HMV Magazine ranked him as #46 on a list of the 100 most influential musicians of the 20th century.
The musical style performed by Fela Kuti is called Afrobeat, which is essentially a fusion of jazz, funk, highlife, and traditional Yoruban chants and rhythms. It is characterized by having African-style percussion, vocals, and musical structure, along with jazzy, funky horn sections. The endless groove is also used, in which a base rhythm of drums, shekere, muted guitar, and bass guitar are repeated throughout the song. His band was notable for featuring two baritone saxophones, whereas most groups using this instrument only use one. This is a common technique in African and African-influenced musical styles, and can be seen in funk and hip-hop. Some elements often present in Fela's music are the call-and-response within the chorus and figurative but simple lyrics. Fela's songs were almost always over 10 minutes in length, some reaching the 20- or even 30-minute marks, while some unreleased tracks would last up to 45 minutes when performed live. This was one of many reasons that his music never reached a substantial degree of popularity outside of Africa. His songs were mostly sung in Nigerian pidgin, although he also performed a few songs in the Yoruba language. Fela's main instruments were the saxophone and the keyboards, but he also played the trumpet, guitar, and took the occasional drum solo. Fela refused to perform songs again after he had already recorded them, which also hindered his popularity outside Africa. Fela was known for his showmanship, and his concerts were often quite outlandish and wild. He referred to his stage act as the Underground Spiritual Game.
Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, to a middle-class family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school Principal, was the first president of the Nigerian Union of Teachers. His brothers, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti and Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti,both medical doctors, are both well known in Nigeria.
Fela was sent to London in 1958 to study medicine but decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music. While there, he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a style of music that he would later call Afrobeat. The style was a fusion of American Jazz, psychedelic rock, and Funk with West African Highlife. In 1961, Fela married his first wife, Remilekun (Remi) Taylor, with whom he would have three children (Femi, Yeni, and Sola). In 1963, Fela moved back to Nigeria, re-formed Koola Lobitos and trained as a radio producer for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1969, Fela took the band to the United States. While there, Fela discovered the Black power movement through Sandra Smith (now Isidore)—a partisan of the Black Panther Party—which would heavily influence his music and political views and renamed the band Nigeria ’70. Soon, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was tipped off by a promoter that Fela and his band were in the US without work permits. The band then performed a quick recording session in Los Angeles that would later be released as The '69 Los Angeles Sessions.
Fela and his band, renamed Africa '70, returned to Nigeria. He then formed the Kalakuta Republic, a commune, a recording studio, and a home for many connected to the band that he later declared independent from the Nigerian state. Fela set up a nightclub in the Empire Hotel, named the Afro-Spot and then the Afrika Shrine, where he performed regularly. Fela also changed his middle name to Anikulapo (meaning "he who carries death in his pouch"), stating that his original middle name of Ransome was a slave name. The recordings continued, and the music became more politically motivated. Fela's music became very popular among the Nigerian public and Africans in general. In fact, he made the decision to sing in Pidgin English so that his music could be enjoyed by individuals all over Africa, where the local languages spoken are very diverse and numerous. As popular as Fela's music had become in Nigeria and elsewhere, it was also very unpopular with the ruling government, and raids on the Kalakuta Republic were frequent. In 1974 the police arrived with a search warrant and a cannabis joint, which they had intended to plant on Fela. He became wise to this and swallowed the joint. In response, the police took him into custody and waited to examine his feces. Fela enlisted the help of his prison mates and gave the police someone else's feces, and Fela was freed. He then recounted this tale in his release Expensive Shit (now released together with "He Miss Road" as Expensive Shit/He Miss Road).
In 1977 Fela and the Afrika ’70 released the hit album Zombie, a scathing attack on Nigerian soldiers using the zombie metaphor to describe the methods of the Nigerian military. The album was a smash hit with the people and infuriated the government, setting off a vicious attack against the Kalakuta Republic, during which one thousand soldiers attacked the commune. Fela was severely beaten, and his elderly mother was thrown from a window, causing fatal injuries. The Kalakuta Republic was burned, and Fela's studio, instruments, and master tapes were destroyed. Fela claimed that he would have been killed if it were not for the intervention of a commanding officer as he was being beaten. Fela's response to the attack was to deliver his mother's coffin to the main army barrack in Lagos and write two songs, "Coffin for Head of State" and "Unknown Soldier," referencing the official inquiry that claimed the commune had been destroyed by an unknown soldier.
