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The seamless—and unexpected—unions of theme, groove, and spirit pepper the entirety of The King Meets the President in Africa. In Billie Jean Is Shakara, the young woman who's become the bane of Jackson's existence—with lo...

Fela vs Michael Jackson, AfroStreet, JUMP N FUNK

Remember The Time (Roforofo Remix), introduces Jackson's "Remember The Time" to Fela's "Roforofo Fight." Jackson's tune is an urgent reminisce to an old lover, delivered with his usual searing vocal performance atop an inf...

Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson & Fela Kuti

If Michael Jackson is The King of Pop, and Fela Kuti is The King of Afrobeat, then the Beatles are of course, the Kings of Rock & Roll. Dominating the music industry as a band,...

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Atop a hypnotic music bed mashed from both tunes—with a particularly effective use of the horns from Fela's "I No Get Eye..." as a refrain—Jackson floats his gentle yet insistent probes about human na...

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Sometimes there's nothing more revolutionary than a good time and a dope-ass groove. And for all that Fela also represents those two elements, they often run second to his political dimensions. Jackson...