Over 20 years later, this song is still relevant this day! Fela Kuti was talking about black people who project self hatred - black skin with white minds. Black people who act like passive lapdogs to the colonizers for the sake of low esteem and validation. If Fela was still alive today, he would’ve went off even harder! May Fela rest in paradise🕊️
@VirtuousOyinda Жыл бұрын
I have been listening to Fela since I was 17 and his songs are magically spiritual. This song tells me a lot about our history. I feel blessed and at the same time feeling not so good because of the mentality some Africans have and it sucks because I am African woman, this songs tells me a lot about colonial mentality. God bless FELA. He is a Legend!
@Shaddyraddy9211 ай бұрын
I heard you sista 100%
@stanleyadekoya481610 ай бұрын
Forever lives, abami lives forever
@danmaphalala5590Ай бұрын
Coloniation of Apartheid and mental illness' Slaves It's now a generation old case Freeman be free late. Loose of those?
@8080pc Жыл бұрын
This was playing in the coffee shop this morning Time Market Tucson AZ
@lyrikalinyoswiminpooАй бұрын
👏🏾🔥
@willcamacho2067Ай бұрын
Still living through his music, and message, greetings from Colombia... African-colombian.
@bethatlikeness5458 Жыл бұрын
Still rocking this classic in 2023 and beyond
@CAPRICORNTECHNOLOGIES6 ай бұрын
47 years after and still a classic. If you know, you know.
@raymondqalaza65213 жыл бұрын
The undisputed King of African music.
@OfftheChainz2 жыл бұрын
The word African was unnecessary
@hubertvale51326 жыл бұрын
Had the pleasure of seeing the man perform at UMass Amherst in about 1982. Though he was an hour late it was a memorable show!😀
@chinonsoobinna26264 жыл бұрын
Hubert Vale Wow, we lost him during our time. Which he can come back ✊🏿🖤🦅. Black President, Eleniyan, Abami Eda (strange one).
@eleanor86524 жыл бұрын
Love encountering a fellow 5college alum! They do great events!
@samuelalake17904 жыл бұрын
Wow, years later and you still remembered him being late. That teaches me something. 😅 I’m proud of the influence Fela Kuti had over music during his time. He continues to be remembered and influence African-Nigerian music.
@CrusadR4real4 жыл бұрын
He was operating on "Nigerian time", bro....lolol. We are never early to a party!!..lol
@layiegbeyemi30703 жыл бұрын
Only an hour?? Dude, he was early!
@josephekette8918 Жыл бұрын
I love Fela music,he is the king of afrobeat music and combined jazz with high life and named it afrobeat.
@oluwaseunadesanya947111 ай бұрын
Not king but prophet. R.I.P. Abami Eda I remember those days inside the shrine yabbis night (Friday) comprehensive show(Saturday) ladies night (Tuesday) Anigboro gate man……..
@DubiousPromedary3 жыл бұрын
I've been breathing Fela Kuti in the last month. Respect from Brazil!
@lizfania22 Жыл бұрын
I've been obsessed with this song since 1yearand today I read a little bit about the background. I'm Ecuadorian and since I came to Spain I've recognized the sense of cultural low self steem that we have back home. This song and the intention completed my concept. Relevant back then relevant now. What an inspiring musician
@yonelima57484 жыл бұрын
every time I try to hate myself for some colonial mentality reason, I come here and kind of slap my own face listening to this. Thank u great Fela!
@seanbeukman95632 ай бұрын
So well said brother or sister!!!
@onerolllyon2654 Жыл бұрын
It's 2023 now n his music still sounds fresh like it was done just weeks ago real musical genius
@hanswolff87952 жыл бұрын
Fela was a great Jazzman..!!!.. Sending love and best wishes from Germany🇩🇪
@lngwnd13 жыл бұрын
My daughter turned 7 last year and began playing the piano shortly after that, but never really got into it like I wanted her to. But once I exposed her to Fela Kuti & Alicia Keys she saw how they both were tearing it up that was enough inspiration to awaken her musical genius! As I figured it would! She will be 8 on Halloween and can already play a few songs WITH HER EYES CLOSED! Everytime she shares music with me I literally tear up because she says things like, "I want to heal people with my music". I tell her that she already has because she's healing ME! I will forever be grateful for the influence of Fela Kuti and the Afrobeat genre.... and yes I did tear up while writing this comment. THANKS Fela Kuti Team for your massive contributions!
@talesvalencio49272 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful, Deron, almost cried here. The artist's mission is to make confort to those who are being opressed, and take off the confort of those who make opression.
@adrianescobar83022 жыл бұрын
Wow god bless your family brother 🙏
@noeladji14002 жыл бұрын
Cc
@avencannon97192 жыл бұрын
Congratulations to your daughter and you! I hope she fills your home and the world with her music, for may more years.
