Kehinde !! .. na ya brotha Jairzinho, it was u who introduced me to Adesua RIP.. Wooow !! Indeed you danced for Baba, with distinction GOD bless you always my Sista ! ❤👊🏾😎💯
It was surreal to be in front of the stage listening when Fela rendered this masterpiece! Goood gracious, .....the vibes, the gyration, ...the baseline and to hear the thumping timbre of the infamous long drum?? Oooh... what a glorious performance! I floated in absolute euphoria! This recording doesn't do justice to the finer details and power of this song. This is one of his great masterpieces. Like great wines and as was his style, ...it was aged and matured through many years of performance and tweaking in the Shrine. Fela was a towering giant and a rare genius! Sadly, this song was never released into an album...... it is still aging gracefully in the cellar of his musical repertoire!
I was going to like the comment I just say make look the name of who dey write all this big big grammar wet dey sound like my man MIDAS. I come see say na you ..
I can never forget this day Lekki Sunsplash 1988. The traffic leaving Lekki after the concert was so terrible. That day I thought my cousin who we went to the concert together had drowned. We could not find him anywhere and his clothes were in a bag I had with me and all he had on was swimming trunks. He eventually came home later having walked from Lekki Beach to Pedro police station, the police brought him home to Gbagada early in thr morning. He got lost while trying to wait and chat with Fela's pretty daughter Sola after the show and missed our arranged ride back home. Fela performing BBC at Lekki Sunsplash 88, enjoy the MUSIC ..
You will disconnect from the intensity when it is time. I watched his documentaries 'Music is the Weapon' and 'Finding Fela'; they helped give me insight to his music. Also, listen to Femi & Seun Kuti's albums. Their compositions are shorter, but pack as much truth and lyrical consciousness.
Oh my! Exactly what's happening to me right now! So scary ...my is ongoing for more than three months now. I've download a 2hour deejay mix and another 77m mix of about 3 lps just to save some RU-vid data but I still come to search for new tunes which keep coming up anytime I type 'fela kuti'. I used to play burna and a bit Tupac and a bit a contemporary afrobeats....all now sound one dimensional, soleless and shallow art ... Please I'd like to know how you overcame your addition. Fela is a force!
BIG BLIND COUNTRY Oh, Oh Everybody say ye ye oya oh Let's go, you go dey answer "Esin don don", Now you go dey answer for me oh oh ya, "Kutu pa, Kutu pa" chorus: "Esin don don" Me I think say for this country dem cover our eyes with cloth but now I think say na blind we blind not be cloth cover, Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, Na oyinbo talk say, Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, Na one-eye man be king Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, If everybody no get dem eye Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, How dem go fit see dem king? Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, If the king not get im eye? Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, How the rest of the country go know Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, King blind, everybody blind Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, Na permanent darkness be dat Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, If king go hire im eye Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, How the rest of the country go know Chorus: In the country of the blind, na one-eye man be king, I don go put medicine for eye, no be oyinbo medicine I put, na babalowo medicine I put, my eye do open well well, Since I dey use Oyinbo medicine, ma body never better, I put for my y--sh, my y--sh still dey lick water, I take belle medicine, my belle still swell up, I put am for my eyes, I still never get my eye, . I don put medicine for eyes, na babalawo medicine I put, Oyinbo man talk, Oyinbo man shock, chorus: Oyinbo man go jam Demneverquine chorus: Oyinbo man go jam Demnicodeine chorus: Oyinbo man go jam Teramycin chorus: Oyinbo man go jam I want APC chorus: Oyinbo man go jam Paracetamol chorus: Oyinbo man go jam Demcatemol chorus: Oyinbo man go jam Teracatemol chorus: Oyinbo man go jam I want em Cafernol chorus: Oyinbo man go jam The Megezine chorus: Oyinbo man go jam The Megegine chorus: Oyinbo man go jam Anacin chorus: Oyinbo man go jam Give me Aspirin chorus: Oyinbo man go jam (continues with bastardization of different pharmacological entities) Ah aha aha in this state of Nigeria, Na oyinbo language we speak, the government style be say oyinbo things must better pass, as my eye don open so, I don see everything, the king wey dey our country, na hire im eye im eye, That is the reason we dey think one king get one eye, na oyinbo eye im go rent, na hire im hire im eye, I don put medicine for eye, na