Fela Kuti Appreciation Thread

[JulesWinfield]

Post your favorite shyt brehs. Appreciate Fela.

 

[Premeditated]

Steve Mcqueen is developing a biopic about him. Hopefully it works out. But damn, this nikka was a true pioneer.

 

[okocharuud]

 

[THE 101]

The motherfukkin GAWD.

Too many musicians get labelled "revolutionary" just cause they record a couple of protest songs. But Fela was the real deal. Made music that was truly inspiring and uplifting for his people.

It's all good some long hair from Greenwich Village singing folk songs in a coffee shop about "The Man", but Fela went at a corrupt, violent regime fearlessly, and in the end paid for it through attacks on himself and his family.

One of the greatest artists ever in any genre.

 

[LLMR]

One of my favorite...

 

[ComputersPutin]

I saw him perform in the states when i was shorty. Anyone check out the broadway play...it was dope.

 

[JulesWinfield]

i wish i could've seen the play. heard a lot of good things. i've been trying to get into his son femi's music too. only got one album though so far.

 

[Basquiat83]

Water No Get Enemy is my shyt. Hopefully I can checkout the broadway play in a couple of months.

 

[JulesWinfield]

 

[Majestyx]

one of the GOATS, i'm always disgusted when i meet someone who doesnt know of fela

 

[JulesWinfield]

here's the fela kuti: music is the weapon documentary

 

[Danie84]

http://www.most-underrated-songs-ever.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fela-kuti-expensive-shyt.jpg

 

[JulesWinfield]

those are probably all his wives on the cover

 

[dennis roadman]

http://www.most-underrated-songs-ever.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fela-kuti-expensive-shyt.jpg

Expensive shyt is the twelfth full-length album by afrobeat pioneer Fela Ransome Kuti and his Africa 70 band. It was ranked #78 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s." The title of the album refers to an incident in which the Nigerian police tried to arrest Kuti by planting a joint on him. Kuti managed to eat the joint, prompting police to bring him into custody and wait for him to produce the excrement. According to legend he managed to use another inmate's feces and was eventually released.

 

[JulesWinfield]

^one of my favorite fela stories.