Fela and his band then took residence in Crossroads Hotel as the Shrine had been destroyed along with his commune. In 1978 Fela married 27 women, many of whom were his dancers, composers, and singers to mark the anniversary of the attack on the Kalakuta Republic. Later, he was to adopt a rotation system of keeping only twelve simultaneous wives. The year was also marked by two notorious concerts, the first in Accra in which riots broke out during the song "Zombie," which led to Fela being banned from entering Ghana. The second was at the Berlin Jazz Festival after which most of Fela's musicians deserted him, due to rumors that Fela was planning to use the entirety of the proceeds to fund his presidential campaign.
Despite the massive setbacks, Fela was determined to come back. He formed his own political party, which he called 'Movement of the People'. In 1979 he put himself forward for President in Nigeria's first elections for more than a decade but his candidature was refused. At this time, Fela created a new band called Egypt 80 and continued to record albums and tour the country. He further infuriated the political establishment by dropping the names of ITT vice-president Moshood Abiola and then General Olusegun Obasanjo at the end of a hot-selling 25-minute political screed titled "I. T. T. (International Thief Thief)."
In 1984, he was again attacked by the Military government, who jailed him on a dubious charge of currency smuggling. His case was taken up by several human-rights groups, and after 20 months, he was released from prison by General Ibrahim Babangida. On his release he divorced his 12 remaining wives, saying that "marriage brings jealousy and selfishness." Once again, Fela continued to release albums with Egypt 80, made a number of successful tours of the United States and Europe and also continued to be politically active. In 1986, Fela performed in Giants Stadium in New Jersey as part of the Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope concert, sharing the bill with Bono, Carlos Santana, and the Neville Brothers. In 1989, Fela & Egypt 80 released the anti-apartheid "Beasts of No Nation" album that depicts on its cover U.S. President Ronald Reagan, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha with fangs dripping blood.
His album output slowed in the 1990s, and eventually he stopped releasing albums altogether. The battle against military corruption in Nigeria was taking its toll, especially during the rise of dictator Sani Abacha. Rumors were also spreading that he was suffering from an illness for which he was refusing treatment. On 3 August 1997, Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, already a prominent AIDS activist and former Minister of Health, stunned the nation by announcing his younger brother's death a day earlier from Kaposi's sarcoma brought on by AIDS. (Their younger brother Beko was in jail at this time at the hand of Abacha for political activity). More than a million people attended Fela's funeral at the site of the old Shrine compound. A new Africa Shrine has opened since Fela's death in a different section of Lagos under the supervision of his son Femi Kuti.
Look And Laugh
Fela Kuti Lyrics
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Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
Ohhh
Since long time I never write new tune
Long time I never sing new song
Long time I never write new tune
Long time I never sing new song
Many of you go dey wonder why, your man never sing new song
Many of you go dey wonder why, your man never write new tune
My brother no be so, tabi, no be say I wan keep quiet
My brother no be say I no wan write new
Song for you to make you think and happy
Wetin I dey do be say
Wetin I dey do be say (dey look and laffu)
I say wetin I dey do (dey look and laffu)
I dey look and laffu (dey look and laffu)
I say wetin I dey do say? (dey look and laffu)
I dey look and laffu (dey look and laffu)
Shey the things we me and you (dey look and laffu)
Don see for this country (dey look and laffu)
No reach for me (dey look and laffu)
To dey looku and laffu (dey look and laffu)
Wetin I no sing (dey look and laffu)
About, in this country (dey look and laffu)
Sing Sing Sing (dey look and laffu)
Till dem come (dey look and laffu)
Come charge me (dey look and laffu)
For armed robbery (dey look and laffu)
Sey, I must looku and laffu (dey look and laffu)
I must looku and laffu (dey look and laffu)
I dey say make you bring your ears nearer to me
And hear the experience I go sing about (dey look and laffu)
I say wetin I dey do be say (dey look and laffu)
Dey look and laugh (dey look and laffu)
I say wetin I dey do say (dey look and laffu)
I dey look and laugh (dey look and laffu)
I dey say make you bring your ears nearer to me
And hear the experience I go sing about (dey look and laffu)
Wetin I dey do be say (dey look and laffu)
I say wetin I dey do say (dey look and laffu)
I dey look and laughf (dey look and laffu)
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
Ohhh!
