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Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 7:02pm On Mar 18, 2016 |
Biko, Fela Kuti's genius will never cease to amaze me. Till today, a song that's nearly as old as I am contains every single issue that was present then, now! Has anything really changed? Lyrics to Beasts of No Nation, released in 1989. Ah, let's get now into another underground spiritual game SOURCE: http://genius.com/Fela-kuti-beast-of-no-nation-annotated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpua4dvUXs 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by munchi(m): 7:17pm On Mar 18, 2016 |
should we read the lyrics? 1 Like |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 7:20pm On Mar 18, 2016 |
munchi: Well considering that is the point of my post... If you do - especially if you're familiar with the song - you'd appreciate just how relevant his words are in today's political landscape as it were in the 80's. Or equally just focus on the places where I had highlighted the lyrics in bold font. 6 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by munchi(m): 7:44pm On Mar 18, 2016 |
Bre:have read it.... making whole lot of sense.. outside nd inside world.... he just said our primary problems in a nut shell team fella 6 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by munchi(m): 7:46pm On Mar 18, 2016 |
Bre:have read it.... making whole lot of sense.. outside nd inside world.... he just said our primary problems in a nut shell Nigeria has been bleeped since 80 s team fella.. 1 Like |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 11:11pm On Mar 18, 2016 |
munchi: He was and will forever be a true Nigerian. Imagine, despite knowing better, Nigeria still has the same problems. Those same problems also being caused by the same old men. Na wa... 4 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by SleekMallam: 11:19pm On Mar 18, 2016 |
Where is idris Abdulkarim when you need him? |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 12:08am On Mar 19, 2016 |
SleekMallam: I'm only familiar with Jaga Jaga. He who beefed with Obasanjo lol. |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Flexherbal(m): 12:12am On Mar 19, 2016 |
Nigerians will smile soon. |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by SleekMallam: 12:14am On Mar 19, 2016 |
Bre:I think current realities is charged enough for him to receive creative inspiration from the cosmic universe. Nigeria is currently beyond jaga jaja. 2 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 12:19am On Mar 19, 2016 |
SleekMallam: Nigeria jaga jaga, everything scatter scatter; when we have beasts of no nation ruling 2 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by SleekMallam: 12:23am On Mar 19, 2016 |
Bre:Poor man dey suffer suffer gbosa gbosa gun shots in the air. Idris needs to rattle Mr Buhari joor! 3 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 12:46am On Mar 19, 2016 |
SleekMallam: Did you see what Fela said? My people are useless, my people are senseless, my people are indiscipline Was Buhari not just travelling the world the other day de-marketing Nigeria with his bad mouth? At least Idris is still alive. He can add another presidential beef to his repertoire! ![]() 2 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by TheBiafran(m): 12:53am On Mar 19, 2016 |
NO BE THERE BUHARI DEY O? mehn bubu na big fuckup since forever give bubu 20 years to rule the zoo, he would still be confused 3 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 12:56am On Mar 19, 2016 |
TheBiafran: The great Fela called out Buhari 30 years ago for the same nonsense he is still doing today! In a whole new century! Yet "we" still used open eye to vote him in again. How can anyone call themselves a fan of Fela and vote Buhari? Crase full every where for Naijiria ![]() 5 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by peacengine(m): 1:00am On Mar 19, 2016 |
@Bre,it seems we are on a merry- go-round here, the same issues Fela sang about are the same struggles we are dealing with today and may be our children will go through it too. 2 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 1:09am On Mar 19, 2016 |
peacengine: When pastors tell those prayer warriors to pray against every chain, every ancestral curse, they need to say a few "FIREEEE, FIREEEE" submissions for Nigeria because it's not funny again. It was never funny. It's even more serious when the current generation voted for the same suffering and smiling of our parents. 3 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 1:13am On Mar 19, 2016 |
Flexherbal: Amen. |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by SleekMallam: 1:16am On Mar 19, 2016 |
Bre:From the first coming of Buhari till now no changes. He keeps repeating same things and expecting a different result. only a man that fails to update himself does such. 3 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 1:41am On Mar 19, 2016 |
