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motymop:
I agree
Fela created afrobeat not afrobeats

Afrobeats was just a name given to all African music by rolling stones

And the first person to even name his music Afrobeat was Orlando Owo, though he was singing mostly highlife. Fela’s music is unique and complex, no one has been able to replicate it to this day.

Most people commenting can't even define AFROBEAT. Thinking that only fela's genre of music is AFROBEAT or AFROBEATS is all wrong. Both highlife and most of the African genre of music was classified under AFROBEATS by the Europeans that brought the word.

samuelson06:
Lol. Fela's songs were for rascals. You and I know that for real. Had a guy way back then that used to dance naked to his songs. His songs were for mentally unstable people

rest oga . Nobody knows Oliver the cocaine

SmartyPants:
Half education is bad.

The saying, "All generalization are false including this one" which you have regurgitated without understanding it's meaning, is actually self indicting and ironic, not literal.

It implies that the phrase "all generalizations" is itself a generalization and therefore paradoxically false.

Generalizations, properly qualified, can be true. I.e "people from a certain area tend to be tribalistic" is a generalization that can be true.

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Basic123:
Yea

They always do that to wole soyinka to elevate Achebe.
They even claim WS Nobel prize was rigged

they suffer from inferiority complex and notice me syndrome

Flangelo12:
Wrtin this one sabi.

We dey even try to resurrect your dead career, you come add this one on top.

You get the point, the 1d10t has been very depressed because life and the music 🎵 industry has moved pass him, so he needs something to say that will make people to know that he's still breathing.

motymop:
I agree
Fela created afrobeat not afrobeats

Afrobeats was just a name given to all African music by rolling stones

An average Igbo man will agree with anything that will bring down any other down or down play their efforts. We know Una for that.

PlasmaTV:
Cry me a river. Take 🪣🪣🪣

You think you are doing me?

Then it's you right?...mumu guy ..you just lost the special regards I got for you ...

Yemimovich:
How highlife and afrobeat take resemble. Abi, Dem nor school Tekno well say Oliver De Coque na highlife artiste, while Fela originated Afrobeat, which other artistes dey fight over today as afrobeats

I think I agree with Tekno, highlife can be part of afrobeat and If you listen to Tekno songs, you will see that Tekno adds highlife to his music, especially the ending part

gabicon:
Afrobeat is combining West African rhythms with jazz and funk. Highlife is guitar-driven, melodic West African sound. They are different. Fela is the originator of afrobeat, Oliver sang highlife. The Europeans could connect more with Fela because his music reminded them of Jazz and funk while Oliver could only reach our local audience. Both great musicians with different styles.

Best submission on this topic. Kudos!

Iran2025:
Looking for how to revive his dead career. Idiot

See the hate that adorns you. Truth they say is hurtful.

Kushites:
UTTER BULLSHIT.

Those influences do NOT negate the traditional African rhythm, melody, drumming, and call-and-response that separate a Fela song from a Miles Davis or Coltrane song.

It's called AFRO beat for a reason, okay?

Do you have ears?

Listen to all the music genres and tell yourself what fela's music sounds like, and stop yammering about names.

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.

See how GenZ Tekno is fraudulently attempting to spin history. He should kuku include Dan Maraya of Jos too.

Oliver De Coque sings highlife like his peers and those ahead of him like Rex Lawson, Bobby Benson etc.

Only a fraud will come up today to claim Oliver De Coque sings afrobeat. He doesn't! Throughout his lifetime, Sir Oliver De Coque sings Ogene highlife and never at anytime deviated from his highlife music.

Afrobeat is not highlife! Fela created Afrobeat and his beats and lyrics were largely drawn from his Yoruba language he spins into pidgin.

"Water no get enemy" that Fela sang about, is a Yoruba proverb. And if you go and listen to his grandfather's Egba anthem, you will appreciate greatly how Fela drew richly from his Yoruba heritage.

I think most here may be far too young for Fela's grandfather.

budaatum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMcsESmvzcE?si=Tm07EnLIqJ0ggG0K


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHK2q5ypsx4?si=OXYITC4z-KgPnNQa

I don't get the obsession and competition with the yoruba people by igbos. It has now become their daily thing recently. It really show how deep they wanted the yoruba life so bad. Yorubas need to wake up and secure their Territory and peace. Tekno, another guy duru said "yorubas have taken nollywood from the igbos" and that "they're the ones that created it"

Just imagine for a seconds if these guys have the 'central power' to themselves? And that's what they've been waiting for. It's a different thing if it's only the miscreants amongst them that are doing this but it's troubling when you have even those with NAMES doing this also. Imagine illiblis, tekno, duru, oby, Obi, moghalu's wife etc going down the path of scathering attacks on yorubas from whose they've benefited greatly? These are not a coincidence, but a deliberate effort and a mindset of an average igbo. Even in the work environment, they display the same mindset.
This is a wake up call to the yorubas, and the yoruba youths especially, it's time to set BOUNDARIES deliberately, and we should be united at doing it. I have been saying this for few years now. It's time to look out for one another at work place, business, market, residence etc
We shouldn't be selfish and self-centred. These people people know how to manipulate us - it's time to resist that tactics.
I have discovered that these people use us to fight us. Example; they can bless/promote one or few yorubas in a system so as to make it look they're not Tribalistic, but will later relegate those ones as time goes on. This is on repeat. They do that till they infiltrate deeply. It's time.to re-write the wrong cos each year passing is a near TIME-BOMB. It's time we embark on a deep education and information. Since this Obi candidacy in 2023, this menace and attack on yorubas by igbos has been on the increase, and they're educating and recruiting more of their youths in this cause. It's sometime I see daily in a city like lagos, and other yoruba populated cities. They're also using financial and other benefits to distract our youths- and this benefits are done with a sense of high disregard. This shouldn't be attached to political will only but for the future of yorubas in general.