Watin man go dey do when na for e eye
Obasanjo pass government to shagari ooo
Shagari rule e government regime for four years no head no tale
Inside this no head no tale
Same water no light still dey
Shagari himself say
The economy of the coun-tu-ry is collapsing
Then those old people
With 'da [?] in one eye
Carry walking stick come on too
With ah PP 'ay, no PPP
Hey, hey
Who say PPP? Nah PP 'ay
Oooh!
All for 1983 (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
All for 1983 (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
Watin I no sing (look and laugh)
About, this country (look and laugh)
Sing sing sing (look and laugh)
Till dem come (look and laugh)
Come charge me (look and laugh)
For armed robbery (look and laugh)
Say, I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
Ohhh
Contractor and minister or commissioner make agreement to make road
All of us know how long government dey take to make road for here
Then the road start as dem don put machine, sands and stones
Shagari make announcement contractor sef make e own
Contractor say as the economy don go things don cost so road must stop
Government say no more money contractor say no more road
Contractor go government stay
Ohhh
Shey that one no reach make dey look and laugh (look and laugh)
Shey that one no reach make dey look and laugh (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
Which kind wayo be that
Ojukwu stealing original stealing (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
Wetin I no sing (look and laugh)
About, in this country (look and laugh)
Sing Sing Sing (look and laugh)
When them come (look and laugh)
Come burn my house (look and laugh)
All my property (look and laffu)
Burn burn dem o(look and laffu)
Beat beat me(look and laffu)
Kill my mama(look and laffu)
I must to look and laffu(look and laffu)
I must to look and laffu(look and laffu)
Watin I no sing(look and laffu)
About this country (look and laffu)
Watin I no sing(look and laffu)
About this country (look and laffu)
Sing sing sing(look and laffu)
Four years later (look and laffu)
Till dem come(look and laffu)
Break break the house (look and laffu)
The house wey I dey stay (look and laffu)
Dem come beat beat me(look and laffu)
Till dem think say I don die(look and laffu)
When I get up(look and laffu)
Dem tie my hands dem tie my legs(look and laffu)
Dem throw me inside police van(look and laffu)
I must to look and and laffu(look and laffu)
I must to look and laffu(look and laffu)
Dem come carry me go(look and laffu)
Dem charge me go court(look and laffu)
Charge me for
Charge me for armed robbery (look and laffu)
I must look and laffu(look and laffu)
I must to look and laffu(look and laffu)
I must to ook and laffu(look and laffu)
I must to look and laffu (look and laffu)
I must to
Hah hah hah
Hey hey hey
Hah hah hah
Hey hey hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
Ohhh
Look at our television and listen to our radio in Nigeria
When dem don do their nonsense finish newspaper sef go join
My own be say too many overseas things and our own too small
When dem do our own wey small sef dem go be yeye things
No plan no set no ideas inside dem
Dem go dey copy oyinbo for overseas dey go
Government this government that in their tiles lace and dongaris
Aaah
Hey
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Shey I no no watin dem do inside television
Lookuu looku looku (I dey laffu)
Laffuu laffu laffu (I dey looku)
Police uniform come important pass food for this country
Looku looku looku (I dey laffuu)
Laffuu laffu laffu (I dey looku)
Go to court na big-big English and still dem dey do their nonsense
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
1809 book dem go bring to judge case of 1980
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffuu ooo
Hey
Lookuu looku looku
Ya
Laffuu laffu laffu
Hey
Lookuu looku looku
Ya
Laffuu laffu laffu
Government people still dey enjoy go with police support o
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Nigeria still dey where e dey
Poor man still dey plenty more
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Government people still dey enjoy go with police support o
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Nigeria still dey where e dey
Poor man still dey plenty more
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Hey
Lookuu looku looku
Ya
Laffuu laffu laffu
Hey
Lookuu looku looku
Ya
Laffuu laffu laffu
Ya
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
Heey
(I dey looku)
(I dey laffu)
(I dey looku)
(I dey laffu)
(I dey looku)
Fela Kuti's song "Look and Laugh" is a satirical commentary on the political situation in Nigeria at the time. Throughout the song, Fela sings about how he hasn't written or sung any new songs, while people wonder why. He explains that he is too busy "looking and laughing" at the state of affairs in Nigeria. He mocks the government officials who make empty promises and steal from the people, while the masses struggle with poverty and unemployment. Fela's use of repetition throughout the song, especially in the chorus, reinforces his message of the absurdity of the situation.
