{"id":22975,"date":"2019-03-28T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=22975"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:35:55","slug":"femi-kuti-reveals-felas-opinion-towards-his-first-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/femi-kuti-reveals-felas-opinion-towards-his-first-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Femi Kuti reveals Fela&#8217;s opinion towards his first album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content pam-featured-content\"  ><b class=\"pam-featured-content pam-featured-content\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22978 pam-featured-content pam-featured-content\"   src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Femi-Kuti.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Femi-Kuti.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Femi-Kuti-759x543.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Femi-Kuti-661x473.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Femi-Kuti-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Femi-Kuti-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/b><\/h4>\n<h4><b><\/b><b>In Fela\u2019s candid opinion, the album wasn\u2019t good. According to Femi, he says &#8220;Fela condemned my first album. He said it was a very useless album.&#8221;<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/fela-kuti\/\">Fela Kuti<\/a><\/span> might be the outspoken one and anyone thinking he\u2019d be lenient with his words with his children is wrong. Totally.<\/p>\n<p>The first son of the Afrobeat maestro, <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/femi-kuti\/\">Femi Kuti<\/a><\/span>, who has gone on tours with his father since he was a kid and has closely observed music from his father and his band revealed recently in an exclusive <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pulse.ng\/entertainment\/music\/femi-kuti-speaks-on-how-fela-reacted-to-his-1st-album\/hc54lwx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a><\/span> with Pulse, a foremost Nigerian media outfit that his father had harsh words for his debut album <em>Femi Kuti<\/em>, recorded in 1994 and released the following year.<\/p>\n<p>In Fela\u2019s candid opinion, the album wasn\u2019t good. According to Femi, he says &#8220;Fela condemned my first album. He said it was a very useless album. He even went public to insult me, he abused me very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BvWMPnVFlAc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Voir cette publication sur Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BvWMPnVFlAc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Une publication partag\u00e9e par Pulse NG (@pulsenigeria247)<\/a> le <time datetime=\"2019-03-23T10:04:41+00:00\">23 Mars 2019 \u00e0 3\u00a0:04 PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Seeing that Femi Kuti has gone on to feature prominently in the world of music as a multi-instrumentalist and musician par excellence, it goes on to reiterate that tough love actually works. With his numerous Grammys nomination (which critics think bar politics, he should have won by now) and respect among peers even in other genres, Fela\u2019s words no doubt must have pushed him to make better art.<\/p>\n<p>Musicians seldom get it at first try and with his subsequent album, Fela revealed himself as a proud father to Femi, a precocious talent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Next:<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/fela-kuti-unknown-soldier\/\">How Unknown Soldier became Fela\u2019s most emotional record<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Fela\u2019s candid opinion, the album wasn\u2019t good. According to Femi, he says &#8220;Fela condemned my first album. He said it was a very useless album.&#8221; Fela Kuti might be the outspoken one and anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":22978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22975"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=22975"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}