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
@abobs30443 жыл бұрын
Respect!
@akinawojobi27893 жыл бұрын
You are a part of history, consider writing a book about your experience with the late great abami eda
@siqklinx20213 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
@pluggedscope30073 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@Mimi.Talkss3 жыл бұрын
🧢
@rogerbaudoin75603 жыл бұрын
Qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
@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?
@lucasamtab4 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
@tonyroyal84493 жыл бұрын
Ikr
@noireverite93623 жыл бұрын
FACTS 👏🏾
@MajorrBison3 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.
@africarib3 жыл бұрын
It's just perfect
@emstudios144 жыл бұрын
Some legends can never be forgotten, This is one of them.
@sirnilu1556 Жыл бұрын
This is spiritual not ordinary music.i have listened to this track more than 100 times
@MaybeDHitHim Жыл бұрын
I'm an atheist and I can agree. This ain't coming from this dimension.
@dickie74810 ай бұрын
Truly.
@beautifullifemedia27339 ай бұрын
💯
@the.studio9 ай бұрын
@@MaybeDHitHim😊
@jaywow69737 ай бұрын
Indeed
@AAde-or3qz3 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.
@brightonpoint80113 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
@Methadone4Life3 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!
@kylecrider88763 жыл бұрын
me too
@davidhugh23443 жыл бұрын
Y’all saying you’re not African , are you black ?
@chidibenson90212 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 🙏
@chrisosty83725 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 !
@Samuelkings4 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!
@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 🎶🎶🎶❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
@waleabiodun57882 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.
@angelawoods72293 жыл бұрын
Any nigerian here in 2020??. Fela had talked about the current situation a decade ago. A true Legend.
@ahmedbashir30863 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.
@sirclint0n3 жыл бұрын
A decade?? You mean many decades. Haha
@chikezieokoli43203 жыл бұрын
🙏🏾🙏🏾💔💔
@alvarogarciaherrero82403 жыл бұрын
He died in 1997
@bolanl2113 жыл бұрын
@@sirclint0nclose to four decades
@fredericko92942 жыл бұрын
Sounds like he released it yesterday. Legends never die!
@thelolu73 Жыл бұрын
You damn right on that
@Methadone4Life7 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!
@akhenchamp73257 жыл бұрын
i feel you
@jimmorrison55207 жыл бұрын
Word.
@complexpassions7 жыл бұрын
Real talk man. I remember thinking the same things when I discovered his music ten years ago. Haven't stopped listening since.
@efosaosahon97287 жыл бұрын
Yeah pretty addictive and futuristic as well. He sure lives on.
@Avshalom4447 жыл бұрын
Efosa Osahon o0
@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
@sojiadamo5212 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@TorEtCetera Жыл бұрын
That’s beautiful
@seanbeukman9563 Жыл бұрын
How beautiful!
@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
@OutlawStarkiller8 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-cs5sl8 жыл бұрын
+OutlawStarkiller Good of you, welcome to the fold! Your aka is interesting though.
@IowaCampaign8 жыл бұрын
+OutlawStarkiller what else does your mom say!?
@dawsonkoons93358 жыл бұрын
+OutlawStarkiller murica?
@mingotubman37908 жыл бұрын
gotta start from somewhere...
@Jubanen128 жыл бұрын
+OutlawStarkiller your mom is wise :) Fela Kuti is amazing
@Laugk3 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most wonderful pieces of art in human history. It's just so good.
@Jasitus2 жыл бұрын
People don’t really know how good this record is…
@shaspearman8647 Жыл бұрын
Agreed
@adeamujale4 жыл бұрын
Oh my gold! his backup singers are a class of their own. Choristers extraordinaire.
@cyprinebintian49636 ай бұрын
2024, we still dey
@ndubanamoonde27039 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
@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
@noireverite93623 жыл бұрын
Family I'm In America NO Musician Is As Genius and As Epic as FELA ✊🏽💜💯
@juanestadian84712 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.
@lordydaddy2 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
@kabaamiata55256 жыл бұрын
He is immortal. Current generations of Nigerian musicians must salute his memory with respect. He laid the foundation before going away forever
@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
@gdibiz10007 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.
@yogiemota12775 жыл бұрын
Na man you be
@yogiemota12775 жыл бұрын
You must be from Delta my neighbour
@akikiaovie4 жыл бұрын
Urhobo waddo my fellow brother our history is very rich I can trace my roots more than 6 generations back
@chrisoghenetegamaloney57994 жыл бұрын
Cian Dafe oniovo mavoo how d matter Dey go na?
