This song brings tears to my eyes because it is a reminder that nothing will change if we don't come together and fix this country. I'm an Igbo man currently in Surulere listening to this masterpiece. Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, no matter your tribe we are all brothers. Ki la wa se
Who else is here in 2023? The 2023 Presidential elections sent me here. All these years, and NOTHING has changed. This is still the story of Nigeria. A sham of a democracy 🥲
Surulere brings feelings of nostalgia, patriotism, despair, and hope that I feel for Nigeria. I remember enjoying Surulere as a kid in 2001 even when I did not understand the lyrics. My father, also not a Yoruba speaker, was a big fan at the time and had a couple of Lagbaja’s CD albums, including “Lagbaja - We”. Over the years, after asking my Yoruba-speaking friends for translations, the song has become one of my all-time favourites. It has been 20 years since Surulere was released and many of the issues he mentioned are still prevalent. I think it would have been unrealistic to expect a perfect democracy in Nigeria given our history of military rule and ethnic heterogeneity. However, Lagbaga's main message - patience - is what we need, and is indeed practicable. We need the patience to build and consolidate democratic ideals because democracy is not an outcome or destination, it really is a journey. I cannot think of a better song about Nigeria and I hope that this masterpiece continues to remind us all of our political history and our democratic goals. If we do not heed, then "mo sorry fun gbogbo yin o!" God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
...we are in the same boat bro..back then when it was released, i had zero idea of what the song was about. What caught my attention more was the funny cartoon charcters, escpecially the scene of abacha's death the way he was poisoned and then the devil snatched him from behind😂😂😂..the song, more especially the video will forever be iconic i swear
The video first scene was British agents making a contraption out of the three main regions but that still isn't enough for you to know that there's nothing called the Federal republic of Nigeria! Nigeria is a failed state and we will forever keep chasing a non-existent dream as long as we are lumped together with neigbors having different ideas and way of life.
I finally found this song thanks to a friend who guessed it from my singing...after I had tried to search for the lyrics using my broken yoruba for sooooo looooonnnngg...finally!!!
i am cameroonian. I first heard this song in 2004 just a few days after I packed into my room at the university. My friend had an extended family member (a Nigerian) who was visiting. He brought along a Lagbaja VCD. I visited my friend one day and this song was playing. His uncle explained to us what the song is talking. I have loved the song from the very first moment I heard it. It has such a beautiful melody. This along with Fela Kuti's "Shakala" 2face's "African Queen" and Tiwa Savage's "If I start to talk" are some of the most beautiful and timeless Nigerian music I have heard. God bless Naija. It shall be well
And 9ja is still in the same situation in 2023! I remember watching this video as a kid… I gave up. But on the other hand, Lagbaja is a legend give him his flowers!
Funny how when lagbaja sang this song, we all could see some glimpse of hope for my country Nigeria. It is almost 12 years now and the hope we had is dead. The condition of my country people is very disheartening-- a country where nothing works, education zero, religious institution zero, political institution zero. things are going from bad to worst. I hope someday soon, we can get things straight. The only thing i know is that it is only the youths that can save that country....
Speak for yourself. Nigeria is definitely getting better at a snails pace, we are just waiting for the previous generation to pass away so they can stop inhibiting progress
TosinDFreshPrince just like aloko Baju said, you will wait forever haha... That was the previous generation said about their predecessors and the ones before them
NIGERIA. The country was formed as a contraption of different civilizations. 0:06 clearly shows this. This is 60 years post-independence, and the reality is even worse than when the colonial -masters- raiders left. Lagbaja was sadly wrong when he said Suuru Lere. Patience is not the solution to the half-century-long problem of Nigeria. Patience was not what Awolowo and Okpara used to build their respective regions during the first republic, it was an almost perfect regionalism and true decentralisation of the central government. If patience was the key, how come two decades of democracy have not achieved one per cent of what was completed in less than 7 years of regionalism during the first republic? No single successful nation on earth has three dominant ethnic groups. Nigeria will forever be stuck in a loop of infinite power tussle among the three groups with different agendas and ways of life. Nigeria is a clash of civilisation and realities.
Listening to this song in 2024 hits differently. It’s even gut-wrenching when you realize that Nigeria has been in a state of “rinse and repeat” as far back as can be imagined.
20 years after still suffering the same thing. If we don't use ethnicity, we use religion to divide and fight ourselves. We see truth and close our eyes to it cuz of tribal and religious bias. Nigerians still sleeping. We think we are woke but we are a blind nation. It hurts the nepotic and ethnic sentiments our parents ram with has been passed down to the current generation. There's no hope for this country. Our yesterday will always be better than our tomorrow
I used to be a kid listening to this song in my closest friend's house 🏡 Akinade Adeniji Kurmin Mashi Kaduna, Nigeria 🇳🇬 God Bless all those wonderful memories ❤️
I watched this again with sadness that can’t be put in words. Lord help Nigeria for there was once a country. Thank you Lagbaja for this depiction of my country...Òdí ègwù 😭😭😭.
