greet all his admirers as brothers.
@Ayrangers62 жыл бұрын
This is 2022 and the word of the greatest Musical prophet is as it was since. Fela Kuti lives on
@femtan4real8 жыл бұрын
Yo, all these Nigerian singers Wizkid, Davido and the rest, need to stop saying they're inspired by Fela because there's no way they talk about the same stuff.
@SuperKayyyyyy8 жыл бұрын
+Femi Tanimonure Hello I really don't like to talk about people opinions but we should know fela is a broad person and someone can be influenced by a part of him aside his polictical views eg. wizkid has used a lot of his lines and song title the "she go say she no be lady"',"expensive shit","zombie" and so many others. Many of them use beats similar to his and sing afrobeats also. He was into African religion that doesn't mean every one he inspire should keep his religions views. Peace Out. A ra ra ra ra
@kahandi_manjata8 жыл бұрын
they are turning it upside down...if that is the case..they should say they are inspired by marijuanah not fela
@Methadone4Life8 жыл бұрын
His views were about standing up for whats right, even at risk to your own health and well being, something the brainwashed masses here in the U.S have forgotten.
@ole69457 жыл бұрын
Sorry, I have to disagree with you on this one. I can hear his influence in most Naija music I hear. Distinctly naija, it permeates in the pop culture of the music of the naija artists today. Unlike the music in SA which is sounding more and more American by the day.
@sticks77957 жыл бұрын
u r yabbing shit bro
@centhify59434 жыл бұрын
The only true PROPHET Nigerians ever had, may your soul continue to rest in peace, Amen.
@gordoyt201110 жыл бұрын
I lived in Nigeria from 1968-1972; the music of Fela Ransome-Kuti was everywhere as I recall, I spent many happy times (yes, I said "happy times") exploring the streets of Ibadan and Jos. (Schools were Hillcrest School in Jos, and ISI in Ibadan; our family lived in Ibadan.) Disease, poverty, highway robbers, horrific car crashes, snakes, war - but what a wonderful place for a boy in those years - insulated as we were by virtue of being diplomat kids. I will always remember the sight of Yakubu Gowon's motorcade roaring past as I leaned on my bicycle and waved; once he waved back to me. I still remember some Yoruba and love to talk to Nigerians that I meet.
@ADAJ3KINGANGEL10 жыл бұрын
Where are you from?
@lisadunn718910 жыл бұрын
Happy, happy. I know what you mean. But Now?
@TheBabane0210 жыл бұрын
Disease, poverty, highway robbers, horrific car crashes, snakes, war" we all remember different things. Maybe age, maybe location but I think all that apart from snakes crept in with the later end of the 1970s. For me in Lagos at that time I wont change any one thing from my childhood. One thing I do remember, like you is Gowon's motorcade. Now that was something else from a child's perspective. I still haven't forgotten that myself. My school was on Ikorodu road and the airport was at Ikeja about 10 km away; yet when Gowon's motorcade starts their engines up, we heard the roar in our school compound many kilometers away. 5 minutes before the first motorcars appear the motorcycle outriders would have started out in front of him entertaining us with various maneuvers. Those were the days.
@allmathhelp10 жыл бұрын
I guess I grew up in another Lagos..........
@TheBabane0210 жыл бұрын
You must have if you love Maths ;)
@stefanopinzi53456 жыл бұрын
What a man can do! How can a man have this talent, commitment, resilience and spirituality! An example for all of us! No more racism. No more injustice. No more competition but cooperation. Only one race, the human one.
@christophertaruwona275111 ай бұрын
Legend. And I’m not Nigerian, I’m Zimbabwean. Still, what a fighter for the rights of the little man. With great music backing it all up..
@jeffrrryyy11 жыл бұрын
one of the realist dudes ever to make music ...
@jaibanks71516 жыл бұрын
jeffrrryyy Agree TOTALLY !
@relaxpayourincometax6 жыл бұрын
Agreed! (aside - that's exactly how I'm going to spell my brother's name from now on. Thanks.)
