Fela Kuti - Yellow Fever

[@ZeeJovanovic]

He was the unofficial president of Lagos in Nigeria! KING of AFRICA!

[@hawkrolla]

Funny when you listen to Fela no other music sounds good for like 2 or 3 days.

[@markzucker3949]

Sun Ra

[@exxumma]

MF DOOM

[@TheMimixa]

Yeah Yeah

[@Lucas-bd9nd]

Man, I'm doing that for 3 weeks I just cant listen to other things

[@Lucas-bd9nd]

Now I can listen another thing. Now I'm listening to Mdou Moctar too

[@issakeita2799]

I knew Fela for having lived in Lagos from 1972 to 1974. I went to see him live before he moved to Suru Lere. I used to go to his compound when he had a donkey he named Yakubu Gowon! I was a regular at the Shrine. Fela was a monster of contradiction. I can't deny his musical genius!!!

[@illitrait]

...you sabi well well.

[@claudeguignier2789]

wooow!

[@minefcotedivoire9901]

What about your job in these years? How old are you?

[@bushmeatsound]

Man, have you written anywhere online about your experiences with and impressions of Fela Kuti. I cannot thing of a more important African musical artist. I'd love to know about his "contradictions".

[@gustavoaguirre793]

Very cool … thank you for sharing ✌️🙏🙏🙏❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥☯️⚛️☮️

[@goldl9427]

When he changed his surname from Ransome-Kuti to Anikulapo-Kuti ("Anikulapo" in yoruba means "One who has death in his pouch"), he meant his music will never die. Now we know. Watching him live put you into a spell-like trance. God bless you, abami eda!

[@tulsacaupain2882]

Only he could select such a name.

[@sureshvijay1994]

I wish more Indians discovered this song. As a southern Indian Tamil growing up in Mumbai, there was a very uncomfortable inferiority complex in my community revolving around our dark skinned appearance. Many years after Fela, BLM has risen, and Fairness Creams in India have been pulled back. Making the word Fair or Whitening illegal on skin lightening products doesn't mean original sickness is gone. My support for African culture as a Tamil has only invited racial slurs. One day, I hope we too recover from Yellow Fever. One Love

[@quinnb3109]

Yes!! And it should not be this way! Colourist affects both the Asian and African communities. So wrong! From a fellow African 🙂

[@AnaamSings]

Brother - I LOVED your post! Our inferiority complex about dark skin is a direct result of the white occupation indoctrination in the name of 'education' which continues to this day via 'catholic/private schools' in Bhaarat. The average educated indian in many cases is whiter than white - I used to be one of them....proud to be as Neo Roman white as possible and ashamed of my own heritage!

[@norzangdawashenghabhutia3184]

I am an Indian, from the foothills of the Himalayas, listening to Afrobeat of Fella Kuti.

[@swslpoet9898]

@@norzangdawashenghabhutia3184 thats awesome man

[@aframaco9491]

Stand strong Vijay!! Respect to you from Nigeria 🇳🇬!

[@AnthonyIgbinedion-ug9bi]

Who still rocking 2024

[@ChrisO-q1f]

I was from the beginning, still am, and I have a good feeling that I always will ❤

[@scootersickles6389]

This song gets me emotional, idk why but i suspect my bottled up emotions, but I love listening to this during the sun rise

[@laetitiaatangana9834]

☝🏽☝🏽 I do with this ageless song

[@AnthonyIgbinedion-ug9bi]

@@laetitiaatangana9834 nice one you are welcome, are on WhatsApp?

[@njengamuthaka7915]

We here

[@malingering9794]

Thank you Fela for bringing my dad so much joy. We'll be playing this in both his and your honour.

[@rorymcavinney6135]

I bought my first Fela vinyl at a record stall at Limerick's Milk Market and it was "Water No Get Enemy" EP and I've been hooked ever since. Nothing really compares to this type of performance! All the way from Éire 🇮🇪

[@RobinParmar]

Doc & John have turned people on to so much good music.

[@kazeemkoleoso2712]

Water No Get Enemy, probably my most favorite of all Fela's songs. Thanks, my Irish Brother

[@Redlyon22]

Right on brother and I'm from Dublin

[@impermanencenoself5965]

Western musos so obsessed with getting that perfect 4-6 min song to 'make it' on radio. Not understanding that at 4-6 min musos like Fela are just warning up. I would listen to Fela Kuti over 95% of modern radio songs.

