Fela Kuti: Music Is The Weapon | Full Music Documentary Movie
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- Fela Kuti is to African music what Bob Marley is to reggae: its prophet. All contemporary forms of black music, from funk to electronic, owe something to the irresistible groove of the Afrobeat sound that he created. He recorded more than 60 albums and spent a lifetime fighting against political corruption in his homeland of Nigeria, where the people affectionately called him their "Black President."
Shot in Lagos at the peak of his career in 1982, this documentary contains interviews with Fela detailing his thoughts on politics, Pan-Africanism, music and religion, alongside unpublished versions of songs like ITT, Army Arrangement and Power Show. For all who wish to know more about an artist at the heart of African musical history, Fela Kuti: Music is the Weapon is an essential film.
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i've been a fan of his since i first saw this documentary. Blew me away. I remember shortly after taking a cab ride, and the driver told me he was Nigerian after I asked. I told him I loved Fela Kuti, was he a fan? Guy practically screeched the brakes and said, "OH MY, YES, I LIVED NEAR HIS SHRINE! I TOOK MY SONS THERE! OH I CANT BELIEVE YOU MENTIONED HIM!" we just chattered excitedly about Fela and then when the ride ended he jumped out and gave me a big hug. He had the biggest smile and so did i. Music brings people together and that's something ill never forget.
He was an ordained prophet and traditionalist and way ahead of his time that’s why his music remains timeless
I agree completely Just stumbled here afrer Watching a very lovely Doc about him by AFRICA Biograprics ...LEGEND.
You have done humanity a favour for uploading this.
That is what is happening in Nigeria today. Bravo to the best musician of all time - Fela Ransom Kuti..
Archbishop dey enjoy
Pope self dey enjoy
Imam self dey enjoy.
Alfa self dey enjoy.
Pastors self dey enjoy and so on...
Religion is artificial nowadays in Nigeria. Just to exploit people.
No be true my people?
Na true bro
I grew up vibing to his music in Lagos, Nigeria. There will only be “1” FELA in this generation. His music was pure, spiritual…sinks into your soul.
🦁❤ 🔥 ONE-LOVE OUR AFRIKAN ANCESTORS ARE CALLING US HOME!! AFRIKA UNITE!! WE ARE AFRIKANS WORLDWIDE!! THE UNITY AND ORGANIZATION OF AFRIKAN PEOPLE IS A MUST!! AFRIKA UNITE FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN AND COURAGEOUS PEOPLE!!! 🥊 FELA !! 🥊 FOREVER!! 🦁 ♥ 🔥
The alpha and omega of African music. What an illustrious life lived. Rest in Power Fela Ransome Kuti.
My primary school mates and I used to stop over at Fela Kuti's original Kalakuta Republic (at Idioro) to watch his rehearsals.
You wouldn't guess Fela was such a perfectionist. He would perform exactly as he would play for a paying audience. And if any of his musicians made a mistake, he would abruptly pause the rehearsal, and rebuke the person sternly. Then, he would continue as if nothing happened.
I can tell watching some of his videos that your description of perfection may be so right on. I have seen some videos where goes around on stage properly tuning instruments others are playing, while performing live, to suit his preference. I often imagine what a beautiful thing it would have been if Fela, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh ever met.
Heard the same about James Brown, that he'd fine his musicians if they missed a note.
God!!! All his wives are nothing but beauty….very beautiful women up on your screen.
Fela is a prophet, a musician, and a freedom fighter. He has seen all the happenings in Nigeria today 40 years ago and has been prophesying about them through music but we mistook him for igbo smoker. None of today's pastors, doing guesswork and prophecy can have the see as far as Fela has seen or face the government the way fela did.
Very true bro
May his soul RIP 🙏..
“I have Death in my pouch”
Badass
Legendary!
Literally the meaning of his last name (Anikulakpo- kuti)--Meaning He who has death in their pocket---Never dies. This is the literal meaning.
No one will ever be like Fela. We will forever miss you Omo iya aje. Rest on baba Kuti.
The owner, creator and master of Afrobeat and beats
I love this comment of yours. Fela created Afro-beat or Afro-beats. Anything else like the musicians in Nigeria today is trying to do it nothing Afrobeat or Afro-beats but Afro-hiphop.
The great Prophet Fela Number one freedom fighter of the African continent.💯
I live in Lagos until the early 2000s. “Lagos was never the most dangerous city in the world though”. Correction. Lagos, Nigeria is beautiful.