@GerardoGarcia-vy6cy3 жыл бұрын
Vivo en Venezuela y tengo 60 años.... Cuando era niño los escuché por primera vez.... Y fue en que por "casualidad" en el 2021 los re encontré en mi subconsciente.... Han pasado con 50 años Y NO PARECE QUE FUERA MUSICA PARA RECORDAR... No puedo parar de disfrutar este ritmo ÚNICO... Que buena es la vida con FELA..!
@rickexcelarms6 жыл бұрын
Africa's Brightest & greatest music export. Fela Kuti, the people's champion, lives on. Thank you for all the beautiful & timeless rhymes.
@peteg35966 жыл бұрын
Fela the king! Saw his son Fema in Montreal jazz fest few yr back, randomly heard a fela song and thought oh yeah we'll have bit of that, he played all his dads songs, was special night
@ayotundefalana40793 жыл бұрын
*Abami Eda!! U left us all today; 2nd August 1997; 24yrs today! A Legend is gone!!*...Baba 70!✊✊✊Maybe gone! but his spirit still lives on!!...ABAMI EDA!!!
@abodeofhaven14 жыл бұрын
Epitome of authenticity, originality and humanity interwoven into Afrocentrism quest for true emancipation! Rest in peace Sir Fela! A true legend, an iconic figure in sociopolitical discourse especially in Nigeria. Love listening to him always....Growing up in Nigeria solidified my admiration for Fela Kuti.
@Lalachicki8 жыл бұрын
"They treated us like animals, now they want to give us human rights!" Man Fela was king! This is spiritual! "No, they were the animals and they can't give US human rights!" Beasts of NO NATION
@akikiaovie5 жыл бұрын
Lalachicki I believe this is the music you’d hear in the afterlife
@jcrass23615 жыл бұрын
Powerful
@awolchief11455 жыл бұрын
Well said. We are listening to this across the river in the states as well. Sounds from a home we never seen and only heard about
@adewilliams83 жыл бұрын
Correct.
@lolaadesina53623 жыл бұрын
Apt!
@b1slee2674 жыл бұрын
Peace to my brothas n sistas. Love y’all 🖤✊🏾 from here in the states to mother Africa to all the melanated kinfolks in the other countries that has the same love for us as your brothas n sistas
@sphamandlakhambule4812 Жыл бұрын
Big up yourself
@kingejiro8 жыл бұрын
"Na craze world be dat, no be outside buhari dey, na craze man be dat, Animal in craze man skin"----- This line gets me everytime and is reflective of what's going on now in Nigeria... Nah bruv Fela was a prophet
@sonof9ja8487 жыл бұрын
It means the current president is a dictator and an animal in human skin with no regard for human life
@DanyaahlaBanyahawadah7776 жыл бұрын
Yes He was kingejiro!
@seanbeukman95638 күн бұрын
A animal talk with that...wow!
@0laarewa3234 жыл бұрын
I just realized that I have to dig it out for people who don't know prophet Fela omo kuti
@elishaoluwafemi19823 жыл бұрын
If Yoruba nation had listened to Baba'70 they wouldn't have voted or allowed the crazy, beast-of-no-nation of a man called Buhari to rule Nigeria again. All the political and economic gains between 1999 and 2015 are now down the drains. What a gambari of a man in government!
@terrelleVision9 жыл бұрын
Fela was my bridge to Afro-Rhythms. Now I have a unbreakable vein to the endless collection of African Afro-Beat. It is beautiful how American jazz, funk and blues rhythms fused together with the cool creative vibrations of African music and feelings and I think Fela perfected it. His music magically opens doors to the instruments within our souls. Nothing like it. I can't imagine why I had not found Fela's music for so long but he is here to stay. Blessings.
@kentha15786 жыл бұрын
First of all don’t call jazz, funk, blues, hip hop american music. The same thing with reggae to be Jamaican music or samba to be Brazilian music they are all African music. This were music made by Africans who seemed to live or born in another nation. There were no hip hop or soul music or samba or reggae music in those countries or nations until they stole my people and took them to those nations. Just like the way they still everything from us, those music were made by children of African men and women who were born in those lands through the culture and music they were thought by there African families.
