Trouble Sleep; Yanga Wake Am - Fela Kuti

"Trouble Sleep; Yanga Wake Am" - Baaba Maal and Taj Mahal (featuring Kaouding Cissoko)

Red Hot + Riot (a.k.a. Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti) is the fourteenth in a series of music compilation projects from the Red Hot Organization to be used as a fundraising tool for AIDS awareness efforts. The album, which takes inspiration from the late Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, was released by MCA on October 15, 2002 and featured more than three dozen artists on a score of tracks.

You can find the lyrics to the song and meanings too on this site: http://hometown.aol.com/__121b_+/40b2FfFsQmY2umPm5OjTxsfTRXvpqn1AK/sw+YgYc=

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Fela
• Femi
• Kuti
• red
• hot
• riot
• taj
• mahal
• afrobeat
• folk
• hip-hop
• world
• music
• nigerian
• aids
• awareness

[naijanistan]

@sunny9886 IF FOUND GUILTY, THE PUNISHMENT IS USUALLY SEVERE. FOR THIS REASON, THE INDIGENES WOULD GO EXTRA MILE TO COMPLY WITH THE RULES IN ORDER TO AVOID BEING SUMMONED FOR HEARING (palaver). THE INDIGENES SAW PALAVER AS Wahala (trouble, unrest, discomfort, pain, agony etc.) THAT'S WHY YOU ALWAYS HEAR PEOPLE ESPECIALLY IN WEST AFRICA SAY "no palaver o". MEANING, no trouble. I HOPE THIS SHED LIGHT AND UNDERSTANDING TO WHAT BABA KUTI IS SAYING OR SINGING ABOUT HERE. THANKS.

[mfdoom007]

He doesn't hate white people at all, he is against the exploitation of his country, whether it's from Western countries or his own country's leaders that were in power.

[doraybiko1]

@guerillapro they just get it thats all

[guerillapro]

the 6 people who dont like this must be pedophiles

[SwissTunes]

Dieses Lied animiert zum Kiffen :-))

[SLS47]

ich liebe diese musik und diese stimme.......

[SuperQueenofAfrica]

@Aotubaga WELL SAID!!!

[NiggaGdup]

Baba 70 you shall never be forgotten your memory,struggle,music,message will always speak for you.....with tears in my eyez farewell daddy 

[NiggaGdup]

@EKPEYE1 you said it all

[banjaxedster]

Palaver is empty talk that sounds good. some of this definitions are not that great, but enough of my palaver.

[EKPEYE1]

The rhyme, and the message of this song flows from the outer(physical) environment to the inner( emotional) from there to the spiritual part of it then again!!!! reverse the case. wonder how the World would have been without music.