every kid see. i believe my eyes you walk here on the street and welcome. people who have not been to a femi kuti kongs that they haven't experienced that i have dipped into your instagram account to give people a little flavor so this was santa cruz california i'm just going to quit playing here so you can get the full effect people think. that looks like. what i notice is that the audience is a come to see you are so diverse it tells me something about afrobeat about how it reaches such a broad audience why you think you are able to do that i think probably is the

correct term in music of today because. i think i've been privileged to travel and use this as a direction to mold my music and so i think this reaches out to everybody and what i talk about happens in every nation really to points is the album when people want everybody can understand this. we talk about justice peace and love it's very simple catchy wards that. kindergarten kind of so i think this is what cuts across everybody i think our community would agree we got this from edward on twitter who says i believe families music is more optimistic and this latest album his messages are more about is more about inspiring the next generation to be competent and to unite for a collective good africa will be great again is one of my favorite so he mentions your latest album what is it that's made this different than the other i think age experience and maturity and then of course my children being a follower of how to really direct my thinking. your children calm down the

you have to find answers and you have to find positive answers for your children you can't really be negative if you leave you feel that way so i'm even forced to now find solutions politically socially because my children demand this as father from me so i have i think my whole life has changed and i think this probably have to give this about seventy eighty percent to my children making me more responsible and only sell your eldest son is playing or that i'm just have a look at my laptop everybody this is this is a matinee and he's playing on this actual hour it was what this is that make it's the greatest feeling a father can have a women parent i think when your you see your son doing well not really too in your your line but just seeing his smile being involved i mean it was. i don't believe

is the big award then a lot of probably it was so emotional for me. i have to see people this picture here because. i've seen a lot of of images of you and your family and there's a picture here of you and your eldest one is a little bit young as he was nine and i just see love all i'm saying is this is love you're looking at him my dear me was. taller than me. but. it's so beautiful it's i mean life is so life is i mean those are the things i've made my music change because like this i go back in time and i see so my life goes quickly i see beauty in them in the world and i try to put this through my music before i was very i was a fighter you could see with my music from the albums trucks like stories or even seem of life i was wrong or what happened to my father i was trying to live through that grunow and on like i said being

a father myself see my children grow up seen so much love around me or try to spread this around the world what goes on in my life you mention your father i mentioned your son this is a tweet we got bridging those two things this is someone who says as much as i think this comparison to your father. is not necessary his children i mean your children for me are doing a great job to me sign is said to carry on the legacy he might just bring and add a new flavor with it so people are recognizing that familial link there but i want to move on just a little to this because someone seeing the video we saw the very beginning of the show with the energy that you had there this person asks a question which i think it's on a lot of our minds how do you find the motivation to give us to almost free world class shows every week whenever you're in lagos at the do africa shrine you in your band have been doing this for over a decade and the quality of the craft on display each time is inspiring i think

this has to do with them to decrease your love for my people and understanding that there's a lot of poverty around me and believe in our. contributes in the area where the shrine was billed was give people the privilege to just come in free and watch us and then he said to turn professional and the musicians around we have to understand that we shouldn't look down on the audience you never know who is watching you and so you have to respect it will be disciplined by dr house will we have to give the same kind of energy and this will make us more professionally professional and so this was my location to the band i'm happy those that have stood beside me or with alongside me on the stand what i'm doing it you feel this with the audience so we have about probably a thousand people come in we can we call just want to the band for free so i'm looking here is boulder colorado femi kuti in the positive force boulder colorado what is the difference in the show that you did there and the show that you would do at the shrine are you doing femi light when you're on tour and any do hardcore fans at the shining but the difference the difference is we were costumes were more

professional on top. like started out when where we had. we put is like it's like a magnet you you have to put hundred percent of the competition starts you are flexible so we put like a thousand percent at the rehearsal when we want or if we need to make a mistake on stage you hardly hear and we can play around the mistake we can joke about it because we have repeated it so many times so we are going to hear from you give one hundred percent in just a moment the first song on our show today no work no job no money but first let's hear from one of his fans i open coalescent us this comment about the impact of families at work. i love for me especially because he created his own nation of funky awful beats w. our minds and we are connected very strongly with my generation and femi has beauty has worked very hard to maintain that for me the waffle be blunt you know since

then he is music to me represents african conscious music tradition and he constantly reminds us that we should never settle for less for money the us long live fairly long rifle beats long enough ago thank you. tom ridge in a. little country. little. party where contacting barbara. right we saw nothing.

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be back to one hundred feet and i. agree. to talk really good for you aren't. going to result in a small the this is. no no no next up or in the case if it's not written out of the back and i mean not to try to get all three. through a plea bargain. is a redundant or broke response is we got to produce something probably come go. along with this stuff enough. missional got a guy like three. teams are truly sometimes people are. going to bring his own. psalter.

