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♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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I made this film
to explore how art and music
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have the power to shift
global perception and influence.
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Because of streaming
and globalization,
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we've found so many
different types of music
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that the world would never have
the opportunity to learn about.
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And I think Wizkid,
and everything he symbolizes,
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is a perfect example of that.
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♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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FEMI ANIKULAPO-KUTI: When you
see how far Africa has come...
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♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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...you cannot ignore
the impact of Wizkid.
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He's putting us first
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before any other culture
or tradition.
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CROWD: (CHANTING)
Wizzy! Wizzy! Wizzy! Wizzy!
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FEMI: If we are being honest...
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the colonialists
took away our soul.
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So, most of Africa,
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we either dream in Portuguese,
French, or English.
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And we speak
these languages fluently,
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and we have lost our own.
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All my dreams are in English.
All my thoughts are in English.
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That means
what has happened is...
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my computerized brain
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that is African
has been taken away
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and replaced
with the English mentality.
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But now we have to understand
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things are beginning to change.
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- (CAR HORN HONKING)
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
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FAN 1:
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FEMI: We have decided
to promote our culture
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and tradition through music.
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CROWD: (CHANTING)
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Yes, we like The Beatles.
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Yes, we like Michael Jackson,
blah, blah.
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Yes, we like-- we still play
your music at our parties.
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CROWD: (CHANTING)
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(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
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FEMI: (IN ENGLISH) But the young
people have decided
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we are going to promote
our own music first
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before America or Europe.
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CROWD: (CHANTING)
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FAN 2:
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FAN 3:
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FAN 2:
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FEMI:
Wizkid is a symbol of hope.
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(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
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FEMI: He gives young people hope
that all is not lost.
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CROWD: (CHANTING)
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Finally, the world
is listening to Africa.
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♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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FEMI: We have a very vibrant
young generation.
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(GUN SHOTS)
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Standing firm with confidence
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saying, "Look, it's our time."
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Listen to us now.
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WIZKID: As I grew older
is how I understood my power.
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TOPS: All right, let's go,
go, go, please. Yeah.
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WIZKID: I'm representing
for my country,
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representing for my continent.
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TOPS: Guys, stand back, please.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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TOPS: Mind your backs!
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WIZKID:
So, it was important for me
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to show them
the power that they have.
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And the power
that they can have.
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London, make some noise!
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(CAR HORNS HONKING)
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RADIO HOST 1: The first
Nigerian artist to hit...
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RADIO HOST 2: The most awarded
African artist of all time...
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RADIO HOST 3:
The Grammy-Award-winning
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Nigerian pioneer
of the Afrobeats...
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RADIO HOST 4:
People don't really understand
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how much Wizkid actually means.
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There's nothing else like it
in the world.
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♪ ("SOCO" BY STARBOY
FT. WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
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♪ Eledumare bless you with body
Oh, baby, oh ♪
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♪ Starboy go bless you
With money, oh, omoge, oh ♪
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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♪ Eledumare bless you with body
Oh, baby, oh ♪
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♪ Starboy go bless you
With money, oh, omoge, oh ♪
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♪ Oya, soco, soco
Soco, soco, soco ♪
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♪ Soco, soco, baby, oh ♪
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♪ Soco, soco, soco
Soco, soco, soco ♪
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♪ Soco, soco, baby, oh ♪
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♪ Soco, soco, soco, soco, so ♪
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♪ Oya gbefu lokpu
Lokpo, lokpo, lokpo ♪
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♪ Oya gbefun, baby, oh
Soco, soco, soco ♪
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♪ Eledumare bless you with body
Oh, baby, oh ♪
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♪ Starboy go bless you
With money, oh, omoge, oh ♪
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♪ Eledumare bless you with body
Oh, baby, oh ♪
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♪ Starboy go bless you
With money, oh, omoge, oh ♪
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- ♪ (SONG FADES) ♪
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♪ (DRUMS PLAYING) ♪
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WIZKID'S SON: Now switch!
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WIZKID:
The most important thing in life
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is to inspire, you know?
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I carry myself with a lot
of pride as an African.
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My kids are kings.
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(EXCLAIMS)
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Everybody from where I'm from
are kings.
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♪ (SLOW JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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WIZKID: And that's what matters.
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The way you see yourself.
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WIZKID:
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Aw. (CHUCKLES) Thanks.
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WIZKID:
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♪ (BAND PLAYING CHILL MUSIC) ♪
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Yeah, that was the shit.
That was crazy, man.
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(VOCALIZES)
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♪ (SINGING INDISTINCTLY) ♪
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♪ (FRIEND 2 VOCALIZES) ♪
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♪ (WIZKID CONTINUES SINGING) ♪
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When I make records,
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I don't think
about how big they'll get.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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You can only hope to be
a big source of inspiration
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to the kids
in the next generation,
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and the generations to come.
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Do you want to play the piano?
I don't believe it.
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WIZKID'S SON: I'm scared.
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Tell Daddy what you said
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that you wanna be
when you're older.
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- What do you wanna do?
- A violiner.
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- You wanna play violin?
- (CHUCKLES) Yeah.
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That's crazy. I love that.
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- JADA POLLOCK: Violinist.
- Do you wanna go to...
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Do you want to take classes?
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Do you want Daddy
to buy you one?
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Yes.
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- Yeah, I'll buy you one.
- And a case.
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I'll buy you one in a case.
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JADA: Show daddy how
you're gonna perform the violin.
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Show him.
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You're gonna be a star
like your daddy.
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It's very, very important to us
to educate the world
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about our culture.
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I try as much as possible to put
that out there in the world.
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(WATER LAPPING)
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(CHUCKLES)
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My name's Jada Pollock.
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I am Wizkid's manager
of eight years,
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also his partner of six years.
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You wear many hats,
for me, anyway.
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Just finding that balance
of, you know,
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who should I be today?
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Should I be his girlfriend
that's gonna hold his hand,
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or should I be, you know,
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his manager that's gonna walk,
you know,
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slightly behind him?
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I love her so much, man.
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You know,
she's very hardworking.
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She... She's hands-on,
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very passionate,
loyal about the work.
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♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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WIZKID: I just feel like women
are just easy to work with.
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Women have, like,
mother instinct, right,
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to hold stuff together.
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JADA: Eight years.
It's been a long journey.
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Being a manager
and understanding the industry,
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it's been tough
for African artists
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to get respect.
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I remember Live Nation
calling me and saying,
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"Tottenham have just turned
their stadium
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into a live space,
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and they're gonna start
having concerts."
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"Think about it
and let me know."
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NEWS ANCHOR:
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
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has been widely acclaimed
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as the best football stadium
in the world.
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JULIE ADENUGA:
When Tottenham Stadium
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- actually opened...
- (CROWD CHEERING)
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...it was regarded
as one of the most prestigious,
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high-tech,
state-of-the-art stadiums
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in the whole of the UK.
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The stadium actually seats
over 60,000 people
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right in the middle of Tottenham
on the High Road.
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NEWS ANCHOR:
One of the capital's top venues
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for other sporting events
and even concerts as well.
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JULIE: Before 2023,
the only artists
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that had performed there
were Lady Gaga
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and Guns N' Roses,
which is insane.
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- (CROWD CHEERING)
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JADA: And I remember, like,
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coming off the phone
and thinking to myself,
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"A football stadium?
That's a lot of pressure."
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Uh, I don't know
how I feel about that.
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SENI SARAKI: I'm Seni Saraki,
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CEO and Editor-in-Chief
of NATIVE Magazine.
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We've been
covering Nigerian music
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and the cultures
that surround it
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for the better part
of the last decade.
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♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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SENI:
There's an inextricable link
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between Nigeria
and the UK forever.
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The UK is such a major factor
in how Nigeria became a country
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for better and for worse.
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Nigeria was kind of split up
very arbitrarily.
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How, you know,
the colonial rulers left it,
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set the foundations for what
we know Nigeria as today
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in terms
of this huge wealth gap.
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So, this show would be symbolic
being in London in a sense.
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For Wizkid,
he's like a man of few words.
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He doesn't really say much.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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SENI: But no matter
how big he's gotten,
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he's standing with us.
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I think when I'm looking
at this Tottenham Stadium show,
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it's a celebration
of Nigerian culture in London.
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It is a form of rebellion
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in terms of
we are taking up space.
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- Oh, like, we're here.
- (DRUMS BEAT)
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JADA: And I remember
telling Wiz about it.
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I was like, "Look, you know,
we've got to make a call on it."
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This is a really tough decision.
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SENI: There's, like,
a conversation that people have
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when it comes to artists.
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Is it fair to place these social
and political pressures on them
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and expect them
to be more than just artists?
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♪ (GENTLE POP BEAT PLAYING) ♪
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WIZKID:
I'm a very quiet human being.
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I don't even like
to express myself.
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I try to just be a musician.
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♪ (SINGING INDISTINCTLY) ♪
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- (EXCLAIMS, CHUCKLES)
- (PIANIST CHUCKLES)
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♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING
OVER LAPTOP) ♪
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♪ (WIZKID SINGING) ♪
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(SINGING INDISTINCTLY)
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(IMITATES BASS)
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- BASSIST: Yeah.
- (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
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WIZKID: Yeah.
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Whoo!
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(LAUGHS)
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- (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
- Yeah, yeah.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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WIZKID: I just try to make
the finest music that I can make
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and the finest, you know,
sound that I can make.
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(CHUCKLES)
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- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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WIZKID: I'm a true artist
before anything else,
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and I'm a human being, so...
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Just a little kid
from Surulere, man.
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Just trying to make music, yeah.
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♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
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SUNDAY ARE:
My name is Sunday Are.
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I've worked with Wizkid
starting from the beginning.
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Wiz came from the hood.
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♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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SUNDAY: From the ghetto.
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WIZKID: I grew up in Surulere.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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WIZKID: It's a very rough place.
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Electricity is not 24 hours...
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and I didn't have a lot
of clothes growing up
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when I was young.
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That's my reality.
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In that kind of place,
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people have
a different connection to music
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after dealing
with all of that stress.
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Music is a...
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it's just a powerful tool,
man, to survive.
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♪ ("PANSA PANSA"
BY FELA KUTI PLAYING) ♪
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This is Fela Kuti
I have tatted on me.
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This is a musician
that's from where I'm from.
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So as a kid,
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he was just a very big,
big, big, big influence for me.
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♪ No freedom, no justice
no happiness, dem go, yeah ♪
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- ♪ Pansa, pansa, hey! ♪
- SINGERS: ♪ Pansa, pansa... ♪
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SENI:
I think it's 'cause of how much
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he pushed
the boundary musically.
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It's an understatement to call
Fela Kuti a pioneer
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of Nigerian music.
He changed everything.
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WIZKID: Fela had one
of the greatest bands ever.
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Listening to that,
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it just captivated me
in ways I couldn't explain.
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(SHOUTS)
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He was a big instrument
into why I believed
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I could really make music,
you know?
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(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
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I want you to look at me...
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as something new...
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that you do not
have any knowledge about.
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Because most, 99.9 percent,
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of the information you get
about Africa is wrong.
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(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
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JULIE: Fela was
a once-in-a-lifetime artist.
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It was something
we'd never ever seen before.
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♪ (DRUMS PLAYING, FADE) ♪
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FEMI:
If my father was not there,
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there would be no Afrobeats.
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But Fela was never mainstream.
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After Fela,
we didn't get an infrastructure
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that was built
to take all of these things
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that he's shown and proved
were possible
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to create global artists.
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Especially if you compare it
to something like The Beatles.
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NEWS ANCHOR:
This rock and roll group
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has taken over as the kingpins
of musical appreciation.
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JULIE: When you saw this influx
of rock bands and music,
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it just became
an entire industry
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from the blueprint
of The Beatles.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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But in Nigeria,
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there just wasn't
that same moment.
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♪ (SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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FEMI: What we forget again
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is there's an industry
in America and Europe
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where you go to school
to learn music properly.
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Where is the big academy
in our Africa?
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There was no backbone
to propel this act,
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to sustain this music.
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Music just wasn't
a viable option
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for people to take
as a career path.
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There wasn't enough in it
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for you to be able
to take care of your family.
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SUNDAY: This is a little secret.
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His parents doesn't want him
to do music.
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They want him
to be maybe a lawyer,
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to finish his school,
and be maybe a doctor.
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WIZKID: My mom definitely
wanted us to stay in school,
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but I had other plans.
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I knew I was going
to be a star, man.
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I knew I had to take my family
from that
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into a different situation.
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(CAR HORN HONKING)
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SUNDAY:
He was so close to his family,
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especially his mother.
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And I feel that that
is the main reason
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why he has that determination
to make it out.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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He was a young boy
that wants to do big thing.
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That was Wizkid for you.
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DJ: Make some noise for Wizkid!
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WIZKID: I came out
when I was 19,
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and there was no kid
doing music when I came out.
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♪ ...If you see me drive by ♪
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♪ Holla at your boy ♪
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♪ I get more swag ♪
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♪ Holla at your boy ♪
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♪ I pop more bottles ♪
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♪ Holla at your boy ♪
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♪ And I'm chillin' with models ♪
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♪ Holla at your boy ♪
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DJ:
Make some noise for Wizkid.
