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Took it directly to the people in such explicitly confrontational terms, its afro-beat and its architect, fela kuti. when the government were giving fela a hard time because he was specifically protesting by name, specific things. i mean they identified him as an existential threat, he was. people would show up at the shrine and what's he going to say, what's he mad about today. ♪ fela was an african superstar. a loud, persistent, and unwavering voice of opposition and resistance. ♪ >> man in black glasses: people protested but they didn't name names, but fela would name names and would sa...

To control everything. >> anthony: but of all the music at the time, nothing and nobody took it directly to the people in such explicitly confrontational terms, its afro-beat and its architect, fela kuti. when the government were giving fela a hard time because he was specifically protesting by name, specific things. i mean they identified him as an existential threat, he was. people would show up at the shrine and what's he going to say, what's he mad about today. ♪ fela was an african superstar. a loud, persistent, and unwavering voice of opposition and resistance. ♪ >> man in black glas...

>> it's exquiz it. it's in paris. she's got this darker look because she is paying tribute to an incredible nigerian artist. anybody in africa will have heard of the man who invented afro beat and afro funk. hip-hop would not have happened without him. by dressing up like this, she's paying tribute to his queens, they were his dancers. they were also his wives. he married all of his dancers in a ceremony. he had many wives. they were known as queens. it's interesting all his dancers were his wives. >> it's a tribute to him. >> it wasn't intended to say i'm putting on a black face.