Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense

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  • čas přidán 3. 11. 2011
  • LYRICS:
    TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME
    TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME
    MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH
    AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
    AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
    ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY
    NA THE SAME CATEGORY-O
    Let's get down, to the underground spiritual game
    We all sing together, play music together in happiness
    All you have to do is sing what I play on my horn
    Now Let's go...
    A kujuba, A kujuba
    YE-EHHHH!
    Yehhhhhh-Ey!
    Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
    All the wahala, all the problems,
    All the things, all the things they go do,
    For this world go start,
    When the teacher, schoolboy and schoolgirl jam together
    Who be teacher?
    I go let you know
    When we be pikin
    FATHA/ MAMA BE TEACHER
    When we dey for school
    TEACHER BE TEACHER
    Now dey University
    LECTURER BE TEACHER
    When we start to work
    GOVERNMENT BE TEACHER
    CU-ULTURE AND TRADITION (*after each line)
    Who be government teacher?
    Who be government teacher?
    Cu-ulture and tradition
    Cu-ulture and tradition
    Now the problem side, of a teaching student-ee
    I go sing about
    I don pass pikin, I don pass school, university, se-fa pass
    As I don start to work, na government I must se-fa pass
    Da go for France
    YES SIR/YES MAAM (*after each line)
    Engi-land
    Italy
    Germany
    Na dem culture
    For der
    Be teacher
    For dem
    Go China
    Russia
    Korea
    Viet Nam
    Na dem culture
    For der
    Be teacher
    For dem
    Go Syria
    Jordan
    Iran
    Iraq
    Na dem culture
    For der
    Be teacher
    For dem
    Let us face ourselves for Afrika
    Na de matter of Afrika
    This part-ee of my song
    Na all the problems of this world
    In we dey carry, for Afrika
    Wey no go ask-ee me
    WHICH ONE? (*after each line)
    Problems of inflation
    Problems of corruption
    Of mismanagement
    Stealing by government
    Nothing we dey carry
    All over Afrika
    Na de latest one
    Na him dey make me laugh
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    AUSTERITY (*after each line)
    Austeri-
    Austeri-
    Na him dey latest one
    Na him dey make me laugh
    Why I dey laugh?
    Man no fit cry?
    Who be our teacher na Oyinbo?
    Who be our teacher na Oyinbo?
    A na false, the first election
    And the second election held in Nigeria
    Na the second election na it was pass
    BOBA LA NONSENSE (*after each line)
    Boba la nonsense
    Boba la nonsense
    He pass redeem
    He pass corruption
    Which kind election be dis?
    People na go vote
    Dem come get big big numbers
    Thousands to thousands
    Millions to billions
    Which kind election be dis?
    Boba la nonsense
    Na dem-o-cr-azy be the deal
    Na dem-o-cr-azy be the deal
    Who don teach us ee dem-o-cr-azy?
    (Bo-ptch!) Oyinbo teach-ee us
    (Yuh-ngh!) Oyinbo for Europe-oh
    Oyinbo teach us many many things-ee
    Many of dem things I don sing about-ee
    Me I no gin copy Oyinbo style
    Let us think say, Oyinbo no pass me
    When Shagari finish him elections
    Wey dem no tell am, say him make mistake-ee
    Say this yo, no be democracy
    Oyinbo dem no tell army self
    Na for England-ee, I me no fit take over
    I come think about this demo-crazy
    Democrazy
    DEMO-CRAZY (*after each line)
    Crazy demo
    Demonstration of craze
    Crazy demonstration
    If it no be craze
    Why for Afrika?
    As time dey go
    Things just dey bad
    They bad more and more
    Poor man dey cry
    Rich man dey mess
    Demo-crazy
    Democrazy
    Crazy demo
    Demonstration of craze
    Crazy demonstration
    If good-u teacher teach-ee something
    And student make mistake
    Teacher must talk-ee so
    But Oyinbo no talk-ee so
    I suffer dem, Dey suffer dem
    Dem dey say da teaching get meaning
    Different different meaning
    Different different kinds of meaning
    That is why I say
    That is the reason of my song
    That is the conclude
    The conclud-ee of my song
    I say, I sing, I beg everyone to join my song (3x)
    ---------------------
    TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME
    TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME
    MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH
    AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
    AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
    ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY
    NA THE SAME CATEGORY-O
    ---------------------
    Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
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Komentáře • 920

  • @AlbertGarzonProducer
    @AlbertGarzonProducer Před 3 lety +190

    I flew from Amsterdam to Lagos in 1994 and saw Fela play a live concert in a club there.. words can not explain how amazing it was.

    • @okechukwuokpaleke8742
      @okechukwuokpaleke8742 Před 2 lety +2

      Ja echt goed toch?

    • @isaachernandez4744
      @isaachernandez4744 Před 2 lety +1

      Baba the nonsense

    • @donkenobi
      @donkenobi Před rokem +15

      Shook his hand after a show once in his “shrine”. He was exhausted and came to the back of the hall where he plonked in a chair with his arms hanging from the back rest.
      I approached. No bodyguards. He was a true man of the people. Sitting, watching the stage, with a huge crowd behind him. Totally exhausted.
      “Good evening sir (it was early in the morning hit who cared 😎) can I just please shake your hand?” I asked the great man.
      Until just now, I never understood his response. His response was “Why? Why? Why? Why?” Opening his huge palms and giving me a sting handshake.
      Why? = “Why would you even ask, just walk up and stretch your hand…”
      He was a true man of the people.
      One of a kind. True legend. True son of Africa.
      #dk
      #OldManInTheMolue
      Forgot to add: This happened in May 1987. 35 years ago…. I was 24 years old 😃😎✌🏾

    • @NYCOrganix
      @NYCOrganix Před rokem +2

      Powerful FIGURE at the intersection of CULTURE; PAN-Africanism; Cultural Identity and Afro-BEAT GENRE Catalyst!!

