When your looking for a kid friendly playlist, Play this for black babies in the house before you cut on elmo. Let them run around and hear their culture. My nieces and nephews grew up to Fela, marley, drums and no radio or suppressive words just instruments and home energy... It Helped their spirit a lot.
As a Hungarian rarely any music made me cry so much as this song, it's absolutely the essence of life. Africa is blessed to have had such a cultural leader.
Here because of Burna boy, as an African American I felt like our culture in a America is prevalent in black culture and I’ve felt detached from my roots and origins. I’m blessed to grow up in a time where African music is becoming more and more popular in the states.
I cry real tears when I listen to Fela, Hugh, Oliver & see the xenophobia and tribalism that’s happening on our continent. We have forgotten who we are...
If you understand yoruba ,you will know Water in the context stands for black people, there's no life without water,there's no humanity without black people.
I heard this song around 1996 on a Berkeley radio station that had static...I tried to make sense of the lyrics and remembered Water and Enemy. Around 1999 I was browsing through an IMG cd catalog and saw "Water Got No Enemy" in the international section!! It felt like I won the lottery because I had no idea that I would ever find out who sang the song.
Kanye West: "I wanna make songs that challenge the idea of everything that's been done before, where I do stuff like start rapping in the fourth minute."
Fela Kuti: "You're welcome."