@BlackOranges5758 Жыл бұрын
Wow,Mey the Lord richly bless you and your family
@tonyyayo94033 жыл бұрын
Fela Never Die,i swear to God. He is alive
@seanbeukman9563Ай бұрын
Aweh brudda!!
@taiwoawolola63892 жыл бұрын
FELA is the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!
@dayophilip7843 жыл бұрын
If the song had do been put on the charts with the latest music in 2021, it will still be on top. No diggity
@kolawolebabatunde87125 жыл бұрын
Fela never dies, baba still alive
@olubiyijibowu852 Жыл бұрын
The jam calls on your awareness about your African culture and values.
@ludviksvestka8645 Жыл бұрын
Giant of the century, thank you Fela R.I.P. 🇨🇿
@mlip782 жыл бұрын
Anyone else find themselves here after learning about Fela's inspiring mother? These are the stories the world should be teaching children!
@neskebeks7 күн бұрын
No... but please tell me/us more?
@mlip786 күн бұрын
@@neskebeks Funmilayo Ransom Kuti. She started the Abeokuta Ladies Club which started as an etiquette club became a political organizing group to fight against the exploitation of women workers and Ms. Kuti would go on to fight for Nigeria's independence. I learned about her in a book called Rad Women Worldwide and it mentioned her son made music so I looked him up and that's how I found the beautiful sound of Fela.
@neskebeks6 күн бұрын
@ wowwww thank you much!
@user-uo8yh9tb8g2 жыл бұрын
Man, right from that opening bass line---entranced. Not too many had Fela's combination of political fearlessness and ground breaking music... not too many if any..... legend.
@user-uo8yh9tb8g2 жыл бұрын
I think he has to be seen as a serious composer, he's on that highest-of-high levels... those arrangements of piles of simple enough lines and rhythms that create a whole that is so much more than just the sum of its parts... his music is as perfect as clockwork, yet as liberating and dangerous as a violent storm... it's both innovative, super dance inciting, and intellectually and politically brave.... that's probably not even all of it... this guy was pretty much as close as we get to a living god... when he died, the Nigerian government let his devout throngs morn for three days effectively closing the country down
@berrycush46962 жыл бұрын
Fela would always remain the greatest artist of all time
@UkDubstar7 ай бұрын
This is just sensational. May 2024. This would destroy anything, ( speaking music) out there today. Anything.
@vayoshilasarus43642 жыл бұрын
This was ancestral driven. Power to our ancestors ✊✊
@babarossi3672 жыл бұрын
Absolutely.
@charlescanzater3 жыл бұрын
A leader on the road to freedom !
@insomnia32013 жыл бұрын
great song..I will never forget Soweto, had that pic on my kitchen wall till my flat burnt down..my kids remember it too
@vimbainasheeileenpencilАй бұрын
😩 I never tire of this song after all these years ❤ #proudafrican
@mihailis824 жыл бұрын
Respect from Peru!
@felakuti4 жыл бұрын
And respects from us from the Fela team :)
@mayorcharles2 жыл бұрын
Peru para….
@MotorikBit2 жыл бұрын
Viva el Perú carajo
@tomikea32453 жыл бұрын
I feel so lucky having watched him perform live (and from front row dancing) numerous numerous times at the Shrine Ikeja (late 80's - 90's). I watched Seun perform as a child protege, watched Femi's Sunday jump, ...back when Ayomide (Made Kuti) was a baby, passed on from hand to hand, couldn't crawl at the time. People of priviledge thought at the time that we were crazy for attending Shrine concerts; today we're in a priviledged class of our own, having witnessed Fela, the Kuti's and the group perform live. Even after his death, I walked in the procession to his residence (off Allen ave if I remember correctly) there was a glass tomb or similar; his funeral followed and some other big send off somewhere off of Opebi rd, ikeja...lots of his music ... Fun times.
@tomikea32453 жыл бұрын
Well said👌🏿
@onerolllyon2654 Жыл бұрын
Man like will live forever through his music 🎶❤️💕
@mustaphaadelaja75223 жыл бұрын
For Ever live Afrobeat
@kogokorhymes2 жыл бұрын
This is the mind medicine 🖤
@clairedavenport36332 жыл бұрын
that horn section man
@nashride Жыл бұрын
I get goosebumps every time I listen to this song!
@adetayoadeboyejo66632 жыл бұрын
Legendary beat! Goose bumps all over me.
@elylew4 жыл бұрын
This tune's groove simply kicks ass: loose, limber, and bolted together with titanium lugs of funk. Yes, a righteous political message - but think about how the music it stands on sets it up. There's a reason Fela's words don't start until over halfway through.