SleekMallam: I read this comment made by a youtuber in the comment section to Fela's "Coffin for Head of State": What Fela was describing is still the unfortunate situation we have in Nigeria and most of the African countries. We understand religions upside down. Religion is one of our biggest problems. We are so godly without conscience. Government is still budgeting huge amount of money to sponsor people to Mecca and Jerusalem while women die during delivery and children die of hunger. But only we Africans understand these things. Its blasphemous but (un)fortunately the real truth. Our politicians and leaders steal all our money and they are afraid of going to hell they send relatives to Mecca and Jerusalem and pray. Fela was right. And what he was describing has hardly changed. We just recently managed to vote out a government in Nigeria which was ran by jet-flying pastors. I am pained. Anyone who calls themselves a fan of Fela or even dares to play/dance to his music whilst having voted APC, may God visit them with redeeming deliverance. I wanted to say something stronger but then had to calm my anger and remember the God in me. What those zombie supporters don't understand is that it's only a TRUE patriot that will see what is happening to/in their motherland and be consumed by rage. Zombies and other political sycophants are never patriots. You cannot put caustic and deadly political affiliations before the interest of your so-called country if you truly love her. ![]() 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by SleekMallam: 2:51am On Mar 19, 2016 |
Bre:To even imagine that after all these years, Nigeria is yet to get the very basics necessary for human existence right is enough to send one into depression when you compare her with fellow African neighbors. I've concluded with Hegel that God has abandoned Nigeria to her fate. personally, I've given up on Naija and planned my generations away from her but when I look back and see the pains others go through in Nigeria, it grieves my heart. 1 Like |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by rhymaster: 3:58am On Mar 19, 2016 |
Yes, you can criticize an 8 month old government if you were dead during the past 16 years the PDP government raped and destroyed Nigeria looting several trillions of dollars! Even Fela would have no song to describe the PDP and ineffectual baboonfoon called Jonathan who singlehandedly looted $20 B dollar in one move and claimed that America will know if he stole that much money from Nigeria's coffers since it is America's money? Can you see the sense of a Ph. D? Even Fela cannot sing animal sense for that kind of problem or people! For the first time, he will run out of words or music to describe the same PDP and Jonazero of a president! Buhari is spending all his life and energy trying to fix the problems that PDP created, Jona alone ran Nigeria into > $ 30 B debt when oil was trading well over $120 per barrel and depleted the foreign reserves and excess crude accounts to record lows after Obasanjo paid of the Paris club debt, left virtually no debt. Yet Jonathan, the god of these little kids or adults-like kids blew $60 B down to < $30 B! What kind of song will Fela sing for Jona? PDP lost. Jona lost. Now the bitter seccesionists can cry until they are blue in the face, but they cheered on while billions of dollars grew wings and disappeared in 16 years! |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by ckmayoca: 7:01am On Mar 19, 2016 |
rhymaster: ![]() 2 Likes |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by iokpebholo: 7:50am On Mar 19, 2016 |
Now that's classic from fela himself.he was vigorous against this same animal in d 80s but some zombies voted him back and even called him saint due to their hatred for Jonathan. In other news I bought fuel 160 yesterday ,dnt have light since one week. |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 10:31am On Mar 19, 2016 |
rhymaster: Please do not bring that nonsense you wrote in your last sentence into my thread. If you want to talk, talk. If you want to take this conversation into a tribal route, I will not engage you. I do not play that game, especially when the conversation is on my terms. |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 10:32am On Mar 19, 2016 |
ckmayoca: Don't mind the guy. Every one is expressing themselves. There's always gonna be that one guy that wants to kill the vibe. Upload your own mood too, what's speaking your mind musically? Or has Fela said it all? 1 Like |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 10:41am On Mar 19, 2016 |
iokpebholo: Suffering and smiling. I can't even imagine the inconvenience. Inconvenience is even an understatement. I wonder, did people start calling the zombies "zombies" after Fela's song or just based off of the similarities of their reasoning to an actual zombie? Who even started that phrase? |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by iokpebholo: 10:55am On Mar 19, 2016 |
Bre:true talk bro |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by idrisalomagold(m): 11:05am On Mar 19, 2016 |
I don't think there is any other musician as bold as Fela again. |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Bre(f): 1:50pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
idrisalomagold: To be frank, I don't think many of our current musicians care about much beyond popping bottles. The pure artistry that Fela had... ![]() But who cares about making music for the ages any more? I cannot see myself playing "shakiti bobo" in 30 years time. The current crop of musicians are so short-sighted and don't care about legacy. |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by happystep(m): 11:32pm On Sep 21, 2017 |
From this song it is obvious that it has been long Nigeria became a Zoo Republic. According to Fela animals has been ruling Nigeria |
Re: Beasts Of No Nation - Animal Can't Dash Me HUMAN RIGHTS by Nobody: 4:48pm On Oct 14, 2017 |
I wish he is still alive and see what is going on. |
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