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Essential Fela Kuti Playlist

Fela Kuti's essential set — the songs every DJ reaches for, ranked in one playlist. Copy the list, tap 🔀 for a fresh mix, add the whole set to Apple Music in one tap, or build your own with the free Setlist Machine.

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Essential Fela Kuti — Fela Kuti is a Nigerian musician, bandleader and political activist, known for Afrobeat combining West African rhythms with funk, jazz, highlife and extended social commentary.

⭐ Essential Fela Kuti76 songs

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  1. Zombie — Fela Kuti
  2. Water No Get Enemy — Fela Kuti
  3. Zombie (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  4. Let's Start (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  5. Fear Not for Man — Fela Kuti
  6. Expensive Shit — Fela Kuti
  7. I.T.T. (International Thief Thief) (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  8. Mr. Follow Follow — Fela Kuti
  9. Mistake (Live At the Berlin Jazz Festival - 1978) — Fela Kuti
  10. Black Man's Cry — Fela Kuti
  11. Observation Is No Crime — Fela Kuti
  12. Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am — Fela Kuti
  13. Kalakuta Show — Fela Kuti
  14. Gentleman — Fela Kuti
  15. Highlife Time — Fela Kuti
  16. Jeun Ko Ku (Chop 'n Quench) — Fela Kuti
  17. Everything Scatter — Fela Kuti
  18. Igbe — Fela Kuti
  19. No Agreement — Fela Kuti
  20. Original Sufferhead (Extended Version) — Fela Kuti
  21. Original Sufferhead — Fela Kuti
  22. Africa Centre of the World — Fela Kuti
  23. Army Arrangement — Fela Kuti
  24. Don't Make Garan Garan — Fela Kuti
  25. Dog Eat Dog (Instrumental) — Fela Kuti
  26. Beasts of No Nation — Fela Kuti
  27. Opposite People — Fela Kuti
  28. Lady — Fela Kuti
  29. Coffin for Head of State — Fela Kuti
  30. O.D.O.O. (Edit Version) — Fela Kuti
  31. Underground System, Pt. 2 — Fela Kuti
  32. Roforofo Fight — Fela Kuti
  33. I.T.T. (International Thief Thief), Pt. 1 & 2 — Fela Kuti
  34. Just Like That (Live) — Fela Kuti
  35. Sorrow Tears and Blood (Original Extended Version) — Fela Kuti
  36. Confusion (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  37. Obe (Stew) — Fela Kuti
  38. Confusion, Pt. 1 & 2 — Fela Kuti
  39. Upside Down — Fela Kuti
  40. Fefe Naa Efe — Fela Kuti
  41. Sorrow Tears and Blood (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  42. Sorrow Tears and Blood — Fela Kuti
  43. Expensive Shit (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  44. Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  45. Shakara (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  46. Shakara — Fela Kuti
  47. Je'Nwi Teni (Don't Gag Me) — Fela Kuti
  48. Johnny Just Drop — The Motet & Fela Kuti
  49. Kalakuta Show — The Motet & Fela Kuti
  50. Roforofo Fight — The Motet & Fela Kuti
  51. Expensive Shit — The Motet & Fela Kuti
  52. Blackman's Cry — Fela Kuti
  53. Givers (Interlude) — Yung Fela Kuti
  54. Jus Friends — Yung Fela Kuti
  55. Already Up — Yung Fela Kuti
  56. Eko Ile — Fela Kuti
  57. Interlude: “The Secret of Life Is to Have No Fear” — Fela Kuti
  58. Interlude: Don’t Worry About My Mouth-o — Fela Kuti
  59. Egbe Mi O (Carry Me) (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  60. Egbe Mi O (Carry Me) — Fela Kuti
  61. Excuse-O (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  62. Excuse-O — Fela Kuti
  63. Black Man's Cry (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  64. Ikoyi Blindness (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  65. Ikoyi Blindness — Fela Kuti
  66. Stalemate (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  67. Stalemate — Fela Kuti
  68. Custom Check Point (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  69. Custom Check Point — Fela Kuti
  70. Alagbon Close (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  71. Alagbon Close — Fela Kuti
  72. Shenshema — Fela Kuti
  73. Yellow Fever (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  74. Yellow Fever — Fela Kuti
  75. Alu Jon Jonki Jon (Edit) — Fela Kuti
  76. Alu Jon Jonki Jon — Fela Kuti

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