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jazz, funk, and Yoruba fury fused into songs too furious to fit on one side of vinyl
inventorFela Kuti coined and weaponized the genre
song lengthsingle tracks often ran past twenty minutes
political weaponFela's lyrics enraged Nigeria's military government
not afrobeatsthe added s marks a different, newer genre
drummerTony Allen was its irreplaceable rhythmic engine