Line by Line Meaning
I chuckle too
I am also laughing
Since long time I never write new tune
It's been a while since I wrote a new song
Long time I never sing new song
I haven't sung a new song in a long time
Many of you go dey wonder why, your man never write new tune
Many of you might be wondering why I haven't written a new song
Many of you go dey wonder why, your man never sing new song
Many of you might be wondering why I haven't sung a new song
My brother no be so, tabi, no be say I wan keep quiet
I'm not keeping quiet intentionally, my friend
My brother no be say I no wan write new
I do want to write new songs
Song for you to make you think and happy
Songs that will make you think and happy
Wetin I dey do be say
What I'm doing is
Wetin I dey do be say (dey look and laffu)
What I'm doing is looking and laughing
Shey the things we me and you (dey look and laffu)
Do you also see the things happening in this country and laugh?
Don see for this country (dey look and laffu)
Have you seen what is happening in this country and laughed?
No reach for me (dey look and laffu)
It's not enough for me to just look and laugh
To dey looku and laffu (dey look and laffu)
Just looking and laughing is not enough
Wetin I no sing (dey look and laffu)
What I haven't sung about yet
About, in this country (dey look and laffu)
The things happening in this country that I haven't sung about yet
Sing Sing Sing (dey look and laffu)
I will keep singing and laughing
Till dem come (dey look and laffu)
Until they come for me
Come charge me (dey look and laffu)
When they charge me
For armed robbery (dey look and laffu)
With false accusations of armed robbery
Sey, I must looku and laffu (dey look and laffu)
I have to keep looking and laughing
I must looku and laffu (dey look and laffu)
I must keep looking and laughing
I dey say make you bring your ears nearer to me
And hear the experience I go sing about (dey look and laffu)
Listen closely to the experiences I will sing about
Dey look and laugh (dey look and laffu)
They are looking and laughing
I dey look and laugh (dey look and laffu)
I am looking and laughing too
I dey look and laughf (dey look and laffu)
I am looking and laughing too
Watin man go dey do when na for e eye
What can a man do when he sees injustice
Obasanjo pass government to shagari ooo
Obasanjo handed over the government to Shagari
Shagari rule e government regime for four years no head no tale
Shagari's government had no direction for four years
Inside this no head no tale
There was no clear direction
Same water no light still dey
The same problems remain
Shagari himself say
The economy of the coun-tu-ry is collapsing
Shagari admitted that the economy was collapsing
Then those old people
With 'da [?] in one eye
Carry walking stick come on too
With ah PP 'ay, no PPP
Hey, hey
Who say PPP? Nah PP 'ay
Oooh!
Those elderly people with the cataract eyes holding walking sticks come along too, no party works but PPA
All for 1983 (look and laugh)
All that happened in 1983 is worth laughing at
Contractor and minister or commissioner make agreement to make road
All of us know how long government dey take to make road for here
Then the road start as dem don put machine, sands and stones
The contractor and government officials make agreements to build roads, but it takes a long time for the government to act. When construction starts, it's only at the preliminary stage
Shagari make announcement contractor sef make e own
Shagari announced that the contractor can do as he pleases
Contractor say as the economy don go things don cost so road must stop
Government say no more money contractor say no more road
Contractor go government stay
The contractor argues that costs have increased due to the poor economy, so the road construction must stop. The government says they have no more money, so the contractor says there will be no more roads, but the contractor remains in power
Shey that one no reach make dey look and laugh (look and laugh)
Isn't that enough to make people laugh and ridicule them?