24th April,2018. While thinking about my country,Nigeria...my mind went to this song and came here to watch it again. Amazing how we have gone from bad to worse. Every youth go get your PVC. If things are going to change,we have to initiate. It is time to take back our country. #TakeItBack !
The youths are not yet conscious,they're waiting for change,when they're the ones to bring the change. We had an opportunity in sowore or moghalu,yet they looked the other way,because of 10k and bag of rice,until the youths stops SNORING,what we see now will be funfair, compared to the doom looming around nigeria and the entire continent.
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Who’s here in 2024?
More than hear
Vibes dat lives forever
Who’s here in 2024
We dey
We dey
We dey
We dey
Who’s here in 2024❤
I just learned of Lagbaja two weeks ago and now I'm addicted 😩
Democracy day I dey here
I am here
We’re back
@@itsthehumor95 Same for me !!
Lagbaja is a a complete artist. This is who Burna boy thinks he is.
Who's here 2020🙋🏽♂️
I am!
Present
Meee
I dey oo
i am
This man deserves a national recognition, I use to watch this for fun then, sad thing is nothing has changed😢😢
Who's here 2022...this brought tears to my eyes...Nigeria, wake up
Here in 2023..
Same feeling..
@@dukeedoho9933Hi there from 2024. Tinubu is our president.
I'm here 24
@@simmiesanya6003 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
2024 bro🥲
Who else is here after the Lekki Tollgate massacre?? Am in 😭
So painful that things are even worse now 😔
Its 2024 and we still facing the same challenges as a country. God bless Nigeria
I’m still listening to this masterpiece ❤ in 2024 & I cried cuz I used to watch this song with my late dad 😢
This song needs to be played during this election season
This song brings tears to my eyes because it is a reminder that nothing will change if we don't come together and fix this country. I'm an Igbo man currently in Surulere listening to this masterpiece. Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, no matter your tribe we are all brothers. Ki la wa se
This song was the first thing that popped up in my head as I woke up this morning, the song makes more sense as I sang it at this age 😢
Who is here 2024 and Nigeria still did not change and bring tears to many people 😭😭😭
Still same situation 13 years after
many years later in 2023 this song is still relevant 💔
15years later instead of getting better we are getting worse as a country. It’s sad 😢
Lagbaja is closet thing we have to Fela
Very correct ☑️ honestly said too.
omo, this song pass a strong message
one of the most politcally explosive musical performance and videos of the 2000s.
Only Fela beats this.
11 years since you made this comment, and Nigeria hasn't changed.
Nah i say is there same level
It made it easy for kids to enjoy too
Still very relevant today
Wait o people used. TH-cam In 2007?
Lagbaja is hugely underrated. What a LEGEND. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
When Naija music had meaning
Harsh😂
Things have taken a toll for the worse in this country
Even in 2019, this is still the story of Nigeria. May God help us
Very sad bro!!
And 2020; although streets are quiet because of Covid19
Still true in 2020. Why can't we just get our acts together???
@@adeolafelix583 Because of corruption and greed.
Even worse in 2021.
How did this song describe an ENTIRE country?!
America needs to hear this today lol
2024!!! the problems still remains but do we continue to be patient!!! Indeed Lagbaja saw tomorrow
This song needs a remake
2023 still playing out loud 🔊
Who else is here in 2023? The 2023 Presidential elections sent me here. All these years, and NOTHING has changed. This is still the story of Nigeria. A sham of a democracy 🥲
These guys were like prophets then... They already sang about the future of Nigeria from a long time ago. God help us
Lol, they weren't prophets, they spoke about issues in their time that are unfortunately still happening in our time, so we can always relate
Surulere brings feelings of nostalgia, patriotism, despair, and hope that I feel for Nigeria. I remember enjoying Surulere as a kid in 2001 even when I did not understand the lyrics. My father, also not a Yoruba speaker, was a big fan at the time and had a couple of Lagbaja’s CD albums, including “Lagbaja - We”. Over the years, after asking my Yoruba-speaking friends for translations, the song has become one of my all-time favourites.
It has been 20 years since Surulere was released and many of the issues he mentioned are still prevalent. I think it would have been unrealistic to expect a perfect democracy in Nigeria given our history of military rule and ethnic heterogeneity. However, Lagbaga's main message - patience - is what we need, and is indeed practicable. We need the patience to build and consolidate democratic ideals because democracy is not an outcome or destination, it really is a journey.