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WIZKID:
There was no blueprint for me.
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I think if you're a new artist
in America,
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you become part of this,
kinda, cookie-cutter system.
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♪ (SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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JULIE:
They take you to the label.
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They take you to radio.
You're shooting music videos.
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You wear certain clothes.
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There will be a way
in which you can succeed
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because there are people,
and businesses, and corporations
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that have been around
for so many years
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that they know
exactly what they're doing.
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♪ ("OJUELEGBA"
BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
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JULIE: But Wizkid,
he didn't get that in Nigeria.
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WIZKID: I had to build
a structure for myself.
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I literally had to train
and learn,
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you know, how to do this shit.
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♪ ...Ni ojuelegba ♪
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♪ They know my story
For Mo'Dogg's studio... ♪
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SUNDAY: His music,
it was everywhere in Lagos.
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For the masses,
them, they look at it,
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like, "Okay,
we actually have somebody,
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a voice representing us."
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♪ ...Ni ojuelegba... ♪
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SUNDAY:
I think that name, "Starboy,"
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came from the streets,
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being a young boy
that became a star.
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WIZKID: They started calling me
"Starboy, Starboy."
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And I just took it, man.
(CHUCKLES)
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"Oh, Starboy, Starboy."
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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SUNDAY: If Wizkid
can break through from this,
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we can also become somebody.
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DJ: Yeah, make some noise!
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I still live with those memories
every day of my life till today,
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so it's... uh, it's crazy.
(CHUCKLES)
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♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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YOUNG WIZKID: Now,
we just touched down in London.
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I'm looking forward to it.
A lot of people have been
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showing me love, you know.
People saw me at the airport,
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like, they were taking pictures.
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WIZKID: I was just enjoying
being an artist
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and just learning
and being accepted.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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WIZKID: It was just a great time
in my life, baby.
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JULIE: Around this time,
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the internet has become
a widespread tool.
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More and more people
were streaming music.
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You could listen to anything
from anyone,
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anywhere in the world.
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00:21:21,905 --> 00:21:25,409
By 2012,
Spotify had 15 million users.
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00:21:25,492 --> 00:21:29,621
And by 2016,
it was over 100 million.
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It created the perfect storm
for Wizkid
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and African music to explode.
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00:21:34,710 --> 00:21:36,128
The popular music genre...
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...exported from Africa
is now burning up the charts.
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00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:41,717
Africa has burst
onto the global music scene.
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JULIE: The biggest artists
in the world realized
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00:21:44,052 --> 00:21:47,014
in order to expand their reach
and their audiences,
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they needed to tap in
with local artists
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in those communities.
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♪ ("ONE DANCE"
BY DRAKE PLAYING) ♪
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JULIE:
When "One Dance" came out,
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it became the most streamed song
of all time
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00:21:56,064 --> 00:21:59,318
with over a billion streams
within one year of its release.
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RADIO HOST: What's that like,
seeing that stage?
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- (CROWD CHEERING)
- (WIZKID CHUCKLING)
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ANNOUNCER 1:
And the winner is Wizkid!
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ANNOUNCER 2: And the award
goes to "Essence," Wizkid.
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♪ ("ESSENCE"
BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
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♪ ...dey mess up your mind ♪
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00:22:09,286 --> 00:22:12,164
♪ And na me
Dey make you free up your mind ♪
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00:22:12,247 --> 00:22:13,749
♪ Say your body
Talk to me nice ♪
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00:22:13,832 --> 00:22:16,626
♪ Say na my love
You dey need for your life ♪
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00:22:16,710 --> 00:22:18,462
♪ Yeah, our love no be lie ♪
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00:22:18,545 --> 00:22:21,131
♪ See, yeah, we dey together
Yeah, day and night ♪
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00:22:21,214 --> 00:22:24,176
♪ Yeah if I leave you go kpai
Yeah if you leave I go kpai ♪
428
00:22:24,259 --> 00:22:26,094
♪ I'm strokin' your body,
Baby... ♪
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SENI: Certain collaborations
pushed him
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to be arguably one of the most
famous Nigerian people
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00:22:30,599 --> 00:22:31,975
to the global audience.
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♪ ("ESSENCE (REMIX)" FT.
JUSTIN BIEBER & TEMS PLAYING) ♪
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00:22:34,561 --> 00:22:35,645
- (CROWD CHEERING)
- Wizkid!
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00:22:35,729 --> 00:22:37,105
NEWS REPORTER:
Wizkid has made the headlines
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00:22:37,189 --> 00:22:38,815
on the international
fashion scene.
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00:22:38,899 --> 00:22:40,108
ANNOUNCER:
And the Grammy goes to...
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00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:42,152
- Wizkid!
- Wizkid!
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00:22:42,235 --> 00:22:43,904
- Wizkid!
- Wizkid!
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♪ (SONG FADES) ♪
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SENI:
Even though Nigerian pop music
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00:22:52,954 --> 00:22:55,123
has just continued
to transcend...
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00:22:56,124 --> 00:22:58,877
it's been a battle
against perception abroad.
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♪ (SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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00:23:00,462 --> 00:23:02,089
WIZKID: You know,
I've traveled around the world.
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00:23:02,130 --> 00:23:04,549
And I've had to have
very ignorant conversations,
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00:23:04,633 --> 00:23:05,801
you know, with people.
447
00:23:05,884 --> 00:23:08,011
You have to school them
about what Africa is.
448
00:23:08,095 --> 00:23:10,597
It's not just kids
with flies on their faces
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00:23:10,639 --> 00:23:12,057
on television and shit.
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00:23:13,141 --> 00:23:15,477
SENI: I think when we look
at the perceptions
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00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:17,396
of the Western world to Africa,
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00:23:17,479 --> 00:23:20,148
it really goes further
than music.
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00:23:22,109 --> 00:23:23,985
Even on the map of the world,
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00:23:24,069 --> 00:23:27,364
it shows Africa is way smaller
than it actually is.
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00:23:27,447 --> 00:23:30,033
It's a fact that you can fit
three versions of Canada
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00:23:30,117 --> 00:23:32,035
into Africa,
but if you looked at the map,
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00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:33,745
you would never be able
to see that.
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00:23:33,829 --> 00:23:35,539
Those type of things, like,
they seem, like, subtle,
459
00:23:35,622 --> 00:23:36,623
but they're type of things
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00:23:36,665 --> 00:23:39,334
that are very much entrenched
in people's minds.
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00:23:39,376 --> 00:23:41,920
And I think it really affects
and really shows them
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00:23:42,003 --> 00:23:44,131
how a lot of Western companies
463
00:23:44,172 --> 00:23:47,551
and, like, global corporations
treat not just music culture,
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00:23:47,634 --> 00:23:53,723
but the way they look
at African culture as a whole.
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00:23:53,807 --> 00:23:55,517
NEWS ANCHOR:
Afrobeats, if you were,
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sort of, trying to define it,
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00:23:57,519 --> 00:23:59,855
as I'm struggling to do now,
you might struggle.
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00:23:59,938 --> 00:24:03,483
SENI: When Wizkid and everyone
started becoming more popular,
469
00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:06,153
the UK created
the term "Afrobeats"
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00:24:06,194 --> 00:24:08,572
as a catch-all genre.
471
00:24:08,655 --> 00:24:11,074
That essentially means
Nigerian pop music.
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00:24:11,158 --> 00:24:13,160
That's what it means
for all intents and purposes.
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00:24:13,201 --> 00:24:14,536
- Afrobeats.
- Afrobeats.
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00:24:14,619 --> 00:24:16,830
- Afrobeats.
- If you think about blues,
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00:24:16,872 --> 00:24:19,833
R&B, hip-hop, country music,
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00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:21,710
there would be no version
of reality
477
00:24:21,793 --> 00:24:23,587
where someone would look
at America and say,
478
00:24:23,670 --> 00:24:26,089
"We're just gonna call that
'America beats.'"
479
00:24:26,173 --> 00:24:28,508
There's a level of respect that
we give to each of those things
480
00:24:28,550 --> 00:24:30,051
because we understand
where they come from,
481
00:24:30,135 --> 00:24:31,428
because we're taught
the history of them,
482
00:24:31,511 --> 00:24:33,847
and because, I guess,
we care to find out.
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00:24:35,015 --> 00:24:36,308
WIZKID: So, it's like,
484
00:24:36,391 --> 00:24:38,768
if you're not knowledgeable
enough to understand life
485
00:24:38,852 --> 00:24:40,729
and to understand that
there's different types of music
486
00:24:40,770 --> 00:24:42,189
in the world and people
make different types
487
00:24:42,230 --> 00:24:44,900
of shit, that's on you, dog.
Like, I'm not gonna sit
488
00:24:44,983 --> 00:24:47,235
here and... (CHUCKLES)
...describe what I am.
489
00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:50,739
You're the ignorant one,
not me, you know.
490
00:24:50,822 --> 00:24:52,574
(CHUCKLES)
491
00:24:54,409 --> 00:24:56,661
SENI: It was so easy
for someone abroad to be like,
492
00:24:56,745 --> 00:25:00,248
"Oh, yeah, this Nigerian music,
we need a term for it,
493
00:25:00,290 --> 00:25:01,583
'Afrobeats,'
call it 'Afrobeats,'
494
00:25:01,625 --> 00:25:04,127
just add an 'S' to that thing
Fela was doing, yeah, great."
495
00:25:04,878 --> 00:25:06,254
The term feels like
496
00:25:06,296 --> 00:25:09,299
just yet another lazy attempt
to define something
497
00:25:09,382 --> 00:25:11,801
that wasn't even theirs
to define in the first place.
498
00:25:11,885 --> 00:25:13,053
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
499
00:25:13,094 --> 00:25:16,264
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
500
00:25:18,225 --> 00:25:20,185
SENI: "Afrobeat,"
like, without the "S"
501
00:25:20,268 --> 00:25:22,771
is the genre
that Fela Kuti created.
502
00:25:23,772 --> 00:25:24,940
There's a sound to it,
503
00:25:25,023 --> 00:25:28,276
in the same way country music
sounds a type of way.
504
00:25:28,318 --> 00:25:29,778
♪ (AFROBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
505
00:25:29,861 --> 00:25:34,074
The ingredients are jazz
and a lot of African folk songs.
506
00:25:34,908 --> 00:25:36,952
FELA KUTI: And on the sax,
507
00:25:36,993 --> 00:25:41,206
it's my first son,
Femi Anikulapo-Kuti.
508
00:25:42,123 --> 00:25:45,877
My father became
very ideological,
509
00:25:45,961 --> 00:25:48,338
uh, revolutionary
with his music.
510
00:25:48,421 --> 00:25:51,883
Music is a spiritual thing.
You don't play with music.
511
00:25:52,926 --> 00:25:54,886
If you play with music,
you will die young.
512
00:25:55,971 --> 00:25:57,806
See,
because when the higher forces
513
00:25:57,889 --> 00:26:00,684
give you a gift of music,
musicianship,
514
00:26:00,767 --> 00:26:04,062
it must be well used
for the good of humanity.
515
00:26:04,145 --> 00:26:06,731
Goes to America,
meets the Black Panthers,
516
00:26:06,815 --> 00:26:11,027
and he comes back,
and he is inspired by,
517
00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:14,406
and wants to change Africa
with his music.
518
00:26:14,489 --> 00:26:18,368
As far as Africa is concerned,
music cannot be for enjoyment.
519
00:26:18,451 --> 00:26:19,911
Music has to be for revolution.
520
00:26:19,995 --> 00:26:22,247
When I started going
to know more about his life
521
00:26:22,330 --> 00:26:24,457
and, you know, how he lived
his life, it was just like...
522
00:26:24,499 --> 00:26:26,459
- ♪ (SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- At that time, this was a man
523
00:26:26,501 --> 00:26:28,587
that was really speaking
his truth.
524
00:26:28,670 --> 00:26:30,213
We have to understand
that Africa
525
00:26:30,297 --> 00:26:32,299
had just come out
of slavery and colonization.
526
00:26:32,340 --> 00:26:34,175
Africa had just gained
its independence.
527
00:26:34,217 --> 00:26:37,470
Nigeria, for instance, had just
even come out of the civil war.
528
00:26:37,512 --> 00:26:39,556
And so many external forces
were there
529
00:26:39,639 --> 00:26:43,184
suppressing the African mind.
And so they saw Fela as a threat
530
00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:46,521
because Fela
was exposing corruption.
531
00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,773
♪ All of us
To the first election ♪
532
00:26:48,857 --> 00:26:50,150
♪ (BAND PLAYING UPBEAT TUNE) ♪
533
00:26:50,191 --> 00:26:53,361
♪ And the second election
All in Nigeria ♪
534
00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:57,032
♪ And the second election
That you all see pass... ♪
535
00:26:57,115 --> 00:26:58,617
WIZKID: He didn't really care
536
00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:00,785
the repercussions of the things
he was dealing with,
537
00:27:00,869 --> 00:27:02,829
he was locked up,
his house was burned.