    • @renildakammeron8071
      @renildakammeron8071 Před 9 měsíci +1

      I can imagine

  • @knowledgeguest1524
    @knowledgeguest1524 Před rokem +48

    07/03/2023 As an African I find myself crying listening to his message. Nothing as changed over 40 years later! RIP legend.

    • @dominiqpowell37
      @dominiqpowell37 Před rokem +1

      But it's changing now!

    • @kingsleychiboy7606
      @kingsleychiboy7606 Před rokem +2

      ​@@dominiqpowell37 what's changing?

    • @yahyaomar3599
      @yahyaomar3599 Před 5 měsíci

      It will never change till we all rise above the "mama dey for house,papa dey for house,I get one son,I no wan die,I no wan kwench* to take back our country from these scammers called politicians who sadly have became worse than our past military dictators.

  • @marydanbauchi2285
    @marydanbauchi2285 Před rokem +5

    To the family of mr Fela kuty ( a man with eagle eyes ) don't let no body through word at u to make u be silent.
    ur Dad was not the first man to introduce Ganja to Nigerians nor the only man who has many women ,comi g ti analyzed his life and other Afican / Nigerian men Fela was honest and opened in all his ways every child and man knew what he was upto ( doing) .
    most of men have many girlfriends in their closet even those whose religion permits them to married only one wife .
    what is spoiling Nigerian youth is poverty , injustice ,tribalism ,Religion intolerance ,bad Roads ,lack of equipments in our Hospitals lack of democricy etc ..Fela saw what was coming and he was oreaching and singing it ,but some of us where blind to see and some where deaf to hear, can any listen to his music today and tell me that mr Fela Kuty was mad or singing because he has just finished smoking Ganja or he was singing the truth that was and it is now and even worse then tha t time. . Finally he who has ni sin let him cast the stone on Fela or continue to cast stone .
    Fela is a hero since he can smoke Ganja and still stand for the truth and worn us and those of us who are not can not sense the Danger then we may as well smoke it .
    he has many women and children and was able to show them lovre and keep them together, and teach them about their culture and to be hard working and law abiding citizen , while those who didnot smoke have secret children ,secret wives,houses that their money (salary )cannot buy . money that they cannot account for on hw they make then smoking Ganja seems ti be better then having a sober mind .
    lets' stop the hypocrisy and face reality ,Fela Kuty should be one of our great Heroes because he do what he preach his life was very transparent .
    he was nit a christian nir a Muslim,But his life was an open book that all can read ,but how about us who are casting stone at him and his children.? if the night should turn into day ,many of us will run away and wish the ground could ooen to hide ⁿŘ⅝
    law wages ,

  • @Babatundey
    @Babatundey Před 9 lety +45

    I used to crying whenever I listened to this music as a growing up man.. He's the most intelligent Man that ever come out of Nigeria in terms of honesty.. How I wish He was born in our Generation.. He's an Icon born in a wrong generation.. #RIP..FELA

    • @memoriesmoments4551
      @memoriesmoments4551 Před 9 lety +7

      Babatundey You are very correct, he should have been in this our generation. May his soul rest perfect peace.

    • @kafilarosa
      @kafilarosa Před 6 lety

      He was born in the correct generation. Maybe you were born in the wrong generation. Actually you were!!!

    • @kafilarosa
      @kafilarosa Před 6 lety +1

      God knew what he was doing.

    • @fuquay-varina184
      @fuquay-varina184 Před 5 lety

      Lol so you think our generation that thinks wizkid and davido are musicians deserves fela??? Go home you re drunk😂😂😂😂 millennials smh

  • @brodwellington1626
    @brodwellington1626 Před 5 lety +243

    As a Ghanaian living in New Zealand to come across my Fela Kuti being played in a Pub 2018 made me cry for Joy. This just proves how universal our brother was and still is.!

    • @qwer8907
      @qwer8907 Před 4 lety +7

      suffering is universal whether regardless of race or color

    • @ocmwila
      @ocmwila Před 4 lety

      @@qwer8907 are you saying that FK's music was just about suffering?

    • @abodeofhaven1
      @abodeofhaven1 Před 4 lety +6

      Thanks.... I'm in Baltimore Maryland and enjoy the best moments listening to Fela music... Reminiscing my childhood memories in Nigeria

    • @wizemantalk3102
      @wizemantalk3102 Před 4 lety +1

      @@qwer8907 you must be an imbecile.

    • @femifalase5576
      @femifalase5576 Před 4 lety +1

      Ghana...the place of refuge for Nigerians

  • @biutifulmediauk8856
    @biutifulmediauk8856 Před 2 lety +66

    I'm so proud to call fela my uncle to think that my dad was around him at the start of such an impactful time in music so crazy ... I'll always be so grateful to have his music as a connection to my roots

  • @insanegaming3908
    @insanegaming3908 Před 7 lety +594

    I'm a 17 year old Irish teenager and I am so so happy I discovered Fela and afrobeat in general. a spiritual experience.

    • @titaniumexpose6365
      @titaniumexpose6365 Před 7 lety +36

      19 year old Mexican and I just discovered this glooooory of music, where I live underground/hippie musicians play this type of music at night while people are out on the streets drinking wine

    • @CrowClouds
      @CrowClouds Před 7 lety +7

      I'm a black cis-gender white girl and I just found out about your channel

    • @insanegaming3908
      @insanegaming3908 Před 7 lety +4

      enchantrand-esque I'm a homosexual white straight man

    • @michelhiddink5845
      @michelhiddink5845 Před 7 lety +1

      Insane Gaming
      You even got your username from my reputation. You are a hoaxy cloaksy shame of a username.