@useyurhed4 жыл бұрын
Fort Worth Texas Colonial Country club was segregated until the early 1990s. Colonial mentality....
@frankprince72474 жыл бұрын
sorry what is that? What does it mean?
@useyurhed4 жыл бұрын
It means it was whites only until 30 years ago
@zabluoc45492 жыл бұрын
One of my dream is to form a big band and play Fela music the same way you have some Classical playing Mozart Beethoven and others...
@db56 Жыл бұрын
So glad I found this. OR even better that this found me
@Spiritchaser936 ай бұрын
Good times listening to this during university days. Gave me a renewed sense of conviction about the necessity of education in service of the well-being of others, and imbued disdain for neo-colonialism and late capitalism.
@karlconnolly39944 жыл бұрын
African rebel music... excellent. Power To the People Up the Republic
@daveo24314 жыл бұрын
"African rebel music"? That sounds rather vague and dismissive. But yes our unity and fighting against institutions that restrains us is what he fought for. Carry on.
@karlconnolly39944 жыл бұрын
Dave O Nothing “dismissive” about rebelling against imperialism.
@daveo24314 жыл бұрын
@@karlconnolly3994 Of course.
@sophiepooks21742 жыл бұрын
@@karlconnolly3994 Cool so that means you also support women's rights, gay rights and trans rights?
@karlconnolly39942 жыл бұрын
@@sophiepooks2174 Absolutely… Respect and Equality for ALL.
@seanbeukman95632 ай бұрын
Probably the most appropriate song title by Fela ever. Timeless. Relevant today as much as it was when he wrote it. Sadly. Africa brother and sister no wake up yet. Freedom is in the mind.
@keithwahrer22234 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Tony Allen.
@matthewtiffany85294 жыл бұрын
He is the reason I am listening to this song right now!
@leom88594 жыл бұрын
legend
@marc4art4 жыл бұрын
Fela once said if he hadn't had Tony Allen, he would have needed 3 drummers to replace him !!!
@hapugah Жыл бұрын
I love this track so much
@yemycoolz4062 Жыл бұрын
Afrobeat pattern 1 beat by great Tony Allen... You know this pattern you can fit into any Afrobeat band. "No Tony Allen No Afrobeat"...Baba Fela Anikulapo of blessed memory.. The Afrobeat warlords. 😍
@DrDoGood2 жыл бұрын
All hail our President .MOP forever.
@joseleandro34853 жыл бұрын
Exelent song!
@awosojoseph37733 жыл бұрын
Man I don’t know what it is but this man songs will live forever
@grandsmo235 жыл бұрын
there i was singing to myself " what you going to do?" guess that is where she got the sample from ... nice!!
@onyiiezeagabutv5 жыл бұрын
yeah, this Fela's song was done in 1977
@escarlit4 жыл бұрын
i only realized this in the last few years. granted, i hadnt listened to fela until then, but still! i love missy 🙂
@illitrait3 жыл бұрын
...1977! Yet still no respect. SMH.
@olivenwosu3 жыл бұрын
Listening in 2021🔥
@chibz922 жыл бұрын
Ran here after the way some of my brothers and sisters have been celebrating the life of the queen.
@ucakpan Жыл бұрын
The extent of colonial mentality affecting us cannot be quantified. It might take another 500 years of relentless "education" to even reverse some of it.
@goddesstunu42225 ай бұрын
2024 Fela Kuti Always and Forever
@JamesBarrett234 жыл бұрын
This song it also a lesson.
@walterpaulofontesfilho15602 жыл бұрын
thank you, Fela!!!
@jonathaneffemey9448 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for posting
@FafaFlunky2 ай бұрын
2024 and some people still aren't understanding the message
@sorosports13094 жыл бұрын
Oh what a sweet melody👍👏🙌👌!
@francklampkin81295 жыл бұрын
tant qu il y aura des problemes on ecoutera le grand FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI
@amandasilvadeoliveira18772 жыл бұрын
Potente demais!! Respeite...
@Ekpe1Angwan8 күн бұрын
December 2024. Still relevant. #FreeDeleFarotimi #FreeIjele #FreeFreeSpeechInAfrika
@leslieosayuki33056 ай бұрын
Iconic!
@mapleandsteel3 ай бұрын
A legend, who taught the colonized how to live with pride and love for all. Love from India ☸️
@Inkulabi5 жыл бұрын
The Musical Weapon
@sknmwms65162 жыл бұрын
YESSSS FREE THE LAND❤🖤💚💛💯!!!!
@62percenthumidity Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the explanation/history at the bottom
@rotimistreet7 жыл бұрын
I named my daughter after FELA for freeing his mind from colonial mentality...