I cannot think of a better song about Nigeria and I hope that this masterpiece continues to remind us all of our political history and our democratic goals. If we do not heed, then "mo sorry fun gbogbo yin o!"
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
...we are in the same boat bro..back then when it was released, i had zero idea of what the song was about. What caught my attention more was the funny cartoon charcters, escpecially the scene of abacha's death the way he was poisoned and then the devil snatched him from behind😂😂😂..the song, more especially the video will forever be iconic i swear
Nostalgia, also was in Surulere around that time. Facts only
My brother... you write so well.. I would be glad to connect with you.
The video first scene was British agents making a contraption out of the three main regions but that still isn't enough for you to know that there's nothing called the Federal republic of Nigeria! Nigeria is a failed state and we will forever keep chasing a non-existent dream as long as we are lumped together with neigbors having different ideas and way of life.
Chai. 😢😢😢😢
My best music video when I was still a kid 😊😊😊
Who is here 2022
It’s 2023! This is still one of my favorite songs on all time 😢! Can someone get it on DSPs 😫
This song makes so much sense now. I used to watch it for fun when I was a child.
Me too 😞, It really makes me think.
Same here. What a masterpiece
I swear
Lagbaja suppose sing the remix this 2024 o. E don red finally
Relevant in 2024💔 it's saddening
Still relevant in 2023… please let’s get our PVC and vote wisely…. No more letting selfish thieves decide our future. I still believe in Nigeria🇳🇬
I finally found this song thanks to a friend who guessed it from my singing...after I had tried to search for the lyrics using my broken yoruba for sooooo looooonnnngg...finally!!!
Honestly speaking good music lasts forever
i am cameroonian. I first heard this song in 2004 just a few days after I packed into my room at the university. My friend had an extended family member (a Nigerian) who was visiting. He brought along a Lagbaja VCD. I visited my friend one day and this song was playing. His uncle explained to us what the song is talking. I have loved the song from the very first moment I heard it. It has such a beautiful melody. This along with Fela Kuti's "Shakala" 2face's "African Queen" and Tiwa Savage's "If I start to talk" are some of the most beautiful and timeless Nigerian music I have heard. God bless Naija. It shall be well
Daniel Ngongang amen brother mi
AMEN. Thank You.
God bless you too
Thank you bro
Woow.. God bless you bro
2024!!! the problems still remains but do we continue to be patient!!! Indeed Lagbaja so tomorrow
And 9ja is still in the same situation in 2023! I remember watching this video as a kid… I gave up. But on the other hand, Lagbaja is a legend give him his flowers!
Lagbaja is one of kind! No one comes close to singing his type of music.
Lagbaja, if you can read this. Please don't give up, keep singing. You are and will forever be refereed to as a maestro
Mr Flip, I sight you o
Funny how when lagbaja sang this song, we all could see some glimpse of hope for my country Nigeria. It is almost 12 years now and the hope we had is dead. The condition of my country people is very disheartening-- a country where nothing works, education zero, religious institution zero, political institution zero. things are going from bad to worst. I hope someday soon, we can get things straight. The only thing i know is that it is only the youths that can save that country....
themickdon2004 na so my brother
Speak for yourself. Nigeria is definitely getting better at a snails pace, we are just waiting for the previous generation to pass away so they can stop inhibiting progress
you will wait for ever
themickdon2004 it's 2017 bro 3 yrs from ur lamentation, we are still taking a more dangerous nosedive as a country. it's a pity.
TosinDFreshPrince just like aloko Baju said, you will wait forever haha... That was the previous generation said about their predecessors and the ones before them
notice fuel was sold N30 per litre and we complained, little did we know it could get worse
30 naira then was big.
It's even worse now that it's 750 in 2024
NIGERIA. The country was formed as a contraption of different civilizations. 0:06 clearly shows this.
This is 60 years post-independence, and the reality is even worse than when the colonial -masters- raiders left.
Lagbaja was sadly wrong when he said Suuru Lere. Patience is not the solution to the half-century-long problem of Nigeria. Patience was not what Awolowo and Okpara used to build their respective regions during the first republic, it was an almost perfect regionalism and true decentralisation of the central government.
If patience was the key, how come two decades of democracy have not achieved one per cent of what was completed in less than 7 years of regionalism during the first republic?
No single successful nation on earth has three dominant ethnic groups. Nigeria will forever be stuck in a loop of infinite power tussle among the three groups with different agendas and ways of life.
Nigeria is a clash of civilisation and realities.