Let them tell it they'll say whatever they fancy. Also according to google, in 2023, Nigeria had about 5 times America's homicide rate.
Hail the defiant musical spirit of a great Ancestor baba Fela kuti!!!!! 🖤❤️💚 naija 🇳🇬
Fela, the Nigerian Dreams you dreamed, is shattered to bits by corrupted politicians
It's dog eats dog..
I’m thankful I lived not only to see him perform in California but his two sons as well, Femi and Seun.
That history not only of the tragedies in his life and the government but the songs of struggles resonated with me deeply as a granddaughter of a plantation worker in Louisiana.
I will get to visit the shrine before I leave this earth.
It will be more of an eye opener.
You won't regret traveling across the seas to feel his presence in his spiritual abode. A great pan Africanist revolutionary leader.
Wow!!! You saw Fela!!!!!! Wow!!
Bravo to those ladies that stood by Fela in his days. They were tough and courageous. One wonders what became of the wives at the demise of the Afro beat king. Fela is commended for his philosophy. He was much loved by the University students and Fela always honoured invitations from the students. He was invited to many of the students' events at the University of Ibadan between 1975 and 1979; all the way from Lagos, Fela once attended (by invitation) the students week social event of Nnamdi Azikiwe Hall to address the young undergraduate students! In 1996, I met a journalist in Chicago, USA who (having known that I was from Nigeria) claimed to have watched the live performance of Fela in the UK and rated the stage arrangement of Fela as the best he has ever observed. He also commended Fela's control of his artists.
My Greatest HERO of all heroes in Afrikan music and Afrikan politics!!!
The Kuti bloodline and the Marley bloodline need to link up.
[18 April 2024] Mmm...Maybe. Or at least the Marley and Tosh bloodline.
It would be hilarious if they spawned accountants and baristas.
Fela was the best, he tried opening the eyes of a lot of Nigerians.
Even today some of Nigeria still remain in the darkness of their criminal corrupt polictians
Despite the turture and humiliations,FELA never relent his efforts voicing and reaching out to all Áfricans to fight for freedom,injustice and the unjust that has plagued the continent for the past decades particularly his own country Nigeria, where corruption,bribering,insecurity and abject poverty are top of the day in the country!. Respect and greetings to the late "Afro king pin"!. His legacy will continue to flow in the hearts of the strict,tolerant and the just citizens of the Nigerian nation. We really missed him. The truth must be spoken!.
Music is a spiritual thing, if you play with music you will die young.
Thank Fela for all you did, though you did not become president but you remain one of our greatest Hero.
Fela the man of men, of all time. The boss of bosses, the philosophyer of African. Fela will be remembered for the rest of our life. Gud man. The main man of our time. May his soul rest in perfect peace. Anikulapo. Sure o. Baba ni yen! Children unborn will continue to talk about u. Peace
Fela You are our President for ever...
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The spirit lives on. Africa is at last coming into its own. Young people seeing to this.
Un millionnaire en Dollars mais qui aimais vivre comme la majorité des Nigérians de l'époque.
Vivre comme le petit peuple (il avait la main sur le coeur)
Un fan depuis la Cite d'Ivoire
He is so great
Just like Bob Marley
This is were Afrobeat is created
Long live Baba Anikulapo 70🙏🏽
😭😭😭RIP Forever 🙏
Much Respect to this Man 1 of a kind. he spoke from the soul. Peace
Fela Kuti was feared by the demons because his powers were true and served all people not the greedy devils with bad blood...Fela Kuti is up high in heaven keeping the beat
Greatest musician in the history of the world
I can only wish those who weren't opportuned to enjoy and live the experience that we had around this great son of Africa can get at least a day, week, or a month to experience and feel such level of joy. Nevertheless, it's important to put it out there for people to know that apart from the incredible pleasures derived from the sounds emanating out of his band's captivating blend of musical arrangements, he was greatly loved because of the awakened consciousness of so many young people through the lyrics of his songs. His music and legacy will surely live forever!
fela was literally a genius may he rest in peace
And till now even in my country Cameroon, the same reality. Poor we.
Thanks for uploading. I ran into the DVD some time ago and bought it. After I watched it, I started considering uploading it if it wasn't on TH-cam yet. It's not just music history but also black/African history. The way the look in the singers' eyes changed after the violence against them is heartbreaking, and Fela's anger after they threw his mother out of a window is hard to ignore too. They became more than singers and musicians from that point onward.
