Mbalakh; Sey Chance Laa

Part of the new wave of Afrobeat/Jazz artists from the diaspora.

⁣Trumpet – Fela Kuti
Guitar – M. Amaechi
Bass – E. Ngomalloh
Drums – T. Adekoya
Congas – Ayinde Folarin


⁣Highlife: Jazz and Afro: Soul (1963-1969)

Fela Kuti and his Koola Lobitos

Baba Fẹlá in the lyrics lampoons the Black People who had been to eurasia or amerikkka to work or study, and then returned (dropped) home with eurasian pretensions and an inferiority complex about Afrikan=Black culture.

⁣Songs includes: Open And Close/ Suegbe And Pako / Gbagada Gbogodo

⁣Different different fever na him dey
Different different fever na him dey
Different different fever na him dey
Different different fever na him dey

Malaria fever nko? (e dey!)
Jaundice fever nko? (e dey!)
Hay fever nko? (e dey!)
Influenza fever nko? (e dey!)
Inflation fever nko? (e dey!)
Freedom fever nko? (e dey!)
Yellow fever nko? (e dey!)

[Chorus]
Na him dey bring the matter now e dey!

Yellow fever nko? (ee dey!)

[Chorus]
Na him dey bring the matter now e dey!

say tell them make them hear (You say!)
All fever na sickness (You say!)
Original sickness (You say!)
Hay fever na sickness (You say!)
Original sickness (You say!)
Malaria na sickness (You say!)
Original sickness (You say!)
Jaundice na sickness (You say!)
Original sickness (You say!)
Influenza na sickness (You say!)
Original sickness (You say!)
Inflation na sickness (You say!)
Original sickness (You say!)
Freedom na sickness (You say!)
Original sickness (You say!)

Yellow fever nko? (You say!)

[Chorus]
Original and artificial e dey!

Yellow fever nko? (You say!)
One more...

[Chorus]
Original and artificial e dey!

Bom bom bom, tell me now...

Original catch you
Your eye go yellow
Your yansh go yellow
Your face go yellow
Your body go weak
I say but later if you no die inside
The yellow go fade away

Artificial catch you
You be man or woman
Na you go catch am yourself
Na your money go do am for you
You go yellow pass yellow
You go catch moustache for face
You go get your double colour
Your yansh go black like coal
You self go think say you dey fine
Who say you fine?

[Chorus]
Na lie, you no fine at all!
At all, na lie!

My sister, who say you fine?

[Chorus]
Na lie, you no fine at all!
At all, na lie!

Yellow fever

[Chorus]
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach!


You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
African mother
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
Sissi wey dey go
Yellow fever
Stupid thing
Yeye thing
Fucking thing
Ugly thing
Yellow fever
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
African mother
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
Sissi wey dey go
Yellow fever

Now to the underground spiritual game
Underground where dey down for school
Over there for school, yes

Where dey go say: teacher
Oya!

[Chorus]
Teacher!

Who steal my bleaching?
My precious bleaching?
I buy am for shopping
For forty naira
How I go yellow?
How I go fine now?
I go die o
I go die o
I go die o

According to complaint
Complaint must get answer
I beg please, help me help teacher
Oya, foolish
Oya!

[Chorus]
Foolish!

Who steal your bleaching?
Your precious bleaching?
You buy am for shopping
For forty naira
You self wan yellow
How you go fine now?
Your face go yellow
Your yansh go black
Your mustache go show
Your skin go scatter
You go die o
You go die o
You go die o
You go die o

[Chorus]
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach!

You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
African mother
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
Sissi wey dey go
Yellow fever
Stupid thing
Yeye thing
Fucking thing
Ugly thing
Yellow fever
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
African mother
You dey bleach, o you dey bleach
Sissi wey dey go
Yellow fever

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⁣Water in the context stands for Black people, there's no life without water, there's no humanity without Black people.

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