Check out this great  tribute mix to Fela Kuti by Stimulus, Brooklyn MC and Dj. Here is a little write up on how he created this mix

i went to see FELA! when i had a few friends in it, like Sahr [Ngaujah] and Afi [McClendon]. I interviewed them for hours on end. “What’s your take on Fela? What do you feel peole don’t get about him?” Both spoke about about his humanism and mysticism — he was worried about his people and humanity in general. Mysticism has gotten lost in our culture, and FELA! is a lot about how a lack of mysticism takes away from humanity.

To make the mix, I watched a lot of Fela documentaries and listened to all the interviews I’d done with the cast. Unfortunately I lost the recordings [of the interviews], I was gonna put them on the mixtape… One of the things i watched was how Fela made his music, going up to London listening to jazz and salsa. He’d say “I make my music being inspired by all kinds of things being melded together.” So i just started going through my files and listening to things that had his influence.
AFRICA IN YOUR EARBUDS #4: STIMULUS- ‘WHAT IT MEANS’ by okayafrica

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