This is an absolute must see! Jay-Z, Will & Jada Smith presents Fela! I'm told ?uesto of the Roots has a hand in the production of this as well. This is a very visually intriguing promo, I'm sold.
Mookie n 'Nem say...
Now, when we watched the Opening Night trailer, our souls were set on fire. ?uestlove? Jigga? Spike? Harry? Bill T. Jones? To steal from Ed Lover, "C'mon, Son! Get the %#@& outta here if you don't want to see FELA! Even the white lady said, "It's the beginning of the African Renaissance." Say word!
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I'm so excited about this production. Been hearing about it for a while and now it's here.
Looks visually enticing but in the battle between telling the real story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti and giving a glossy legend of the man and his life it looks like Jada, Will and Jay-Z are going with the glossy...I grew up listening to some of Fela's music when I was in Ghana as a small child...chanting "Zombie oh Zombie" without knowing what it meant until I got older and listened to his catalog of music. It was rife with subject matter such as misogny, sex, violence, remembrance of racial and cultural identity, colonialism's evils...Subjects I'm sure would make the producers themselves very uncomfortable to show their ticket holding audience. I'm curious to know what he would think if he knew this was going on...from stories and interviews I've seen and heard about Fela my guess is he would not have been "happy".
I'll see it but only for the music...from what I heard his real shows were something else...and speaking of music I wonder if his old band members and even his other children know about this? One wonders?
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