Fela_Kuti
Im Musik
Fela muzik style na Afrobeat. Afrobeat get jazz, funk, highlife, tradishonal Naijá, Afrika chant an rhymes. Na muzik wey konten elements of psychedelic soul an wan resembu how James Brown dey kompos e song. Afrobeat borrow fom di natif wey bj tinker pan. Tony Allen wey bi druma for twenty years.Fela don tok am for one taim sey if no bi Tony Allen, Afrobeat for no dey. Fela band dey popular bikos e bi dey yuz  two baritone saxophones wen meni oda group dem be dey yuz one. Dis na komon teknik for Afrika-influenced musical styles wey you fit see for funk and hip hop.Somtaims for e band, e dey yuz two pesin wey sabi play drum wey bi base for di sem taim an two of dem dey play interlocking melodies and rhythms. E dey always yuz two or more pipul wey dey play gitar. The electric West African style gita for Afrobeat band na paramont bot e bi dey yuz to gif basik strukture, and to dey repit chordal/melodic stetment, riff, or groove. Som element wey dey for Kuti musik na di call-and-response inside di korus and figurative bot di liriks dem na simpu liriks. Im song dey long for like 10 to 15 minits, and meni of e song long rech 20 to 30 minits, and som of e trak wey e no rilis dem dey last rech like 45 minits wen Im dey pafom for live stej. How im musik be dey long na e be one rizin wey make e musik no reach di digri of popularity for outside Afrika. Im LP rekod be dey get one 30 minits trak. E get som of e musik introdokshon part wey long reach like 10-15 minits befor e go com start to sing di song wit Im liriks dem, for anoda 10-15 minits. For som of e rekods dem, e devaid Im song to two pats: pat 1 na di instrument pat, and di pat 2 na di vokal pat wey e go add to di instrument pat. Kuti sing meni of e song for Naija pidgin English, and e also pafom small of Im song wit  trumpet, electric guita, and di  occasional drumsolo. Kuti no gri sing song agen afta e com sabi Yoruba languaj. Im mein instrument dat time na di saxophone and di key board, but e de also play di one wey e don alredy rekod dem, na e make Im song no too dey popular for outside Afrika. Dem sabi Kuti for im show dem, and im konsat dem wild show e dey be. E call Im akt wey e do for stej di Underground Spiritual Game. Meni pipu espet am to pafom for di western part, but for di time of 1980, e no com get interest for eni show. E pafomans for Europe dey represent wetin dey hapun for im time an im oda inspiration dem. E tink of di art sey e musik go get minin for politiks. Kuti na part of di Afro-Centric consciousness movement wey start date time and diliva from e musik wey sopos get effect. Wetin Afrika musik dey about be say, wen you dey play musik and pipu no dey feel enitin, e show say you no sabi be dat. For one intaviu wey e do wit Hank Bordowitz Noise of the World, Kuti tok say: Muv! I wan muv pipu to dance, but mek we tink of am. Musik nid to show a beta laif agenst a bad laif. Wen you dey listen to somtin wey dey tok about beta laif and you no get beta di laif, e sopos show for di kind pesin wey you be. Kuti musik, an im e no go gri behevio na becos of wetin dey hapun for e area. For one intaviu rekod wey show for di Faces of Africa for CGTN Afrika, e kompie bitwin di Oyinbo languaj love musik and e own musik say: Yes, wen you dey for England, di musik fit be di tin of enjoiment. You fit sing about love, you fit sing about wu you wan folo sleep nest. But for awa own envairoment hia, my sosaeti never develop becos of di strenj sistem wey dey wit awa pipu. Notin wey be like love. Na wetin dey hia, na how pipu be dey try struggle for dia laif for dem to fit live.