Fela Kuti and Tupac are God send
I'm in awe of his magnificence
Genius musician. Great political thinker and revolutionary. One of my all-time biggest heroes.
They miss out that it was an African American sister who really hot him to get political. She taught him lots about African history and Marcus Garvey
Did you notice the colours of the UNIA-GARVEY flag as the shrine door (red, black and green) and they had the red, black and green painted at various parts.
What was her name?
@@moethemoonSandra Smith
Pan Africanism FLAG...
Things are way far worse in Nigeria today than back then when Baba Kuti was being granted this interview. Then there were no such issues as the the Fulani Bandits, the Fulani Boko Haram, the Fulani Miyetti Allah, the Fulani killer herdsmen, the looter politicians who are being led by the Fulani politicians etc.
To save lives and properties, the country must be disintegrated into different nations.
Yoruba nation now.
Biafra nation now.
Fela was was quite extraordinary! What a man!
😢I love his philosophy..a sword to honor
His spirit will live on forever, god wills it so! God is not a country or a culture it’s the truth combined with love, they tried to take that away from us but we Africans overcome like we always do. For any African looking for boost of inspiration look up Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and look at what the essence of what the Black culture really is about. Honor, wisdom and pride In our way of life.
Sadly, we are not any better or wiser. The evil people are getting worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
There is so much to take in about this history, but I am struck by the memory of my first encounter with Fela and Afrobeat many many years ago. I didn't know the whole story yet, just the magnificence of the music.
This guy was an absolute genius that was donkey years ahead of time.
Just 21 year old and doing personal and thorough research into this enigma. Very enlightening. My parents set a background knowledge for me as I grew up constantly hearing about Fela one way or the other and my Dad was a frequent visitor to The Shrine when Fela was performing. I thought Fela was overhyped and should be allowed to rest but I stand corrected. He is underhyped and will Live on forever.
All true!
Music is the weapon of the future by Baba 70, Honourable Fela Anikulapo Kuti, RIP ☮️ Amin
Everything Fela sang about back then is still very much applicable in the present day Nigeria..Sigh
The same player's that ruled & mismanaged Nigeria's resources are still alive today and are still at it.
Sadly, they refer to them now as elder statesmen!
I remember as a kid growing up and how they tried to demonize Fela, fast forward adulthood and I realized that Fela was more aware than most.
Say what you may about the abami-eda, he was one of the awakened beings and was so far ahead and saw through the BS.
Thanks for the video!
Don't mind the ignorance people that called them Elder state Men 😤😤 they are the problems we are facing today 👌👌 they never support him (FELA KUTI) 😳😳 now they called them 🤔"" What name again "" hiisssssss
The version of Power Show on this documentary has such an amazing spiritual melancholy behind it and also the exotic phrasing by Fela on sax sounds otherworldly - I've never heard better versions on any studio album or live recording. Wish I was there to experience it in full.
Our very own legend 🫡🫡keep resting baba 😥😥😥😥😥
He was the best prophet, revulutionary
May you live in power Flea Kuti. Suffer, Suffer for what and TRAMER, TRAMER for what. Perpetual TRAMER and SUFFERING for what. Humans need to become humaine.
"suffer suffer for WORLD (not what), enjoy for heaven"
It is a line fela used to lampoon the christian teaching of submissiveness to oppression for a reward of paradise in heaven. Funny enough, it's not scriptural to be timid and not fight against injustice in any legit way you can
The Man that saw the future and the past.
They should just roll out an old CRT television and VCR and play this doc for kids in music class 🎉❤💪🙏
Fela said it all.
he will forever be relavant
I love this, how comes am seeing this?
Oh my, this is something good....
you are the president of Nigeria forever
God, how much did Detroit techno leech from this guy? Astounding…
I get quite fed up when I listen to documentaries like this that exagerrates the conditions of third world countries like Nigeria to make their European audience feel good about themselves. The fact is Nigeria was quite a nice place to live in the 70s and 80s. Lagos was definitely not the most dangerous city in world in the 80s as that was a gross exaggeration by the narrator of this documentary.
Things started to go wrong in the mid 80s but nowhere as bad as the current state of affairs. Nigeria has never fully recovered from the structural adjustment programme that was implemented in 1986.