@TimiO472 жыл бұрын
Wow that’s nice my sisters name is Fela to
@Ozhaneselassie2 жыл бұрын
Bless You Boss
@thiernodiallo82393 жыл бұрын
Fela will be always a teather and this song a lesson
@johnnicol642 жыл бұрын
The lesson being why did Africans sell their neighbours to the highest bidder
@ThiagoCamargo-c6j12 күн бұрын
Guerreiros em 2024 vendo isso, ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
@beverleybrathwaite12492 жыл бұрын
Keep Rising Jah People 💓
@mamanati51288 ай бұрын
2024 there still doing it
@mackolmx63853 жыл бұрын
I wanna fold clothes for ya! I wanna make ya feel good! I wanna do the right thing! Feels so much better than the wrong thing!
@mahatmaganjaofficial37312 жыл бұрын
Great ear
@epinhervin93557 ай бұрын
Wow it is so Indonesian football today when we dod not believe to ourself player and tend to use a shortcut searching European player and naturalisation their nationality into Indonesian
@thehacker40893 ай бұрын
Missy Elliot borrowed this beat on her song watch a gonna do . Love both songs.
@iamking_nell3 жыл бұрын
Sampled by Timbaland & Missy for Whatcha Gonna Do
@hiranom203 жыл бұрын
I was today years old when I discovered that. Always knew about Fela through hearing it on LP as a child, but I only just heard this song on Spotify. Always liked the Missy and Timbaland too from So Addictive, but now I'm conflicted 😪😂
@WaqarAhmad-zz9hr2 жыл бұрын
Viva Nigeria Viva Africa
@user-uo8yh9tb8g2 жыл бұрын
"Mr. Ransome you make you hear, Mr. Williams you make you hear, Mr. Allia you make you hear, Mr. Mohammed you make you hear, Mr. Anglican you make you hear, Mr. Bishop you make you hear, Mr. Catholic you make you hear, Mr. Muslim you make you hear" He called out everybody here... wow, and in a political climate where that routinely puts you in jail or worse.
@Aotubaga2 жыл бұрын
Background to the Song, Africa has been invaded left, right and center along with all sorts of religions and ideologies. This has now left him in a state of confusion and inferiority complex that he has not only lost his identity, but just feels that anything from outside is better than what he believes, practices and understands. Fela is speaking to them and even himself, his grandparents adopted Ransome (English name), along with all the other names. Most of these people may call themselves Xtian, Moslems, but practice all religions in their state of confusion, etc
@NycBeauty Жыл бұрын
💖LUV U FELA ✊🏾
@memoelizalde4 жыл бұрын
I m the discoverer , igual tarde 502.009 años , y fue con googlita .
@IgnazioPutignano2 жыл бұрын
thank you
@sammalwela9456 Жыл бұрын
They live sorrow, tears and blood. Them regular trademarks.
@tphilbin12 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@michaelmoss504010 ай бұрын
100% Total factual truth! Great sound! 🌍⚖️🎷😃
@dopehitrecords81057 ай бұрын
You fit never release yourself 🎉
@chrisjten92392 жыл бұрын
THE BLACK PRESIDENT LIVES!!!!!
@tekomodise11902 жыл бұрын
Wowzers!!!!!
@andremessias73353 жыл бұрын
10....Fela
@prosperwithcj7 ай бұрын
Whatcha gonna do- missy elliott. Timbaland is a genius 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@OsiSumi Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤
@seanbeukman9563Ай бұрын
It be time
@BozaCukuranovic32237 жыл бұрын
Mr Ransome listen! Mr Williams listen! Mr Allah listen Mr Mohammed listen Mr Anglican listen Mr Bishop listen Mr Catholic listen Mr Muselim listen
@pauls.30144 жыл бұрын
Mr Protestant lissen too.
@shikamusic40744 жыл бұрын
Mr Pentecostal listen Mr lecturer listen
@deznelson4436 Жыл бұрын
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏾
@waissamad56582 жыл бұрын
I just came here for the hustle
@abudubalogun4905 Жыл бұрын
❤
@skelz3693 жыл бұрын
Missy Elliot ft Timbaland (Watcha gonna do) brought me here
@Tzippy6133 жыл бұрын
Have
@Ozhaneselassie2 жыл бұрын
My Mentor
@tatawilfred8941 Жыл бұрын
please africans listen to fella please
@filsdejeannoir17764 жыл бұрын
IS THIS FELA'S CHANNEL OR CHRIS MAY'S?
@filsdejeannoir17763 жыл бұрын
WELL I DIDN'T HERE BACK FROM THE CHRIS' SO I'LL TAKE IT IT'S UNCLE'S.