538
00:27:02,871 --> 00:27:04,539
When you are a revolutionary...
539
00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:07,125
and you talk the truth...
540
00:27:07,208 --> 00:27:08,585
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
541
00:27:08,668 --> 00:27:11,212
...people will come
and slap you down.
542
00:27:11,296 --> 00:27:14,799
You could say he was a warrior,
and his instruments,
543
00:27:14,883 --> 00:27:16,635
his compositions,
were his weapons.
544
00:27:16,718 --> 00:27:19,054
♪ (SINGING INDISTINCTLY) ♪
545
00:27:19,137 --> 00:27:21,473
FEMI: With Wizkid,
he knows Fela's story.
546
00:27:21,556 --> 00:27:24,059
He has an ideological mind.
547
00:27:25,518 --> 00:27:28,188
He's an inspiration.
He's a big inspiration to me.
548
00:27:29,230 --> 00:27:31,232
FELA: Music is the weapon.
549
00:27:31,274 --> 00:27:33,610
Music is the thing
of the future.
550
00:27:33,693 --> 00:27:36,404
Music is the weapon
of the future.
551
00:27:38,615 --> 00:27:40,867
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
552
00:27:40,909 --> 00:27:42,452
SENI: I think it's fitting
553
00:27:42,535 --> 00:27:44,412
that that's what
we're seeing now.
554
00:27:44,496 --> 00:27:46,956
Wizkid, he's almost
taking up that mantle,
555
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,501
not on a, like,
necessarily activist level,
556
00:27:49,584 --> 00:27:52,587
'cause Fela was very much
a full-time activist,
557
00:27:52,629 --> 00:27:55,215
but he's consistently pushing
the boundaries
558
00:27:55,256 --> 00:27:59,469
as to what people
even view Nigeria as.
559
00:27:59,552 --> 00:28:01,262
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
560
00:28:01,346 --> 00:28:03,598
That's a very crazy position
to be in.
561
00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:05,892
(BOTH SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
562
00:28:05,934 --> 00:28:07,060
(OVER SPEAKERS)
563
00:28:07,102 --> 00:28:08,353
- FAN 1: Yeah.
- FAN 2: Yeah.
564
00:28:14,943 --> 00:28:15,944
CROWD: Yes!
565
00:28:17,112 --> 00:28:18,196
Yes!
566
00:28:19,781 --> 00:28:20,782
(CROWD CHEERING)
567
00:28:20,865 --> 00:28:23,743
SENI:
For Wizkid, he has to figure out
568
00:28:23,785 --> 00:28:26,538
how to navigate
being this person
569
00:28:26,621 --> 00:28:28,373
that people look up to.
570
00:28:28,456 --> 00:28:32,293
It almost feels like Wizkid
has to perform at Tottenham.
571
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:34,254
They look at him
as this beacon of hope.
572
00:28:34,295 --> 00:28:37,298
♪ (POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
573
00:28:37,382 --> 00:28:40,343
WIZKID: This Tottenham moment
is bigger than music
574
00:28:40,427 --> 00:28:42,554
and, you know, me.
575
00:28:43,638 --> 00:28:47,100
It's something bigger
for the culture as a whole.
576
00:28:48,768 --> 00:28:50,770
I'm the first African artist
going to Tottenham
577
00:28:50,812 --> 00:28:53,314
to perform, right,
and it's like...
578
00:28:53,356 --> 00:28:56,443
It really helps
push the culture forward,
579
00:28:56,484 --> 00:28:58,069
you know, and in a great light.
580
00:28:59,654 --> 00:29:02,365
FELA: Music is the weapon
of the future. (ECHOING)
581
00:29:02,449 --> 00:29:05,869
CROWD: (CHANTING)
Wizzy! Wizzy! Wizzy!
582
00:29:05,952 --> 00:29:07,328
WIZKID: Of course I'll do it.
583
00:29:11,332 --> 00:29:13,835
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (CAR HORN HONKING)
584
00:29:13,918 --> 00:29:15,462
(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
585
00:29:24,596 --> 00:29:27,098
STARBOY:
From when I was 15 years old,
586
00:29:27,182 --> 00:29:29,851
I started calling myself
"Starboy" after Wizkid.
587
00:29:32,187 --> 00:29:33,980
I've been a die-hard fan.
588
00:29:37,859 --> 00:29:41,488
I fix cars, I ride bikes,
and I drift cars too.
589
00:29:44,991 --> 00:29:48,286
As a kid growing up in Nigeria,
it was tough.
590
00:29:50,371 --> 00:29:55,001
The chances of getting jobs
is actually really, really low.
591
00:29:56,044 --> 00:29:57,879
There are too many youths
out there,
592
00:29:57,962 --> 00:30:00,799
unemployed,
roaming around the streets.
593
00:30:05,386 --> 00:30:07,263
♪ ("ANOTI" BY WIZKID
PLAYING OVER CELLPHONE) ♪
594
00:30:07,347 --> 00:30:09,599
♪ Turn up your body
Make you feel all right ♪
595
00:30:09,682 --> 00:30:11,893
♪ Flyin' the kele
Wey go cool my mind ♪
596
00:30:11,976 --> 00:30:13,978
♪ I wan' do anythin'
I want tonight... ♪
597
00:30:14,062 --> 00:30:16,648
STARBOY: Afrobeats is part
of our lifestyle.
598
00:30:16,731 --> 00:30:19,400
♪ ...Turn up your body
Make you feel all right... ♪
599
00:30:19,442 --> 00:30:20,944
STARBOY:
Remove music from your life,
600
00:30:21,027 --> 00:30:22,111
bro, you're empty.
601
00:30:22,195 --> 00:30:24,197
(CHUCKLING) You get it,
'cause there's nothing
602
00:30:24,239 --> 00:30:25,323
to keep you going.
603
00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:29,661
Listening to Wizkid's music...
604
00:30:29,744 --> 00:30:31,955
I felt really,
really connected for it,
605
00:30:32,038 --> 00:30:34,165
'cause looking
at his background,
606
00:30:34,249 --> 00:30:37,168
where he comes from, Surulere,
607
00:30:37,252 --> 00:30:39,420
it was really,
really inspirational.
608
00:30:41,256 --> 00:30:44,425
It gives more Nigerian youth
hope because they're like,
609
00:30:44,509 --> 00:30:46,970
"Yes,
he has gone through it too."
610
00:30:47,053 --> 00:30:48,847
♪ (SONG CONTINUES PLAYING
OVER CELLPHONE) ♪
611
00:30:48,930 --> 00:30:51,057
STARBOY: "If he can do it,
there's still hope.
612
00:30:51,099 --> 00:30:52,600
There's still hope
for the future."
613
00:31:04,571 --> 00:31:07,365
Whenever I see that
they announce a live concert,
614
00:31:07,448 --> 00:31:09,868
I always look
for means to stream it
615
00:31:09,951 --> 00:31:12,412
so that I don't feel left out.
616
00:31:13,288 --> 00:31:15,415
But this one
that he's performing
617
00:31:15,456 --> 00:31:18,835
in one of the biggest stadiums
in the world,
618
00:31:18,918 --> 00:31:22,255
this is
a one-lifetime experience.
619
00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:27,468
If I was to make
this trip to London,
620
00:31:27,510 --> 00:31:30,096
I would be the happiest man
in the world, for real.
621
00:31:33,641 --> 00:31:35,268
I believe I can do it.
622
00:31:47,780 --> 00:31:49,240
RADIO HOST 1:
In another giant stride
623
00:31:49,324 --> 00:31:51,200
for Nigerian music
and Afrobeat...
624
00:31:51,284 --> 00:31:53,077
RADIO HOST 2:
One of Afrobeats' biggest names,
625
00:31:53,161 --> 00:31:54,996
Wizkid, taking to the stage.
626
00:31:55,038 --> 00:31:57,749
The pop star has been visiting
Tottenham Stadium
627
00:31:57,832 --> 00:32:00,627
ahead of a landmark gig
at the venue next month.
628
00:32:02,962 --> 00:32:05,256
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
629
00:32:08,426 --> 00:32:12,931
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
630
00:32:13,014 --> 00:32:16,184
JADA: We had the offer
on the table for a few weeks.
631
00:32:16,267 --> 00:32:18,227
And before you know it,
you're like a month out.
632
00:32:18,311 --> 00:32:20,438
CREW 1: We'll bring you out
to the center of that pitch.
633
00:32:20,521 --> 00:32:22,690
There's gonna be more photos
and more videography.
634
00:32:22,774 --> 00:32:25,526
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
635
00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:28,988
JADA: For, like, the past week,
I've been telling him,
636
00:32:29,030 --> 00:32:31,157
I'm like,
"I've got really bad anxiety."
637
00:32:32,158 --> 00:32:33,910
You've been covered
in the Evening Standard,
638
00:32:33,993 --> 00:32:35,787
which goes around
the whole of London,
639
00:32:35,870 --> 00:32:37,497
8 million papers
are getting sold out.
640
00:32:37,538 --> 00:32:39,332
So, big numbers, man.
641
00:32:40,625 --> 00:32:42,377
JADA:
He doesn't show much emotion.
642
00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:43,753
I don't know
if that's a good thing
643
00:32:43,836 --> 00:32:45,004
or a bad thing.
644
00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:49,968
This is the first time
that we're doing a stadium show.
645
00:32:51,803 --> 00:32:54,847
When you walk out there
and you see the seating,
646
00:32:54,889 --> 00:32:57,266
it feels more intense.
647
00:32:57,350 --> 00:32:59,310
I'm like, "Fuck, this is big."
648
00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:05,274
Seeing how much we have to do
in such a short space of time,
649
00:33:05,358 --> 00:33:06,776
this is gonna be really hard.
650
00:33:06,859 --> 00:33:08,277
She's gonna be doing
the interview with you.
651
00:33:08,361 --> 00:33:09,821
And this is gonna go out
on Friday, mate,
652
00:33:09,904 --> 00:33:11,447
this is gonna go
straight out to all of London.
653
00:33:11,531 --> 00:33:13,116
- This is Alison.
- ALISON: Hi, Alison
from the BBC.
654
00:33:13,199 --> 00:33:15,368
Nice to meet you.
If you'd like to come...
655
00:33:16,577 --> 00:33:19,080
NEWS REPORTER: Now,
with the 60,000 capacity here
656
00:33:19,163 --> 00:33:22,667
at Tottenham, do you feel
any pressure to be Wizkid?
657
00:33:22,750 --> 00:33:23,751
SENI: I've always just felt
658
00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:25,253
there's this insane amount
of pressure on him.
659
00:33:25,336 --> 00:33:26,921
CREW 2: We're going
straight over for the photos
660
00:33:26,963 --> 00:33:28,756
here, mate. I'm just gonna
lead you back across, okay?
661
00:33:28,798 --> 00:33:31,009
SENI: From the industry,
from the audience,
662
00:33:31,092 --> 00:33:32,927
from just Nigeria as a whole...
663
00:33:34,262 --> 00:33:37,932
for him to be the flag bearer,
for him to be the forefather...
664
00:33:38,933 --> 00:33:40,309
he's like the national hero.
665
00:33:40,393 --> 00:33:42,979
He's, like, one of the biggest
ambassadors for Nigeria.
666
00:33:43,062 --> 00:33:44,772
So I'm gonna brief him
in what you're gonna do, right?
667
00:33:44,856 --> 00:33:46,607
Let's just get a picture
of you holding it, Wiz.
668
00:33:46,691 --> 00:33:49,193
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
669
00:33:49,277 --> 00:33:52,280
SENI: And I don't know that
the biggest American rappers
670
00:33:52,363 --> 00:33:55,658
or artists can even relate
to that sort of pressure.
671
00:33:55,742 --> 00:33:59,328
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
672
00:33:59,412 --> 00:34:01,247
SENI: If an American rapper
comes to Lagos
673
00:34:01,289 --> 00:34:03,207
and their show doesn't go well,
674
00:34:03,291 --> 00:34:05,418
they don't have millions
of people at home
675
00:34:05,460 --> 00:34:07,587
feeling embarrassed
and betrayed.
676
00:34:10,465 --> 00:34:12,717
It's an unbelievable amount
677
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,469
of scrutiny
to have to deal with.
678
00:34:18,931 --> 00:34:20,224
It has to go well...
679
00:34:21,976 --> 00:34:24,145
for him and for Nigeria.
680
00:34:35,448 --> 00:34:39,118
- ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
681
00:34:43,081 --> 00:34:45,083
STARBOY:
I used to reply his stories.
682
00:34:47,502 --> 00:34:51,339
I wished him happy birthday
back in, uh, 2019.
683
00:34:51,422 --> 00:34:54,092
And this was when I used
this sound.
684
00:34:57,345 --> 00:34:58,763
Yeah, this was my favorite song,
685
00:34:58,846 --> 00:35:00,181
"Blessed,"
I told you about, like...
