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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by dfrost: 5:31pm On Dec 20, 2025

Well deserved and long overdue wink

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The fact that artists are making a fortune out of his genre speaks a lot for the culture.

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by UkoAnnang(m): 5:35pm On Dec 20, 2025

Disenfranchised:
Long overdue.

Continue to rest in peace baba.

How I wish baba witness buhari and tinubu régime. Lyrical knockout nah it tinubu for dey collect every Thursdays.

When this tribalism and Yoruba hates at its peak, Baba Fela Kuti would have been in APC praising Tunibu for his failure.
Take Wole Soyinka for example

Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by ScamDemicEra: 5:37pm On Dec 20, 2025

bigdawg7:
Apart from his activism i can say for a fact that fela is so overrated musically

... that's a subjective opinion virtually all musical geniuses world wide disagree with !!!!

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by tiger28: 5:45pm On Dec 20, 2025

These Yorubas ehn huh

It’s either them or anyone else with their Bloodlines.

I really envy their QUIET Accomplishments.

I am a Northerner.

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by StingingStinger: 5:45pm On Dec 20, 2025

Una too dey do rivalry.

Oliver go still queue behind Sunny Ade, Ayinla Omowura, Ayinde Barrister just to mention a few. Ev

HacheNoire:
Oliver De Coque Should be next

Those guys made music!

The only Igbo artiste I can dance to without understanding Igbo.

The rhythm just hits your soul!

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by dederocs(m): 5:46pm On Dec 20, 2025

Most important Nigerian to the world.

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by Disenfranchised: 5:46pm On Dec 20, 2025

UkoAnnang:
When this tribalism and Yoruba hates at its peak, Baba Fela Kuti would have been in APC praising Tunibu for his failure.
Take Wole Soyinka for example

Oga no be baba Fela. That man just dislike bad leadership.

Woke Soyinka nah hypocrite.

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by Burgerlomo: 5:49pm On Dec 20, 2025

Rest on baba 70

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by Nten: 5:53pm On Dec 20, 2025

Abami Eda!
This man would have been alive to see the prophetic proclamation coming to pass on Nigeria.

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by victorVIC1(m): 5:56pm On Dec 20, 2025

Too long overdue

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by whippersnapper(m): 5:57pm On Dec 20, 2025*

I have watched a lot of Hollywood movies where they used fela song. From "Washington black", "The harder they fall", etc.
Nothing for this life wey Baba fela no talk. My best fela song is"Na poi". I love women like fela grin

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by UkoAnnang(m): 5:58pm On Dec 20, 2025

Disenfranchised:
Oga no be baba Fela. That man just dislike bad leadership.

Wole Soyinka nah hypocrite.

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by amstamon: 6:04pm On Dec 20, 2025

So also majek fashek. I think it's Only the young and gen-z in nigeria that doesn't know how big majek fashek was during his time. Maybe bigger than fela then.
Fact!

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by franvincoop: 6:08pm On Dec 20, 2025

President of Kalakuta Republic

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by do4luv14(m): 6:13pm On Dec 20, 2025

Disenfranchised:
Long overdue.

Continue to rest in peace baba.

How I wish baba witness buhari and tinubu régime. Lyrical knockout nah it tinubu for dey collect every Thursdays.

Bibi own go be every hour, I Miss baba 70s mehn, I wish Femi could had carried on, but wishes where horses,

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by Omoawoke(op): 6:17pm On Dec 20, 2025

FreeStuffsNG:
If you don’t know that Lagos State immortalized Fela then you be suegbe.

Here's one of the many ways he was immortalized by Lagos
https://www.nairaland.com/993742/fela-lagos-state-government-turn

Grammys is doing catch up.

I said federal government

Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by Omoawoke(op): 6:17pm On Dec 20, 2025

AllBlack:
Fela deserves it. His sound will outlive many of these new guys.

But it is time for Africa to come up with an award system that is well suited to accommodate all the musical styles we have over here instead of looking up to hear our name mentioned at grammy like they are doing us a favour.

