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Seun Kuti’s New Flow

BY JORDAN MAINZER

For Seun Kuti, the challenge, and ultimately the biggest reward, was letting go. African Dreams, his new EP with the legendary Black Thought, is made of remixes of three songs from Black Times, Kuti’s 2018 album with his and his father’s longtime band Egypt 80. The collaboration started during the pandemic, not with Black Thought but with Alex Jennings (aka Molotov), who was working on remixed beats for Kuti. Noticing that the beats were taking shape as more hip hop than Afrobeat, Kuti had the idea to phone the Roots MC and see if he wanted to add verses to them. “Being the big brother that he is, he was super excited,” Kuti told me over Zoom last month. He didn’t really know where they would end up, and honestly, he didn’t have as much of a say as he usually does.

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Jennings was the glue, the curator of African Dreams, folding Black Thought’s appropriately revolutionary words into Kuti’s instrumentation and vocals. All of the tracks are much shorter than their counterparts on Black Times. On the title track, Black Thought’s verses are built around samples of the tributary words, “Dream for Africa” and a sinewy bass line, as jazzy saxophone takes the track to its conclusion. “Bad Man Lighter” sports a more traditional verse-chorus-verse structure; Black Thought elevates the song from a paean to weed to a demand for “Black excellence.” “Doing the songs for me was all part of letting things happen,” Kuti said. “I was happy to work with whatever was in front of me. It was about coming out of my comfort zone. Everybody [already] knows what I do.” So, even though Kuti admits he would have chosen “African Dreams” as the first single over “Kuku Kee Me” (“That was my own jam,” he warmly recalled), the EP may not have have taken on any of its free-flowing qualities had he put his foot down.

Working remotely was also new for Kuti, but an experience that gave him new perspective. “What matters is the passion you have about the product,” he said. “It comes through regardless of where you are.” While his experience in 2021 debuting on live TV a performance of Common’s “When We Move” separate from his counterparts in New York was simply “the best we could do at the time,” the experience of making African Dreams, in contrast, seems to have made Kuti even more open to new creative processes. Maybe he’ll do a little more relinquishing the next time he sits down with Egypt 80.

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