686
00:35:00,264 --> 00:35:02,225
♪ ("BLESSED" BY WIZKID
PLAYING OVER CELLPHONE) ♪
687
00:35:02,308 --> 00:35:04,852
You get. I used on this one too.
688
00:35:05,353 --> 00:35:07,271
You see. So...
689
00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:10,191
Big Wiz has been a very
big motivation to me.
690
00:35:11,484 --> 00:35:12,944
To be a star boy,
691
00:35:13,027 --> 00:35:15,071
I have to stand out,
do things differently.
692
00:35:15,154 --> 00:35:16,280
♪ ("PRESSURE"
BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
693
00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:17,490
♪ P... ♪
694
00:35:17,532 --> 00:35:20,034
STARBOY: In my crew,
the Lagos BMX crew...
695
00:35:21,327 --> 00:35:25,540
I have some really,
really amazing guys.
696
00:35:25,623 --> 00:35:27,750
The most times when you riding,
you need to, like,
697
00:35:27,834 --> 00:35:30,253
listen to something
that will keep you going.
698
00:35:30,336 --> 00:35:33,548
My crew really loves Wizkid.
699
00:35:33,631 --> 00:35:35,842
♪ ...Omo na
You be my business, o ♪
700
00:35:35,883 --> 00:35:37,844
♪ I know you wanting
All my talk... ♪
701
00:35:37,885 --> 00:35:40,888
STARBOY: We'll just be jamming,
popping tricks, just grooving.
702
00:35:43,057 --> 00:35:45,351
I usually listen to him
all the time.
703
00:35:45,393 --> 00:35:49,564
♪ ...And you no dey shock
Me pass the money, my baby, o ♪
704
00:35:49,605 --> 00:35:53,985
♪ If I wan dey love
I wan dey love you, my baby, o ♪
705
00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:55,987
(STARBOY GRUNTS)
706
00:35:56,529 --> 00:35:58,072
(IN NIGERIAN DIALECT)
707
00:35:58,114 --> 00:35:59,657
BMX CREW: (IN ENGLISH) Yeah!
708
00:35:59,740 --> 00:36:01,576
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
709
00:36:02,201 --> 00:36:03,661
(IN NIGERIAN DIALECT)
710
00:36:03,744 --> 00:36:06,914
(BMX CREW CHEERING)
711
00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:11,210
BMX CREW MEMBER 1:
712
00:36:11,252 --> 00:36:12,420
(LAUGHS)
713
00:36:12,503 --> 00:36:13,921
- (LAUGHS)
- (LAUGHS)
714
00:36:18,426 --> 00:36:20,344
(IN ENGLISH) Hopefully,
hopefully it work.
715
00:36:22,096 --> 00:36:24,265
S KING: (IN NIGERIAN DIALECT)
716
00:36:27,268 --> 00:36:28,436
Hmm. Hmm.
717
00:36:29,103 --> 00:36:30,229
S KING: (IN ENGLISH)
718
00:36:32,690 --> 00:36:34,025
(LAUGHS)
719
00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:42,283
BMX CREW: Amen.
720
00:36:42,366 --> 00:36:47,288
(REPEATS) Thank you.
721
00:36:47,371 --> 00:36:50,291
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
722
00:36:50,374 --> 00:36:52,126
♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
723
00:36:58,591 --> 00:37:02,136
JADA:
Karen is our creative director.
724
00:37:02,178 --> 00:37:06,515
She understands Wiz,
which I think is key,
725
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:09,477
especially when you're dealing
with an artist
726
00:37:09,518 --> 00:37:15,566
that already has a vision
of how he wants things.
727
00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:19,820
My job is to push
whatever image possible
728
00:37:19,904 --> 00:37:21,155
that's going out there with Wiz
729
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,449
that I'm involved in
to be inspirational.
730
00:37:24,325 --> 00:37:25,910
WIZKID:
Karen is like... (CHUCKLES)
731
00:37:25,993 --> 00:37:28,204
...she's like mother, man.
732
00:37:28,287 --> 00:37:30,581
Just reminds me of my mom.
(CHUCKLES)
733
00:37:30,665 --> 00:37:33,334
I love her so much.
I love her too much.
734
00:37:33,376 --> 00:37:35,002
She's done this for years too.
735
00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:40,758
For Made in Lagos,
the album cover.
736
00:37:40,841 --> 00:37:42,635
I didn't look at him
as an African man.
737
00:37:42,677 --> 00:37:44,720
I looked at him as a man.
738
00:37:44,804 --> 00:37:46,639
I didn't look at him
as an African artist.
739
00:37:46,681 --> 00:37:49,642
I looked at him as an artist,
not an African musician,
740
00:37:49,684 --> 00:37:52,937
a musician first
who happens to be African,
741
00:37:53,020 --> 00:37:57,733
because I am not interested
in hearing music that profound
742
00:37:57,817 --> 00:37:59,527
and putting him in a category.
743
00:38:00,653 --> 00:38:03,906
When I was showing
all of these images to him,
744
00:38:03,990 --> 00:38:06,492
I said, "You know, you could be
like the Black Marlon Brando
745
00:38:06,534 --> 00:38:08,077
in Streetcar Named Desire.
746
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,912
Stella!
747
00:38:09,996 --> 00:38:11,789
KAREN BINNS:
Or the Black James Dean.
748
00:38:11,872 --> 00:38:13,040
What'd you do that for?
749
00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:16,752
KAREN: And it's not
that he had to be them,
750
00:38:16,836 --> 00:38:19,547
but he was able to represent
751
00:38:19,630 --> 00:38:22,049
to his generation what they did.
752
00:38:22,133 --> 00:38:26,095
It shows his strength and power,
but also his vulnerability.
753
00:38:26,178 --> 00:38:29,348
I feel that Wiz performing
in Tottenham...
754
00:38:30,391 --> 00:38:34,061
is going to upset
quite a few people.
755
00:38:36,230 --> 00:38:37,565
Too bad.
756
00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,318
Get used to it, get ready.
757
00:38:41,193 --> 00:38:42,236
I want you to try...
758
00:38:42,278 --> 00:38:46,657
He needs to show the power
of the new genre of music
759
00:38:46,741 --> 00:38:49,076
that has been introduced
to the world globally.
760
00:38:50,411 --> 00:38:54,081
It's more than one sound,
it's more than one color,
761
00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:56,208
it's more than one category.
762
00:38:57,251 --> 00:39:02,381
(OBJECTS CLATTERING)
763
00:39:05,384 --> 00:39:09,180
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
764
00:39:09,263 --> 00:39:11,849
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
765
00:39:11,932 --> 00:39:13,976
JADA: Today we've come
for a site visit.
766
00:39:14,060 --> 00:39:16,145
We have come to structure out
767
00:39:16,228 --> 00:39:18,439
how we're gonna be laying out
the stage.
768
00:39:18,481 --> 00:39:20,066
So, before we sign off
769
00:39:20,107 --> 00:39:23,027
on the actual layout
of the show,
770
00:39:23,110 --> 00:39:25,071
just come here
to physically feel it.
771
00:39:28,949 --> 00:39:30,659
We really want to make sure
772
00:39:30,743 --> 00:39:33,454
that everything is going
to come together in time.
773
00:39:35,915 --> 00:39:39,126
There's a lot
on Wiz's shoulders.
774
00:39:40,461 --> 00:39:44,924
♪ (POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
775
00:40:04,735 --> 00:40:08,364
JULIE: I can't even imagine
where your mind is at
776
00:40:08,447 --> 00:40:09,949
when you're about to do a show
777
00:40:09,990 --> 00:40:11,992
and you're having to deal
with that news.
778
00:40:13,994 --> 00:40:15,621
This is not
about entertainment anymore.
779
00:40:15,663 --> 00:40:19,458
This is not about success.
This is about your loved one.
780
00:40:22,002 --> 00:40:26,424
In African family structures,
especially when it comes to mom,
781
00:40:26,507 --> 00:40:28,843
it's a very special bond
and relationship.
782
00:40:30,136 --> 00:40:31,679
When the news broke,
783
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:33,556
we just believed
it was canceled.
784
00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:35,349
You know, you were just waiting
for an email to say
785
00:40:35,391 --> 00:40:36,851
it wasn't happening anymore.
786
00:40:38,352 --> 00:40:39,854
JADA:
That does something to you.
787
00:40:41,856 --> 00:40:46,152
He wanted to quit a lot.
So... (INHALES SHARPLY)
788
00:40:46,193 --> 00:40:47,236
Yeah.
789
00:40:48,612 --> 00:40:52,199
It was a time where I felt
like he was forced to reflect.
790
00:40:53,325 --> 00:40:59,039
But Wiz realizes that this show
will open so many doors
791
00:40:59,123 --> 00:41:02,209
for artists coming up under Wiz,
792
00:41:02,293 --> 00:41:08,382
for executives to understand
the reach of the sound.
793
00:41:09,049 --> 00:41:11,719
And for every kid back home
794
00:41:11,802 --> 00:41:15,014
that is dreaming
of becoming Wiz,
795
00:41:15,055 --> 00:41:18,392
it's going to give them a dream
796
00:41:18,434 --> 00:41:20,895
to know that it's possible
to get there.
797
00:41:21,812 --> 00:41:28,736
- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
798
00:41:47,421 --> 00:41:50,841
(IN NIGERIAN DIALECT)
799
00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:09,276
STARBOY: (IN ENGLISH)
Yeah, exactly.
800
00:42:15,616 --> 00:42:16,909
(IN NIGERIAN DIALECT)
801
00:42:26,126 --> 00:42:27,920
- STARBOY: That's right.
- I swear.
802
00:42:34,218 --> 00:42:35,511
STARBOY: Got it.
803
00:42:35,594 --> 00:42:38,305
(IN NIGERIAN DIALECT)
804
00:42:41,725 --> 00:42:42,810
Oh, boy.
805
00:42:58,993 --> 00:43:01,829
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
806
00:43:01,912 --> 00:43:04,498
STARBOY: (IN ENGLISH) S King
has never left Nigeria before.
807
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,751
Most people never
get the opportunity
808
00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:09,336
to leave Nigeria.
809
00:43:11,005 --> 00:43:13,966
Getting a visa to travel
out of this country is...
810
00:43:14,592 --> 00:43:15,968
it's very hard.
811
00:43:19,805 --> 00:43:22,016
When you get to the embassy,
you get interviewed.
812
00:43:23,350 --> 00:43:26,520
Put together documents
and the things required.
813
00:43:28,355 --> 00:43:31,692
By the end,
some get turned down.
814
00:43:35,863 --> 00:43:38,282
Those that colonized us,
815
00:43:38,365 --> 00:43:42,161
now giving us hard time
for us to go visit them.
816
00:43:45,372 --> 00:43:47,124
For Big Wiz,
817
00:43:47,207 --> 00:43:50,628
the more successful
he is in his career
818
00:43:50,711 --> 00:43:52,588
all over the world,
819
00:43:52,671 --> 00:43:56,383
the more successful view
we get as Africans.
820
00:43:59,845 --> 00:44:03,766
There's this underlying audacity
821
00:44:03,849 --> 00:44:05,601
that comes
from the Western world
822
00:44:05,684 --> 00:44:07,311
and from the people
823
00:44:07,394 --> 00:44:10,064
who essentially
destroyed countries
824
00:44:10,147 --> 00:44:11,315
in the way that they choose
825
00:44:11,398 --> 00:44:14,234
to show those countries
after they've destroyed it.
826
00:44:16,070 --> 00:44:19,073
On the road now, the troops have
reached their first objective.
827
00:44:19,156 --> 00:44:21,116
JULIE:
The Nigerian War specifically
828
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,577
being one of the first wars
that was ever televised.
829
00:44:24,536 --> 00:44:26,246
When Wiz has success,
830
00:44:26,288 --> 00:44:29,458
the perception of Nigeria,
the perception of Africa,
831
00:44:29,541 --> 00:44:31,919
starts to shift
ever so slightly.
832
00:44:32,002 --> 00:44:33,671
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
833
00:44:33,754 --> 00:44:35,172
JULIE: (IN ENGLISH)
For a region of the world
834
00:44:35,255 --> 00:44:39,426
that has so much potential,
the impact is transformative.
835
00:44:42,763 --> 00:44:46,684
It shouldn't take for people
to like a song,
836
00:44:46,767 --> 00:44:49,311
for them to feel that
there is an entire country,
837
00:44:49,395 --> 00:44:52,523
an entire continent, of people
that are worth investing in
838
00:44:52,606 --> 00:44:53,691
to see what they can do
839
00:44:53,774 --> 00:44:55,442
and to see what else
they can bring to the world,
840
00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:59,488
to bring to art, to media,
to anything outside of that.
841
00:45:00,572 --> 00:45:02,282
But at the same time,
842
00:45:02,324 --> 00:45:05,619
it takes for one thing
to make you feel comfortable,
843
00:45:05,703 --> 00:45:08,122
to make you see someone
in a different way,
844
00:45:08,205 --> 00:45:10,374
for you to believe
that they are worth your time,
845
00:45:10,457 --> 00:45:12,042
for you to believe that maybe
846
00:45:12,126 --> 00:45:13,794
it's worth me finding out
what else they can do,
847
00:45:13,877 --> 00:45:15,295
what else they have to offer.
