Fela Kuti - Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am (Edit) (Official Audio)

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"Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am" comes from the 1972 album 'Roforofo Fight'. The Broken English translation of "Trouble Sleep Yanga Am" literally means: toying with a loaded gun or playing with fire. In the song, Fela sings about the limit to human endurance. It is unlike any other Fela song of the era - spacey, slow-paced, with a pretty but sorrowful top line, you could call it an Afrobeat blues ballad.
Full track audio here: • Trouble Sleep Yanga Wa...
Full LP audio, with commentary from Afrobeat Historian Chris May, here: • Fela Kuti - Roforofo F...

[@1yunggado]

The greatest African to ever touch the mic 😔❤

[@frankprince7247]

When trouble sleep Yanga go wake am Waking him dey find Palaver, he dey find Palaver, he go get-e o) Palaver, he go get Palaver When cat sleep Rat go bite him tail Waking him dey find Palaver, he dey find Palaver, he go get-e o Palaver, he go get Palaver Tenant lost him job Him sit down for house Him dey think of job Mr. landord come wake am up He say, "mister, pay me your rent" Waking him dey find Palaver, he dey find Palaver, he go get-e o Palaver, he go get Palaver My friend just come from prison Him dey look for work Waka waka day and night Police man come stop am for road He say, "mister, I charge you for wandering" Waking him dey find Palaver, he dey find Palaver, he go get-e o Palaver, he go get Palaver Mr. husband marry for church He make big party Then he start to spra Because him love him wife Him say, "wife come run away" Bank manager run come He say, "mister, pay me your debt" Waking him dey find, for lagos e-o Palaver, he dey find Palaver, he go get-e o Palaver, he go get Palaver When trouble sleep Yanga go wake am Waking him dey find Palaver, he dey find Palaver, he go get-e o Palaver, he go get Palaver, he go get-e o When cat sleep Rat go bite him tail Waking him dey find Palaver, he dey find Palaver, he go get-e o Palaver, he go get Palaver, he go get e-o

[@najtatou8832]

Thanks

[@patrickokafor1074]

Great work with the lyrics..., Replace "waking' with "wetin" (meaning "what" pigeon english)

[@raquellex6220]

actaully its palava instead of palaver

[@KgwediyaMollo]

@@raquellex6220 what does that mean?

[@esefavour9734]

@@KgwediyaMollo palava=palaver means " trouble".

[@os4908]

this song will never get old

[@AxeMan808]

I love this song SO MUCH.

[@obrogboalexeyaife9207]

See the way I dey smile. Living overseas nor easy oo. Songs like this refresh your soul

[@abibodlogistics]

Fela Anikulapo Kuti just one in a generation, he is gone and that is it.His shoes is too big and come to think of it one of his songs was played in America when Joseph Biden won the election.

[@abrahamanum-quaye8200]

Hmmmmmm,l grew up with his afrobeat tunes intheearly70's. It was classic. An icon on the trumpets 🎺. A genius Abraham ,GH

[@turinturambar7926]

Yeeeeeah!!!!Fela eres tan grande que jamás morirás!!

[@teresarodrigues6585]

Beautiful voice expressing his soul 😍🙏🎶🎼🎵🎵🎤for Hope 😊

[@basseybassey1979]

The most talented musician

[@taiwoawolola6389]

The Greatest Of All Time 💯❤️🦅

[@omonomoochendo1889]

AFROBET LEGEND OF ALL TIME RIP SIR MAN OF GREAT WISDOM AND COURAGE

[@bhouckie]

Evergreen 🌲, listening tonic In avoiding quarrels or fights any day

[@e.g.moorejr.285]

A beast....revolutionary!!!! 2020!!!!

[@johnjohnson7006]

🤔😏OH YES INDEED‼ PLAYLIST FOR LIFETIME CLASSIC MATERIAL😉💯👍

[@findyourspine]

Why edit? Fela’s work was perfect and as he wanted it to be.

[@mr._unchained]

Its just to make the music shorter

[@Rrangwane]

..to give an idea of what it would sound like if we were listening to it on radio. I agree that the full length tracks are life though

[@koollifebillionaire]

Edit is perfect, if u understand sound u will want all to be edited due to mastering and mixing... Digital mastering and mixing is important. What was edited is the instrumental

[@findyourspine]

Official channel doesn’t offer the full version. FELA would not bless. Please fix it.

[@miababy3927]

Job 2 n

[@user-qf7cl9wv3b]

je suis plutot surprise de ne pas voir beaucoup de commentaires francais, now, il y aura aussi le mien ... Fela est une véritable légende, il assure à tous niveaux, il met l'accent, et c'est rien de le dire, sur tout ce qui ne va pas et dessert le peuple africain, mais pas que, c'est aussi le reflet de cette société,de notre société... Et le rythme de ses morceaux, whouah, ca nous transporte littéralement... Il fait parti des personnnages que l'on est content de découvrir, si ce n'est pas déja fait....👍

[@jokoboyama6322]

oh this is so smooth

[@no...name123]

Beautiful

[@jiggeroo7]

Ever green..💚

[@herbertagyemang8498]

Great song

[@herbertagyemang8498]

Fela sings CALYPSO !!!

[@koollifebillionaire]

Thank you for the edited version, look clean and well mastered ans mixed

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

0:23 And Yanga Yango go call and bigger trouble go come.

[@vevoremix6801]

That for the edit so beautiful, is clean now

[@mrainaandroid8208]

good one

[@OlaAdewale]

Time to tell PA TINUBU that there is hunger in town abi.

[@gideonighodalo3476]

Abami Eda 👊

[@jokoboyama6322]

Did Burna Boy sample the lyrics in Dangote???

[@danielibukun5125]

Yes, I'm listening to this for the first time...and i immediately remembered Dangote by Burna

[@simbajones9360]

@@danielibukun5125 I recall burna boy song, you 💯 percent right!! Fella for ever and ever

[@raquellex6220]

what this song means is that if you cause trouble, you will get trouble in the rest of your life

[@emekaoputa4963]

not really, what is saying is more like "let sleeping Dogs lie" in other words " don't make Sport with trouble for the fun of it"

[@pentangle78]

@@emekaoputa4963 i think it's more or less the same, don't look for trouble and you won't get any.

[@emekaoputa4963]

@@pentangle78 u right

[@abudubalogun4905]

👍❤️

[@chess4326]

🎧🙏

[@jobby1124]

If you came here because of Seun Kuti slapped the police please like my comment!!!😂😂😂😂

[@omolayoogunmoroti5472]

Palava 🎉😂❤❤😢😮😅

[@OlaAdewale]

KENYA GOVERNMENT SEEK FOR PALAVA AND THEY GOT WOTO-WOTO .

[@gafingkaba3729]

🖋

[@MegaLollo66]

🤙💟🖖

[@user-bw6fc3ms5e]

BBC

[@togbeawalieiii684]

This man is a thief and a hypocrite. He robbed me in front of his wife at Lagos when I tried to do business with him. Don't believe he had any morals at all.

[@pentangle78]

interesting. I think people are generally more fascinated by his music than by his private life, as it happens with almost every artist.

[@danzybamusic4458]

😆 😂 😆

[@DJJiggitzbitz]

When was this? He passed away in 1996! Lol 😅

[@stephenbright9933]

1997 ​@@DJJiggitzbitz