@akikiaovie4 жыл бұрын
One thing are you from Australia? A lot of Urhobos go to Australia that’s our place.
@b1slee2673 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
@sphamandlakhambule48128 ай бұрын
Big up yourself
@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.
@rahulrind7 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?
@michaelobinna69794 жыл бұрын
Olu Bukonla purple hibiscus
@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.
@Babatundey9 жыл бұрын
Whoever Disliked this music is an IGNORANT... The greatest Artist that ever graced Nigeria and Africa at large
@JerseyMcgee818 жыл бұрын
+Babatundey Not just Africa...
@BubbleManxx8 жыл бұрын
+Babatundey He's respected across the planet.
@dengueberries8 жыл бұрын
He's respected across the solar system.
@michaelburke77428 жыл бұрын
+Babatundey Why even waist time on them dislikes?
@Methadone4Life7 жыл бұрын
Agree Baba...have to be ignorant not to love and respect the man and his music
@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
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.
@dubemdumdum41274 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
@mwanziesaffa30713 жыл бұрын
Welcome HOME brother....Now pass us that scama...puff puff pass we know. Fela INVENTED it.
@kachyn_3 жыл бұрын
At least you have good taste
@josafathrayon50247 жыл бұрын
I'm mexican,,,when I listen kuty I feel very spiritual
@Lalachicki7 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
@akikiaovie4 жыл бұрын
Lalachicki I believe this is the music you’d hear in the afterlife
@jcrass23614 жыл бұрын
Powerful
@awolchief11454 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.
@lolaadesina53622 жыл бұрын
Apt!
@samforryan4687 жыл бұрын
Press play and watch 28 minutes disappear... so mesmerising it feels like a 5 minute track, the time flies!
@nkechidouglas55415 жыл бұрын
Dude holds you in thrall.
@online2373747 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!!!!
@DJmalawsome7 жыл бұрын
Ignorance of Oneness!!
@jimmysteeve77026 жыл бұрын
Love for his people I guess
@ChristopherHarbrant5 жыл бұрын
Truth and Love
@christopheradingupu9815 жыл бұрын
Pain, suffering and passion for a country he loves.
@taiwoola64974 жыл бұрын
He went to UK and didn't feel like home. He had passion for Africa in general and woke asf
@seanbeukman9563 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....
@easyware8 жыл бұрын
This man is the greatest musician that I have ever been privileged to listen to, bar none.
@Narikeljinjira5 жыл бұрын
You said man.
@MommyXx28 жыл бұрын
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
@kurajosariemen09913 жыл бұрын
The soul knows something nice when it hears it
@producereb5 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!
@lekanadanijo16278 ай бұрын
"Wetin united about United Nations?" Fela sang about this decades ago. Still appears true.
@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.
@danieldaramola18558 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
@Methadone4Life7 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.
@sticks77956 жыл бұрын
u r yabbing shit bro
@lawrenceeyo-ita88913 жыл бұрын
Fela the man who saw tomorrow, lives on Legend 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@chikezieokoli43203 жыл бұрын
Who’s here after the massacre in lekki 💔💔🇳🇬🇳🇬
@NkuteHogan3 жыл бұрын
Same old Naija
@lunsas3 жыл бұрын
I’m here bro . Hmmmm
@davidken2733 жыл бұрын
😭
@manlikedrey3 жыл бұрын
💔💔
@adeokuneye74293 жыл бұрын
Its tough guys but let's take some consolation in the overall message we have portrayed. I think we need to keep the momentum going but with some strategy. The Massacre must not be in Vein...
@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.
@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 ;)
@thenewsroomtv4024 жыл бұрын
This song foretold Nigeria of 2015 and to date. Fela was a prophet. He saw tomorrow.
@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.
@rickexcelarms5 жыл бұрын
Africa's Brightest & greatest music export. Fela Kuti, the people's champion, lives on. Thank you for all the beautiful & timeless rhymes.
@peteg35965 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
@mattblackninja8 жыл бұрын
didnt realise this is where the film title came from. amazing film btw. and great tune!
@johnkabuoro60217 жыл бұрын
Right the film got its title from this song but misrepresented facts in this song the beast wears suits and ties i.e the UN and world leaders but in the film the beast were rebels with guns
@Lrozzie6 жыл бұрын
The phrase was also used in Chinua Achebe's "No longer at ease"
@gordoyt20119 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.
@ADAJ3KINGANGEL9 жыл бұрын
Where are you from?
@lisadunn71899 жыл бұрын
Happy, happy. I know what you mean. But Now?
@TheBabane029 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.
@allmathhelp9 жыл бұрын
I guess I grew up in another Lagos..........