Agreed
First to come here in 2023
Even in 2023, we have still not gotten it right. Nigeria which way?
May god add another year to your age if you are there listen to lagbaja 2022
Listening to this song in 2024 hits differently. It’s even gut-wrenching when you realize that Nigeria has been in a state of “rinse and repeat” as far back as can be imagined.
Imagine- Fuel now about N600
Situations going on in the country made me search for this video. Some event playing out real time, it's sad
This was my favourite lagbaja video growing up, i'd watch it countless times.
Woke up with this tune in my head 🔥. 2024 and still relevant
God bless you LAGBAJA for this song
I will read this comment in the next 20years and I will continue to do so. Nigeria is 63 today 1/10/2023 and i didn’t care,God help us.
20 years after still suffering the same thing. If we don't use ethnicity, we use religion to divide and fight ourselves.
We see truth and close our eyes to it cuz of tribal and religious bias.
Nigerians still sleeping. We think we are woke but we are a blind nation.
It hurts the nepotic and ethnic sentiments our parents ram with has been passed down to the current generation.
There's no hope for this country. Our yesterday will always be better than our tomorrow
Here after Peter Obi’s election, we are still the same. Too bad
I used to be a kid listening to this song in my closest friend's house 🏡
Akinade Adeniji
Kurmin Mashi Kaduna, Nigeria 🇳🇬
God Bless all those wonderful memories ❤️
amazing...too many political msg in this video that I didn't realise in my childhood when I first heard this song
i enjoyed the video, i knew it was political but never grasp it cuz there was a lot of political cartoons in that era
All our friends have travelled abroad.. hurts so bad
2024 and things are much worse from when this song was released... We must protect our democracy
Oshiomole too has joined the looters. Lagbaja did not see that coming.
Shame to we alll
Still vibing in 2024 ❤
It's painful we still find ourselves in this pain😢😢😢😢
Up till date 2023 this song is still relevant.. God help Nigeria oo.
❤❤❤
I watched this again with sadness that can’t be put in words. Lord help Nigeria for there was once a country. Thank you Lagbaja for this depiction of my country...Òdí ègwù 😭😭😭.
Who is here 2024
I'm here 2023. It is well.
Confirmed 👌👌👌
I don't get the 31 people who disliked this video. I'll just assume it was a mistake. Timeless piece of art. 2019
Who is here in 2023😢😢😢😢😢 same story
I’m here in 2023 and this is making me cry
Same here
2023...... Na still the same thing, it's time for a major change!!!
I laff as I see fuel ⛽️ price for N22.
Na N600 we dey like this.
Make person update this in 2028. 🚶🏽🚶🏽
E dun reach 1,000 Naira per Liter o
2024 we’re buying fuel 1200
Anyone here in 2022? 🙃
🤗
Still the same story in 2023😞 Please lets vote wisely
I'm still here in 2024
There was never a country 😢
Labaja 😢😢😢😢chai Nigerian where u dey😭😭😭
Nostalgic.. I'm shedding tears...it's so painful nigeria hasn't learnt anything..
Who else is listening to this in 2023
God bless you Lagbaja 🙏 you're a Legend 🎉
24th April,2018. While thinking about my country,Nigeria...my mind went to this song and came here to watch it again. Amazing how we have gone from bad to worse. Every youth go get your PVC. If things are going to change,we have to initiate. It is time to take back our country. #TakeItBack !
The youths are not yet conscious,they're waiting for change,when they're the ones to bring the change. We had an opportunity in sowore or moghalu,yet they looked the other way,because of 10k and bag of rice,until the youths stops SNORING,what we see now will be funfair, compared to the doom looming around nigeria and the entire continent.
@@Sir_Ben all of us don wake
What was the result of you taking action? Nigeria was never meant to be for you and me.
2023 we are still here😆😆
2024 the still same old stories😢
2023 here we come... OBJ is a master rigger...
2023 ,3rd after election . Lagbaja is a prophet
MAY 29 2023 as buhari and my beloved Osibanjo leave office
Oh my God!!! So igboho the Yoruba activist was in this video. Check him at time, 3 minutes:6 seconds. Wow
It’s 2023 and we are still having the same conversation smh. Nigeria MUST wake up
Who’s here in 2013❤
2023, the song is immortal.
How time flies.....This is 2023 and shit hasn't changed
2024 Se suru Yi ni ere bayi?
Lagbaja the most creative artist in Africa.. ur my number one u too much abeg ..oju la alagon fin sori.. GOD PUNISH ANYBODY WEY WAN SPOIL DEMOCRACY🤣🤣🤣
Sounds like the Ancestors are speaking to me through this song. I weep for Nigeria