babalawo medicine I put, All of us must get medicine, traditional medicine for eye to comot for this chorus: Kuru kere kuru kere If you want to know chorus: Kuru kere kuru kere kuru kere meaning chorus: Kuru kere kuru kere when you dey waka slow chorus: Kuru kere kuru kere And then take style waka chorus: Kuru kere kuru kere oh, ye paripa Chorus: Wetin you see You know those people Chorus: Wetin you see those people dem dey call lawyers Chorus: Wetin you see See the thing wey dem all knack for head Chorus: Wetin you see orisi risi oyinbo wig oh Chorus: Wetin you see The man wey dem say go steal for market Chorus: Wetin you see Im go stand for court start to dey look Chorus: Wetin you see The only thng wey im understand for there Chorus: Wetin you see na when dem tell am to go for jail oh Chorus: Wetin you see I see plenty judges Chorus: Wetin you see dem dey parade inside dem wigs oh Chorus: Wetin you see That is a disgrace for this nation Chorus: Wetin you see For the thing dem bury themselves inside oh Chorus: Wetin you see Awolowo why all of dem they do like this? Chorus: Wetin you see Dem no dey for our own world oh Chorus: Wetin you see For dem to be proud of the ways of their masters Chorus: Wetin you see Na oyinbo sense dem dey take jail us oh Chorus: tell us more, tell us more Make I tell you more Chorus: tell us more, tell us more Wetin my eyes dey see Chorus: tell us more, tell us more African eyes dey see Chorus: tell us more, tell us more But you must go buy your own, African medicine Chorus: tell us more, tell us more Original medicine Chorus: tell us more, tell us more So that you can see the correct thing Chorus: tell us more, tell us more With the correct eye Chorus: tell us more, tell us more oh oh Ye paripa Chorus: Wetin you see I see our fine women Chorus: Wetin you see Dem dey waka very fine oh Chorus: Wetin you see Traditional women dem dey waka Chorus: Wetin you see Educated women dem dey stroll oh Chorus: Wetin you see You see the educated women Chorus: Wetin you see All those wey dem don do for school oh Chorus: Wetin you see Na oyinbo hair dem dey knack for head Chorus: Wetin you see Dem hair dey shine shine pass polish oh Chorus: Wetin you see Dem get one wey dem call permy Chorus: Wetin you see The other one dem dey call jerry-curly oh Chorus: Wetin you see Because dem dey for blind country Chorus: Wetin you see Dem dey spoil themselves with this style oh Chorus: Tell us more tell us more Make I tell you more? Chorus: Tell us more tell us more wetin my eyes dey see Chorus: Tell us more tell us more African eyes dey see? Chorus: Tell us more tell us more I asked dem say Chorus: Tell us more tell us more As dem dey perm their hair, t-t- hair nko? Chorus: Tell us more tell us more You go perm that one too? Chorus: Tell us more tell us more Dem tell me no. Chorus: Tell us more tell us more so, the hair of t-t-, is different from the hair of head? Chorus: Tell us more tell us more Ah, na wa oh, may dem no go start to dey perm the hair of t-t- Chorus: Tell us more tell us more Because na dat time, me sef go OPEN shop Chorus: Tell us more tell us more Oh oh, ye paripa! Chorus: Wetin you see? Na the eye wey the king hire Chorus: Wetin you see? na im all of dem dey take see oh Chorus: Wetin you see? All of dem just dem make copy copy Chorus: Wetin you see? dem dey disgrace themselves everywhere oh Chorus: Wetin you see? As far as me I dey Chorus: Wetin you see? Permy and Jerry curl no good oh Chorus: Wetin you see? Im just be like the tail of cows Chorus: Wetin you see na im all of dem dey knack for head oh Chorus: Wetin you see? We must all buy our African medicine Chorus: Wetin you see? To dey open our eyes very well oh Chorus: Wetin you see? To dey see everything correct Chorus: Wetin you see? Otherwise kuru kere will never stop oh. When yo dey waka chorus: Kuru kere kuru kere And you dey waka slow chorus: Kuru kere kuru kere Waka slow care chorus: Kuru kere kuru kere Then take style waka chorus: Kuru kere kuru kere Waka in darkness chorus: Kuru kere kuru kere (repeated all over again) oh, ye paripa Kuru kere kuru kere x 6 All the African leaders, Na hire dem hire dem eyes, Na oyinbo eyes dem rent, That is the reason why corruption dey, Authority stealing dey, Kuru kere, Kuru kere kuru kere Everybody make una shout Ole for them, Ole All our African leaders, Na hire dem hire dem eyes, Na oyinbo hire dem rent, That is the reason why corruption dey, Authority stealing dey, Kuru kere, Kuru kere kuru kere chorus x 3: Corruption dey, Authority stealing dey, Kuru kere, Kuru kere kuru kere
My favorite song in the world. This song is the blueprint for solving not only Afrika's problems, but every black persons problems all over the world! Know thyself! Be proud of who you are. Let it show in how you educate your children, govern your nation, care for your elderly, treat your women/children and respect the culture and traditions of your ancestors!!! Afrika Must Rise Again!!