[@davidkariu]

Hahaha he warms up for 10 mins.

[@seanbeukman9563]

LOL!!! Y'kno?

[@hassanelaouali2653]

From Africa to the Caribbean everybody should listen to this song. It's so sad to see that millions of our sisters (brothers) bleaching their skin

[@mureithialice]

Heal the Mind. The rest takes care of itself. Imagine the hate. Once you were dark skinned. From the family. The community. The society. The whole goddamn world. The precious dark skin. So hated. But yet envied. By the HATERS! What a paradox. Yet, the hate still lingers. But, me...always loved me DARK skin!

[@amehka5416]

Which is weird... everyone talking about proud to be African or Caribbean but trying to look closer to Europeans as possible, look at all the weave/wigs y'all be wearing.

[@christopherornelas4781]

Black is so beautiful please imbrace your inner beauty ❤

[@seanbeukman9563]

And wearing wigs.

[@andrescabreraf]

My deepest respect and admiration to Africa and the black people. Love from Colombia 🇨🇴

[@karlamarcus]

🤔🧐

[@shaspearman8647]

💗

[@symonwanjohi3294]

We respect you too our brothers and sisters.

[@davidsimon2144]

🙏🌈🌎 viva! Conoces a son palenque?

[@tassiepelletheaterowners4472]

Nice "mix" here. Feels a bit faster? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jn-4Y5qBnMSlr8k

[@lex3508]

Groovy jazz to satisfy the soul. Excellence is an understatement !!! Wow

[@anyolebosman5138]

This is what we call music.just makes you feel alive much love from Uganda 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬

[@gunalan257]

Tq

[@philanivezi7211]

Even through the difficult times in South Africa where my black brothers fights one another I still enjoy Nigerian legendary music Fela Kuti, all away from Durban... SA. 03/09/2019

[@pondlife9931]

What a man! What guts! What an inspiration to everyone, no matter what gender, what race, what color.

[@geralddavis8160]

Just discovered this; very soothing, definitely has that 70's funk vibe

[@johnk.atchley5079]

I bought this LP while assigned to Lagos from 1975 to 1978. Some of the best music ever, hypnotic, just close your eyes, absorb and let yourself move. Never did go to the night club on Ikorodu Rd, but heard a lot about it. He got the powers that be so angry that soldiers threw his mother out of a second story window. Fela Ransome Kuti was not just a really good, prolific musician, he was also an incredibly sharp social critic. He skewered all the crazy malfunctions of Nigerian government and society better than anyone. Yellow fever was the craze to bleach one's skin to look lighter and thus higher class. Think he skewered that affectation pretty well. FRK was very proud to be African.

[@pnmmni7289]

The last sentence is a killer, yeah he was very much a proud African!

[@fatimahmuhammad3220]

joy joy!

[@smoothflute1]

John K. Atchley Very well put

[@chriskazaglis]

Asssigned to Lagos huh? Business or Diplomatic Service?

[@abayomiajomale2127]

John K. Atchley absolutely. thank you sir

[@triplettam]

The one and only Fela. He and his band are one giant rhythm section. So percussive and syncopated. And Tony Allen . . . .

[@christiansimon1177]

I'm Haitian but Fela is one of my Heroes ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@silvia7554]

there 's not but we are all sons of this earth !! I embrace you

[@martinanikwe3967]

Most Haitians are Nigerians of Igbo origin

[@eruseobasuyi3941]

haitians are our brothers and sister.

[@Rorol1fted]

AYITI 🇭🇹

[@eddutome]

Love haitians from Sao Tome and Principe

[@stephansoules5644]

when i was fourtheen,i hearded this music,Fela was an UFO for me A great and famous musician☝️☝️👊👊👊

[@nkenomasaga1896]

I’m listening to this because of my dads influence. Came back older and I appreciate this

[@snyderjohnson7841]

I am here in 2021 and it still sounds so fresh and yummy. RIP LEGEND of all times #Fela

[@kimdee4275]

This still puts on a Music Spiritual High! 2022 & The Ancestors [still] movin' through my Soul! 🎶🎶🖤

[@kimdee4275]

@James Hama Blessed & Joyful Pray the same... 😎

[@Redlyon22]

I hear ya

[@hogan523]

I'm glad you like it. Fela is arguably the greatest musician/composer/arranger to come out of Africa. I have more of his songs on my channel.

