Fela Kuti - Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake AM (1972)

Title: Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake AM
Artist: Fela Kuti
Album: Roforofo Fight / The Fela Singles
Label: Wrasse
CD Release: 2001
(Roforofo Fight album originally released in 1972)



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[Lina-wssy]

I was in a very hard, dark period of my life when I forced myself to go on a walk. I had this song suggested and played it. And suddenly, life didn't seem as bad. It sounds silly, but it's just how it happened. This song is so complex, incredibly special, there's both hardship and beauty in the sound of it. It was like a light. I started looking around and I found all that ordinary beauty I had forgotten. And I listened this song on repeat during that long walk, and I laughed for the first time after a long time, because there it was, simple happiness, the ordinary and yet magnificent greatness of being and experiencing life. The good and the bad. This song pulled me out when nothing couldn't. Thank you Mr. Kuti! I will always come back to it, and it will always be light!

[PastorD.OAdepojuMinistry]

I was an house-maid selling cooked rice in front of GONDOLA NIGHT CLUB at YABA, Late Fela ANIKULAPO KUTI comes every Friday to play. He rode on VOLKSWAGEN KOMBI BUS LY 360 & 360.
He played exactly this music 🎶 🎵, I went to him to take me with him, he said to me that I was too small. I was 12 years old then, I cried for not let me followed him.

[francistokede]

I am a classical musician and I say this with all sense of responsibility.

Fela is in the same world as the Rossinis and Handels and Bachs and Beethovens and Vivaldis and Wagners and Mozarts.

Just imagine having to score this piece of music. Just imagine it. And if you think each minute detail is not composed and noted in the production, then you don't understand how these things work.

Fela... Legend

[skaloghiros]

He is the greatest .I grew in Africa and was raised with Fela's music. No one can compare himself to Fela. He is the King of Afrobeat. You are always alive trough Femi and Seun. Thank you ever so much for the heritage you left us.

[olumart]

GUYS YOU JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS GENIUS WENT THRU.WE ARE ABOUT THE SAME AGE AND I WAS IN LAGOS THEN WHEN ALL OF THIS STUFF WENT DOWN.NOBODY APPRECIATED HIM THEN.HE WAS AHEAD OF ALL OF US IN TERMS OF MUSIC, TALENT, VISION AND RAW ENERGY.JUST LOOK AT HOW FIT HE LOOKED AND HIS DANCERS, THE WOMEN, SUCH GOOD SHAPE AND ELEGANCE, REMEMBER THIS WAS IN THE 70S.

[michaelgreene]

Baba 70, I called him one evening at a jazz ensemble on Awolowo road, in Ikoyi, Lagos Nigeria. With a saxophone around his neck, the MAN gave me the biggest man hug and said " always do your part, even when times are bad. He was just released from jail on flimsy charges foisted by Nigeria military. FELA, you remain an inspiration. RIP!! GOD lives in your spirit

[bobbymarsh]

I regret my exposure to Fela Kuti came so late in my life. I was an American Soldier in Berlin during the time Fela Kuti was there during a show. Oh how I wish I had going to his show. Rest In Peace Fela.

[shadmeschokoye]

We're in 2024 and this song is still very relevant considering the hardship Nigerians are going through. RIP King

[FemiOlamide]

I just closed my eyes in 2025 at 56 and I was back in 1975, 7 years old again for a few seconds. My neighbours playing this from the flat above, continously. We grew up on this

[yourdamelola]

I find this music so wavy! The instrumentals are magically spiritual

[EnterprisingWisemen]

THIS SONG COULD GO ON FOR ANOTHER HOUR, AND I WOULD BE PERFECTLY HAPPY.

[vekokrava]

Fela is the greatest, his tones are like if everything is going downfall yet there is still hope and will to live, the greatest sorrow, same as he is the greatest African musician!

[JediJide]

"When Cat Sleep....Rat Come bite His Tail." - That is so awesome. Love from Barbados.

[mohamedadam]

all the way from sudan, legend never die you’re still here 2019..

[chiemeka]

The intro and outro sax here takes me to heaven and back. Almost intoxicating!!! Fela made a classic🔊 Rest in power Eba mi eda 🕊️🙏🏾

[nnekairoegbu]

Everything Fela sang about all those years ago is still happening today and even worse in Nigeria as we speak. The great Fela will be rolling in his grave, very sad situation.

[mrtonderaiv]

I'm proud to be African.

Words alone can not express how I feel when listening to this wow

[KindofBlu]

First-time listener here. I have a strong case of goose bumps.

[juanc]

This is the best thing i heard in my life

[michelleobi]

Anyone here listening in October 2020. The same thing he is talking about still happening in Nigeria. Praying for Nigeria. Viva Fela.