@christophercarmona35756 жыл бұрын
Kenneth.tamuno Tamuno you are mistaken. Africans have cultivated a new sound. But so have other groups of people. Grow up and Stop the pitty party. Things in the past are of the past. Be something new. Since you an expert
@kentha15786 жыл бұрын
Christopher you are right in some points but not all, you can’t tell someone to forget his/her past because if they do they would be lost forever. Culture and traditions are a product of past experiences wether good or bad. Other race can forget their past and act like everything is okay but black people don’t we use the past to remind ourselves mistakes we should not have made, things we should have changed and what we can do to change and adjust today and tomorrow
@olubibabalola6 жыл бұрын
remember jazz etc also had african contributions at root. the influences have "crossed the water" in both directions several times and will continue to do so.
@samforryan4688 жыл бұрын
Press play and watch 28 minutes disappear... so mesmerising it feels like a 5 minute track, the time flies!
@nkechidouglas55416 жыл бұрын
Dude holds you in thrall.
@online2373748 жыл бұрын
You have to think.... and ask yourself what compels a man to compose such wicked timeless masterpiece of a track! I have no clue!!!!
@DJmalawsome8 жыл бұрын
Ignorance of Oneness!!
@jimmysteeve77026 жыл бұрын
Love for his people I guess
@ChristopherHarbrant6 жыл бұрын
Truth and Love
@christopheradingupu9816 жыл бұрын
Pain, suffering and passion for a country he loves.
@taiwoola64975 жыл бұрын
He went to UK and didn't feel like home. He had passion for Africa in general and woke asf
@maqhawenkabane17472 жыл бұрын
I don't know who agrees with me but - Fela Anikulapo Kuti was the greatest artist since humankind evolution. All of his songs are preeminent, especially Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense, Look and Laugh and this song included ! I am 16 years old and already I am accumulating my wisdom with thanks to this immaculate father or Jazz . I so wish I met this man , just once , to have that one conversation with him . He sure is worthy to be eternally praised by his unmatched , outstanding and preeminent music ! 🙌🙇
@joyosondu15796 ай бұрын
Best music. Nigeria government never a day like truth and good things. That is why Nigeria is finsh today. Baba i respect you sir🤞🤞🤞👍👍.
@lekanadanijo1627 Жыл бұрын
"Wetin united about United Nations?" Fela sang about this decades ago. Still appears true.
@airmanchairman6 ай бұрын
How prophetic… we thought the nation & World were suffering then, but Fela was talking about NOW, wayyy back THEN‼️🔥
@darrengavin88056 жыл бұрын
Am an American and i love your song so much ,You gave me and my entire family so much inspiration and courage ,Continue to Rest In Peace Legend ,Love you Sir Fela .
@jamescarter25194 жыл бұрын
Glad u liked the song...shame Nigeria lost her roots long ago..fela is a visionist in the music industry
@afeesakinsanya2570 Жыл бұрын
Nice for you. Thanks
@knowledgeman211 жыл бұрын
I was fortunate to see Fela in concert on many occasions when I was growing up in Nigeria. He was a musical and political legend and his music will live forever....
@geraldogeraldo44114 жыл бұрын
Fela arri mulopuana othupa.
@saiduvictor59932 жыл бұрын
I envy you sir
@dareydarey425215 күн бұрын
Who’s here’s in 2025… This song track is meditative There is something truly spiritual and deep about Fela’s soundtracks… simply insane and trance like
@Laugk4 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most wonderful pieces of art in human history. It's just so good.
@Jasitus3 жыл бұрын
People don’t really know how good this record is…
@shaspearman86472 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@i_am_kayode8 жыл бұрын
This is such a beautiful song. Almost shed a tear listening to this. King Kuti!!!
@funmilolaayoola80416 жыл бұрын
Kayode Fabunmi exactly
@shaspearman86472 жыл бұрын
I know right? I cry at the thought of this song. But I’m a lady 🥲
@mercykings89494 жыл бұрын
Lucky Dube for South Africa, Bob Marley for Jamaica and Fela for Nigeria. One love. All preaching same message. Different style. Long live all legends over the world
@Mizzlenum Жыл бұрын
I love all 3. RIP in heaven.
@seanbeukman95634 ай бұрын
No disrespect at all. I think this guy is the GIANT of all of them. Including my brother Bob.