I was but a child, but at least I lived in a time the same as Fela Kuti, the same energy flowing around the world. Let’s all try hard to keep the love flowing, so hard with such nonsense going on. But we must work at it all of us who hear and see more than the rest. I love you !
Those were the days. I just graduated from University, Youthful energy bursting from all pores in my body and I was certainly among the teeming crowd in the picture at Lekki Sunsplash. Oh my God it was something else. The traffic hold up back home was legendary. We got home 7 hours later in a journey that should have taken 30 minutes at most because everyone was at the beach. To make matters worse the car yours truly took to the beach could only move in reverse. It was the only gear the car would accept. I WAS THERE!!!! Baba 70 4 ever.
Not really that bad. There was just one substantive turn left roughly 1 kilometer from the beach and the rest was in one straight line on what we call express road interspersed with one short bridge at VI and two long bridges Eko bridge to the mainland 10 -15 kilometeres away. But when you are barely 20 that's just part of the fun :)
Watin you see for Fulenke toto? I Remember almost missing my flight to Frankfurt while dancing to this song live at the Shrine at Ikeja. The girls on stage with rich sexy African dance moves. I am very glad for the close pictures, I was allowed to take of Fela holdning one of the World biggest joint I have seen.
The best of Fela's unrecorded songs I always pray he should render it anytime I was worshipping at the shrine my fellow crew members from medilag then Tunde Ogunsanmi, Afolabi Grillo, Akus ,Big Nat my Shoulder crew Pobe, Kato, Aminu Kunle kurete God bless you all
Olufemi Ariyibi Medilag and memories of my buddy Justin Duro Emmanuel flooding my mind. He it was who immersed me into the gbedu movement - may his soul rest till Jesus comes!!
C'est quelque chose de difficile à expliquer la force, l'énergie et l'aura qui se dégage de la musique de fela! Les vibrations du saxophone qui vous fait planer,le rythme,épuis sa voix singulière qui surgit,nul besoin de comprendre de quoi il parle, c'est spirituel, c'est fort, c'est irrépressible, résistant, c'est immortel comme son auteur !!!
IF ONLY THEY LISTENED TO FELA'S MESSAGE NIGERIA WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST AMONGST ALL AFRICA ITS A PITY THAT THE DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE HAS NO VALUE ITS WHEN THE HEARD IS GONE IT'S QUITE UNFORTUNATE REST IN PEACE FELA KUTI.
One bad King music so spirit mellow of inspiration welcome into the real world of classic legency one of a kind and best in the West South East and North all cross the world nation wide in the community one proud King of a Angel real music if you understand the truth of nonsense.
Flea died before I began to listen to his music, one funny experience I had in my dream when I saw him, he approached me at the drinking bar and said come this is what made him to achieve his dream so if I like I should join him and I refuse
@@langusarila lol he basically said as you perm the hair on your head how about the one on your vajayjay. Because if so then he 'bout to open a shop too.🤭😅 So hair on head different from hair on vajayjay nawa ooo
1988? is this TBS (Tafawa Balewa Square)?. I remember watching a spectacular show that year billed as "Sunsplash" organized by Chief Bimbola Aboderin. It featured a number of front line reggae stars including "Yellowman", and top Nigerian musicians including Sunny Ade with Fela being the ultimate headline playing at about dawn (6:30am). The show finally wrapped up at about 8:00am having started before midnight! Probably the greatest show I've seen anywhere!
The photo is from a performance at Lekki. I was there, and remember it vividly. However, the event you are referring to took place at TBS in 1988. It featured Sunny Ade, Burning Spear, Chalice, Yellow Man, Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, etc. Fela performed last, in the morning. I was there, too.
Baba, Kalakuta Republic, Empire,rest in peace.Never missed friday nights and comprehensive,saturday nights in shrine..Obo na ragolis ,step up with yoghurt,outside guy selling,after much grass. Africa's Micheal Jackson. Eleniyo!
THE ORIGINAL SUFFERING HAS JUST BEGAN IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL THE WAY NIGERIA IS DETORLORATING IT MIGHT TURN TO RWANDA I PRAY IT'S WELL WITH OUR COUNTRY NOT TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN LIKE IT IS NOW.
How can l get someone or a company that can assist or sponsor me to work abroad, Australia precisely and pay later to the company or the person that sponsors me.Also l need assistance on how to prepare my CV and COVER LETTER per the Australia standard, Thanks and God bless.
No, Tony Allen was long gone then when Fela composed BBC but for those of us regular worshipers at d African shine in Pepple str.ikeja this was one gbedu that will always go down d memory lane