    • @oreoluwaadetunji4551
      @oreoluwaadetunji4551 Před 7 lety +5

      how are you understanding his accent?...I'm a Nigerian can't really hear some of the things he says clearly

  • @OLAODUS-cs5sl
    @OLAODUS-cs5sl Před 9 lety +342

    The man was an absolute legend, inexplicable, beyond words, we didn't appreciate that he was like a teacher/prophet amongst us in Nigeria then. His songs of 30years ago are ever so relevant even today. His warnings about a few Judases amongst us being used by the colonialist, and those traitors getting mega rich, and perpetuating the impoverishment of the populace; still on going 40 years on.
    Sun re omo won ni Egba Alake, a giant amongst the GOD forsaken dwarfs that has ever ruled that joke of a country. No electricity in 2015 still, imagine?!!!.

    • @Babatundey
      @Babatundey Před 9 lety +24

      You're absolutely right.. We never appreciate his talents as we suppose to.. 50years from now, his music will still be relevant in Nigeria and Africa at large 🙏🏿

    • @KgomotsoPooe24
      @KgomotsoPooe24 Před 7 lety +1

      .

    • @andrejastojanovska6940
      @andrejastojanovska6940 Před 6 lety +1

      OLA. ODUS m

    • @mohammedabdulhazeez6478
      @mohammedabdulhazeez6478 Před 5 lety +2

      I couldn't have put it better.

    • @chidichuks2853
      @chidichuks2853 Před 5 lety +8

      Mr. Ola...Haha... It's 2018 and there's still no electricity in Nigeria. Infact this is the worst I've ever seen Nigeria been in since when I was born in 1992 in this country. We are really just suffering and smiling!

  • @abodeofhaven1
    @abodeofhaven1 Před 4 lety +7

    Aptly captured the mediocrity surrounding Nigeria democracy, politics and leadership. Rest in perfect peace Sir Fela

  • @adjeiboateng1671
    @adjeiboateng1671 Před 3 lety +24

    Spiritual. Speaks to the soul. The world is better because you passed through here Mr Kuti. Now I need to disowned my Nigerian friends whom I've known for 15 years and have robbed me of your angelic sounds by not introducing your music to me sooner in life. They are not true friends i've come to realised.

    • @joharilarosa6230
      @joharilarosa6230 Před 2 lety +3

      Forgive them maybe it wasn't time for you to know him

  • @boboshante7943
    @boboshante7943 Před 8 lety +142

    Knowledge is being fought against by eliminating the righteous Messangers amongst us by the unseen wicked forces. Hold on firmly to the rope of God . Peace to all mi brethren in Africa!
    Wivth Love from Somalia!!

  • @OgeOliver
    @OgeOliver Před 8 lety +29

    "Democracy" = "Them are crazy" = Demonstration of Craze. As far as Baba was concerned, we (Africa) practiced "crazy demonstration" not Democracy. Salute to you oh Legend!

  • @europainvicta3907
    @europainvicta3907 Před 4 lety +6

    i had the privelege of seeing Fela and the Africa 70 perform live. It was several decades ago. The repetitive beat, incessant rhythmn, shamanic dancing, chanting, full pulsing stage and the thick ganga filled air made for an intoxicating experience. I had to leave after several hours as the never ending pulse was sending me into a trance (which may have been the intention) It was an awesome experience - and not in the west coast teen, gee, fuckwit sort of awesome - but in a total, all encompassing experience. Not necessarily my most enjoyable concert experience but one of the most unforgettable.

  • @BubbleManxx
    @BubbleManxx Před 8 lety +111

    "Democrazy" "Crazy Demonstration" Holy shit! That was as deep as the Atlantic Ridge. I've never heard lyrics like these before. Incredible.

    • @sojiadamo5212
      @sojiadamo5212 Před 6 lety

      BubbleManxx, yes Bubblemannx you are rising as your name suggests...

    • @CityKid415
      @CityKid415 Před 4 lety

      BubbleManxx the rasta's in jamaica have incorporated the same type of play on words,

    • @rumpelwurzwurst4308
      @rumpelwurzwurst4308 Před 3 lety +2

      Can't tell if sarcasm.

    • @siqklinx2021
      @siqklinx2021 Před 3 lety +3

      .."crazy demonstration, demonstration of craze,".. legendary stuff

    • @kuntakinte6871
      @kuntakinte6871 Před 2 lety

      @@CityKid415 James, make an example please!

  • @johnindia555
    @johnindia555 Před 7 lety +396

    African leaders should be made to listen and meditate on Fela's music maybe their thinking will change

    • @caseyquinn3415
      @caseyquinn3415 Před 7 lety +5

      john india Heavy Hitters are usually real rich and power-hungry like the ones who sold slaves for iron bars to mine copper and minerals and diamonds and gold sold them to Dutch British Spanish system to the South and now we're nowhere is the scapegoat like the South in America the American South C slaves were slaves before they even got on this boat and were tied down and shackle by the way remember weather for we fought and won her independence America they were British French and Spanish colonies fighting over territory and they had slaves Linhart only came down for a power grab it's they had thought that war to free slaves they wouldn't be in the field up until the early 1970s Carpetbaggers didn't only take land they took place call to sharecroppers treating them even more reason to worry

    • @VICPED72
      @VICPED72 Před 7 lety +5

      Only Ben Murray Bruce listen to this kanna songs..
      I hear them in some of his words, and he simply calls it common sense...