[@adrianrainbow4106]

If you can sit still, YOU are the Zombie!

[@SmoothSilk]

Lyrics to Yellow Fever : Different different fever na him dey Different different fever na him dey Different different fever na him dey Different different fever na him dey Malaria fever nko? (He dey!) Jaundice fever nko? (He dey!) Hay fever nko? (He dey!) Influenza fever nko? (He dey!) Inflation fever nko? (He dey!) Freedom fever nko? (He dey!) Yellow fever nko? (He dey!) [Chorus] Na him dey bring the matter now he dey! Yellow fever nko? (He dey!) [Chorus] Na him dey bring the matter now he dey! I say tell them make them hear (You say!) All fever na sickness (You say!) Original sickness (You say!) Hay fever na sickness (You say!) Original sickness (You say!) Malaria na sickness (You say!) Original sickness (You say!) Jaundice na sickness (You say!) Original sickness (You say!) Influenza na sickness (You say!) Original sickness (You say!) Inflation na sickness (You say!) Original sickness (You say!) Freedom na sickness (You say!) Original sickness (You say!) Yellow fever nko? (You say!) [Chorus] Original and artificial he dey! Yellow fever nko? (You say!) One more... [Chorus] Original and artificial he dey! Bom bom bom, tell me now... Original catch you Your eye go yellow Your yansh go yellow Your face go yellow Your body go weak I say but later if you no die inside The yellow go fade away Artificial catch you You be man or woman Na you go catch am yourself Na your money go do am for you You go yellow pass yellow You go catch moustache for face You go get your double colour Your yansh go black like coal You self go think say you dey fine Who say you fine? [Chorus] Na lie, you no fine at all! At all, na lie! My sister, who say you fine? [Chorus] Na lie, you no fine at all! At all, na lie! Yellow fever [Chorus] You dey bleach, o you dey bleach! You dey bleach, o you dey bleach African mother You dey bleach, o you dey bleach Sissi wey dey go Yellow fever Stupid thing Yeye thing Fucking thing Ugly thing Yellow fever You dey bleach, o you dey bleach African mother You dey bleach, o you dey bleach Sissi wey dey go Yellow fever Now to the underground spiritual game Underground where dey down for school Over there for school, yes Where dey go say: teacher Oya! [Chorus] Teacher! Who steal my bleaching? My precious bleaching? I buy am for shopping For forty naira How I go yellow? How I go find out? I go die o I go die o I go die o According to complaint Complaint must get answer I beg please, help me help teacher Oya, foolish Oya! [Chorus] Foolish! Who steal your bleaching? Your precious bleaching? You buy am for shopping For forty naira You self all yellow How you go find out? Your face go yellow Your yansh go black Your moustache go show Your skin go scatter You go die o You go die o You go die o You go die o [Chorus] You dey bleach, o you dey bleach! You dey bleach, o you dey bleach African mother You dey bleach, o you dey bleach Sissi wey dey go Yellow fever Stupid thing Yeye thing Fucking thing Ugly thing Yellow fever You dey bleach, o you dey bleach African mother You dey bleach, o you dey bleach Sissi wey dey go Yellow fever

[@lnudd3947]

Ada Ngozichi Aham thank you!!

[@aderemiolalekan534]

Gud

[@ndololamour1640]

Thank you....listened to this song yesterday for my first time.

[@olasupojohnson5698]

Thanks kindly for uoloading the lyrics

[@stellajoseph9588]

Great

[@Wendyficent1]

Beasts of No Nation and Shakara are everything!!! But props must be given here as well.

[@LC-xx2db]

Ok so this is what yellow fever is about, I had to really listen to the lyrics over again bleachin! Oh its real problem in the black community and false hair too!!! Rock on Fela forever!!!

[@jarkkowilkman1904]

+Lerlene Cork This bleaching is probably mostly black thing, but all over the world all kinds of people take unnecesary plastic surgeons, and that's sad.

[@gunalan257]

Ya it's A rareeer created in industrial musicson in these planet..

[@Traedavis112]

The Harder They Fall brought me here.

[@thedirtybasterd227]

King Fela will allways have a special place in my heart even if i am as white as snow. it is not a mater of color but of heart! black white what ever peace and love to all! MUSIC IS THE WEAPON!

[@joakobolso18]

I love it, i really love it. Thank you very much.

[@babymmune]

YOU DEY BLEACH OO YOU DEY BLEACH haha I love Fela

[@illitrait]

...that bassline, though. Pure murder.