848
00:45:19,091 --> 00:45:21,468
FEMI: Somebody like me,
who has grown up
849
00:45:21,552 --> 00:45:24,596
from my father's
struggling times,
850
00:45:24,638 --> 00:45:26,557
my generation,
851
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,394
seeing how we have been trying
to break this door open.
852
00:45:30,477 --> 00:45:33,897
This is where Africa needs
to now put its foot down.
853
00:45:33,981 --> 00:45:35,649
We're not just about music.
854
00:45:36,483 --> 00:45:39,236
Africa was never
just about music.
855
00:45:39,319 --> 00:45:41,780
This is the time for us
to have electricity in Nigeria.
856
00:45:41,822 --> 00:45:43,949
This is time for us
to build our rules.
857
00:45:43,991 --> 00:45:45,075
This is the time for us
858
00:45:45,159 --> 00:45:46,452
to make Africa
the envy of the world.
859
00:45:54,501 --> 00:45:57,254
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
860
00:46:00,632 --> 00:46:02,551
But, like, the play--
you play the...
861
00:46:02,634 --> 00:46:05,429
- DRUMMER: Hi-hat.
- ...hi-hat is where I want you
to be cleaner.
862
00:46:05,512 --> 00:46:06,889
So, we'll try it.
863
00:46:06,972 --> 00:46:13,228
♪ (SINGING INDISTINCTLY) ♪
864
00:46:21,528 --> 00:46:23,781
Sorry. Slow, slow.
That was melodic.
865
00:46:23,864 --> 00:46:25,157
WIZKID: Here gotta feel right.
866
00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:26,366
Because if it doesn't
feel right,
867
00:46:26,408 --> 00:46:28,535
we're gonna lose the energy
of the music too, so...
868
00:46:41,715 --> 00:46:42,758
♪ (SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
869
00:46:42,841 --> 00:46:44,551
WIZKID:
I'm a very hands-on person.
870
00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:48,055
Like, I want to see everybody
doing their job.
871
00:46:48,138 --> 00:46:49,848
Every... Every section
of my work,
872
00:46:49,890 --> 00:46:52,351
I want to see all of that
moving at the same pace.
873
00:47:44,278 --> 00:47:46,738
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
874
00:47:50,576 --> 00:47:53,120
JADA: We are one week out.
875
00:47:53,203 --> 00:47:56,498
We're having a huge problem
with our visuals.
876
00:47:56,582 --> 00:47:58,417
What I'm saying
is that can't be the only look
877
00:47:58,458 --> 00:47:59,793
because it's not sexy.
878
00:47:59,877 --> 00:48:02,212
You want to feel that you are...
you are the Nigerian on stage.
879
00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:04,631
Like, you want to feel
their power.
880
00:48:04,673 --> 00:48:07,301
We're not getting any
of that with those images.
881
00:48:07,384 --> 00:48:09,094
When you put it next
to the song,
882
00:48:09,136 --> 00:48:11,054
it's got nothing to do
with the song.
883
00:48:11,138 --> 00:48:13,891
So, my job is to make sure
the production side,
884
00:48:13,974 --> 00:48:16,226
the staging,
that we're not following,
885
00:48:16,310 --> 00:48:17,769
we're leading.
886
00:48:17,811 --> 00:48:19,438
This is deep. This is Tottenham.
887
00:48:19,479 --> 00:48:21,648
This is bigger
than Madison Square Garden.
888
00:48:21,732 --> 00:48:23,233
Can't play games.
889
00:48:23,317 --> 00:48:24,776
Everything's got
to look considered.
890
00:48:24,818 --> 00:48:26,653
But we just look
like we're crazy.
891
00:48:26,695 --> 00:48:27,821
Like we're children,
892
00:48:27,863 --> 00:48:29,406
and we don't know
how to do a show.
893
00:48:29,489 --> 00:48:31,617
What? You can't do that,
not with Wiz.
894
00:48:33,410 --> 00:48:34,995
This is a test.
895
00:48:37,831 --> 00:48:39,374
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
896
00:48:39,458 --> 00:48:42,836
KAREN: I wonder if he realizes
how big of a deal it really is.
897
00:48:42,878 --> 00:48:44,880
Hopefully he doesn't feel
that weight,
898
00:48:44,963 --> 00:48:48,383
because that can infiltrate
his performance,
899
00:48:48,467 --> 00:48:52,304
infiltrate his creativity,
and he could be sidetracked.
900
00:48:52,846 --> 00:48:54,932
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
901
00:49:05,192 --> 00:49:07,569
♪ (INSPIRING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
902
00:49:07,653 --> 00:49:10,072
STARBOY: The chances
of getting the visa
903
00:49:10,155 --> 00:49:12,866
is actually really, really low.
904
00:49:14,660 --> 00:49:16,536
It's a big stress.
905
00:49:16,578 --> 00:49:18,830
It's a very, very big stress.
906
00:49:23,543 --> 00:49:25,212
Happiness is actually free.
907
00:49:25,295 --> 00:49:28,632
You just have to start
with what you have,
908
00:49:29,716 --> 00:49:33,637
where you are
and what you have access to.
909
00:49:35,055 --> 00:49:36,723
That's all it takes
for you to be happy.
910
00:49:42,896 --> 00:49:45,732
(RAIN PATTERING)
911
00:49:51,488 --> 00:49:53,699
♪ (UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
912
00:49:55,742 --> 00:49:59,329
Yo! (CHUCKLES) Yo!
913
00:49:59,413 --> 00:50:01,748
"Your travel document
and supporting document
914
00:50:01,832 --> 00:50:04,251
are now ready for collection."
915
00:50:04,334 --> 00:50:09,089
(LAUGHS) I say yes, come on!
916
00:50:09,172 --> 00:50:10,924
Yes! Come on!
917
00:50:12,426 --> 00:50:14,219
FRIEND 1: I don't even know
what I'm saying.
918
00:50:14,261 --> 00:50:15,595
FRIEND 2: Come on.
919
00:50:16,430 --> 00:50:20,600
FRIEND 1: (IN NIGERIAN DIALECT)
920
00:50:23,228 --> 00:50:24,604
(LAUGHS)
921
00:50:24,688 --> 00:50:28,442
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
922
00:50:36,450 --> 00:50:38,452
(IN ENGLISH) We thank you
for the provision of this food,
923
00:50:38,535 --> 00:50:40,037
and thank you
for everything going on.
924
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,749
Real good. We thank you for...
You've blessed this food for us.
925
00:50:43,790 --> 00:50:46,293
Thank you,
and in Jesus name we pray, Amen.
926
00:50:47,586 --> 00:50:49,963
(FRIEND 2
SPEAKING NIGERIAN DIALECT)
927
00:50:55,135 --> 00:50:57,137
(FRIEND 1
SPEAKING NIGERIAN DIALECT)
928
00:51:02,059 --> 00:51:04,144
(FRIEND 2
SPEAKING NIGERIAN DIALECT)
929
00:51:19,076 --> 00:51:20,577
(GENERATOR HUMMING)
930
00:51:20,660 --> 00:51:21,828
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
931
00:51:29,336 --> 00:51:31,296
TOPS: (IN ENGLISH)
This is the week into the show,
932
00:51:31,338 --> 00:51:34,591
so sleep is secondary.
933
00:51:34,674 --> 00:51:37,094
Like, we'll sleep the day
after the show,
934
00:51:37,177 --> 00:51:39,638
but we've literally
been doing, um,
935
00:51:39,679 --> 00:51:44,893
rehearsal from 4:00 p.m.
till maybe 2:00 a.m.
936
00:51:44,976 --> 00:51:48,688
Musically, we've got
some ground to make.
937
00:51:50,023 --> 00:51:53,527
We've had some additions
to our musical setup.
938
00:51:55,028 --> 00:51:56,613
WIZKID: This is Benjamin.
939
00:51:56,696 --> 00:52:00,283
The one half of Cavemen,
him and his brother Kingsley.
940
00:52:00,367 --> 00:52:02,035
They are joining me
for this show.
941
00:52:02,869 --> 00:52:04,579
They're artists themselves.
942
00:52:04,663 --> 00:52:07,374
♪ (ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
943
00:52:07,457 --> 00:52:11,503
TOPS: The Cavemen are now
musical-directing the show.
944
00:52:15,715 --> 00:52:18,385
So, they're gonna handle
the musical direction
945
00:52:18,426 --> 00:52:20,595
and be a part of the band.
946
00:52:20,679 --> 00:52:22,597
♪ (WIZKID
SINGING INDISTINCTLY) ♪
947
00:52:22,681 --> 00:52:24,683
TOPS: From the music
point of view,
948
00:52:24,724 --> 00:52:27,811
we're maybe two weeks behind
where we should actually be.
949
00:52:29,563 --> 00:52:31,231
My main concern at the moment
950
00:52:31,314 --> 00:52:34,693
is just the flow
between the band and Wiz,
951
00:52:34,734 --> 00:52:36,820
running the show
from top to bottom.
952
00:52:36,903 --> 00:52:39,990
BENJAMIN: No, just shutting
that, uh, outro part.
953
00:52:40,073 --> 00:52:42,033
So, you sort of, I think
it was eight bars before,
954
00:52:42,075 --> 00:52:44,077
let’s keep it at four bars.
955
00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:47,122
And I haven't heard
the full setlist just yet,
956
00:52:47,205 --> 00:52:48,623
played out in one go.
957
00:52:48,707 --> 00:52:51,251
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
958
00:52:51,334 --> 00:52:54,004
Stop it right there,
yeah, that's great, yeah.
959
00:52:58,425 --> 00:53:00,343
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
960
00:53:01,678 --> 00:53:03,972
Then there was kind of this idea
to do different texturing,
961
00:53:04,055 --> 00:53:06,266
but to kind of have
all these women's bodies.
962
00:53:06,308 --> 00:53:07,934
And then this hawk that, like,
963
00:53:08,018 --> 00:53:10,020
looks like it's kind of
coming out of the 3D billboard
964
00:53:10,103 --> 00:53:11,688
and then kind of, like,
lots of fire.
965
00:53:13,481 --> 00:53:14,774
And then this idea
966
00:53:14,858 --> 00:53:16,776
that we thought could be
really beautiful for "Essence."
967
00:53:16,818 --> 00:53:18,236
WIZKID: Mm-hmm.
968
00:53:18,278 --> 00:53:19,404
This is cool.
969
00:53:19,446 --> 00:53:21,281
But it feels like more of an--
This is the strongest one.
970
00:53:21,364 --> 00:53:23,033
CREW 1: This one?
971
00:53:23,116 --> 00:53:25,452
We were thinking it would be
cool in the middle of the box.
972
00:53:25,535 --> 00:53:28,079
WIZKID: Yeah, my only problem
with... with that is,
973
00:53:28,121 --> 00:53:30,498
like, how much space I have
to perform in the front.
974
00:53:30,582 --> 00:53:32,042
CREW 1:
So, this is right in the center.
975
00:53:32,125 --> 00:53:33,210
- WIZKID: Right here?
- CREW 1: Yeah.
976
00:53:33,293 --> 00:53:35,420
It needs to be, like, you know,
that's what I was saying,
977
00:53:35,462 --> 00:53:37,172
the video
from the rehearsal space,
978
00:53:37,255 --> 00:53:39,633
they all need
to be with me in the front.
979
00:53:39,674 --> 00:53:41,801
This part, like,
we need to do that.
980
00:53:42,135 --> 00:53:44,137
Oh...
981
00:53:44,179 --> 00:53:46,139
CREW 2: You mean the fact
that you don't have much space?
982
00:53:46,223 --> 00:53:48,808
Yeah. I don't have
much space at all.
983
00:53:48,892 --> 00:53:52,229
I think we're very limited
in space in that respect
984
00:53:52,312 --> 00:53:54,648
because we've already
hung all the steel for that.
985
00:53:54,689 --> 00:53:58,360
So, things can't move
between now and show.
986
00:53:58,443 --> 00:54:00,695
It's just not enough space
for me to perform in.
987
00:54:00,779 --> 00:54:02,239
CREW MEMBER: There's problems
with moving
988
00:54:02,322 --> 00:54:03,615
pretty much anything
around at this point
989
00:54:03,657 --> 00:54:05,200
since we're so late
in the game.
990
00:54:05,283 --> 00:54:07,369
Permitting is a big thing.
Barricades is a big thing.
991
00:54:07,452 --> 00:54:08,453
WIZKID: No, nothing is moving.
992
00:54:08,495 --> 00:54:10,580
I'm saying we just need
to create the space here.
993
00:54:10,664 --> 00:54:13,750
Like, even if we pull out
the riser right here, like...
994
00:54:13,833 --> 00:54:16,211
I really wanted to be here
weeks before,
995
00:54:16,294 --> 00:54:18,505
so if I wanted to change shit,
I could change shit.
996
00:54:18,588 --> 00:54:20,840
You know what I mean?