    • @Teddyb1939
      @Teddyb1939 Před 7 lety +7

      No chance, all despots, as proved over many years. lining their own pockets and bringing ruin to African countries.

    • @ProfessorDex
      @ProfessorDex Před 7 lety +9

      All world leaders should my brother

    • @Teddyb1939
      @Teddyb1939 Před 7 lety +5

      mushishamandawa Absolutely, it's a troubled world we are living in.

  • @PrinceEnki2112
    @PrinceEnki2112 Před 4 lety +41

    Starts with toe tapping and head bobbing then moves up your leg giving you chill bumps and before you know, it grabs you by the very soul. A truly remarkable man not to mention an extraordinary musician/artist.Thank you, Fela.

  • @agubamah
    @agubamah Před 8 lety +366

    they said he was mad and every now and then we find that those who said he was mad are the real mad ones. fela for ever.

    • @michelhiddink5845
      @michelhiddink5845 Před 7 lety +3

      Plenty of dem things, i don't sing about it

    • @rosemaryinneh3077
      @rosemaryinneh3077 Před 6 lety +22

      Those that tag baba as a mad man are afraid of his intelligence because he is pro pan Africa

    • @benjaminmukangwe8666
      @benjaminmukangwe8666 Před 4 lety +17

      No normal person can change the world you have to be in a certain unique state to have that capacity that is beyond the societies limits and expectations.... that is within us all and it's a choice....as for the level of intelligence that the Man had...was out of this universe... long live Fela ✌🏾

    • @emekajunior1172
      @emekajunior1172 Před 4 lety +1

      k

    • @ocmwila
      @ocmwila Před 4 lety +11

      every true artist is mad, the brain is artistically imbalanced in favor of creativity

  • @jurjenvanderlaan8690
    @jurjenvanderlaan8690 Před 8 lety +58

    I don't know how I find this, but I love it. So glad my first journey to Africa (Ethiopia) next July made me look for African music. Best wishes to all Africans. I pray for a bright African future. Greetings from the Netherlands!

  • @bobbymarsh6258
    @bobbymarsh6258 Před 5 lety +22

    I stumbled upon this magnificent musicians music recently, and have become captive in a way that is unexplainable. I'm African-American with an acquired appetite for unique music from around the world. This is Fly.

    • @Gabraelspeaks
      @Gabraelspeaks Před 5 lety +5

      Bobby Marsh You're welcome to Fela's world. It's an eureka moment for you the way it was for me. This man makes a breathtaking kind of unique music. You're sooner gonna find out.

  • @raphraphael92
    @raphraphael92 Před 4 lety +3

    The legend of all time, Fela that better than all Nigeria politicians!

  • @oladimejioduwole6233
    @oladimejioduwole6233 Před rokem +3

    As a Nigerian, I always find psychological consolation within. He was a prophet, who lived ahead of his time. Himself, and Nelson Mandela were the two people that had an overbearing influence on the World stage, in the last century, according to TIMES Magazine...Great Guy.

  • @Bio54633
    @Bio54633 Před 8 lety +73

    I've been listening to Fela's music since my childhood in the early 1970s. I'm now in my 50s, I am still regularly listen to Fela's music. And the music blows my mind, every single time!

    • @daphoenix6817
      @daphoenix6817 Před 8 lety +8

      +Anengiyefa A Same here...been a Fela fan since I first heard a Fela song in the 1970s - Zombie - when my family relocated back to Nigeria. I'm still listening to Fela to this day. His music still resonates today....an icon for Afro Beats and African music in general. I am very proud of Fela considering we are from the same part of Nigeria - Abeokuta.

    • @inegbekingsley808
      @inegbekingsley808 Před 6 lety +1

      maybe you can help me pls, been looking for the song that has 'oro pesi je, oro dihun'..in it...it's stuck on replay in my head pleasee help out with the title. Thank you sir.

    • @Gabraelspeaks
      @Gabraelspeaks Před 5 lety

      Inegbe Kingsley 'Stalemate' I think is the title of that track

  • @ogbenifisoye2612
    @ogbenifisoye2612 Před 8 lety +88

    I grew up listening to fela's music, all thanks to my dad n our neighbors. Now I'm gonna make sure I bless my children with it too.

  • @richietherapper
    @richietherapper Před rokem +3

    The King Of Afrikan Music 👑🎷🇳🇬

  • @judyhendricks252
    @judyhendricks252 Před 7 lety +18

    Fela sang this song in the 80s. so so true about all his lyrics. SHAME ON NIGERIAN LEADERSHIP FROM THE TOP TO BOTTOM. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!

  • @Dac74
    @Dac74 Před 7 lety +12

    Fela is a legend that every wise person that is really concerned about Nigeria and Africa should celebrate

  • @nelsonzrh
    @nelsonzrh Před 4 lety +10

    The prophet that was never appreciated lives forever in our minds as the things he sang about become reality in our dear nation-- Rest In Peace Sir🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @Bowwilz
    @Bowwilz Před 5 lety +99

    Who listening to this Spiritual experience in 2019?

  • @AllHailTheBeatles
    @AllHailTheBeatles Před 8 lety +24

    "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde

  • @vharv7498
    @vharv7498 Před 4 lety +9

    So Happy to have found such BEAUTIFUL MUSIC!! AFRICA!! YASSSSS!!💯💯💕💕👏👏💃💃FELA!!

  • @alenlepirica7304
    @alenlepirica7304 Před rokem +3

    Relaxed misty music, I am felling sounds of Africa in backgroud. Bravo!