[@starisesun7692]

*Pure life

[@simonpitt4080]

​@@starisesun7692 inhibitions aborted :P

[@Mythical444]

Sounds like James Brown

[@knowyourworld93]

Disaster itself, that bassline

[@VellonWepa]

@@knowyourworld93 the bassline hits so hard

[@TheJlb527]

Fela is one of the greatest story tellers of all time. He songs arent music, they are stokes of genius! I learn and i get so much from his songs. I learn more about culture. Back then when everything had a meaning and songs were messages...

[@sketchbabu]

Janet lagah-bona perfectly said

[@joshuaflocks7997]

D.a soo trueee

[@mauramicheletti564]

Used to dance Fela in a little disco in the middle of the foggy countriside off Milan, i was young in the 1981, and im still in love with his music

[@michaelburke7742]

Why is this music just hitting my radar? This is some the best stuff I've heard in a long time. Full on Grooovy.

[@henriquefbarbosa]

+Michael Burke I wanna copy and paste your comment. I'm sad for all the 27 years I've lost without this

[@OgeOliver]

+Henrique Barbosa He is epic, a legend. He was called "Ebami Eda" (the One Touched by Divine Hand)

[@AzucaNegra16]

+Michael Burke, Check out Mr. Follow Follow and No Agreement. I think you will like them.

[@Wendyficent1]

Shakara and Beasts of No Nation, two perfect songs.

[@saa-gc1mf]

hqqq

[@sirdavidtempleton3781]

This white boy and Fela devotee went to the Shrine last year ...unfortunately no one playing but a memorable night

[@brucerobertson8461]

monumental political force along with rasta Bob

[@theo_ionescu]

just discovered this, blown away... greetings from Romania

[@lekgememphahlele2396]

Maestro

[@drewout8363]

Salut fratele Emi ma bucur ca esti un om spiritual

[@egopat15]

Welcome brother🇳🇬

[@lajiraffa]

@theo Ionescu though your comment is a long way back, see if you will like Ali Farka Toure.

[@theo_ionescu]

@@lajiraffa thanks for the recommendation brother, it's never too late

[@sylvainossong3037]

FELA tire sa popularité et son immortalité de l'originalité de sa musique , en réalité il a créé un style musical reconnaissable et unique qui du premier coup est identifiable , son style comme celui de MANU DIBANGO ou HUGH MASEKELA est intemporel!

[@alexjosedossantos6967]

Essa semana eu conheci o filho dele Seun Kuti tocando aqui no Brasil 🇧🇷 Em Porto Alegre, um som uma música fantástica dançante contagiante eu amei 👍🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@sanaga2379]

I love Fêla 💚❤️💛 is big mann 🙏🏽 De vrais paroles toujours d’ac 40 ans un vrais précurseur et visionnaire

[@edenhazard7971]

Legends never die. Fela’s music will live on for centuries to come. Proud to be African ❤️

[@iruranyiha6248]

Thank you Eden Hazard

[@peteg3596]

The main man in the room, no words required - off to inner contentments. Peace and love y'all

[@shantytown5116]

I was on a flight to someplace, and clicking through the iPod for the perfect air-travel music. Tried EVERYTHING, and nothing worked. Then I hit on some Fela, and listened the whole trip. It's off of this world.

[@bashiryusuf3380]

our African queens pls be proud of your natural skin colour

[@ΜαριναΚυρατζοπουλου-υ6ν]

Yes my friend, I am white but always I am proud for my daughters dark skin as a half cast She is the most beautiful girl !!

[@abetrasken]

dude gtfo

[@illitrait]

..."half-caste" is a racist term, Μαρινα Κυρατζοπουλου. Peace to you and your family.

[@nownow3672]

BabaStiletto it's not!

[@illitrait]

...not really an argument, Now now - I strongly suggest you look up the meaning of "caste" within a racial context. Let's have a further exchange when you've done that. Bless up.

[@artaqua8580]

New, to me, but DOPE. Turning 40 in a few months, trying to vibe this life out like this for now..

[@bookmeaflight]

Fela at his best before he was badly beaten by 'Unknown Soldiers'. Baba, though your are gone your music remain evergreen. Okurin meta, sun re o.

[@nkechidouglas5541]

Even then, the beating did not slow him down. He remained a thorn in the flesh of the dictators until sickness and death caught up with him.