I completely agree with you!

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by Omoawoke(op): 6:19pm On Dec 20, 2025

joseph1832:
I will forever love Beasts of No Nation. The lyrics still reflect what is happening in Nigeria this very day.

"Animal can't dash me, human rights. Animals must talk to, human beings'.

The soundtrack of this song can send one to trance.

Unknown soldier, coffin for head of state, sorrows tears and blood..

Those soundtracks aren’t normal

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by Vacora(m): 6:26pm On Dec 20, 2025

amstamon:
So also majek fashek. I think it's Only the young and gen-z in nigeria that doesn't know how big majek fashek was during his time. Maybe bigger than fela then.
Fact!

This comment is laughable. How many albums does Majek Fashek have? Name 5 popular songs of his?

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by Nobody: 6:26pm On Dec 20, 2025

Is it just me?
Did the OP say he has been nominated or he's saying, I know it will happen one day"

Is this a wish or a confirmed information.

Baba fela, the truest and greatest Nigerian ever

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by mukthar2000(m): 6:27pm On Dec 20, 2025

Rest on baba fela.

Gone are the days when baba they control shrain 4 Ikeja and kalakuta republic.

Bak then when baba use shitt polish Abiola house then.

Back then when Femi blow trumpet from Ikeja to national theatre when baba fela die

Back then seun was still in school then, but I believe seun most surely emulate baba fela behaviors.

Fela die fela remain alive.

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by traware(m): 6:33pm On Dec 20, 2025

FaAbData:
Is it just me?
Did the OP said he has been nominated or he's saying, I know it will happen one day"

Is this a wish or a confirmed information.

Baba fela, the truest and greatest Nigerian ever

@Emboldened

Gbam!!!

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by EmperorIsaac(m): 6:33pm On Dec 20, 2025

Waste of award! Don't quote me please.

Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by traware(m): 6:38pm On Dec 20, 2025

Omoawoke:
The soundtrack of this song can send one to trance.

Unknown soldier, coffin for head of state, sorrows tears and blood..

Those soundtracks aren’t normal

I can tell you are also a fan.
My favourites are "I Go Shout Plenty", "Fefe Naa Fe" and " Confusion"

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by ManOfSon: 6:48pm On Dec 20, 2025

When people say Fela created Afrobeats, what exactly do they mean? He only adapted afrobeats to his gennre of music - a fusion of highlife and jazz. He didn't create afrobeats, which is a five-beat sequence indigenous to most of sub-saharan Africa that existed long before Fela started his music career. And before you start arguing over nothing, I'm a huge Fela fan. I'm also a music collector. I have in my music library most of Fela's songs dating back to his days with the Koola Lobitos in the 1960s.

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by Omoawoke(op): 6:50pm On Dec 20, 2025

FaAbData:
Is it just me?
Did the OP say he has been nominated or he's saying, I know it will happen one day"

Is this a wish or a confirmed information.

Baba fela, the truest and greatest Nigerian ever

Confirmed!

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by RevenuesBoost(f): 6:57pm On Dec 20, 2025

He communicated through his lyrics.

He sang fearlessly.

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Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by adamkkk: 6:58pm On Dec 20, 2025

with the trash that he was singing after abusing substances abi ?

If fela is worthy of that achievement, then Hitler should be given a lifetime peace award.

Stop rating the unrated.

Re: Baba Fela Set To Receive Grammys Life Time Achievement by lordwoz: 7:04pm On Dec 20, 2025

Exousiang01:
One of the greatest Africa produced.

I am happy and proud to say I lived in the times of the Likes of Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

Modified:
What if Fela had gone on to study law?
What if Chinua Achebe had gone on to study medicine....

Sometimes being exceptional means you have to be abnormal. You have to be "Above-Nornal".
Unfortunately many are afraid to follow the new path

I believe both would have been the best in those field also...
They were naturally brilliant

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