There’s something about the horns in Gorilla. They don’t just sit in the background. They announced. They refuse to be ignored.
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Some songs are made to trend.
Some are made to make sure keeping quiet starts to feel weird.
Gorilla came from that place.
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With Gorilla, we and @jessejagz tapped into something bigger than music.
Not performative activism. Just us refusing to keep quiet and putting exactly how we feel into the music.
“No forget say na small axe dey cut down the big tree.”
That line stayed with us for a reason.
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This is the moment the Emperor @jessejagz laid down his verse for Gorilla.
Watch his face. Watch his hands. This is what it looks like when someone says exactly what they mean.
We reached out to Jesse because we knew the conversation needed a voice that could add another layer to ours. He walked into that booth and delivered something candid and ferocious a metaphor driven performance that took everything to another level.
Gorilla is our response to the silencing of artists who speak truth to power in Nigeria. The NBC banning of Eedris Abdulkareem’s “Tell Your Papa.” The restrictions on Falz’s “This Is Nigeria.” The radio stations that quietly refuse to play our music and never explain why.
We have been watching. We have been taking notes. And we have never stopped.
The chorus says it plainest:
No forget say na small axe dey cut down the big tree.
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Throwing it back to when MI @mi_abaga graced this stage.
Legends have stood here. @mi_abaga was one of them.
And what happened that night helped shape the sound of Afrobeats as we know it today.
We were there for it. We built this together.
#afrobeats #bantu #miabaga
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This is what it looks like when the work never stops. Catch the BANTU horn section rehearsing the arrangements for “Japa Japa.”
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Brotherhood. Alliance. Navigating. Towards. Unity.
That is what BANTU means.
That is what BANTU has always been.
That is what we are still doing.
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