[@electriclioness4607]

Ase

[@MrDoctorMabuse]

He's making my whole day better. Reaching parts of my soul I never knew were there. Thank you Fela!

[@dondabull]

Fela's music takes you to a different level.

[@FNFIHOCTW]

I love being a BLACK WOMAN!

[@karlow8]

Guud God...!!!

[@FenderJazzStudent]

And like all of the greats, such as Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Duke Ellington, etc., Fela Kuti still sounds ahead of his time! I had the fortune to be able and witness his son perform (Femi Kuti) in my hometown of Flagstaff. He is also an incredibly talented musician.

[@chiomaokike6760]

Glad to know his legacy lives through his son! 🇳🇬 💚

[@gospeligbinovia13]

Yes the sons are doing Great job , listen to seun too he's very versatile a demigod in his own world and its not just the fela sons now its going to the grandson too main Made kuti is a phenomenon germ

[@infinitepossibility]

This guys music is immortal.

[@abiodunosemobor]

Absolutely

[@kelvinodisse501]

My brother. Na you wan tell me?life was super sweet then. Not now politicians has come to destroyed our dear country

[@uzeoo]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYHHYn-LabGDkK8

[@simbajones9360]

Yes, immortal!!!! It is!!!!(

[@ZZ90755]

RIP he was the worst nightmare to every dictator in Africa including military rulers

[@yaminhaniyah2979]

Ha ha ha !!! Lol.

[@joenice4510]

Absolutely true....most especially Mobutu seek of Zaire, who refused Fela a concert tour permission.

[@adewolenifemi6385]

Yes ooo

[@ritaogiesoba1204]

@@yaminhaniyah2979 iùj

[@nagichampa9866]

Yes! The world needs more Felas...pun intended!

[@hogan523]

Fantastic bassline. It's what makes the song!

[@illitrait]

...killer bassline - from the gods.

[@ajayasir5272]

James Brown influence

[@markzucker3949]

Your mother can hear bass on yu tube! The rest of us have No Bass. I hate digital shit

[@DeepCrossing1]

it makes the song cause it has the rhythm, the harmony, and almost part of the melody. Its the textural backbone.

[@funmilolasamuel]

Who's still listening to this legend of those days in 2020. Loving memories of Abami eda

[@ramishrambarran3998]

Me. Trinidad & Tobago.

[@robertwaite8754]

Greetings Ms Samuel, in answer - a reasonably well-read, middle-aged, bespectacled Anglo-Saxon from North West London.

[@aluma071]

aho!

[@MRSZ5440]

Louisville, KY checking in 12-24-2020

[@seyekolawole4455]

Yeah....ever fresh

[@susucocofafa]

Listen this song in Brazil 2018. Yellow fever killed a lot of people in Brazil in 19's and it is killing today as well. A lot of things will never change despite our good will

[@SuperHtownswag]

bro...so much nigerian yoruba influence in brazil. ex. yall's "carnival"

[@SolomonOlayodeMensah-Attipoe]

FELA 4 LIFE 🔥

[@davidoliver6999]

If baba was to be alive today. I believe this our generation today won't have be so lost in bleaching of their skin 🤷‍♂️

[@augustineijebome6089]

Fela music is always unique

[@antonypearson7751]

That saxopone !!!

[@victorvisser403]

Fela forever! I will listen in 2020 if I am still alive. Fela definitely will be.

[@abdulraf1414]

i sure hope u re still listening ?

[@ngwangjini7574]

2020 I’m here

[@theafrican3676]

Now Black China is in Lagos promoted skin bleaching products. This song is more relevant than ever.

[@louisotieno4712]

Imagine.... If Fela rose from the dead he'd take HIS own life on seeing what's still happening is what,he sang against... They 're elected Obasanjo and are still bleaching 😑😣😑😣😑😣.. Rest In Power Abami Eda.... 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽💪🏽

[@Antonio18677]

LOUIS OTIENO they are bleaching people skin seriously?

[@elizabethsnyder_baldonado39]

BLACK!!!!! IS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!! BLACK!!!!! LIVES MATTER!!!!!!!!! GDAMN IT. 🖤💪🏿🖤✊🏿🖤 💓REST IN POWER,🎶🎷🎶 BROTHER FELA.💓 Your music AND your message live on, moreso in the midst of chaos, crisis, challenges, & for the CHANGES that MUST--& WILL!!!-- COME. Thank you, blessed spirit.🙏🏽🌈💓

[@elizabethsnyder_baldonado39]

For some unknown reason, the word "WILL" in my comment above got marked through!!! WtalmightyF???????????????????????????? I didn't do that!!! 😾 Grrrrrrrrr. Maaaaan...