  • @Robhvp
    @Robhvp Před 7 lety +36

    God bless the black Africans......!

  • @adeolujohnson5285
    @adeolujohnson5285 Před 5 lety +16

    Thank you Fela, you wrote us a long autobiography essay, and we love it....History shall forever be kind to you...Thank you Baba 70.Abami Eda

  • @docwase
    @docwase Před 8 lety +14

    Feel the greatest.....if the messages in his music are still relevant in Africa, especially Nigeria, it then means that we are just static, not making any progress. You don't have to be a christian or muslim to attain the prophet status because Fela's messages are prophesies in their own right. May God save us......but we need to save ourselves first.

  • @garyt.swarztkopf2477
    @garyt.swarztkopf2477 Před 8 lety +59

    I'm overwhelmed... Let's get down to the underground spiritual game. FELA LIVES FOREVER!!!!

  • @tommartin7728
    @tommartin7728 Před 5 lety +74

    There is no end to Fela. I just keep getting further in.

    • @anthonyedako7157
      @anthonyedako7157 Před 4 lety +2

      Damn slippery slope leading unstoppably to a pleasure filled addiction. Welcome on board.

    • @anthonyedako5364
      @anthonyedako5364 Před 3 lety

      You just stepped into quick sand. Happily, no escape

    • @GabrielGarcia-eu6vr
      @GabrielGarcia-eu6vr Před 2 lety

      Yeah that rabbit hole is deep

  • @williamafred3675
    @williamafred3675 Před 4 lety +8

    Fela Kuti this man was an absolute legend, a national body the only man at his time who speaks of truth and was made by God to fight for the Anticipation of the black Race, man of freedom we wish not to let you go, a born Africa black and proud never let go Orientation, Culture, and Tradition of my people , man of truth only God knows why you go this way, fela for ever....

    • @sholagisanrin4966
      @sholagisanrin4966 Před 3 měsíci

      Point of correction he is not was.A Legend can never die

  • @emmanuelvincentisraelletse5192
    @emmanuelvincentisraelletse5192 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I remember during South Africa Apartheid, as a child asking my Sister where does this man singing come from she said Brazil (it was a song called Lady) so many of his songs were banned in Apartheid "Lady and Shakara" were the only two we got to hear in our Radio stations.
    It was only when I got to Tertiary that i began to know and understand what Fela represent and faught for

  • @darylp2280
    @darylp2280 Před 8 lety +43

    this song brought me to tears, I have no idea why. I love his music so much. I wish i heard this on the radio in 1990s

  • @joycats4768
    @joycats4768 Před 5 lety +13

    The Pseudo is correct, from 14.37 in the song Fela clearly says go to various countries like Britain, France, Iran, Korea etc, it's their culture that is A TEACHER to them (and no African country gets a mention in his list) , fela then goes on at about 16.04 to say 'who be our teacher, na oyinbo' he talks about the travesty of democracy in Nigeria then 17:52 'I NO GREE TO FOLLOW OYINBO STYLE', he goes on to tear apart democracy as practiced in nigeria and supported by the west as DEMONSTRATION OF CRAZY,from what I listened to the core of the song is still that Africans should follow their own culture to teach/govern them. Basically if Africans were not following other people's culture it would not be in a position where it is getting it wrong and being taken advantage of. Fela also briefly notes that as for the teachers not correcting the wrong in what was being practiced clearly was paying them some kind of dividend hence they not only didn't correct them but additionally supported the wrong doing.