@TheBabane029 жыл бұрын
You must have if you love Maths ;)
@trapugnorris6 жыл бұрын
I just found out dis guy like a month ago, now it's my favorite artist, so glad to hear that.
@cleanthopropercatnip38973 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
@olufemiolowolafe31714 жыл бұрын
I’m listening to this masterpiece in 2020 with all that’s happening in our world today and Fela’s arguments remain valid and relevant. Wooow !
@i_am_kayode7 жыл бұрын
This is such a beautiful song. Almost shed a tear listening to this. King Kuti!!!
@funmilolaayoola80416 жыл бұрын
Kayode Fabunmi exactly
@shaspearman8647 Жыл бұрын
I know right? I cry at the thought of this song. But I’m a lady 🥲
@pelumi49427 жыл бұрын
imagine. he told us years ago Buhari is an animal in craze man skin and we still went ahead and voted him civilian President hope you're all happy now
@mariusenescu69974 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.
@TMartins3797 жыл бұрын
This track is a masterpiece. You can feel it in your bones.
@janossandor65177 жыл бұрын
Once I've listened to this song with my friends in the kitchen, I gues they felt a little uncomfortable because they have never listened to music like this. It was ended up as they said "It was something" :D, I gues they will understand the deepness of this underground spiritual game soon.
@Roonlovesfish38745 жыл бұрын
Couldn't have said it any better.
@davidkariu23305 жыл бұрын
First time I heard it I was SHOOK. I literally just stared at my phone for a good thrirty minutes.
@davidolutola76113 жыл бұрын
Fela they did it again!! They opened fire on us at lekki tollgate!! 20/10/2020 we will never forget ✊🏽
@theelectricprince82312 жыл бұрын
The army and police need to be reformed but there was no killing at Lekki toll gate, you don't have to lie to implicate them.
@dominicadaeze32262 жыл бұрын
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@nnamdinwuchukwu69952 жыл бұрын
Until and unless Sovereign National Conference and Referendum are conducted Nigeria remains a geopolitical expression of Northern Hegemony for the Hausa Fulani Oligarchy and by the British. Lekki Tollgate is a microcosm of the systemic dehumanization inherent in the colonial contraption called Nigeria, no thanks to the insidious Oligarchy serving the unbridled yet subtle interests of neo-imperialists, the latest adventurer (on the African continent) being The Dragon Empire.
@nnamdinwuchukwu69952 жыл бұрын
@@theelectricprince8231 only pathetic supporters of misrule and hypocrisy of political correctness speak the way you do. You've become a passive or active adherent of technofascism delighting in the sophistory of ignorance and escapism. Arise to your true patriotic soulbeat - Oduduwa Republic. Au revoir. Viva Negritude Banner!
@theelectricprince82312 жыл бұрын
@@nnamdinwuchukwu6995 IOPB bigot. Haven't you terrorised the SE enough.
@alabajohnsonolawole9902 жыл бұрын
And everything he say and come to pass now, RIP legend.
@scoobydisney5 жыл бұрын
Every second of this just feels so right, so true. It almost as if I knew it by heart before ever listening to it, somehow. Each note that comes has me thinking, "Yes - of course that's how it goes."
@adewusiayobami5354 Жыл бұрын
This is 2022 and the word of the greatest Musical prophet is as it was since. Fela Kuti lives on
@osenienemayimichael5445 ай бұрын
Abamieda,Baba 70. This Man played Classical African Music ,also known as Afro beat not Afro Beats. GF. Handel nor do pass this one. Fela is in that class if not even above
@ralphwilliams34763 жыл бұрын
Saw bro. In L.A. years ago. His music is iconic
@Lilla-Mika Жыл бұрын
Even in 2059 we will be here. Legends live forever ❤
@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.
@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!
@TheFunkyKingston6 жыл бұрын
Brother Fela Kuti, will be for ever a great "fella"...Mama Africa is in our hearts! Much love from Greece!!
@raymondmole53963 жыл бұрын
Baba kuti always was a futurist, visionary, n a missionary with his music was never a biased human..
@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
@ketaminemeltdown7 жыл бұрын
People with good taste :)
@starborn5997 жыл бұрын
The best...hands down
@Methadone4Life7 жыл бұрын
Listen and loving every beat and smooth transition......so damn good!! True leader and revolutionary!!!!
@wardi11167 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...
@seanbeukman9563 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!
@ayotundefalana40792 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!!!
@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.
@ochanyamichelle5 жыл бұрын
Nigeria has made some awesome people.
