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Expensive Shit

Fela Ransome-Kuti and Africa '701975

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Artist: Fela Ransome-Kuti and Africa '70
Released: 1975
Label: Editions Makossa
Catalogue number: EM2315
Format: 12″ Vinyl
Country: US
Tracks: 2, 24:20

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The title track turns a police frame-up into a dark comedy: officers planted marijuana on Fela and then waited for him to defecate so they could retrieve the evidence from his feces.

The rest is in Afrobeat, a members' issue.

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The original 12″ vinyl: Editions Makossa EM2315, 1975.

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Track list

AExpensive Shit13:14
BWater No Get Enemy11:06

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