Fela Kuti - Lady 

Fela Kuti yeah yeah!

Remember

Yeah! Yeah!

Fela Kuti a révolutionné la musique africaine.

Fela Kuti water on get enemy

No, they do not cos it is impossible to replicate his work. Each song was a masterpiece that could not and cannot be copied.

@@eniaofe9853 So right. I was hoping that today could produce musicians of his caliber.

Thank you for enlighteningng me. Stay blessed!!

I'm here

@@oseemma2838 Glad you're enjoying such quality music.

In 1972 us kids in New Zealand were listening to UK-based Osibisa - but when I hear FELA I suddenly understood where the Osibisa sound came from. Terrific music. Fela Kuti is the pioneer. Victor, I hope your future opens up bright for you.

Thank You Young Lion, you are OUR Future, 👍🏾👊🏾✌🏾🇳🇬🇺🇸

Im glad to a fellow South African listening to Fela, much love brother from Cape Town

Already thinking of making babies at 22?

@@shavhaniradzilani6982 ;-)

Estamos aqui ❤

Indeed! We've not left. The songs were gloriusly long. Just like the other Congo maestro Franco. Long and satisfying

Still here , 07 / 2024

Damn right.

Listen to the lyrics. Ladies.

Liqht Raise yup love from Ghana

How can we have borders when the skies are open from Moscow to Nairobi to Sydney to.... you name it. We created the walls ourselves.

ollo oduk absolutely right

ollo oduk The false walls will "fall" one day.

I did some training with US military personnel and a divorced guy complained bitterly about feminist ladies (especially his ex),just what Fela was singing about.

I was listening to Nduh Okoh on SpiceFM in Kenya and referred to her as a 9ja lady, and an hour later this song entered my mind and I just started laughing 😂 when the line "she go say I no be woman! She go say market woman na woman!" 😂😂😂 love it!!! I had not thought of it for a number of years!

Where in RSA are you from

Yeah, he was very vocal against apartheid. "Animal want dash me human right ..." Saying it to Boether and Thatcher

May his soul Rest in Peace. Make him proud by doing what he expected of you cos our actions, based on the expectations of the deceased, are the only way we can honour them. Good luck sis.

Same here

True

well, I could "argue" about that but I won't..... as there are SO MANY great great great African musicians out there..(Hugh Masakela etc etc etc)...but you can say this for sure...he was ONE of the greatest of all time...and also one of the greatest musicians in the entire world, of all time....not just Africa.....

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You couldn't have said it better. He wouldn't be Fela if he didn't say something about it.

You right King we have lost every thing from our Culture to our Woman and every thing just because of hardship and our so Call Bad leaders

You are blasting yourself, you dey bleach. Yellow fever, listen to that one.

@@sherwoodguernsey402 shut your fuck up

@@sherwoodguernsey402 ewo

You should watch his documentary that Jay zee put together on Netflix

Shame on you! Cheers! ;)

Black power😄

Right here with you...🙂

2024 ingolstadt Deutschland.

2024

Thank 💯💯💯💯🔥💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯🔥2024

Let's H2O 🎉❤😂😅😊😊😮🎉

glad you have such good taste in music, my Brother....Fella was a musical genius beyond all.... he was so far ahead of everyone else...only now, the world is beginning to catch up t o him...

I was born in 1989 and I love this song! It's literally perfect.

I was in the Bahamas in January 1969 & i bought this albumn(12 inch disc) then at a music shop in Abaco,together with several others.Mano Do bango,Hugh Masekela & other African musicians was 28 then I'm almost 82 now, & still can enjoy this music today.

Enlève ta cravate de président avant de parler de musique stp!!!

Good, brother...

WELL SAID... THX!!!

U talk correct!!!

Nigeria is not a "nation" and therefore it is impossible to acknowledge heroes. Sorry

fela has a museum shrine and his sons are keeping the legacy alive seun kuti is reincarnation of fela politically and social justice wise

First of all, get your wording right. Nigeria is in Afreeka and not separate, One Alkebuland-Afreeka continent, with 54 countries... Thanks

Orthographe please.

Cameroonian too love his music since im 9 yes,🤭

Completely agree with you boy

ahhh true my Brother....the BEST ....will always be the BEST....all through the ages of time....

The King ;) Cheers!

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*Afrobeat

Not was...Is. fela is Alive

They were both legends and friends..Bob Marley is the best of reggae and Fela Kuti is also the best of afrobeat.

He is celebrated by many as the greatest of his genre of musical style.....I first heard him on Afropop radio, and once was all it took, to get me into his music in a big way... (I am a "white" guy BTW) Bob Marley was the superstar of Reggae largely because of the British promotional push to get his music to the people in a commercially money making way........and Bob Marley was like the spokesman for the Rastafari religion, which is also a BIG reason why he was the big star he was ....and of course, the smoking of Herb is so very popular among all the youth , who , mostly are the ones that flock to concerts and buy records......so Fella never talks about smoking Herb in his songs, whereas Bob and Peter Tosh did.....A LOT......which pushed up his popularity too.....Plus, Bob Marley happened to be a genius song writer, able to fit together melody and lyrics so perfect that only "God" could try and do better.....I think people just need to want to expand their minds in order to get into some kinds of music that they never heard before...If they only listen to one type of music.......then they are missing out on a lot........Commercially speaking, Fella's music is not something you just hear on the radio at all.....Radio only wants the 2 or 3 minute songs that are popular "hits" ....and never allowed to venture beyond that..ONLY alternative radio stations like the one I heard Fella on, dare to expand the bounds of the norm.....If people are not interested in alternatives, they will never hear anything different...SAD BUT TRUE.....So Bob will always be more popular than Fella.....among the general population......