@Superfuse76978 жыл бұрын
I'm just so glad to note, that there are so many positive comments found here... Some of you are really taking this music / lyrics to your souls..!!! That's great..!!! Good on all of you dear friends.. It's my first time listening and getting to know about this artist :-)
@oluwaseyifasoye81687 жыл бұрын
Robert K. Santiago 9
@ezeukwuosuagwu36987 жыл бұрын
How could a man speak TRUTH, undiluted in such pure form. As relevant yesterday as it is in present day World. Fela is an African, and has dialoged with the kindred spirit of the first men. He spoke what they stood for, TRUTH. In a world thriving on blatant and subtle lies, it is such men, and their spirits, that keep the Force of TRUTH in resonance. Baba, Most men and women ruling and deciding world affairs have "Animal Sense", they have lost their humanity, and have chosen to reduce the level of discuss. If only they could grasp what you mean by the "Underground spiritual game..". I thank you Fela, your convinctions are part of my DNA. I talk no more...only enjoying the properties of your voice, your tempo, command of music... and love for the human being. Let our spirits meet in your Shrine in Agidingbi, Ikeja. Nigeria.
@donmuns4eva8 жыл бұрын
Sir Fela you're not alive here today but with your songs you're still alive bcos everything you said in your songs are true in Nigeria today. You're so wonderful man. we will not forget you sir. you're the best till tomorrow.
@geokaks18 жыл бұрын
What Felt sang about in 1984 still applied in Nigeria today! 'Animal' talk by so-called leaders in Nigeria, etc.
@akikiaovie5 жыл бұрын
Next decade all these old men will be the dead and the youths will move in
@fabioraimundo38588 жыл бұрын
I'm "adicted" to Fela since years and years, it's such an amazing work he did with his music, i deeply love it and i wish i can show his talent to more and more people. Peace, love, respect and freedom for all ;)
@lafever87427 жыл бұрын
When I listen to this I just don't understand racism and discrimination. This music is amazing. Whether you are black, brown,white, asian or alien, Fela Kuti will groove your soul. Power to the people!
@JooliganDyer Жыл бұрын
Greatest Fela tune for me. Africa Centre Covent Garden. All 28 minutes of it. Boy I got sweaty. ❤❤❤
@sirrphabby60897 жыл бұрын
This isn't the kind of music that will make u skip the initial parts so u can listen to where he starts singing proper..... This is fire from 0:00 to finish. Spiritual by all standards. This is Scripture, the black bible, the word of God specially tailored for emancipation. When God said let there be light, this was what he was talking about!!!! This is light, heavier than the chains of slavery.
@waleabiodun57883 жыл бұрын
Truer words have never been said.
@rickexcelarms2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely & 💯% spot on. You wanna take it all in to feel the spirituality. Imagine been in the presence of this great man perform live. It was magical, I was very fortunate to see the great man perform on my first visit to Lagos, it was at Christmas time, my Nigerian friends here in the USA always spoke about how Christmas was better in their homeland than in the USA 🇺🇸, So Fast forward to 1987 Christmas, all roads from Victoria Island were my hosts resided to Lekki beach. The traffic was insane, the queue was mad, the sun was blistering, the crowd was waiting, the smell of food, notably "suya" a kinda bbq was in the air. I didn't know what to expect, then when the Mc announced that fela kuti was about to perform, good lord it was something I can't even describe, ELECTRIC the crowed went wild, the beach was deserted, it was magical Nigerians truly love this man, they sang the song with him lyrics for lyrics & words for word. An experience for a life time. Just thought I share my experience with y'all.
@wardi11168 жыл бұрын
Omar Faruk...I agree with 100% and mark you, I am Somali and I live in Somalia..Music has no boundaries..fela Kuti is great...
@oluwaseunomosehin85205 жыл бұрын
Every time I listen to this song I start from the soothing captivating tone to the spiritual transition to a mental classroom where Prophet KUTI spiritually dissects the past present and future in 28.20 minutes and then he finishes and I press replay. This is a rare jewel Baba has gifted us and every true Nigerian Youth should invest 30mins of his life in this lecture of life. if you have not heard this song my brethren your sitting in a corner full dulling.
