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Gentleman (50th Anniversary/Smoke Colored Vinyl)

Format: LP

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$39.99

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The title track of this album has often been hailed as Fela’s masterpiece.

Musically innovative, melodically addictive, Fela got it all right in this politically scathing song in which he opposes Westernization and those who imitate Western ways. “I no be gentleman at all,” Fela sings, and then goes on to detail the ways in which he’s a “true African original”, and therefore superior to those who wear three-piece suits and hold tight to their colonial mentality. Fela follows this track with Fefe Na Efe, which derives its name from an Ashanti proverb describing the beauty of a woman holding her breasts as she runs. Fela, who had many Ghanaian fans, sings this lush track as a tribute to Ghana, a country he loved. Finally, Igbe again shows the artist breaking cultural taboos by singing literally and figuratively about shit, as the word translates to, describing those friends who may betray you.

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