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| Fela Anikulapo Kuti |
RUNZ Entertainment & Rap Hill Music head honchos and renowned
rappers, Michael “Mi-Fliss” Akhimie & Bayo “Stone Blaze” Odunaiya teamed up
to create its first single from a series of future projects. With FELABRATION,
the yearly celebration of the Afro Beat legend, Fela close by. The single serves as a contribution to this
year’s build-up of the event, the pair explored with Afro-beat elements creating
fusions with contemporary Hip Hop music to make it relevant and its influence
prominent in the present youth matrix in Nigeria. Internationally others have
been celebrating and showing great appreciation of Afrobeat, while at the home front there has not being a reciprocal
appreciation of its ingenious & unique style and an open declaration of its
influence on contemporary genres in Nigeria. That’s about to change, as the
Nigerian Hip Hop community is rising up to celebrate the most renowned musical
export to come off our shores, Afrobeat.
The single which was solely produced by Mi-Fliss and executively
overseen by Bayo Odunaiya, explores and fuses rich elements (beats, voice
samples, music etc.) of Afrobeat music off Fela’s catalogs, together with Hip
Hop to create this “New Musical Expression” solely for the purpose of Research,
preservation and celebration of this ingenious “Musical Contraption” synonymous
to Nigeria. We don’t have to wait for the likes of Jay-Z or Will & Jada
Pinkett Smith to show us, how invaluable Afrobeat
is, based on their actions to support the Broadway play “Fela”.
The single which features three grounded rappers namely Mi-Fliss
& Stone Blaze (The initiators) & Yobemoh titled “Gentleman”, inspired
and containing samples from the legendary Afrobeat
inventor Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s 1973
album “Gentleman” & “Trouble Sleep Yanga Go Wake Am” off his
1972 album Roforofo fight . The single
will be released free to the general public via file sharing on key entertainment/social
media sites and other direct media to achieve this purpose.
The Nigerian Hip Hop community seizes this opportunity to celebrate
a musical legacy that has served as a catalyst of hope for the oppressed and a
canvas for the inner ghetto youths to express their disposition without
prejudice.
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