Emii Precious Marley wrote song glorifying Buffalo Soldiers. Not knowing they were white paid mercenaries. He regretted it to the end

Fela didn't have social media to report instantly. I f bob had instantgram. You think he would glorify Blackman killing indigenous. Im park indigenous. My spirit tells me better. He stooped playing Buffalo soldier

from Wiki: (summary, yes they were black, but often sent to fight Native Peoples) Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the Black Cavalry by Native American tribes who fought in the Indian Wars. The term eventually became synonymous with all of the African American regiments formed in 1866: Although several African American regiments were raised during the Civil War as part of the Union Army (including the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the many United States Colored Troops Regiments), the "Buffalo Soldiers" were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army.[1] ... In the last decade, the employment of the Buffalo Soldiers by the United States Army in the Indian Wars has led some to call for the critical reappraisal of the African American regiments. In this viewpoint[46] the Buffalo Soldiers were used as mere shock troops or accessories to the forcefully expansionist goals of the U.S. government at the expense of the Native Americans and other minorities.[46][47]

Yes oo

There is NOTHING typical about an African woman... You are the creator of many nations. You go girl!!!!

Africans women not agree.

Yes! No computer generated stuff. He is there cranking out those sounds just playing the instruments. This is y this music cannot be replicated nor sampled. It is just way too original.

The alto sax solo was by a great saxophonist named IGO CHICO, Conrad Sunkiojack, man. Fela couldn't do that. His feelings on sax were like his aggressive opposition to oppression, very harsh, ear-grating stuff. Chico - Lord bless his departed soul - was the master of subtle melody on sax. Respect to Chico!

Precisely!

Nduba Namoonde To be honest my brother it is everywhere in Africa when u r ahead of politicians army government they tend to kill you

could not understand ? they understood him quite well and that's the reason they kept attacking him. he constantly exposed them and said the things others were scared to say !

Exactly. No one can beat the system, except through enlightenment, expression and music. Fela was a real man, of likes we see very few of these days, but he chose to fight the entire system which this world is sadly based on. Ignore the idiots, laugh at them even when they steal all your food.

@@osabuoheinogbebor9563 so true, The army beat him up bad, broke all his musical instruments, and thew his own mom off a rooftop, because he spoke out against them...they understood his message VERY CLEARLY.....that is why they almost killed him...

@@melkitante8180 It's everywhere in the world!

Pioneer of Afro beats

hongera

Si Uongo!

Good music #kenyainthehouse

timeless is the masterpiece of musical genius....

There is just no other music like this.....HMMMM and he is gone.

Pa we dont give a dam we waiting still White People come and tells us to do it how sad it Sound look cameroon our Country it is nothing but now poor in a rich courty Paul biya is Killing and his Evil People Killing cameroonais i think Paul biya is not a cameroonais because you cant kill your own house so have a nice day King

@@clementchachuwatanko5686 animals

Nigeria is a dreams killer

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I was in my senior year in 1978 and you're right Fela was very popular among teenagers then, and the track was released in 1973 when I was a freshman. It stayed at the top of the Afrobeat songs chart since its inception, and it still swinging today

Baron Dean Emmanuel what's going on now is not music but noise. The legendary fela anikulapo remains the only man who can challenge the military and send. messenger to them

@@farouks.mamman2455 You r correct; not music but noise and half naked bodies shaking on stage: noise; not music.

Baron Dean Emmanuel, he did to all the youths who are in their 60s today. He was simply the best.

For Real

@Van Brown ✊🏿🌍👍👍

Godwin Amega in Lagos Nigeria and some parts here in America every year they have this event called Felabration

Plus fela museum in Lagos Nigeria... More still have to b done like studying his originality in d field of art and music....

they wont. he insulted many in power today.

they who hated him are in power

This song eish it kills me.wht a legend.the song is so powerful.i love it.it is still rocking like it was for yesterday

Ms. Nini wow!

Can you send it to me as a gift

You r so right I keep looking and always get pulled right back to fela!

But dude is nigerian ?

@@egieoruyi7579 Yes I know but I was referring to myself! My lineage is African!

@@CoSu1006 you should not mind them as african we are all brothers and sisters and we should build a better black world altogether

Me too ...listen to every week for years ....this is music and words of truth !

And I remember I was hearing pidgin English for the first time so got hooked to the song to understand the message. Talk about Fela ...

What a beautiful story and awesome memory to have!

Nairobi '70's Club 1900, Arcedia, garden

@Sundiata King ANOTHER Trinidad here ,I have always argue that this have been the grates piece of musical arrangements on this planet..😎

Babatunde Adelekan but name says western Nigeria maybe fela’s region

Lol

Yes!! There cannot be another Fela!!

white lady no be so, lady now masta

Respect

🙌🙌

Afro jazz

Looooove Hugh Masakela!

Ohhh yesss! Bra Hugh's cover is also 🔥🔥🔥🔥

For years I only knew Hughs version. It is amazing!

Both Fela and Hugh travelled to Ghana around 1967 and joined a band called Hedzolleh. That is where they both learnt the style that is called Afrobeat today. Afrobeat originated from Ghana, from the Highlife genre.

Hugh Masekela once lived at Fela's compound in Nigeria

Thank u. Impossible to copy nor replicate.

Not just African music but worldwide music.

Straight-Up No Chaser!!!

This is what i call music, the instrumental is boss, the singing sweet harmony. Love Fela from the first time my husband introduce it to me, never ending the boss, the genius, the legend. Gone but his music lives on Fela.