Which kind wayo be that
Ojukwu stealing original stealing (look and laugh)
What kind of fraud is that? Ojukwu steals the original, then steals the copy
Four years later (look and laffu)
Till dem come (look and laffu)
Break break the house (look and laffu)
The house wey I dey stay (look and laffu)
Dem come beat beat me(look and laffu)
Till dem think say I don die(look and laffu)
Four years later, until they come and break into the house where I stay, beating me until they think I'm dead
When I get up(look and laffu)
Dem tie my hands dem tie my legs(look and laffu)
Dem throw me inside police van(look and laffu)
When I get up, they tie my hands and legs and throw me in a police van
Police uniform come important pass food for this country
Police uniforms are more important than food in this country
Go to court na big-big English and still dem dey do their nonsense
1809 book dem go bring to judge case of 1980
In court, they speak big English, but still do nonsense. They bring a book from 1809 to judge a case from 1980
Government people still dey enjoy go with police support o
Government officials still enjoy going around with police support
Poor man still dey plenty more
I must look and laugh
There are still many poor people, and I have to keep looking and laughing
Writer(s): Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Contributed by Charlie C. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
Ohhh
Since long time I never write new tune
Long time I never sing new song
Long time I never write new tune
Long time I never sing new song
Many of you go dey wonder why, your man never sing new song
Many of you go dey wonder why, your man never write new tune
My brother no be so, tabi, no be say I wan keep quiet
My brother no be say I no wan write new
Song for you to make you think and happy
Wetin I dey do be say
Wetin I dey do be say (dey look and laffu)
I say wetin I dey do (dey look and laffu)
I dey look and laffu (dey look and laffu)
I say wetin I dey do say? (dey look and laffu)
I dey look and laffu (dey look and laffu)
Shey the things we me and you (dey look and laffu)
Don see for this country (dey look and laffu)
No reach for me (dey look and laffu)
To dey looku and laffu (dey look and laffu)
Wetin I no sing (dey look and laffu)
About, in this country (dey look and laffu)
Sing Sing Sing (dey look and laffu)
Till dem come (dey look and laffu)
Come charge me (dey look and laffu)
For armed robbery (dey look and laffu)
Sey, I must looku and laffu (dey look and laffu)
I must looku and laffu (dey look and laffu)
I dey say make you bring your ears nearer to me
And hear the experience I go sing about (dey look and laffu)
I say wetin I dey do be say (dey look and laffu)
Dey look and laugh (dey look and laffu)
I say wetin I dey do say (dey look and laffu)
I dey look and laugh (dey look and laffu)
I dey say make you bring your ears nearer to me
And hear the experience I go sing about (dey look and laffu)
Wetin I dey do be say (dey look and laffu)
I say wetin I dey do say (dey look and laffu)
I dey look and laughf (dey look and laffu)
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
Ohhh!
Watin man go dey do when na for e eye
Obasanjo pass government to shagari ooo
Shagari rule e government regime for four years no head no tale
Inside this no head no tale
Same water no light still dey
Shagari himself say
The economy of the coun-tu-ry is collapsing
Then those old people
With 'da [?] in one eye
Carry walking stick come on too
With ah PP 'ay, no PPP
Hey, hey
Who say PPP? Nah PP 'ay
Oooh!
All for 1983 (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
All for 1983 (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
Watin I no sing (look and laugh)
About, this country (look and laugh)
Sing sing sing (look and laugh)
Till dem come (look and laugh)
Come charge me (look and laugh)
For armed robbery (look and laugh)
Say, I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
Ohhh
Contractor and minister or commissioner make agreement to make road
All of us know how long government dey take to make road for here
Then the road start as dem don put machine, sands and stones
Shagari make announcement contractor sef make e own
Contractor say as the economy don go things don cost so road must stop
Government say no more money contractor say no more road
Contractor go government stay
Ohhh
Shey that one no reach make dey look and laugh (look and laugh)
Shey that one no reach make dey look and laugh (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
Which kind wayo be that
Ojukwu stealing original stealing (look and laugh)
I must look and laugh (look and laugh)
Wetin I no sing (look and laugh)
About, in this country (look and laugh)
Sing Sing Sing (look and laugh)
When them come (look and laugh)
Come burn my house (look and laugh)
All my property (look and laffu)
Burn burn dem o(look and laffu)