@african-history-fountain5 жыл бұрын
Yep, like Wole Soyinka, the first black writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Aliko Dangote, the world's richest black person, worth over 20 billion USD, and currently building the world's largest oil refinery in Lagos worth 12 billion USD.
@walkyesdating66593 жыл бұрын
Tnx
@gambo97703 жыл бұрын
@@african-history-fountain remove dangote on lists of Africa history
@danieltaiwo90003 жыл бұрын
@@gambo9770 why cuz u can't be the richest black man alive, hater
@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.
@Agognan__K4 ай бұрын
Stuttgart 2024 but Fela still dey 🖤✊🏾
@wilsonolaiya75782 жыл бұрын
Every instrument just finds itself in this masterpiece. This joint is real dope in lyrics, melody, arrangement, syncopation - name it. Fela to the world!
@MB-gx3jn Жыл бұрын
Nice! I'll go with that! All the best
@birdbrainofbritain51467 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
@JooliganDyer10 ай бұрын
Greatest Fela tune for me. Africa Centre Covent Garden. All 28 minutes of it. Boy I got sweaty. ❤❤❤
@emmanuelabatta41076 жыл бұрын
Fela was more than a musician. I call him a Seer. Most of the things he sang on are happening right now many years after his existence. He was a philosopher and a music legend. I respect him and Bob Marley
@nevillenwabuzor78284 жыл бұрын
He has engraved his name in the book of legends and will forever be remembered, his songs are so deep.
@beautifyyourlife69123 жыл бұрын
We should have listened to u about buhari. The younger generation didn’t know his antecedents. We thought he would destroy Boko Haram. He destroyed us instead.💔 #lekkimassacre
@queeniyoyojie20493 жыл бұрын
Powerful one
@shulestuff5 ай 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
@geokaks17 жыл бұрын
What Felt sang about in 1984 still applied in Nigeria today! 'Animal' talk by so-called leaders in Nigeria, etc.
@akikiaovie4 жыл бұрын
Next decade all these old men will be the dead and the youths will move in
@lalosaurioXL7 жыл бұрын
I don't know how the heck I got here, but I like it
@jeffrrryyy10 жыл бұрын
one of the realist dudes ever to make music ...
@jaibanks71516 жыл бұрын
jeffrrryyy Agree TOTALLY !
@relaxpayourincometax5 жыл бұрын
Agreed! (aside - that's exactly how I'm going to spell my brother's name from now on. Thanks.)
@preedestined14 жыл бұрын
Gotta thank my baby Torrance Littles for puttin me up on this man! Respect!💯✊🏾👊🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@akikiaovie4 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😞
@emmanuelgbeho9472 жыл бұрын
First time I've listened to this properly. To me it's the quintessence of call and response. Why have I missed it all along. First the horns and other instruments talk amongst themselves for the first hàĺf of the piece then Fela takes over, assumes the role of lead caller. The interaction continues ofy he horns and the other
@Superfuse76977 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 :-)
@oluwaseyifasoye81686 жыл бұрын
Robert K. Santiago 9
@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😭😭😭
@xolastemele2664 жыл бұрын
Fela is enough reason to believe in Africa!
@josepharmstrong55255 жыл бұрын
Most beautiful sax playing at 7:11 mark. Brings me to tears every time 😭
@olagokeabodunde334210 ай бұрын
He wept with his saxophone
@mercykings89493 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.
@GerardoGarcia-vy6cy2 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..!
@missnatural54944 жыл бұрын
My man introduced me to this legend and boy! Do I love him. I mean Fela yes, of course I love my man too. My igbo man 😍😍😍
@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 .
@jamescarter25193 жыл бұрын
Glad u liked the song...shame Nigeria lost her roots long ago..fela is a visionist in the music industry
@afeesakinsanya25707 ай бұрын
Nice for you. Thanks
@JerseyMcgee818 жыл бұрын
This is more than just music, its spiritual....
@dryjean74378 жыл бұрын
+jersey Mcgee Yes, its a spiritual way with force...
@simartnullnet8 жыл бұрын
+jersey Mcgee Yes, spiritual jazz at its best!
@dryjean74378 жыл бұрын
Yes, my friend. NO difference, ONLY ways. Do it...
@mandlasithole81478 жыл бұрын
+jersey Mcgee agree wholeheartedly!! great!!
@thecreatorsloveequates97428 жыл бұрын
absolutely! 😊😊😊👑👑
@0laarewa3233 жыл бұрын
I just realized that I have to dig it out for people who don't know prophet Fela omo kuti
@centhify59434 жыл бұрын
The only true PROPHET Nigerians ever had, may your soul continue to rest in peace, Amen.
@donmuns4eva7 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.