[@scottpaulson206]

If only they knew "I am dark but comely" really translates to "I am black and Beatiful!"

[@MeimaSawoe]

Yesss Fela! I'm sooo feeling the lyrics, sad thing is many of our people still have the mentality that their skin is ugly and it seems as though some of us will never learn to appreciate it.

[@teoagacevic3441]

im feel as greey wolf from Balkan ...im like all what i like..

[@Redlyon22]

It's beutiful

[@sarahgarden1594]

This is like some of the classic African music they play on BBC radio 6. I'm trying to track some of that stuff down (my poor memory means I imprint the name of the artist in my head then lose it again soon after) A lot of modern African music sounds out of this world. It's always bliss just to turn on the radio late occasionally and hear it.

[@judethomas7017]

+Sarah Garden Definitely check out Mulatu Astatke and Mahmoud Ahmed

[@julienhalleux8659]

+Jude Thomas Mulatu astatke is clearly music out of this world to chill out

[@EmYeah8]

+Sarah Garden Have you tried downloading Shazam? super useful if you're forgetful when trying to remember songs you hear :)

[@Sandpitboy]

there has been alot of songhoy blues recently

[@yaminhaniyah2979]

I knew this song was about loving the skin that you are in. But there are those who misunderstood what the day, age and times were like. A true lack of understanding. It amazes me that while he made this back in the 70's, people nowadays are actually bleaching their skin. Wow! RIP 2019. What happen to the synopsis that use to explain what this song was about.

[@olocheokwori6734]

Yellow Fever is one of favourites

[@mohamedbahaoudinesom7734]

It was the music in my youth and I still admiring the black president. Rest In Power black president Fela Anikulapo Kuti

[@iruler08]

GOAT Naija musician, nothing has changed when you listen to his lyrics, still a failed state!

[@icantbreathe]

Fela was chanting down bleaching long time.

[@maimadabachambers3368]

❤❤ The greatest!!!! Ur music penetrates my inner being! I salute you oga!

[@obaolori]

shining blk is soooo much mo btful than artifical yellow

[@cameronross1823]

He absolutely murders this beat. and I mean that in both the most sincere and satirical of ways.

[@starisesun7692]

*Gives life

[@hatshepsutmaatre8510]

Indeed

[@Pezzone14]

@@starisesun7692 exactly

[@kamron27]

💚❤💛 2024 toujours d’actualités Mister FELA is à visionnaire 💥💥💥💥💥fire baby 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@emmanuelborris4408]

Let’s goooo 237

[@tousseisabelle525]

Février 😊

[@SuperThiagovieira]

Sean Kutti, tocou no Tendal da Lapa a 3 semanas no Brasil. Foi ai onde eu conheci o Afro Beat, que energia foi aquela, um sofisticado grito de resistencia.

[@stefancvetkovic7812]

When you listening this it doesnt look so long.

[@JimmyTheUglyBard]

Give this man the Nobel Peace prize. To recognize the amazing work of Fela.

[@Pezzone14]

those are Babylon's accolades, human beings such as Fela are the People's Champ, we reward them in our hearts and spirit

[@70good91]

@@Pezzone14 agreed wholeheartedly. keep the disgusting nobel committee away from this.

[@juniorvybz9003]

my dad influenced me into listening to this amazing man's music.. and i thank God i took in his music.. its soo cool and food to my soul lol

[@emmanuelimarhiagbe6538]

The good work of a man lives on even after his dealt.Rest in peace ABAMI EDA

[@walterfrisbee9878]

Nah this aint just Jazz...It's Stretch Music!

[@lawrenteatenaga9446]

Baba 70 may his rest in peace.

[@Rayza82]

Why did the 70s have sounds like this. Nothing like it was created before or after except for sampling by hip hop groups mostly in early 90s. This proves that it was worldwide and the best part is it was all done with live instruments with very limited electronic input. I wasn't born until the 80s so I didn't live it. But why was the 70s in music such a magical time, can somebody explain? And please leave money out of it, always the lamest justification for things although I know money is important of course. But there was something else.... felt in the soul of so many musicians. From country to funk to disco to classic rock to r & b to reggae to soul to even classical, opera, jazz and early hip hop. What was it? Why did it go away?