Please don't be ignorant. Nigeria as it is, has always been and will continue to be if we don't make drastic changes.
You clearly feel the need to feel good about yourself
This is Still Continuing ALL OVER AFRICA & THE WHOLE WORLD.
Go to UKRAINE, IRAN, RUSSIA, PAKISTAN, MYANMAR, CHINA and SEE for yourself. "ALL OVER THE WHOLE WORLD. WE HAVE TO JUST FIGHT BACK. That's it. DON'T DIE WITH YOUR FACE DOWN.👈
Structural adjustment programs by the Military lack the true learning of Economic studies that was needed for sound decisions. Was Decreed in nature and shuffled down people's throat. Thank for the recap.
@@akin_mate let them continue to be fed up with the truth. Seeing those bat marks inflicted on fela by states agents for doing nothing other than speaking truth to power is not enough to give him sense that Nigeria was a bad place. He was probably in government at the time, "turning on air condition and closing their country away".
Fela Lives Eternally
Thank you so much for reposting
any idea why it got taken down before?
@@maxwellness222 not 100% but let's say they are renting and selling it now on youtube
@@maxwellness222 Maybe for the graphic content of a man getting hogtied and executed?
I'm moved
Thank you for this powerful upload
The Greatest ......Mr Music.
In-between the music is the history of Nigeria. Not much have changed in 2023
So sorry to here this! Not much has changed anywhere blk ppl are. God help your ppl!! From others and themselves.
And some people still chose to remain in the darkness
Nothing but inspirations of a high man
Fela was a Philosoper like my dad Awolowo and my humble self. We are still seeing the reality of all he said. He was an highly intelligent man, who believes in everything called Africa. Luther was also a Philosopher. They killed him because they were threatened by his influence and were hunted by their rude truths. But, the truth is a bitter soup that must be tasted by all. Both Fela and Luther have shown the elves to me. Thanks
I love our comment but please may I ask if the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo was your father? Is he?
@@oluwalomejooda001 Thanks for your answer. May, I ask if, I sound like him? May, I ask you the definition of fatherhood?
@@emmanuelologbeseawolowo9832 I´m sorry I don´t know how you sound but your name and the outright manner in which you point to your dad as an example of a philosopher in a general comment section indicates you expect everyone to know who your dad is going by your name. The definition of fatherhood is not what calls for scrutiny here but the name under which you identify yourself with.
@@oluwalomejooda001 also Implying that hs son or nephew was on BBN a few years back.
But it would really be shocking to hear that Awo's son (who is at the very least in his mid 60s, considering Awo would have been 114 years old had he been alive today) what a shock it would be to realize Awo's son in his mid 60s is on youtube commenting on posts about Fela.
@@babangidanzegwu1476 Because Awo has no children who have children to be on YT. Free your mindset of this shit! Peace
Nostalgia
Fela Kuti foresee Nigeria present political and economy situation. Nigeria only have 2 political parties except for new emergence this year called Labor Party
You know Fela would not endorse any of the two parties, including Labor party. Reason is because they are not for the African people.
Fela kuti 💕💕💕
Africa lost a Hero 😢😢
Great video
Wonderful!
Warrior.
President of our hearts 💕 💞 ♥️
Stellar
He is a people person
RIP Fela,Nigeria today is worse o
Legendary abami eda
23:58 now that's AFRIKA SHRINE 🔥
Rest in perfect peace
May your soul rest in peace sir! Much love
Everything is happening now 👍 padi padi government
1:32 Few people are getting fat with the big money, while the rest of the people are in hunger.
Same the world over even UK US have millions of homeless and hungry people some have roof over them but they are disgraceful full of mould it’s killing children mostly they put black people in these places of living, while the politicians and royal family live off our hard earned underpaid wages through astronomical taxes that we pay them. No government looks after the poorer people of there countries. The 1% have all the money .
Damn! This was in the 70s Lagos. How did he come up with the "Lagos is one of most dangerous cities narrative?" Extremely false.
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One day go be one day
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What is the name of the first song?
I believe it's:
"Jénwi Temi (Don't Gag Me)"
the Biafran war took 1 million life. You are incorrect, it's too close to 5 million life
Did u count it.... To me the narrator is just saying
Felas wives were fine
Obasanjo used his maltreatment of fela to proof his loyalty to fulani north
Obasanjo was a capitalist soldier with western leanings and ideologies
No,music is life