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the the. common faith down by me tell me which the branding. the band member said we can take them this is everybody yes just isn't everybody and that's our band leader where you and me and. you have a lot by sharing one keyboards and. dances. but she's different on stage and we're here as you know with i still say so to see the four and pact of dancing oh i want to talk about you actually you could hear that in that song that every single song you sing i'm going to show an image and this is you doing some humanitarian work with the international rescue committee surrounded by kids who love you and i'm trying to think what is the draw

to i'm going to show one thing first and then kind of musician there are a bunch of kids. click play let's have a look. it's a lovely though drawn to you what is it that you bring when you go out and you go out into the community and you say i'm going to use my my fame is what are you doing. i'm taking humility i'm taking my honesty and most importantly the music along with me i took my i took my musical instrument on i think we all saw him and the wall wondering what was in my bag and they could see what's me about what's in your bag so i opened it and. of course i think the realize it was

a musical instrument is it politically and i was like all this was in my degree it was for. another i went to do some more there and i mean you have to see the the suffering that is beautiful it's really heartbreaking and i wish i had. the magic wand just like changed their lives and all i had was my musical instrument i didn't have enough money because they were very they were starving there and i thought all i could do was probably give them some pool play my musical instrument so i did play for them and then they said to follow me around like have you seen that story over is it by depart. they said follow me everywhere i was going i say well it was really it was nice very joyful so here are a couple more people that would likely follow you anywhere this is to perkins who is watching you perform on the show and says it was electric then use energy as a rare rocking the extreme studio someone else writes and drag an energy that's his hand or he says simply genetic pushing on the topic you were just talking about why

people are following you this is a world publicist who says his music touches on the true story of nigeria and the need for nigeria means both young and old to read about and remember their history he also addresses societal issues like poverty unemployment and political issues like corruption on his songs those can always be popular topics. you're exposing corruption you're doing it through song these are serious issues that the lyric that i wrote down different resources from africa in the last last song we heard what's the pushback what do you face in terms of obstacles when you get up very difficult for you to get rid of people now these days i get ready for you which is fantastic. what we build a shrine it was we had lots of police raids and for a good eight years this was so hard to move into the shrine and i had to move in with my children and to build somewhere very safe for them on top of the building like in secret compartment where we were just having police risk after police raids

and this went on for a good eight years but this reminded me of my father so i stood strong many people don't realize all this happened in my life because i had like a complete blackout from the media the the government paid a lot of meat. people not to write about the grades or what was going on so it was a complete blackout in my life so but at this time i had i still had the opportunity to talk so unfortunately for the government i was still making my name was creating a big impact in san francisco miami wherever i was store in paris i mean i have very strong support outside the country and people back home don't realize this because nobody really talks about it thank god for social media now i compose this shows and people like you talk to people on social media all the time they don't even believe it's a. way to write that because i'm very tired or my

english can be very bad and forgive me for bad people people who come to the shrine now because it is famous because you are playing them because there was a more i was there i am so glad you see. first of all let's see him dancing everybody so you have to believe that even the president france will be dancing at the shrine of the irony of that this is a very limited i think. he was trying his hip sort of moves i cannot know if there was more like. this i was doing all the moves by you go i hear he's here is he sitting at this right have a look at my laptop here and as it is a little secret so he's here he's

a very nice things about president mccall he's having a fantastic time the audience having your chat is it's you office he is and you don't like politicians. because he was very honest i have to see he reached out to me and said he wanted to come to the shrine and many people like pretended they were bringing him and when i saw interest officials i wanted to compare what's to two thousand and two and what he what i got from him we spoke about the my great crisis he was willing to address africa's problem and princie and france's role and so the next time i have the opportunity i'll be speaking frankly with him on many of these issues that i'm very concerned about but he was very open he didn't have this kind of barrier like or like a snob kind of thing and he he he insisted he wanted to come to destroy the feedback like don't go and he was like he even said it several times i was fine we could see in two thousand and two people pretend it was my father but to pretend it

was because of my father and no matter how many times a mention my name they give credit to my father so i took it to another level well whether it's for me is still the simple it's a game where play in africa has to be for you making a statement by a thank because he is the slowest so. it's fine for me the call my father my name the bottom line this rhyme is there for there must be one of africa and we want total freedom for africa to excel and i strongly believe given the opportunity africa will excel and will be the envy of the world imagine we had real allies like in europe i mean can you imagine travelling from lagos to dramas but by train those kind of trees we see three on a center kilometers per hour while the beauty africa will spread in the wall and this is what i see this is my dream with my music that way to this last question from someone also named for me if you are not in nigeria. oh no you. only here on twitter says please ask him what he thinks about new they do generation of musical activism. in africa. i would want to be critical

of the artists because we were we were all young and we bought there some that are very. outspoken these days i think i heard one of i can remember the names i think fall i know he's outspoken the few that are speaking out but what my the only thing i fear about is i wish more of them picked up musical instruments because what happens in music is a serious law medicine what happens when they get to my age and is that going green on board another generation will come and the only reason you'll be relevant is if you have something to offer for the next generation.