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such an amazing song, and a beautiful edit! can't stop listening to it, and will try to play it on the next set!

Artists: Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers
Remixed by: Nimbus
Production credit: Hersh Patel (@hershp)
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Roy Ayers met Fela Kuti in Nigeria in 1979. They collaborated on a two-song project called "Music of Many Colors", leaning heavily into the ideas of pan-Africanism and Afro-futurism. It was a truly awesome and historic coming together of two legendary musical geniuses.
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The project came at a rare moment of optimism in Nigerian politics: the dictatorship had ended and Nigeria’s first democratic elections were held. This helps explain why the LP represents a clear shift from Fela's traditional use of music as a weapon, and rather puts forth a message of positivity and optimism. In the track "2000 Blacks Got To Be Free," they make a bold and optimistic prediction that the world would improve significantly for Black people by the year 2000. The track begins with the vocals of Ayers, as he sets the tone for the project: “We’re hoping that by the year 2000; we know that by the year 2000, that’s even better, everybody will be knowledgeable.”
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Four decades have passed since Fela Kuti and Roy Ayers put forth this optimistic vision, and, this very day, masses of protestors are denouncing police brutality and demanding racial justice for Black people. Dishearteningly, we are far off from Roy and Fela's prediction in 1980. It can be demoralizing to compare the future that Fela and Roy envisioned with the reality that we’re living in today, in 2020.
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Despite this hard truth, I don't believe this track was ever about accurately predicting the future. I think it was meant to teach us that positivity, unity, and togetherness is what will get us to a brighter future. In 2020, this message is relevant now more than ever, and, though we know the road will be long, Roy and Fela remind us that we must always look optimistically to the light at the end of the tunnel, however faint it may look from where we stand.

Fela Kuti and Roy Ayers - 2000 Blacks Got To Be Free (Nimbus Remix)

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