I have set example about this. It has affect my progress at work cos I'm in a workplace dominated by the igbos. I'm undaunted and unapologetic yoruba, and I don't hide my displeasure about the treatment of yorubas there. They've put eye on me and treated me badly but I DON'T CARE...I have always been confident man and unshaken. So I'm using this medium to tell you if I can do it, you can too. It will be very bad in the future if yorubas are relegated to the last ethnic group even in there own land. One of the problems we have in yorubaland is our POLITICAL CLASS. They tend to wanting to reward outsider at the expense of their own people just for favour and they don't have boundaries to this. It's shameful!

PS: other tribes too do this but it's just that the igbos are high up there.

Pillar12:
The tendency of Igbos to bring down others just to elevate their own.


Who TF is Oliver Twist abi Oliver Khan he's talking about

It is Oliver The Cook, bro

I'm not surprised. His name explains everything

Pillar12:
The tendency of Igbos to bring down others just to elevate their own.


Who TF is Oliver Twist abi Oliver Khan he's talking about

I knew about King Sunny Ade and King Shina Peters before i even heard of Fela for the first time.
Back then in the South South, we listened to Maxwell Udoh and so many of our own.
The West consume more music from their own people too and so do the East so for me Tekno isn't wrong.
Fela Kuti remains a legend but there were others before him.

samuelson06:
At the end of the day, Oliver had more songs you can relate to than Fela. Fela's songs in those days were for never-do-wells of society. Sane people hardly listened to Fela because his songs were and are still rough. No melody. Just words. I enjoyed songs from musicians like Osadebe, Oliver, etc. than I enjoyed Fela's music, not because those guys were from the East but because they organized their songs better than Fela did.

U think u can force them on our throat.. Only eastern people know those oliver u mentioned....

Fela was global..... The records are there, not the village singer called Oliver twist

Is this what Media has been shattered to?
No list of artists mentioned just Oliver de'coque
Hmm

kingsavage:
afrobeat is a genre of music like reggae, hip-hop, rnb, jazz etc.. it is not African music in genre .

Your dead techno phone should go and look for how to revive his failed carrier instead of saying what he has no idea about..

Even the highlife he mentioned originated from Ghana and not Igboland..

Igbo has not music genre they invented

LZAA

So what is ogene music?

Always talking before thinking. I wasn't talking to airheads. Those who understood my message will understand it.

Take your meds and learn how to logical and factual.

Highlife is different from afrobeat.

Sunny Ade, Obey e.t.c sing Juju, they don't claim to sing Afrobeat.

Fuji musician don't claim to sing afrobeat.

Why do Ibo people like taking Yoruba glory.

One even told some brazillians that the Sango they are worshipping is from Ibos south east, not yoruba, but I love those White guys, they put him in his place.

He claimed they don't listen to Fella in the east, they have another artist they listen to. Fella was a national song then, from the north to the south.

This guy is fraud

richmanrichard:
Most people commenting can't even define AFROBEAT. Thinking that only fela's genre of music is AFROBEAT or AFROBEATS is all wrong. Both highlife and most of the African genre of music was classified under AFROBEATS by the Europeans that brought the word.

throughout the famous years of sunny ade singing Juju, he was never classified under afrobeat. He toured europe with juju music, not any other genre.

highlife was never under afrobeat.

Its like saying Jaz was classified as hiphop. shey you dey whine yourself ni

Tenses:
Wizkid that said he's bigger than fela is Igbo too..


No let tribalism wound your life

so you don't understand tribal warlord and a self declared impostor. Wizkid even believe he is bigger than the whole American hiphop. He want to create his own genre of hiphop...

thats why he is called a kid for a reason

Pillar12:
The tendency of Igbos to bring down others just to elevate their own.


Who TF is Oliver Twist abi Oliver Khan he's talking about

Lolll so how many times have an Igboman brought You down in life .

Oboy tell Yourself tgr

favor914:
Old handler, & has never heard of the great Fela Kuti?

Your genz old handler was not aware that Motown Stevie Wonder & James Brown were with Fela in Kalakuta Republic after the conclusion of FESTAC 77 when General Obasanjo & Danjuma sent unknown soldiers out of vexation & bad belle to burn the place down .

All these you're saying is just because you know him, the world is too big to know all, do you know all the big stars in every country? Events plenty.

Flangelo12:
Who is the dumb American musician who's never heard of Fela when I've met many Gen Z people of American, French, Irish, Scandinavian, etc. origin who know Fela.

You call him dumb because he doesn't know about fela? How many do you know from other parts of the world?

MrGerald:
You call him dumb because he doesn't know about fela? How many do you know from other parts of the world?

Loads and I'm not even a musician.

I'm telling you even western kids that aren't in the music industry know of Fela, how much more a 'Musician' ?

Abeg getat with your story.

Flangelo12:
Loads and I'm not even a musician.

I'm telling you even western kids that aren't in the music industry know of Fela, how much more a 'Musician' ?

Abeg getat with your story.

LoL I noticed you're mischievous and an angry person here, so typical. Do you remember the American musician that was threatened by a Nigerian musician inside a plane in Lagos? He was the one do your research. You always think the world resonate around you, cuz na MJ.

MrGerald:
LoL I noticed you're mischievous and an angry person here, so typical. Do you remember the American musician that was threatened by a Nigerian musician inside a plane in Lagos? He was the one do your research. You always think the world resonate around you, cuz na MJ.

Any American musician who doesn't know of Fela is a phoney or junkie who has lost his memory.