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
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 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 about. 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 "Shakara" 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
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 🥲
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!
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.
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!!!
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.
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 😭😭😭.
Lagabaja has always been conscious and woke. God bless him, reminds me of my dad, i miss him so much it drives me crazy. Rest in Peace and see you soon
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 remember watching this music video as a little kid on ITV benin in the early 2000s and it has stuck with me ever since,,,second time of seeing this video but i never forgot the song.....lagbaja did a great number on this.....till now the questions are still unanswered...
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.
As a kid, I enjoyed the animation. But after reading Soldiers of fortune, I sadly understand everything depicted now. 2024 and still nosediving as a country 😢. Thank you Lagbaja
God, this never gets old. Timeless piece of art. Growing up listening o this was legit nostalgia, the animation was also new in the Nigerian scene then, everyone was hooked to this. till my favorite lagbaja song.
I am the indomie Generation kid but I love histories, I cried watching this video today to think he did this song that year and still relevant till now makes me sad
I can't help but feel bitter after listening to this song again after many years. The issues it addressed are still on. The only major change here is that songs these days are only about bed room romance.
Activist, musicians and a whole lot of credible people have spoken since but Nigeria still makes the same mistakes!! The people just no wan gree change !! Sad
OMG This music speaks to many years of corruption and all other form of political injustice, i am glad to be blessed of being a witness to the works this musical legend,,, Lagbaja Musical Taliban
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Who’s here in 2024?
More than hear
Vibes dat lives forever
Lagbaja is a a complete artist. This is who Burna boy thinks he is.
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 !!
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 😔
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's here 2020🙋🏽♂️
I am!
Present
Meee
I dey oo
i am
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
many years later in 2023 this song is still relevant 💔
Who is here 2024 and Nigeria still did not change and bring tears to many people 😭😭😭
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.
Naija which level we still dey where we dey ooooo from bad to worse, hmmm e go beta
2024 yet no change
Its 2024 and we still facing the same challenges as a country. God bless Nigeria
Even worse
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?
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 is one of kind! No one comes close to singing his type of music.
Lagbaja is hugely underrated. What a LEGEND. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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. 😢😢😢😢
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 about. 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 "Shakara" 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
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 🥲
How did this song describe an ENTIRE country?!
It’s 2023! This is still one of my favorite songs on all time 😢! Can someone get it on DSPs 😫
When Naija music had meaning
Harsh😂
Things have taken a toll for the worse in this country
omo, this song pass a strong message
Still same situation 13 years after
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
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 closet thing we have to Fela
Very correct ☑️ honestly said too.
America needs to hear this today lol
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🇳🇬
2024!!! the problems still remains but do we continue to be patient!!! Indeed Lagbaja so tomorrow
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 😢
2024!!! the problems still remains but do we continue to be patient!!! Indeed Lagbaja saw tomorrow
This was my favourite lagbaja video growing up, i'd watch it countless times.
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.
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
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!!!
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
Honestly speaking good music lasts forever
2023 still playing out loud 🔊
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
Relevant in 2024💔 it's saddening
Sounds like the Ancestors are speaking to me through this song. I weep for Nigeria
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 ❤️
Situations going on in the country made me search for this video. Some event playing out real time, it's sad
It's painful we still find ourselves in this pain😢😢😢😢
Woke up with this tune in my head 🔥. 2024 and still relevant
2024 and things are much worse from when this song was released... We must protect our democracy
Omo baba mukomuko bless you for this ART there’s no changes yet 😢
Nostalgic.. I'm shedding tears...it's so painful nigeria hasn't learnt anything..
Lagbaja suppose sing the remix this 2024 o. E don red finally
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
This song needs a remake
There is so much message, some much history from the cartoon, just understanding it now
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 😭😭😭.
God bless you LAGBAJA for this song
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
Labaja 😢😢😢😢chai Nigerian where u dey😭😭😭
All our friends have travelled abroad.. hurts so bad
May god add another year to your age if you are there listen to lagbaja 2022
God bless you Lagbaja 🙏 you're a Legend 🎉
Lagabaja has always been conscious and woke. God bless him, reminds me of my dad, i miss him so much it drives me crazy. Rest in Peace and see you soon
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
I don't get the 31 people who disliked this video. I'll just assume it was a mistake. Timeless piece of art. 2019
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🤣🤣🤣
i remember watching this music video as a little kid on ITV benin in the early 2000s and it has stuck with me ever since,,,second time of seeing this video but i never forgot the song.....lagbaja did a great number on this.....till now the questions are still unanswered...
we are definitely worst than when this song was released. what a country.
2023 ,3rd after election . Lagbaja is a prophet
15years later instead of getting better we are getting worse as a country. It’s sad 😢
Actually here cos I just heard your voice on FireBoy album 🙌🏽🫶🏼
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.
Up till date 2023 this song is still relevant.. God help Nigeria oo.
❤❤❤
Here bro
Old magic❤
Even in 2023, we have still not gotten it right. Nigeria which way?
Confirmed 👌👌👌
Oshiomole too has joined the looters. Lagbaja did not see that coming.
Shame to we alll
Lagbaja, the revolutionary masked musician of our generation @60.
COVID-19 cannot touch you since you're permanently masked.
Oh my God!!! So igboho the Yoruba activist was in this video. Check him at time, 3 minutes:6 seconds. Wow
As a kid, I enjoyed the animation. But after reading Soldiers of fortune, I sadly understand everything depicted now. 2024 and still nosediving as a country 😢. Thank you Lagbaja
This song was a prophecy for 2024 no doubt
Here after Peter Obi’s election, we are still the same. Too bad
God, this never gets old. Timeless piece of art. Growing up listening o this was legit nostalgia, the animation was also new in the Nigerian scene then, everyone was hooked to this. till my favorite lagbaja song.
Imagine- Fuel now about N600
Imagine -Fuel now about ₦1200 lol (2024 November 21st)
How time flies.....This is 2023 and shit hasn't changed
Lagbaja!!! What a musician 👏legendary content 👏
who is listening to this song in 2018 like me? just imagine fuel was sold only 30 naira when he sang this song. what a life...
Evergreen musical arrangement
I am the indomie Generation kid but I love histories, I cried watching this video today to think he did this song that year and still relevant till now makes me sad
I can't help but feel bitter after listening to this song again after many years. The issues it addressed are still on. The only major change here is that songs these days are only about bed room romance.
Never knew the meaning this song carried back then, its 2024 and nothing has changed.
It’s 2023 and we are still having the same conversation smh. Nigeria MUST wake up
Activist, musicians and a whole lot of credible people have spoken since but Nigeria still makes the same mistakes!! The people just no wan gree change !! Sad
2021 and this song is still very much relevant to the situation of the country. What a pity.
Oh God help Africa 2023
OMG This music speaks to many years of corruption and all other form of political injustice, i am glad to be blessed of being a witness to the works this musical legend,,, Lagbaja Musical Taliban
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