  • @ValyrianCode
    @ValyrianCode Před 8 lety +64

    TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME
    TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME
    MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH
    AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
    AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
    ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY
    NA THE SAME CATEGORY-O
    Let's get down, to the underground spiritual game
    We all sing together, play music together in happiness
    All you have to do is sing what I play on my horn
    Now Let's go...
    A kujuba, A kujuba
    YE-EHHHH!
    Yehhhhhh-Ey!
    Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
    All the wahala, all the problems
    All the things, all the things they go do
    For this world go start
    When the teacher, schoolboy and schoolgirl jam together
    Who be teacher?
    I go let you know
    When we be pikin
    FATHA/ MAMA BE TEACHER
    When we dey for school
    TEACHER BE TEACHER
    Now dey University
    LECTURER BE TEACHER
    When we start to work
    GOVERNMENT BE TEACHER
    CU-ULTURE AND TRADITION (*after each line)
    Who be government teacher?
    Who be government teacher?
    Cu-ulture and tradition
    Cu-ulture and tradition
    Now the problem side, of a teaching student-ee
    I go sing about
    I don pass pikin, I don pass school, university, se-fa pass
    As I don start to work, na government I must se-fa pass
    Da go for France
    YES SIR/YES MAAM (*after each line)
    Engi-land
    Italy
    Germany
    Na dem culture
    For der
    Be teacher
    For dem
    Go China
    Russia
    Korea
    Viet Nam
    Na dem culture
    For der
    Be teacher
    For dem
    Go Syria
    Jordan
    Iran
    Iraq
    Na dem culture
    For der
    Be teacher
    For dem
    Let us face ourselves for Afrika
    Na de matter of Afrika
    This part-ee of my song
    Na all the problems of this world
    In we dey carry, for Afrika
    Wey no go ask-ee me
    WHICH ONE? (*after each line)
    Problems of inflation
    Problems of corruption
    Of mismanagement
    Stealing by government
    Nothing we dey carry
    All over Afrika
    Na de latest one
    Na him dey make me laugh
    AUSTERITY (*after each line)
    Austeri-
    Austeri-
    Na him dey latest one
    Na him dey make me laugh
    Why I dey laugh?
    Man no fit cry?
    Who be our teacher na Oyinbo?
    Who be our teacher na Oyinbo?
    A na false, the first election
    And the second election held in Nigeria
    Na the second election na it was pass
    BOBA LA NONSENSE (*after each line)
    Boba la nonsense
    Boba la nonsense
    He pass redeem
    He pass corruption
    Which kind election be dis?
    People na go vote
    Dem come get big big numbers
    Thousands to thousands
    Millions to billions
    Which kind election be dis?
    Baba la nonsense
    Na dem-o-cr-azy be the deal
    Na dem-o-cr-azy be the deal
    Who don teach us ee dem-o-cr-azy?
    (Bo-ptch!) Oyinbo teach-ee us
    (Yuh-ngh!) Oyinbo for Europe-oh
    Oyinbo teach us many many things-ee
    Many of dem things I don sing about-ee
    Me I no dey copy Oyinbo style
    Let us think say, Oyinbo know o pass me
    When Shagari finish him elections
    Wey dem no tell am, say him make mistake-ee
    Say this yo, no be democracy
    Oyinbo dem no tell army self
    Na for England-ee, I me no fit take over
    I come think about this demo-crazy
    Democrazy
    DEMO-CRAZY (*after each line)
    Crazy demo
    Demonstration of craze
    Crazy demonstration
    If it no be craze
    Why for Afrika?
    As time dey go
    Things just dey bad
    They bad more and more
    Poor man dey cry
    Rich man dey mess
    Demo-crazy
    Democrazy
    Crazy demo
    Demonstration of craze
    Crazy demonstration
    If good-u teacher teach-ee something
    And student make mistake
    Teacher must talk-ee so
    But Oyinbo no talk-ee so
    I suffer dem, Dey suffer dem
    Dem dey say da teaching get meaning
    Different different meaning
    Different different kinds of meaning
    That is why I say
    That is the reason of my song
    That is the conclude
    The conclud-ee of my song
    I say, I sing, I beg everyone to join my song (3x)
    ---------------------
    TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME
    TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME
    MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH
    AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
    AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
    ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY
    NOT THE SAME CATEGORY-O
    ---------------------
    Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!
    Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke
    YAA!

    • @mphuphuthaalpheus7489
      @mphuphuthaalpheus7489 Před 3 lety +2

      thank u for providing lyrics

    • @southernicedtea9925
      @southernicedtea9925 Před 3 lety +1

      Thx

    • @bytelee2755
      @bytelee2755 Před 3 lety +1

      U are great, I swear

    • @chicchi1682
      @chicchi1682 Před 3 lety +2

      He second election na him worse pass. Which kind election be this? People no go vote (people didn't go to the voting poll) Them come get big big number. Thousands to thousands, millions to millions...babanla nonsense (rigged second leader name is Babangida) ....
      Chorus: Teacher teacher no be my lecturer be your name Teacher teacher ...Make you no teach me I dey go. Person finish yet I say you don da re to dey old (you too old you should retire)

  • @sharifaismaila5009
    @sharifaismaila5009 Před 10 lety +85

    Africa sound is the best!!

  • @katlegotshiloane3236
    @katlegotshiloane3236 Před 4 lety +9

    fela was way ahead of his times, an authentic artist with authentic music!!

  • @Okwy.Oleka101
    @Okwy.Oleka101 Před 7 lety +7

    The Legend of all time. The Prophet of our time, still speaking eloquently like the first day I heard him on national TV. Now I understand what he "is" teaching for I was too young to comprehend his depth and breadth. God bless you the Great one.

  • @darkokyereko3181
    @darkokyereko3181 Před 4 lety +10

    The African teacher, roots in culture, BIG UP

  • @rbunor
    @rbunor Před 9 lety +32

    Baba 70..The originator of Afro-Beat!

  • @ramasodisekgothe5755
    @ramasodisekgothe5755 Před 7 lety +21

    Demo-cracy, Cracy-demo. Demonstration of cracy, Cracy-demonstration

  • @ketemusic
    @ketemusic Před 4 lety +12

    It’s mind blowing to listen to this one great son of Africa playing his mind & feelings all out!....One & only Fela!...Kete gets a lot of inspiration from this pieces👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿...

  • @jimmypip5648
    @jimmypip5648 Před 4 lety +11

    Sonorous is his voice, speaking reality that travels through time to register his foreknowledge in the present situation of Africa, even till tomorrow... Fela, a messenger

  • @tekenakaribiwhyte1948
    @tekenakaribiwhyte1948 Před 7 lety +17

    Thanks for helping us relive this legend, he was a prophet who saw the problems Nigeria would encounter today it is glaring and Baba created his own beat. Baba we salute your LEGACY

    • @dakalomatidza7015
      @dakalomatidza7015 Před rokem

      Fela was one of African prophet...what he sang about its happening today across Africa and world. Rest in peace the Son of Ramsone Kuti i will always love you.

  • @rustedglory142
    @rustedglory142 Před 9 lety +161

    Fela just hits that place deep in your soul...

  • @micshaz
    @micshaz Před 3 lety +10

    this is objectively the best song ever actually

  • @blobhead12135565
    @blobhead12135565 Před 9 lety +20

    Nigeria's greatest statesman. salut

  • @Methadone4Life
    @Methadone4Life Před 7 lety +264

    Music so good its a religious experience, nah, not religious, hell with religion.....a spiritual experience.

    • @Ruffnecknarwhal
      @Ruffnecknarwhal Před 7 lety +4

      Say Methadone4lifz

    • @edouble78
      @edouble78 Před 7 lety +14

      Methadone4Life 🙌 I feel so good listening to Fela!