@adeamujale5 жыл бұрын
Oh my gold! his backup singers are a class of their own. Choristers extraordinaire.
@ernestoalbarran78994 жыл бұрын
The students and I (Mr>A) @ Kashmere High School Houston Tx would like to thank you for allowing to listen to youre beautiful music from Nigeria
@raymondmole53964 жыл бұрын
Baba kuti always was a futurist, visionary, n a missionary with his music was never a biased human..
@cresptonoshua75655 жыл бұрын
I’m listening today 21 July Sunday 2019...I went back to listen to baba and found out that what he saw about Nigeria and the govt yrs before I was born it’s still playing out ....I was born 1984 when Buhari was the newly president of Nigeria and till date he’s back in power 2019 and all fela talked about him in his music is what I’m seeing wow 😮......fela said Buhari will say his people are stupid and corrupt and Buhari actually said it in 2017 wen he was interviewed in London,saying Nigerian are corrupt.......now I can relate why this man is glorified in Nigerian music....rest in peace baba I wish they listened to you,I would have had a beautiful country to be proud of but nah...I have even ran away to another country...they are barbaric in Nigeria 👈🏽😭😭😭they are destiny killers there,they lied that Children are the leaders of tomorrow and now I’m a man with no freedom to even talk,talkless of leading .....they are all still there and alive ...old men that eats food meant for children😭😭😭
@olubusayo2976 жыл бұрын
If you can understand and break this song down to segment 1 by one relate to it .... for example what is one thing that is united in United Nation where by 1 power override the others one veto vote is equal to 92 or more .... African was treated like an animal by colonial masters and same master want to give them an equal right ... Fela say equal right is my property so there for you can’t dash me an equal right it mine and you can’t give me what belong to me cos it already mine ..... this man has message for people that has been surprise it very awaking music Kudos Baba 70 Fela Kuti
@Methadone4Life8 жыл бұрын
I have been reading about all the lyrics, learning what this great man stood for.....more and more entranced with the man and his music. Beast of No Nation...scathing indictment of the U.N. Botha, Reagan and Thatcher! Reagan destroyed workers rights here in the U.S during the Air Traffic Controller strike when he used the Nation Guard to escort scab workers past picket lines. This music really hits so deep in ones soul...the essence of standing up for what is right!! Ugh. Men like Fela should be the presidents, prime ministers and leaders of the world.
@divineconneczion8 жыл бұрын
they killed his mother. I worked with Fela in Brooklyn, NY.
@Methadone4Life8 жыл бұрын
Very cool, would love to hear some of your stories Divine.
@divineconneczion8 жыл бұрын
Methadone4Life Don't mean to be misleading. I worked with him at one event- African Street Festival in Brooklyn. It was magical and horrible at the same time. He came with his band and collections of wives/gf. He performed well after much organization. Some things are left off public social media sites. Amazing performance however.
@Stratocaster018 жыл бұрын
divineconneczion that was Fela for you, a tornado of a man. I literally grew up within proximity of Empire in Surulere where he started. He was original displaying his genius and flaws simultaneously, a mix that gave him his acclaim. I guess he'd have been diminished if as we see today in the industry, with artistes reduced to the corporate puppets he subjected his creative spirits to the whims of others. He was one of Abeokuta's and Nigeria's best gifts to the world.
@jwbh79958 жыл бұрын
Mr. Who Are You, was my first Fela song. I was just 12-years-old in Africa and immediately fell in love. Watched him again as a 17-year-old old and got hitched by the girlfriend of my would be lover. The corrupt Nigerian government chased him away forcing the great man to settle in Ghana. My late friend once told her daughter in Paris that Fela, then alive, is her father. This daughter of Hawa, a Senegalese women then headed to Lagos to meet her father for the first time at the age of 19.
@waleabiodun57889 ай бұрын
This is more than music - it's a lecture, education, iconoclasm. Can never get tired of this tune.. the best of Fela's incredible body of work.
@sinade12 ай бұрын
Yes, the best of all.