Like, this is the problem.
997
00:54:20,924 --> 00:54:22,676
The biggest problem right now
998
00:54:22,759 --> 00:54:25,136
is me performing,
like, you know...
999
00:54:25,178 --> 00:54:26,721
With your band. Like, out there.
1000
00:54:26,805 --> 00:54:29,182
Out here,
and it just feels tight,
1001
00:54:29,266 --> 00:54:31,351
you know, sensual, sexy.
1002
00:54:31,434 --> 00:54:32,727
CREW 2: Yeah, it's got soul.
1003
00:54:32,811 --> 00:54:35,272
Musical soul, like, it's not,
like... You know what I mean?
1004
00:54:35,355 --> 00:54:37,315
Because once you start doing all
of this other stuff,
1005
00:54:37,357 --> 00:54:38,984
it takes away from this essence
1006
00:54:39,025 --> 00:54:41,361
and the substance of,
like, you know, real music.
1007
00:54:42,696 --> 00:54:43,989
JADA: Wiz is a perfectionist.
1008
00:54:45,031 --> 00:54:47,951
Wiz always wants his fans
to feel
1009
00:54:48,034 --> 00:54:50,787
like they're coming to see
a whole new person.
1010
00:54:50,870 --> 00:54:53,456
- Cavemen's drums.
- Yeah?
1011
00:54:53,540 --> 00:54:55,750
Uh, are we sorting that,
what's the situation?
1012
00:54:55,834 --> 00:54:57,836
If Cavemen are playing out here,
for their set...
1013
00:54:57,877 --> 00:54:58,962
Mm-hmm.
1014
00:54:59,045 --> 00:55:00,297
...and then
they're playing back here
1015
00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:01,798
- for Wiz's set.
- Yeah. Yeah.
1016
00:55:01,881 --> 00:55:03,883
We can't have... We have
to have two different kits.
1017
00:55:06,052 --> 00:55:09,264
His focus on attention to detail
is borderline scary
1018
00:55:09,347 --> 00:55:11,057
when it gets to things
like this.
1019
00:55:11,683 --> 00:55:12,726
CREW 3: Somebody told them
1020
00:55:12,809 --> 00:55:14,728
that Wiz wants everybody
to move in
1021
00:55:14,811 --> 00:55:16,229
and out with wireless.
1022
00:55:16,313 --> 00:55:19,065
They want the DJ down
at the B stage
1023
00:55:19,149 --> 00:55:21,109
and in the center of the stage
and in the box.
1024
00:55:21,192 --> 00:55:23,320
Wait, wait, wait...
(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
1025
00:55:23,403 --> 00:55:25,864
JADA: I'm tired.
I'm overwhelmed.
1026
00:55:25,905 --> 00:55:28,491
I'm very, very anxious.
1027
00:55:28,575 --> 00:55:30,076
Just get us on the call.
1028
00:55:30,827 --> 00:55:32,829
Nobody's pointing fingers.
1029
00:55:32,912 --> 00:55:35,415
Nobody's calling you out.
Nobody's blaming you.
1030
00:55:35,498 --> 00:55:37,000
We just want solutions.
1031
00:55:40,253 --> 00:55:42,505
At the end of the day,
we can, like, nitpick it,
1032
00:55:42,589 --> 00:55:44,174
but we don't have enough time.
1033
00:55:54,893 --> 00:55:57,020
♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1034
00:56:01,775 --> 00:56:05,195
STARBOY: I'm so excited
to see Wizkid in London.
1035
00:56:09,949 --> 00:56:12,619
The view I have of London...
1036
00:56:14,579 --> 00:56:16,956
I don't know
what my expectations are.
1037
00:56:21,878 --> 00:56:23,088
I used to be worried that,
1038
00:56:23,129 --> 00:56:25,465
"Wait, what if I want to go
to this place?
1039
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:29,219
What would my movement be like?"
1040
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,897
Now having the opportunity
to even see my guy
1041
00:56:40,980 --> 00:56:42,899
on stage live, bro, damn.
1042
00:56:42,982 --> 00:56:45,485
(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
1043
00:56:47,987 --> 00:56:49,906
It's really, really exciting.
1044
00:56:54,119 --> 00:56:56,913
I keep my expectations high
for the show
1045
00:56:56,996 --> 00:57:00,458
because magic will actually
happen there.
1046
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:01,501
I know. I know already.
1047
00:57:06,339 --> 00:57:08,466
London, here I come. (CHUCKLES)
1048
00:57:19,644 --> 00:57:21,855
JADA: We are one day out.
1049
00:57:23,314 --> 00:57:26,734
Internally we are trying
to pull together
1050
00:57:26,818 --> 00:57:28,361
to make everything happen.
1051
00:57:29,863 --> 00:57:32,157
But we should try
and run it as a show...
1052
00:57:32,198 --> 00:57:33,908
- WIZKID: As a show...
- ... from top to bottom.
1053
00:57:33,992 --> 00:57:36,578
The fact that Wiz is headlining
Tottenham Stadium,
1054
00:57:36,661 --> 00:57:40,373
as a Black man,
it just hits different for me.
1055
00:57:45,837 --> 00:57:48,631
I couldn't have seen this
growing up as a kid.
1056
00:57:49,966 --> 00:57:52,427
There were a lot of Africans
at that time
1057
00:57:52,510 --> 00:57:56,389
who weren't proud
to say they were African.
1058
00:57:56,473 --> 00:58:00,768
I didn't see a world
where Afrobeats,
1059
00:58:00,852 --> 00:58:04,939
Black music being made
in the diaspora,
1060
00:58:05,023 --> 00:58:09,235
could headline
any stadium in the UK.
1061
00:58:09,277 --> 00:58:12,155
Especially for me,
being someone who grew up
1062
00:58:12,238 --> 00:58:15,450
in, uh,
inner London in the '90s.
1063
00:58:15,533 --> 00:58:17,702
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1064
00:58:19,078 --> 00:58:21,623
TOPS: Like,
racism definitely existed.
1065
00:58:21,706 --> 00:58:23,082
Saw it firsthand.
1066
00:58:24,584 --> 00:58:29,756
There were definitely moments
of racial tension.
1067
00:58:29,839 --> 00:58:31,466
NEWS REPORTER:
Clashes at an anti-racist march
1068
00:58:31,549 --> 00:58:32,592
in southeast London.
1069
00:58:32,675 --> 00:58:34,344
If there's a big gang
of Black boys, yeah,
1070
00:58:34,427 --> 00:58:35,553
police always think robbery.
1071
00:58:35,595 --> 00:58:37,680
That's why... That's why
you can't walk in the mass.
1072
00:58:37,764 --> 00:58:40,600
That's why all us lot come here
one by one or two by two.
1073
00:58:40,683 --> 00:58:41,976
I've been searched
loads of times, yeah.
1074
00:58:42,060 --> 00:58:43,353
(INDISTINCT CHANTING)
1075
00:58:43,436 --> 00:58:46,773
TOPS: People beaten up,
stabbed, what have you.
1076
00:58:46,856 --> 00:58:48,441
INTERVIEWER: Would you like
being called British?
1077
00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:49,651
No, I'm not British.
1078
00:58:49,734 --> 00:58:51,945
It's not my fault
that I was born in England.
1079
00:58:52,028 --> 00:58:56,199
We've been brought over here,
and we’re bottom of the table.
1080
00:58:57,200 --> 00:58:58,701
We've been treated bad.
1081
00:58:58,785 --> 00:59:01,037
I'm not going to say,
"Yeah, I come from that place."
1082
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,122
That I've been tr...
been treated bad in.
1083
00:59:05,458 --> 00:59:07,126
FEMI: What did slavery do?
1084
00:59:07,168 --> 00:59:09,295
Slavery took our identity.
1085
00:59:09,379 --> 00:59:11,339
What did colonization do?
1086
00:59:11,422 --> 00:59:12,799
Colonization replaced it.
1087
00:59:15,718 --> 00:59:19,305
We want to impress Europe.
We want to impress America.
1088
00:59:21,307 --> 00:59:23,893
What about our own impression
of ourselves?
1089
00:59:26,563 --> 00:59:28,815
How many of us dream
in our languages?
1090
00:59:29,732 --> 00:59:32,151
How many of us think
in our languages?
1091
00:59:32,235 --> 00:59:36,447
How many of us implement
our culture in our daily lives?
1092
00:59:43,621 --> 00:59:46,457
That is the effect
of colonization.
1093
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:53,256
As much as I've sounded
pessimistic,
1094
00:59:53,339 --> 00:59:55,008
I'm very optimistic.
1095
00:59:57,343 --> 00:59:59,178
And I see a lot of good things.
1096
00:59:59,262 --> 01:00:00,805
♪ (INSPIRING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1097
01:00:02,098 --> 01:00:03,766
FEMI: I would say Wizkid
is one of them.
1098
01:00:06,519 --> 01:00:10,523
TOPS: Now, with, like,
my son and his age mates,
1099
01:00:10,607 --> 01:00:14,110
just seeing how proud
they are to be African,
1100
01:00:14,193 --> 01:00:15,820
it's... it's incredible.
1101
01:00:15,862 --> 01:00:19,866
And Wizkid and the Afrobeats
movement as a whole,
1102
01:00:19,949 --> 01:00:22,910
I think, has sort of been
at the fore of this change
1103
01:00:22,994 --> 01:00:27,624
in sort of sentiment towards
where you're from as an African.
1104
01:00:27,707 --> 01:00:29,208
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1105
01:00:32,545 --> 01:00:35,048
TOPS: There's that pride there,
especially being
in the diaspora.
1106
01:00:35,131 --> 01:00:36,716
Sometimes you get lost
in the middle.
1107
01:00:39,844 --> 01:00:44,265
With Afrobeats, it's kind of
brought us all together.
1108
01:00:44,349 --> 01:00:45,850
Bless.
1109
01:00:45,892 --> 01:00:49,479
Wizkid, Wizkid. Wizkid, bro.
Everywhere, bro, you see?
1110
01:00:55,193 --> 01:00:58,154
STARBOY: I grew up listening
to African music.
1111
01:00:59,197 --> 01:01:01,491
Starting from the legend
himself,
1112
01:01:01,574 --> 01:01:03,201
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
1113
01:01:04,827 --> 01:01:07,372
Seeing where African culture
is now...
1114
01:01:08,873 --> 01:01:11,167
it's like,
"Yes, we did this together."
1115
01:01:15,546 --> 01:01:17,799
Africa is evolving.
1116
01:01:17,882 --> 01:01:20,551
This is not where we were
20 years ago,
1117
01:01:20,593 --> 01:01:22,553
and this is not where we were
about ten years ago,
1118
01:01:22,595 --> 01:01:25,181
and now things are getting
better and better
1119
01:01:25,264 --> 01:01:27,016
and better every time.
1120
01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:29,811
You can easily
get access to stuff
1121
01:01:29,894 --> 01:01:32,855
via social media,
via your phone.
1122
01:01:37,110 --> 01:01:38,903
That's what
you see when out there,
1123
01:01:38,945 --> 01:01:42,281
people all over the world
listening to our songs,
1124
01:01:42,365 --> 01:01:43,700
jamming to it.
1125
01:01:46,369 --> 01:01:49,956
As long as you have internet,
the world is yours.
1126
01:01:54,961 --> 01:01:57,714
Big Wiz, he's there, up there.
1127
01:01:59,966 --> 01:02:01,634
Representing Africans.
1128
01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:13,438
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
1129
01:02:24,657 --> 01:02:25,783
Huh?
1130
01:02:27,827 --> 01:02:28,995
(GRUNTS)
1131
01:02:30,329 --> 01:02:31,414
(KISSES)
1132
01:02:34,125 --> 01:02:36,043
WIZKID'S SON: No, mesmerized.
1133
01:02:36,127 --> 01:02:37,336
WIZKID:
1134
01:02:39,839 --> 01:02:40,840
(JADA LAUGHING)
1135
01:02:43,634 --> 01:02:44,761
WIZKID'S SON: All right.
1136
01:02:46,679 --> 01:02:48,181
(CHUCKLES)
1137
01:02:48,264 --> 01:02:49,432
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1138
01:02:50,808 --> 01:02:52,018
WIZKID: Long day.
1139
01:03:13,706 --> 01:03:15,041
WIZKID:
1140
01:03:15,124 --> 01:03:17,293
♪ (POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1141
01:03:49,534 --> 01:03:51,410
WIZKID:
1142
01:04:10,721 --> 01:04:12,557
My mom is the love of my life.
1143
01:04:14,559 --> 01:04:16,894
She holds everything together
in my family.
1144
01:04:16,936 --> 01:04:18,938
She's the glue to,
like, all our lives.
1145
01:04:22,692 --> 01:04:25,695
JADA: The last few days
have been heavy.
1146
01:04:30,116 --> 01:04:32,118
Wizkid's real name is Ayo.
1147
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:35,621
He comes home being Ayo.
1148
01:04:37,039 --> 01:04:39,917
But then, you know, he leaves
the house being Big Wiz.