    • @Methadone4Life
      @Methadone4Life Před 7 lety +19

      Ebony Gray Me too Ebony! Fela and Femi... the fact that they speak up against corruption and for the people makes the music even more powerful.

    • @pognillat2833
      @pognillat2833 Před 7 lety +18

      The reality, man.

    • @suzypaton1597
      @suzypaton1597 Před 6 lety +1

      nah just astral experience.. spirituality is much over..

  • @yagsmoodley6654
    @yagsmoodley6654 Před 10 měsíci +1

    This is sadly unrecognised brilliance lost in a world of noise...pollution of politicians crap. Afrikan virtuosity ...Fela play your music in that other world, if there be one❤😂🙏🏽🙏🏽✊🏾👍🏾

  • @PhD254
    @PhD254 Před 3 lety +5

    How sad I discover you today? How sad I listened to noises while the purest gem remain hidden from my discovery, and this was played many years before technology was conceived?
    Fela Kuti your music give pleasure to all senses.

  • @user-jy6wc8ym1r
    @user-jy6wc8ym1r Před 6 lety +15

    Greatest african musician of all time ! As goggle now😎😎😎😎

  • @franckayissou6834
    @franckayissou6834 Před 3 lety +16

    after fela died this style of music continue to go ahead,and to high dimension.TRUE MUSIC

  • @sandilematebese4573
    @sandilematebese4573 Před 8 lety +42

    Oh! What a gift to the African people....such a great treasure.....

    • @peteg3596
      @peteg3596 Před 5 lety +2

      Gift to the world Sandile ...

  • @12cornish
    @12cornish Před 8 lety +40

    He was a genius

  • @earldepassjr.1347
    @earldepassjr.1347 Před 8 lety +160

    My favorite Fela recording, At 6:25 minutes in experience one of the most powerful sax performances of all time. Don't jump directly to it though; this masterpiece is a journey that must be experienced from beginning to end. You will be enlightened by the conclusion, even if you don'y completely comprehend pidgin. Love the phonetic play on words, democracy to themallcrazy.

    • @Methadone4Life
      @Methadone4Life Před 4 lety +7

      Yes absolute bliss!!!!

    • @tonz3395
      @tonz3395 Před 3 lety +7

      You are absolutely right w

    • @tonz3395
      @tonz3395 Před 3 lety +9

      Genius... His music is even more relevant to us All now in 2020

    • @TGong-eu4gf
      @TGong-eu4gf Před 2 lety +1

      That's Y.S. Fela's saxophonist. One of the best 👍🏾

  • @dominiquebarbry2993
    @dominiquebarbry2993 Před 2 lety +3

    Père de l afrobeat ,révélation de la conscience africaine, il a semé le réveil, nous lui devons de récolter les fruits de son engagement au prix de sa vie.

  • @hermeswright523
    @hermeswright523 Před 7 lety +32

    Oh what a performance it was thirty years ago this month at The Fox Theater in Detroit ! The brash horns were the politically charged counterpoint to the hypnotic rhythm and raw tribal sway of the dance line with Fela and his numerous wives. The man was a force on and off stage, an enduring voice against oppression.

  • @carlbloise8595
    @carlbloise8595 Před 3 lety +11

    Fela, still relevant in 2020.. Timeless Afro-beat / Afro-jazz high-life 👏👏🔥

  • @samuelsalami6320
    @samuelsalami6320 Před rokem +3

    King we Nigerians love you forever. Rest well our baba

  • @hasnura1974
    @hasnura1974 Před 3 lety +8

    I was in luv with this song as young as i was 7yrs old..... Fela is a genius

  • @jesuseniyan3193
    @jesuseniyan3193 Před 8 lety +25

    Father before father, father after father, the Abami Eda himself, Orisa , that sax though R.I.P , in my mind are alive with these masterpiece

  • @niiamaaamarfio
    @niiamaaamarfio Před 7 lety +35

    Listening to Fela's music virtually puts you on a whole different level. Feeling so inspired to challenge the status quo and raise myself above limits. #FelaLives 🙏

  • @brightodigie5880
    @brightodigie5880 Před 5 lety +13

    Oh death! How dare you? Legendary songs ever in Africa

  • @amanieltekie5873
    @amanieltekie5873 Před 3 lety +4

    Man...growin man..and I’m discovering this cat now?...lovin it man!

  • @egopat15
    @egopat15 Před 6 lety +37

    Fela Fever I'm feeling the vibes, anyone here with me?

  • @butterflylovenj7300
    @butterflylovenj7300 Před 7 lety +23

    Problems of inflation. Problems of corruption.. Love Fela!

    • @oyindas5832
      @oyindas5832 Před 7 lety +1

      giants fan it's sad that this is still our problem

  • @yacinetautenhahn4226
    @yacinetautenhahn4226 Před 3 lety +4

    Baba Fela, the first and unique Black President. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

  • @adeamujale
    @adeamujale Před 4 lety +12

    Whatever level you think your music might be, Fela's is cut one level above that one.

  • @andokieufumaka7239
    @andokieufumaka7239 Před 4 lety +5

    Fela your artistry should be thought in Nigeria educational curriculum from grade schools to university. You are the founder of Afrobeat. You spoke the voice of humanity. The raw truth is pain, blinding to the victimize as well as those perpetrating the evil. TRUTH cannot be silent. The TRUTH is louder today than ever before, our Nigerian leaders have failed. The suffering of Nigerians is echoing very LOUD. You are a legend for ever. A freedom warrior for all human suffering. Anybody can relate.