@aleku22482 жыл бұрын
Is. Hard. To. See. A. Man. Like. Fella. You. Allways. Say. The. True. I. Miss. Your. Show. When. I. Was. Rock. And. Roy. Things. Were. So. Sweet. Them. And. You. Have. A. Nice. Talent. May. God. Continue. To. Bless. You. Your. Family. You. Are. The. Best
@birdbrainofbritain51468 жыл бұрын
Im British and I have discovered Fela Kuti for serious 2017. This music is beautiful for all the creeds on this poor little planet
@myk-elsumaila33314 жыл бұрын
End SARS in Nigeria now. Human life is a dignity, guaranteed the right to freedom and protection.
@seanbeukman95632 жыл бұрын
Gentleman, coffin for head of state, ITT, Water no get enemy, WERE my go-to's....beasts of no nation has been playing everyday for the last week and a half. Papa Fela! My hero!
@seanbeukman95632 жыл бұрын
This is brilliant storytelling. Oral tradition for handing down of history and culture. Serious wow! I love Fela so much. Too many reasons....
@clementmukuka1620 Жыл бұрын
True my brother his MUSIC was spiritual and this is what is happening and we are seeing it with our eyes. Rest in peace Baba.
@britenasstv18184 жыл бұрын
I can't believe anyone can dislike this jam..shows how deceptive human beings can be😫
@bergheima56638 ай бұрын
How does not liking certain music make you deceptive? I don’t think you fully understand that word
@producereb6 жыл бұрын
His writing skills helped me develop my story telling side when it comes to music or movie scripts. He knows how to capture the mind of listeners before the main event of his stories in music. I preach his style of composition to my fellow musicians and producers.
@chubbs_tubby33603 жыл бұрын
Absolutely magnificent lyricist!
@TheFunkyKingston7 жыл бұрын
Brother Fela Kuti, will be for ever a great "fella"...Mama Africa is in our hearts! Much love from Greece!!
@cleanthopropercatnip38974 жыл бұрын
sending healing and protective energy to all listening, and all not listening. My fellow humans, we are all family, we are all one. we must unite. 2020
@christiankambuga93383 жыл бұрын
Yaaa wewe mzee fela kazi yako nakubali sana njoo Tanzania pia utubuludishe mzee
@simbausore69025 жыл бұрын
It’s 2019....who is still listening? Fela is a legend....one of the greatest from the continent of Africa (yes Nigeria we calling Fela ours as Africans)
@philosophersbench65955 жыл бұрын
Yes correct
@preedestined15 жыл бұрын
Gotta thank my baby Torrance Littles for puttin me up on this man! Respect!💯✊🏾👊🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@akikiaovie5 жыл бұрын
Shapree Mallory Fela anytime I listen to him I’m in tears because everything he said is still happening today in 🇳🇬 and the world the saddest thing is that it’s still the same people he spoke about ruling Nigeria still doing the same things they did😞
@therealgreat97355 жыл бұрын
The day SARS bundled me into their vehicle and gave me a severe beating because I questioned the illegitimacy of their operations, that was the day I knew that Fela was more than a musician. he was a prophet.. Animals in human skin... Men that cannot withstand my strength even if they came at me at once without guns.
@wendysamson31194 жыл бұрын
😭😭
@davidhugh23444 жыл бұрын
You no do nothing , na craze world we Dey brother
@olatitusolubunmi83382 жыл бұрын
The same animal in human skin sang by Fela was the same animal that directed that you and others be Bundled. Leopard can never change its cloth. You can see what the incompetent guy turned Nigeria to within 7 years. In 1983 the guy met a loaf of bread at 10k but before he left by coup in 1985, that same loaf was N5!
@kolyxix2 жыл бұрын
@@olatitusolubunmi8338 Buhari
@mrman39383 жыл бұрын
It’s July 2021..... Always loved babas music. I can listen to it all day. Now I’m laying in bed, eyes closed and shedding tears. He warned us. Everything happening today in the country, he’s been warning us. You’d forever be missed. This music getting me in my feels.
@olamideolajide51386 жыл бұрын
Listening to Fela's music everyday at work is the only way I've been able to stay sane despite the high pressures and demand of my job and still produce at the highest levels. The serenity his music gives me cannot be explained. Baba is a genius