1149
01:04:41,544 --> 01:04:45,548
And I don't ever see
when Wiz has fears.
1150
01:04:48,134 --> 01:04:50,803
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1151
01:04:54,765 --> 01:04:56,934
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1152
01:05:18,289 --> 01:05:21,000
(CROWD CHEERING)
1153
01:05:21,042 --> 01:05:24,128
So, we should actually
be okay for...
1154
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:36,349
We're gonna walk in five.
1155
01:05:52,531 --> 01:05:54,700
All right, let's go,
go, go, please. Yeah.
1156
01:05:57,536 --> 01:05:59,288
Guys, stand back, please.
1157
01:05:59,372 --> 01:06:00,706
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
1158
01:06:02,041 --> 01:06:03,709
TOPS:
All right, please, security.
1159
01:06:04,210 --> 01:06:06,045
Mind your backs!
1160
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:10,383
After Wiz,
check everyone's wristbands.
1161
01:06:12,551 --> 01:06:16,514
Has he got his mic?
Is the band in position?
1162
01:06:17,139 --> 01:06:19,892
(CROWD CHEERING)
1163
01:06:26,565 --> 01:06:27,608
Come on!
1164
01:06:27,692 --> 01:06:30,528
- London, make some noise!
- (CROWD CHEERING)
1165
01:06:30,569 --> 01:06:31,988
♪ ("RECKLESS"
BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
1166
01:06:33,197 --> 01:06:35,449
♪ Dem inna, inna
Inna, inna, inna ♪
1167
01:06:35,533 --> 01:06:37,994
♪ I know sey dem
Go pray on my downfall ♪
1168
01:06:38,077 --> 01:06:40,371
♪ I'm still a winner, winner
Winner, winner, winner ♪
1169
01:06:40,413 --> 01:06:43,165
♪ Me never let them play
On my banjo ♪
1170
01:06:43,249 --> 01:06:45,626
♪ Dem inna, inna
Inna, inna, inna, oh, na-na ♪
1171
01:06:45,710 --> 01:06:48,004
♪ Don't know why they pray
On my downfall ♪
1172
01:06:48,087 --> 01:06:50,631
♪ Born winner dem
Go play on my banjo ♪
1173
01:06:50,715 --> 01:06:51,716
♪ Never ♪
1174
01:06:51,757 --> 01:06:53,050
Let's go!
1175
01:06:53,092 --> 01:06:54,927
♪ No console
Now everybody dancin' for me ♪
1176
01:06:56,595 --> 01:06:59,682
♪ I'm on the move, no be Keke
Now everybody askin' for me ♪
1177
01:07:01,892 --> 01:07:04,979
♪ I dey go collect wetin baba
God dey destin' for me ♪
1178
01:07:05,062 --> 01:07:06,731
♪ What's lost now found ♪
1179
01:07:06,772 --> 01:07:10,484
♪ So we can sing Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace, all night ♪
1180
01:07:10,568 --> 01:07:11,569
London!
1181
01:07:17,575 --> 01:07:18,701
London!
1182
01:07:30,755 --> 01:07:31,797
(SONG CONCLUDES)
1183
01:07:31,881 --> 01:07:33,090
CREW MEMBER:
1184
01:07:33,132 --> 01:07:34,842
TOPS:
1185
01:07:34,925 --> 01:07:36,719
WIZKID: Let's go!
1186
01:07:36,802 --> 01:07:38,054
♪ ("OJUELEGBA"
BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
1187
01:07:38,137 --> 01:07:39,472
♪ Ni ojuelegba ♪
1188
01:07:39,555 --> 01:07:43,934
♪ They know my story
For Mo'Dogg's studio ♪
1189
01:07:43,976 --> 01:07:49,231
♪ I been hustle to work, eh
Ni ojuelegba, oh ♪
1190
01:07:49,315 --> 01:07:53,486
♪ Me and Silly
For Mo'Dogg's studio ♪
1191
01:07:53,569 --> 01:07:58,824
♪ We been hustle to work, eh
Ni ojuelegba, oh ♪
1192
01:07:58,866 --> 01:08:03,162
♪ They know my story
For Mo'Dogg's studio ♪
1193
01:08:03,245 --> 01:08:08,417
♪ We been hustle to work
See eh, e kira fun mummy mi o ♪
1194
01:08:08,501 --> 01:08:11,087
♪ Ojojumo lo n s’adura ♪
1195
01:08:11,170 --> 01:08:13,255
♪ Mon jaiye
Mi won ni wan soro ju ♪
1196
01:08:13,339 --> 01:08:15,674
♪ Won ni, won ni, won ni
Won soro ju ♪
1197
01:08:15,758 --> 01:08:19,887
- ♪ Feeling good tonight ♪
- ♪ Feeling good tonight ♪
1198
01:08:19,970 --> 01:08:22,890
♪ This thing got me
Thanking God for life ♪
1199
01:08:22,973 --> 01:08:24,600
BACKUP SINGERS:
♪ Thanking God for life ♪
1200
01:08:24,683 --> 01:08:28,270
WIZKID: ♪ I can’t explain ♪
1201
01:08:29,355 --> 01:08:32,191
♪ I can’t explain ♪
1202
01:08:32,441 --> 01:08:33,484
Listen!
1203
01:08:34,527 --> 01:08:36,654
Music is very, very powerful.
1204
01:08:36,695 --> 01:08:38,906
It's amazing
to touch people positively.
1205
01:08:38,989 --> 01:08:40,241
♪ ("FEVER" BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
1206
01:08:40,324 --> 01:08:43,536
♪ Oh, oh, oh... ♪
1207
01:08:43,577 --> 01:08:45,371
Let's go, let's go.
1208
01:08:45,454 --> 01:08:47,331
♪ Starboy dey for you ♪
1209
01:08:47,373 --> 01:08:48,874
CREW MEMBER:
1210
01:08:50,376 --> 01:08:52,753
♪ Baby girl
You fine you set, oh ♪
1211
01:08:52,837 --> 01:08:55,047
♪ Girl, you make
My eye dey red, oh ♪
1212
01:08:55,089 --> 01:08:57,049
♪ Anytime you no dey
Close to me ♪
1213
01:08:57,133 --> 01:08:58,175
♪ Yeah, yeah... ♪
1214
01:08:58,217 --> 01:08:59,385
Let's go, sing!
1215
01:08:59,468 --> 01:09:00,845
♪ ("MONEY & LOVE"
BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
1216
01:09:00,886 --> 01:09:03,097
♪ ...Burn that spliff
Be your Romeo ♪
1217
01:09:03,180 --> 01:09:05,891
♪ Wa lomi, oh, ragabomi, oh ♪
1218
01:09:05,975 --> 01:09:10,771
♪ Got your back, wa sun bi, oh
Ja sungba, oh, omo jupa, oh ♪
1219
01:09:10,855 --> 01:09:13,232
♪ Touch me
I touch as e dey, oh ♪
1220
01:09:13,315 --> 01:09:18,154
♪ Oya so mi so, ka l'ole, oh
Chop, me I chop anoti, oh ♪
1221
01:09:18,237 --> 01:09:19,947
♪ Je, je, je... ♪
1222
01:09:20,030 --> 01:09:23,951
I represent for a... a culture
that is very beautiful.
1223
01:09:24,034 --> 01:09:25,452
(CROWD CHEERING)
1224
01:09:25,536 --> 01:09:27,955
♪ ("GINGER" BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
1225
01:09:28,038 --> 01:09:32,877
♪ ...Ma ko je bi ogbono
Ma bo je bi jollof ♪
1226
01:09:32,918 --> 01:09:35,421
♪ Tell me what I cannot do
For your love ♪
1227
01:09:35,462 --> 01:09:37,590
♪ Olopa go carry all of us ♪
1228
01:09:37,673 --> 01:09:39,884
♪ If they carried deuces,
I don't wan talk ♪
1229
01:09:39,925 --> 01:09:41,677
♪ I no go respond... ♪
1230
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:43,929
CREW MEMBER:
1231
01:09:45,431 --> 01:09:46,849
♪ ("MOOD" BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
1232
01:09:46,932 --> 01:09:49,727
♪ (INDISTINCT SINGING) ♪
1233
01:09:49,768 --> 01:09:51,770
Let me hear you say,
"Yeah, yeah."
1234
01:09:51,812 --> 01:09:53,522
♪ Mhmm, hmm, hmm ♪
1235
01:09:54,690 --> 01:09:57,943
♪ Wey come cooli my body
Eh, eh ♪
1236
01:09:58,027 --> 01:10:00,946
♪ Whoa, I’m in the big mood ♪
1237
01:10:01,030 --> 01:10:03,199
♪ Girl, I dey feel you ♪
1238
01:10:03,282 --> 01:10:05,743
♪ Something wey come
Cooli my body ♪
1239
01:10:05,784 --> 01:10:07,912
♪ Tell me will you do ♪
1240
01:10:07,953 --> 01:10:10,206
♪ I’m in the big mood ♪
1241
01:10:10,289 --> 01:10:12,374
♪ Girl, I dey feel you ♪
1242
01:10:12,458 --> 01:10:14,960
♪ Something wey come
Cooli my body ♪
1243
01:10:15,002 --> 01:10:16,462
♪ Tell me will you do ♪
1244
01:10:16,503 --> 01:10:17,546
Let's go!
1245
01:10:17,630 --> 01:10:19,298
♪ Make we go dey sempe ♪
1246
01:10:19,381 --> 01:10:21,550
♪ Pour some liquor
Dey do me jeje ♪
1247
01:10:21,634 --> 01:10:24,637
♪ Get somethings wey dey
Bother my head, I swear ♪
1248
01:10:25,554 --> 01:10:27,598
CREW MEMBER 1:
1249
01:10:28,557 --> 01:10:29,600
CREW MEMBER 2:
1250
01:10:29,642 --> 01:10:31,352
♪ ("TRUE LOVE"
BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
1251
01:10:31,435 --> 01:10:33,479
Let's go, sing this shit.
Let's go!
1252
01:10:34,271 --> 01:10:35,648
London Town!
1253
01:10:36,649 --> 01:10:37,816
BACKUP SINGER: ♪ Juls baby ♪
1254
01:10:37,900 --> 01:10:41,987
WIZKID: ♪ My days
When I'm not with you, baby ♪
1255
01:10:42,071 --> 01:10:43,113
Say what?
1256
01:10:43,155 --> 01:10:46,992
♪ Oh, your love keeps me warm ♪
1257
01:10:47,076 --> 01:10:50,537
♪ Unconditional prisoner
Number one ♪
1258
01:10:50,621 --> 01:10:53,165
♪ Your love give me
Somethin' I want ♪
1259
01:10:53,207 --> 01:10:55,834
♪ Your love give me
Somethin' to feel ♪
1260
01:10:55,918 --> 01:10:59,421
♪ Your love give me
Something that's real... ♪
1261
01:11:02,466 --> 01:11:03,926
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
1262
01:11:04,009 --> 01:11:05,928
(CROWD CHEERING)
1263
01:11:06,178 --> 01:11:08,305
TOPS:
1264
01:11:09,014 --> 01:11:11,141
CREW MEMBER 3:
1265
01:11:11,183 --> 01:11:13,269
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1266
01:11:13,352 --> 01:11:16,105
♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1267
01:11:16,188 --> 01:11:18,524
♪ (MUSIC BECOMES PENSIVE) ♪
1268
01:11:20,776 --> 01:11:22,903
WIZKID: We all have, um,
things we have in our head.
1269
01:11:22,987 --> 01:11:24,822
"Yeah, I want to be this,
I want to be that."
1270
01:11:26,699 --> 01:11:28,158
WIZKID:
But at the end of the day...
1271
01:11:29,994 --> 01:11:32,538
people decide
what they want to see you as.
1272
01:11:35,499 --> 01:11:36,875
What you stand for.
1273
01:11:37,710 --> 01:11:39,003
That's what matters.
1274
01:11:41,797 --> 01:11:44,717
The generation before us
got bullied so much.
1275
01:11:45,968 --> 01:11:48,178
I felt it.
I felt it in my heart.
1276
01:11:49,138 --> 01:11:51,181
(CROWD CHEERING)
1277
01:11:51,223 --> 01:11:53,851
WIZKID: I... I felt
the pain of our parents.
1278
01:11:53,892 --> 01:11:56,729
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1279
01:11:59,565 --> 01:12:01,233
WIZKID: They didn't
understand their power.
1280
01:12:07,656 --> 01:12:09,158
I'm looking forward
to a great show.
1281
01:12:09,241 --> 01:12:11,243
Flight was good.
1282
01:12:11,285 --> 01:12:13,370
I'm with my people.
I feel loved, you know?
1283
01:12:13,412 --> 01:12:14,496
(CHUCKLES)
1284
01:12:20,419 --> 01:12:22,546
I know what I did
for that generation.
1285
01:12:25,215 --> 01:12:26,633
I changed the perception
1286
01:12:26,717 --> 01:12:31,096
of just how parents in Africa
see kids in music.
