Pre-Order: Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit (50th Anniversary Edition)

50th Anniversary Edition LP on gold nugget vinyl in a trifold jacket, featuring elements of the original vinyl packaging alongside newly licensed images, plus a dossier envelope with poster, print and newspaper clipping, wrapped with a metallic gold foil band. Release date is November 20

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On Expensive Shit, Fela chronicles a failed attempt to imprison him for possession of weed in 1974. At the time, Nigeria was under a military dictatorship that had declared a war on indecency. Fela's insubordination infuriated the government, and officials repeatedly raided his compound, Kalakuta.

During one raid, an officer produced a joint from his own pocket and attempted to plant it on Fela, who swallowed it. He was taken to prison, where police waited three days for him to produce an incriminating sample. When the time came, police took Fela's sample for analysis and found nothing. Each night, Fela and his cellmates had swapped their slop buckets around, allowing Fela to relieve himself without the authorities realizing it. By the time of the public examination, there was no marijuana left in his system, and the police had no choice but to let him go.

This 50th Anniversary Edition is pressed on gold nugget vinyl and packaged in a trifold jacket featuring elements of the original vinyl packaging alongside newly licensed images. It includes a dossier envelope with a poster, print and newspaper clipping, and is wrapped with a metallic gold foil band.

Tracklist

Side A
A1. Expensive Shit

Side B
B1. Water No Get Enemy