    • @egopat15
      @egopat15 Před 4 lety

      You meant needs to be Taught.

    • @sisternettie
      @sisternettie Před 8 měsíci

      So beautifully said Thank you, For Life FELA

  • @nabilbereriche6333
    @nabilbereriche6333 Před 6 lety +9

    That conscious groove is what I need right now

  • @davydafi3565
    @davydafi3565 Před 5 lety +6

    Comprehensively, lyrical African songs artist- gifted with instrumental jazz, & drums. A gift of all nations.

  • @jamesbill5385
    @jamesbill5385 Před 6 lety +19

    Honestly i bleed inside where we've found ourself, we hid not to the single loudest voice warning of the unknown to come as we embrace foreign cultures . FELA your spirit live on forever, you've shape my mind and my personality

    • @lisahowe8884
      @lisahowe8884 Před 5 lety +2

      Still crying my love. Africa oh Africa.

  • @Rach_ella_bella
    @Rach_ella_bella Před 6 lety +33

    This was a straight gift from God. Blessing

  • @gregoriorivero5910
    @gregoriorivero5910 Před 9 lety +71

    I can not stop moving!

  • @Ajayiolumuyiwa
    @Ajayiolumuyiwa Před 7 lety +12

    fela has said it , let go, let go and take care of Africa , The mother land.

  • @billygibson8488
    @billygibson8488 Před 4 lety +8

    This year i have found new music new sounds on CZcams it all blows me away hits every nerve a new reason to go on in life we all struggle day to day every time i listen and watch Fela it lifts me now i am listening to his son watching a great performance by Femi just like his father. wow

  • @marycutting6754
    @marycutting6754 Před 2 lety +3

    What a legend....Fela Ransome Kuti is!!!May his music continue to resonate with the many generations to come.... What a natural talent he truly was!!! A genius extraordinaire....RIP Fela!!! Thanks for sharing your unique talent with the world ❤️💃

  • @cwyeitagoulbourne5133
    @cwyeitagoulbourne5133 Před 4 lety +3

    Great legend your still presently drawing souls to this musical contraction......Long Live Fela Kuti jamaican say that......

  • @yagsmoodley6654
    @yagsmoodley6654 Před 8 měsíci

    Play it forever,my Afrikan genius, let your music thunder thru this ffed world✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽👍🏾❤️

  • @geraldndubisi5458
    @geraldndubisi5458 Před 10 lety +47

    Philosophy is a critique of pure reason, how did dis guy come to that without a world record. Am amazed at his analogy of the school system and his exposure of the British inability to say to Shagari or the military that they are wrong. Because of what the want to steal.

    • @uwaevboevbo1979
      @uwaevboevbo1979 Před 6 lety +1

      Gerald Ndubisi yes that's right

    • @mightystrange.2234
      @mightystrange.2234 Před 4 lety +1

      The nation was laid on a bad foundation

    • @dailyhunter3683
      @dailyhunter3683 Před 4 lety

      Shagari🐓? Nigeria's, Donald Trump🐷. Despite everything, Nigeria was still ahead when it comes to voting for a dumbo🐘 to be their head of state. The irony of it all😜.

  • @JaaliHeruRaHotep
    @JaaliHeruRaHotep Před 10 lety +69

    Fela was Fela, he wasn't Peter Tosh of Africa or any of that..he was himself.

  • @Peace4evr
    @Peace4evr Před 7 lety +25

    Too Much Talent👌🏽

  • @alaxmey3233
    @alaxmey3233 Před rokem +2

    Listening in February 2023 and I still can’t explain the sensation that Adela’s music gives me. Why would I ever listen to any song for 25 mins except when it’s Fela I wish it was longer. The music just touches you somewhere in your mind which you can’t explain. R.I.P Fela

  • @u2bemao
    @u2bemao Před 9 lety +21

    who love him can try listen both sons Femi and Seun their got same blood and soul

  • @lekanabikan9855
    @lekanabikan9855 Před 7 lety +11

    the best song I have listened to my WHOLE LIFE!!!!!!!!

  • @kay2563
    @kay2563 Před 7 lety +6

    ONLY MAN THAT CARRY DEATH IN HIS POCKET .......................WE NEED YOU TO COME BACK AND TEACH THEM REAL THINGS....................LEGEND FOR LIFE

  • @eye0c0you
    @eye0c0you Před 9 lety +35

    this tickles my brain and makes me feel really good and a bit silly at the same time...
    i love this

  • @tommypowell1137
    @tommypowell1137 Před 10 lety +28

    Absolutely Amazing!!

  • @alex-gq2cv
    @alex-gq2cv Před 4 lety +17

    The genius of Fela is indescribable. He was a phenomenon in a class of his own.

  • @masterp5424
    @masterp5424 Před 7 lety +19

    remember this song when my cousin came from army have the CD this is cool we from SA

  • @adetayoadeboyejo6663
    @adetayoadeboyejo6663 Před rokem +4

    Fela lives through his music. He left behind a body of art’s masterpiece for the future generation to relish

  • @vincentotum4855
    @vincentotum4855 Před 9 lety +25

    The great prophet indeed. Baba RIP

  • @joeyoung4337
    @joeyoung4337 Před 9 lety +21

    you are right Peter Tosh is Good ,and many others. But Anikulapo Kuti is in a different category , he is raw. abeg this guy is great in his own way. So is Peter great in his own way.
    I Know, plus i dey understand every song of Fela

    • @lilo1733
      @lilo1733 Před 5 lety +1

      Accept all our Greatness

  • @olatunjiagara647
    @olatunjiagara647 Před 7 lety +12

    Fela Anikulapo the legend