Beat beat me(look and laffu)
Kill my mama(look and laffu)
I must to look and laffu(look and laffu)
I must to look and laffu(look and laffu)
Watin I no sing(look and laffu)
About this country (look and laffu)
Watin I no sing(look and laffu)
About this country (look and laffu)
Sing sing sing(look and laffu)
Four years later (look and laffu)
Till dem come(look and laffu)
Break break the house (look and laffu)
The house wey I dey stay (look and laffu)
Dem come beat beat me(look and laffu)
Till dem think say I don die(look and laffu)
When I get up(look and laffu)
Dem tie my hands dem tie my legs(look and laffu)
Dem throw me inside police van(look and laffu)
I must to look and and laffu(look and laffu)
I must to look and laffu(look and laffu)
Dem come carry me go(look and laffu)
Dem charge me go court(look and laffu)
Charge me for
Charge me for armed robbery (look and laffu)
I must look and laffu(look and laffu)
I must to look and laffu(look and laffu)
I must to ook and laffu(look and laffu)
I must to look and laffu (look and laffu)
I must to
Hah hah hah
Hey hey hey
Hah hah hah
Hey hey hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
I chuckle too
Hey
I chuckle too
Hey Hey
Ohhh
Look at our television and listen to our radio in Nigeria
When dem don do their nonsense finish newspaper sef go join
My own be say too many overseas things and our own too small
When dem do our own wey small sef dem go be yeye things
No plan no set no ideas inside dem
Dem go dey copy oyinbo for overseas dey go
Government this government that in their tiles lace and dongaris
Aaah
Hey
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Shey I no no watin dem do inside television
Lookuu looku looku (I dey laffu)
Laffuu laffu laffu (I dey looku)
Police uniform come important pass food for this country
Looku looku looku (I dey laffuu)
Laffuu laffu laffu (I dey looku)
Go to court na big-big English and still dem dey do their nonsense
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
1809 book dem go bring to judge case of 1980
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffuu ooo
Hey
Lookuu looku looku
Ya
Laffuu laffu laffu
Hey
Lookuu looku looku
Ya
Laffuu laffu laffu
Government people still dey enjoy go with police support o
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Nigeria still dey where e dey
Poor man still dey plenty more
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Government people still dey enjoy go with police support o
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Nigeria still dey where e dey
Poor man still dey plenty more
Lookuu looku looku
Laffuu laffu laffu
Hey
Lookuu looku looku
Ya
Laffuu laffu laffu
Hey
Lookuu looku looku
Ya
Laffuu laffu laffu
Ya
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
I must look and laugh
Heey
@oliverolaofe
I was very fortunate to have lived in Nigeria at the time when Fela was recording this tune at the Shrine in Ikeja Lagos. Needless to say that I was there at the Shrine to hear this music played live time and time again as a teenager. It was a great stroke of good fortune that my house was less than 20 minutes away from the Shrine. Let's just say I really miss this guy and I remain humbled and very grateful to have seen Fela and hear him play the best music in the world live.
@woleabu378
This resonates with me. My sentiments exactly
@TheClaffo
You were so lucky to have seen him .
@oliverolaofe
@TheClaffo yeah I feel very lucky as every Wednesday and Friday evenings of my teenage years till age 21, I never missed Fela's shrine. Happy days!!
@malikcorozo1156
Dude, reading your words make me cried, life is curious, i found fela in a unique way that i cant describe it, but since then i listen all of his music and get loved by the rythm, i cant believe he is not with us anymore, every time i hear his music its like having him alive again, my platonic wish is to meet him, go to one of his concert and scream out loud my lungs, me someone from the other side of the world (Ecuador), i envy you bro in the good way, and indeed... everyone who known fela, we miss him :')
@mrminecraft6247
@@oliverolaofeI feel the same way but can't remember he played on Wednesdays, it was Tuesday - ladies nite, Fridays- yabis nite, Saturdays -comprehensive show, sundays-sunday jump, at pepple street though,but correct me if I am wrong, those were the days!!! Miss Fela so much😢
@manuelnhanala5947
I am from Mozambique and it is very far from Nigeria, but when I listening to this tune it seems like I am in Shrine by night in Lagos...Viva Fela!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@nosa9994
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@irewunmiakintan415
It's true you're right
@chiefkolass8226
I’m from what they callAmerica 👀….one love ❤️ nobody taught me that this music was ok …. I made it mine👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤦🏾🤦🏾🤦🏾🤗❤️❤️