1287
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:33,432
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1288
01:12:35,768 --> 01:12:38,604
(CROWD CHEERING)
1289
01:12:42,149 --> 01:12:44,818
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
1290
01:12:49,448 --> 01:12:50,866
CREW MEMBER 1:
1291
01:12:55,329 --> 01:12:58,874
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1292
01:12:58,957 --> 01:13:02,252
(DRUMS ROLLING)
1293
01:13:04,630 --> 01:13:06,965
JADA: Wiz realizes that...
1294
01:13:07,007 --> 01:13:09,885
this show isn't about
what he's wearing.
1295
01:13:09,968 --> 01:13:12,971
This show isn't about
what the production looks like.
1296
01:13:13,013 --> 01:13:16,975
(DRUM SOLO PLAYS)
1297
01:13:17,017 --> 01:13:20,062
JADA: What his show is going
to mean...
1298
01:13:20,145 --> 01:13:21,605
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1299
01:13:21,647 --> 01:13:22,898
...to Africa...
1300
01:13:30,322 --> 01:13:32,324
is hope.
1301
01:13:35,119 --> 01:13:38,455
(SIREN BLARES)
1302
01:13:38,497 --> 01:13:41,333
WIZKID: Whoo! Whoo!
1303
01:13:41,375 --> 01:13:44,002
(CROWD CHEERING)
1304
01:13:44,086 --> 01:13:45,379
♪ ("ESSENCE"
BY WIZKID PLAYING) ♪
1305
01:13:45,462 --> 01:13:48,757
♪ Say I wanna leave you
In the mornin' ♪
1306
01:13:48,841 --> 01:13:53,804
♪ But I need you now
Yeah, yeah ♪
1307
01:13:53,846 --> 01:13:57,933
♪ I find you
I give you all you're needing ♪
1308
01:13:58,016 --> 01:14:00,144
♪ I know you what you like ♪
1309
01:14:00,811 --> 01:14:02,729
♪ What you like ♪
1310
01:14:02,813 --> 01:14:06,358
♪ I feel it comin' ♪
1311
01:14:07,151 --> 01:14:09,945
♪ Time is of the essence ♪
1312
01:14:10,028 --> 01:14:11,947
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
1313
01:14:12,030 --> 01:14:16,201
♪ I tried to teach you ♪
1314
01:14:16,243 --> 01:14:19,746
♪ Say I need some lessons ♪
1315
01:14:19,830 --> 01:14:23,542
♪ I need to give it all ♪
1316
01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:27,880
♪ I tried to leave but I can't ♪
1317
01:14:29,047 --> 01:14:33,594
♪ I don't know why
You're the one ♪
1318
01:14:33,677 --> 01:14:37,055
♪ Turn me out of my mind ♪
1319
01:14:37,139 --> 01:14:39,433
London, sing that shit.
Let's go!
1320
01:14:39,516 --> 01:14:41,560
♪ You don't need no other body ♪
1321
01:14:42,561 --> 01:14:43,729
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
1322
01:14:43,812 --> 01:14:46,899
♪ You don't need no other body ♪
1323
01:14:46,982 --> 01:14:48,358
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
1324
01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:51,361
♪ Only you fi hold my body ♪
1325
01:14:52,988 --> 01:14:57,576
♪ Only you fi hold my body ♪
1326
01:14:57,659 --> 01:14:59,745
♪ You don't need no other body ♪
1327
01:14:59,828 --> 01:15:01,580
♪ Say na me dey
Mess up your mind ♪
1328
01:15:01,663 --> 01:15:04,291
♪ And na me dey
Make you free up your mind ♪
1329
01:15:04,374 --> 01:15:05,959
♪ Say your body
Talk to me nice ♪
1330
01:15:06,043 --> 01:15:09,087
♪ See yeah we dey together
Yeah, day and night ♪
1331
01:15:09,171 --> 01:15:11,840
♪ Yeah, if I leave you go kpai
Yeah, if I leave... ♪
1332
01:15:11,924 --> 01:15:15,928
♪ I'm stroking your body, baby
Loving your body, baby ♪
1333
01:15:16,011 --> 01:15:20,974
♪ As you're whinin' your body
Baby, so crazy ♪
1334
01:15:21,058 --> 01:15:25,646
♪ Lovin' your body, baby
Gyal iwo ni temi ♪
1335
01:15:25,729 --> 01:15:29,274
♪ I just wanna let you know ♪
1336
01:15:29,358 --> 01:15:31,360
London, sing it
with me, let's go!
1337
01:15:31,443 --> 01:15:34,863
♪ Give me all you need
Give you all you need ♪
1338
01:15:34,947 --> 01:15:37,783
♪ Gave you all
Make ah give you all you need ♪
1339
01:15:37,866 --> 01:15:40,244
♪ Give you all you need
Gave you all ♪
1340
01:15:40,285 --> 01:15:42,287
♪ Make ah give you
All you need ♪
1341
01:15:42,371 --> 01:15:45,040
♪ Every touch you need
Give you all ♪
1342
01:15:45,123 --> 01:15:46,917
♪ Make ah give you all
You need ♪
1343
01:15:46,959 --> 01:15:48,293
Let's go, sing it.
1344
01:15:48,377 --> 01:15:51,213
♪ You don't need
No other body ♪
1345
01:15:51,713 --> 01:15:52,923
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
1346
01:15:52,965 --> 01:15:56,343
♪ You don't need no other body ♪
1347
01:15:56,426 --> 01:15:57,636
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
1348
01:15:57,719 --> 01:16:01,306
♪ Only you fi hold my body ♪
1349
01:16:02,307 --> 01:16:05,394
♪ Only you fi hold my body ♪
1350
01:16:05,477 --> 01:16:06,853
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
1351
01:16:06,937 --> 01:16:09,022
♪ You don't need no other body ♪
1352
01:16:09,106 --> 01:16:13,151
♪ Baby, I want you there
Yes, I want you there ♪
1353
01:16:13,235 --> 01:16:15,612
♪ Promise to treat
Your love fair ♪
1354
01:16:15,654 --> 01:16:17,489
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
1355
01:16:17,573 --> 01:16:19,825
♪ When we touch
How we connect... ♪
1356
01:16:19,908 --> 01:16:24,329
(FIREWORKS CRACKLING)
1357
01:16:25,330 --> 01:16:28,917
♪ You don't need no other body ♪
1358
01:16:29,918 --> 01:16:34,464
♪ You don't need no other body ♪
1359
01:16:34,506 --> 01:16:39,136
♪ Only you fi
Hold my body, girl ♪
1360
01:16:39,177 --> 01:16:42,306
♪ Only you fi hold my body ♪
1361
01:16:42,347 --> 01:16:44,975
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa
You don't need no ♪
1362
01:16:47,185 --> 01:16:48,353
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
1363
01:16:50,647 --> 01:16:52,774
♪ Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
1364
01:16:52,858 --> 01:16:54,526
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1365
01:17:00,198 --> 01:17:02,200
I fucking love you, London.
1366
01:17:02,951 --> 01:17:04,161
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
1367
01:17:04,202 --> 01:17:07,122
(CROWD CHEERING)
1368
01:17:19,217 --> 01:17:20,218
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1369
01:17:23,930 --> 01:17:27,976
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1370
01:17:28,060 --> 01:17:32,606
- ♪ (INSPIRING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
1371
01:17:32,689 --> 01:17:39,404
Yo, that was amazing! Damn, bro.
1372
01:17:43,700 --> 01:17:47,079
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, darling. (CHUCKLES)
1373
01:17:52,668 --> 01:17:53,960
I flew in specifically
just for this,
1374
01:17:54,044 --> 01:17:55,253
and I'm flying out tomorrow.
1375
01:17:55,337 --> 01:17:58,507
That's how much of an important,
uh, moment it is.
1376
01:17:58,590 --> 01:18:01,134
And I've come here with my mom
as well and my sister.
1377
01:18:01,218 --> 01:18:02,928
Like, I brought the family
as well, you know?
1378
01:18:03,011 --> 01:18:04,554
So, yeah, it's beautiful,
1379
01:18:04,596 --> 01:18:07,265
it's really beautiful
to witness. Hello, Mama.
1380
01:18:07,349 --> 01:18:10,352
Songs like "Ojuelegba."
He brought back memories,
1381
01:18:10,435 --> 01:18:13,105
and he's still...
I'm so glad he's still there.
1382
01:18:13,188 --> 01:18:15,857
He's still...
He's getting better and better.
1383
01:18:15,941 --> 01:18:17,317
SECURITY: Essential personnel
only, please.
1384
01:18:17,401 --> 01:18:18,777
Essential personnel only.
1385
01:18:18,860 --> 01:18:21,530
FAN 1: I've been watching him
since I was really young.
1386
01:18:21,613 --> 01:18:24,074
And to see him come this far
is just amazing.
1387
01:18:24,116 --> 01:18:26,952
Honestly, I felt so emotional,
especially that ending.
1388
01:18:29,746 --> 01:18:33,750
...like old African
musicians like Fela.
1389
01:18:33,792 --> 01:18:35,961
They couldn't do this.
So, if we...
1390
01:18:36,044 --> 01:18:37,879
if, in our generation,
were able to do this,
1391
01:18:37,963 --> 01:18:39,423
I would say,
1392
01:18:39,464 --> 01:18:41,425
awesome, you got to be proud,
do you know what I mean?
1393
01:18:41,466 --> 01:18:43,719
Because then the future
is bright for African music.
1394
01:18:44,970 --> 01:18:49,975
SUNDAY: The legacy... tomorrow,
they will talk about him.
1395
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:55,564
He lead, and the rest follow.
1396
01:18:55,647 --> 01:18:58,442
Man, I feel blessed working
with amazing people,
1397
01:18:58,483 --> 01:18:59,609
the whole team.
1398
01:18:59,651 --> 01:19:02,070
Playing these venues, man.
I feel blessed.
1399
01:19:02,154 --> 01:19:04,322
Can't even put the words
to it right now, you know?
1400
01:19:04,656 --> 01:19:06,324
We did it.
1401
01:19:06,408 --> 01:19:09,703
FAN 2: It lets people know
you have the opportunity
1402
01:19:09,786 --> 01:19:11,455
to come and do something
as big as this.
1403
01:19:11,496 --> 01:19:14,332
So, the future of Afrobeats--
We're doing stadiums now.
1404
01:19:14,958 --> 01:19:17,502
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1405
01:19:19,504 --> 01:19:22,549
CREW MEMBER:
One billion UK streams. Wow.
1406
01:19:22,632 --> 01:19:25,343
Thank you, thank you, guys,
I appreciate it.
1407
01:19:26,344 --> 01:19:27,804
Uh, I feel blessed.
1408
01:19:50,035 --> 01:19:52,537
♪ (INTROSPECTIVE MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪
1409
01:19:52,579 --> 01:19:54,372
(BABY COOING)
1410
01:19:56,708 --> 01:19:58,877
JADA: Wiz has taught me,
1411
01:19:58,960 --> 01:20:02,380
at times when you want
to give up, you don't.
1412
01:20:04,633 --> 01:20:07,552
He's a fighter,
and he's made me into a fighter.
1413
01:20:14,643 --> 01:20:15,769
WIZKID: I believe
1414
01:20:15,852 --> 01:20:17,270
you're a product
of your environment.
1415
01:20:21,191 --> 01:20:24,110
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1416
01:20:24,194 --> 01:20:25,987
WIZKID: That's why it's just
so important for me
1417
01:20:26,071 --> 01:20:29,282
to always fly high.
1418
01:20:29,366 --> 01:20:32,536
Fly in the highest colors
that I can, you know?
1419
01:20:34,704 --> 01:20:36,498
I'm representing for my people.
1420
01:20:37,082 --> 01:20:38,917
And just shining light
1421
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:42,254
to the most amazing things
that happen out there.
1422
01:20:42,295 --> 01:20:44,422
There is deeper stuff in Africa.
1423
01:20:46,049 --> 01:20:49,177
Just as a moment in general.
It's just an amazing time.
1424
01:20:49,261 --> 01:20:51,721
Just to be Black.
1425
01:20:52,931 --> 01:20:55,517
Because this generation
understands the power we have.
1426
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:58,937
(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
1427
01:21:00,188 --> 01:21:03,441
♪ (INSPIRING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
1428
01:21:03,525 --> 01:21:05,527
WIZKID: That's why you see a lot
of creative energy
1429
01:21:05,610 --> 01:21:08,280
going around this generation.
1430
01:21:08,363 --> 01:21:11,366
STARBOY: His rise has been
really, really inspirational.
1431
01:21:15,287 --> 01:21:17,289
The moment you think
you can do something,
1432
01:21:17,372 --> 01:21:20,458
you definitely can do it.
As long as you take action.
1433
01:21:39,311 --> 01:21:42,022
WIZKID: The future
is bright for Africa.
1434
01:21:42,105 --> 01:21:44,649
This is definitely
just the beginning.
1435
01:21:47,319 --> 01:21:49,321
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
1436
01:22:06,588 --> 01:22:10,008
♪ (SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC
PLAYING) ♪
1437
01:23:33,383 --> 01:23:35,593
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