[@carvalhoesilva3189]

The market

[@bushmeatsound]

P-Funk.

[@carvalhoesilva3189]

The 60s and 70s were magical in every sense of life and not just in music because there was human purity! After those times we became the artificial people we are now, you are the reason that we can no longer do something the same or better...!

[@cetossa]

à 7 mn 20 , les paroles commencent ...sacré Black Président Fela ! Certains ont les montres, et les africains ont... le temps 😂😂😂😂

[@brycegreen3448]

Wish the world more open to experience all the cultures of music.. is just like food.. you can have a sing song for every thought and feel. Like you can make with every meal. Go with peace and love over hate divisions

[@eyitayoolawumi4772]

This is the best performance!!!! Wonderful bass line!

[@calebw0755]

Just discovered Fela Kuti, and this is incredible!

[@tosinadeyemi7485]

+caleb wright - then uv been missing alot

[@jorgeamaro2686]

me too

[@fatimahmuhammad3220]

word! and if you have never seen him in concert....goodness!

[@janossandor6517]

I highly recommend you the Beasts of No Nation, this is my favorite from Fela, although I'm a big fan of all hes stuff :)

[@abiodunosemobor]

@@janossandor6517 I recommend 2 others because he played in different eras of his illustrious career 1. Water No Get Enemy 2. Army Arrangement

[@danklinufo3521]

This kind of music is hard to find! I’m here in 2020 feeding my soul baby😎

[@nmg1909]

Exactly, It is a rhythm of its own. A special music genre.

[@nickhatherly2321]

I grew up sitting on his knee in Lagos clubs. He was a friend of my fathers as was King Sunny Ade.

[@powerblaze2u]

You're so lucky

[@abiodunadeyemi337]

Your father must be Rich Rich

[@nickhatherly2321]

Abiodun Adeyemi they were both involved in education.

[@jamescapb3795]

Nick Hatherly that’s Whatsup bro

[@hanoverkid]

you cant buy life - wow on so many levels , thanks , its an interesting situation to image ....... I saw King Sunny Ade do the headline last artist on Sunday night in the early 80's ......musically mesmerising

[@soniaoriakhi5599]

who say black is not beautiful he dey learn

[@mercifulgrace2098]

still holding high respect for his personality and what he stood for in a difficult time of nationhood and ill system from structure of public interest. his vision about the nation is evidence till date, fought for all but fear still acceptance.

[@Jean-marcthierryVictorin]

Jean - marc thierry victorin like thE music of FELA KUTI .

[@uso6037]

Love the message, bleaching is a shame

[@nathobi1364]

Uso Udenze you are right

[@nathobi1364]

Right

[@nemanjamilovancevic7311]

As well as tanning. Accept who you are and accept others the way they are. It's not that hard.

[@pyrodutch3847]

I agree with you 💯

[@sherwoodguernsey402]

Why u bleach, ode

[@pretorious700]

A lot of the early American funk music was borrowed from Fela.

[@deskryptic]

It was a back and forth over the atlantic

[@naturallyme14]

Fela was inspired by American funk music.

[@Junelle_xx]

@@naturallyme14 fela formed his first band in 1961. american funk music originated in the mid-1960's.

[@Junelle_xx]

this is 2019

[@naturallyme14]

You can't borrow what you created.

[@keithskillz90210]

WHOA WHERE have I BEEN? Randomly stumbled onto this, this morning. 8:17am working from home ROCKING OUT!! MORE FELA PLEASE

[@kelthekonqrr]

This is 2018 now, and this is still relevant.

[@Junelle_xx]

and this is 2019. lol

[@Jasitus]

This is a witness that I didn’t forget you in 2020

[@kafuideymc]

Love ❤️ from Ghana 🇬🇭. Loving the groove. RIP Papa Fela

[@SanjaSky]

I just can't believe... I love Fela...and, yes, I'm white... but I also just love Seal, Sade and, of course (my favourite) Keziah Jones... What's that about Nigeria? I've never been anywhere but Europe... music just brings me out of my body...

[@lizidika1643]

SanjaSky and i thought Aśa and Jeremiah Gyang were good heads doing it too..

[@ivanc9149]

SanjaSky u were there “before”

[@jimbimedia]

Remains topical 40 years later. Brilliant musically and funny. It is very much structured like a children's nursery rhyme/school yard play song.