{"id":41206,"date":"2019-11-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/burna-boy-samples-fela-kuti-on-my-money-my-baby-extract-from-queen-slim-soundtrack\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:33:41","slug":"burna-boy-my-money-my-baby-fela-kuti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/burna-boy-my-money-my-baby-fela-kuti\/","title":{"rendered":"Burna Boy samples Fela Kuti on &#8220;My Money, My Baby&#8221; extract from &#8216;Queen &#038; Slim&#8217; soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32826 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/5a5bc726-burna-b-queen-and-slice.jpeg\" alt=\"burna-b-queen-and-slice\" width=\"859\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/5a5bc726-burna-b-queen-and-slice.jpeg 859w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/5a5bc726-burna-b-queen-and-slice-759x379.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/5a5bc726-burna-b-queen-and-slice-661x330.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/5a5bc726-burna-b-queen-and-slice-465x232.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/5a5bc726-burna-b-queen-and-slice-375x187.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Afrofusion star <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/burna-boy\/\">Burna Boy<\/a><\/span> appears on a remarkable cut\u00a0from the &#8216;Queen &amp; Slim&#8217; soundtrack, sampling the\u00a0iconic\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/fela-kuti\/\">Fela Kuti<\/a><\/span> on &#8220;My Money, My Baby&#8221;.<\/h4>\n<p>&#8216;My Money, My Baby&#8217; comes courtesy of <em>Queen &amp; Slim: The Soundtrack<\/em>, which arrived on Friday, two weeks ahead of the film&#8217;s US release. It features original songs from Lauryn Hill, Blood Orange, Vince Staples, Syd and much more. Among the prestigious guest list, we find Burna Boy on\u00a0&#8220;My Money, My Baby&#8221;, that\u00a0features a\u00a0noticeable sample of <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/fela-kuti\/\">Fela Kuti<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s\u00a01972 song &#8216;Shakara&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Burna Boy\u00a0stays true to Fela&#8217;s style,\u00a0singing in\u00a0repetition\u00a0giving a faithful tribute to the original. Burna already sampled the afrobeat pioneer in his breakout single &#8216;Ye&#8217;, from his 2018 album <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/nigeria-albums-2018\/\">Outside<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Queen &amp; Slim<\/em>,\u00a0directed by\u00a0Melina Matsoukas\u00a0hits theaters on November 27 in the United States and January 2020 in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JGcQOyNqmyQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrofusion star Burna Boy appears on a remarkable cut\u00a0from the &#8216;Queen &amp; Slim&#8217; soundtrack, sampling the\u00a0iconic\u00a0Fela Kuti on &#8220;My Money, My Baby&#8221;. &#8216;My Money, My Baby&#8217; comes courtesy of Queen &amp; Slim: The Soundtrack, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4568,5167],"location":[8172],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41206"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41206"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}