[upbeat music] [crowd cheering]
Tell them Zoyana.
Tell them now.
[upbeat music]
Tongo fever.
The people fever.
The leader Luther.
The people shout out Luther.
Tongo fever.
No pay for teacher.
More pay for speaker.
The people shout out Luther.
Check your time, it's freedom saboteur.
I dey for work, I dey find wetin to chop.
If you do your own, you go get enough to chop.
Them other people no care if we no chop.
Shey you dey feel the fever, the feeling fever.
You feel the fever, the feeling fever.
Shey you dey feel the fever, the feeling fever.
You feel the fever, the feeling fever.
Don't trust the preacher.
Them other tribes are very off.
Those people now unbelievers.
The people start to scatter.
For Tongo fever, some they seek the visa.
Some they sell the visa.
We looking for flag that's cleaner.
Check your time, it's freedom saboteur.
I dey for work, I dey find wetin to chop.
Make you hear.
If you do your own, you go get enough to chop.
Tell my brother, make he hear.
He say he know the place wey sweet pass here.
Where the people care and the government fair.
I tell am say I hear.
If I hear plenty, plenty stories.
Now when you go, you go hear the true story.
Things dey hard for everybody.
Rain get, na you e need.
[upbeat music] Some people stay through the wear and tear.
Now how you go tell if you real, I swear.
Love no be game like chess.
Dark-skinned people dey here.
Plenty, plenty stories.
Now when you go, you go hear the full story.
Things dey hard for everybody.
Rain get, na you e need.
Ah.
[upbeat music] Plenty, plenty stories.
I start to talk and we go dey till the morning.
E dey hard.
Rain get, na you e need.
Eh.
[upbeat music] [cash register dings] [wolf howls] Don't bring me down.
I'm floating over the clouds.
This green and stout.
It's taking over the house.
Shey we no know where we dey go.
But we no know where we're coming from.
My teacher say the story long.
Ah.
And so he dance all night.
I'm just a young man from a small town.
Me and my people, we love the good times.
You see, the good times, they never come.
We take the bad one, we drink a cheap wine.
Your dad.
Your dad.
Your dad for me.
We're too young to matter.
You're too old to bother.
So take your history with you.
We go borrow from your own now.
See, we no know where we dey go.
We no know where we're coming from.
My teacher say the story long.
[laughs] And so he dance all night.
Just a young man from a small town.
Me and my people, we love the good times.
You see the good times, they never come.
We take the bad one, we drink a cheap wine.
Your dad.
Your dad.
Your dad for... [laughs] See, we no know where we dey go.
Shey we no know where we're coming from.
Then go with-
with-There's too much risk involved.
Yeah.
I'd rather just be indoors.
Yeah.
I don't wear Christian Dior.
No.
What am I missing? I was on the streets for too long shifting jaws.
Every other night a different broad.
Broad.
I don't wanna be involved.
Had to say it twice for the misinformed.
Had to pay the price for a decent job.
Involved.
[singing] Emi ni temi.
O ko ju mosehun o ba won aja.
Emi ni temi.
O se koko, mo ma ba won debe.
Mo faraya, o tun ni n ka lo.
O gbori wo le, mo gba ara won be.
Emi ni temi.
Ori lo ran mi, o gbe mi debe.
I ain't never wanna be involved.
No. There's too much risk involved.
Yeah.
I'd rather just be indoors.
Yeah.
I don't wear Christian Dior.
No.
What am I missing? I was on the streets for too long shifting jaws.
Every other night a different broad.
Broad.
I don't wanna be involved.
I've been about it, I've been around it.
I came from nothing, now the crib surrounded like, uh.
I done made a dip around it.
I don't want the F-R-S creeps around me like, uh, uh, uh, uh.
For all of the times we had F in classes.
Uh-huh.
Now we the talk of the F-ing classes.
Mm.
Feels more like I'm in an ethnic crisis.
Hold on.
Yeah, now we put the S in S classes.
Uh-huh.
Check the tactics or text semantics.
Mm.
Holy Water flow like I met St. Patrick.
Uh.
Give me one of those, let me bless the masses.
Mm.
Always on my toes like I left gymnastics.
Uh.
Everybody froze when I lit the matchstick.
Uh.
All of y'all tools, no chairs, no classes.
Whoa.
[singing] Emi ni temi.
O ko ju mosehun o ba won aja.
Emi ni temi.
O se koko, mo ma ba won debe.
Mo faraya, o tun ni n ka lo.
O gbori wo le, mo gba ara won be.
Emi ni temi.
Ori lo ran mi, o gbe mi debe.
I ain't never wanna be involved.
No. There's too much risk involved.
Yeah.
I'd rather just be indoors.
Yeah.
I don't wear Christian-
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[upbeat music] [crowd cheering]
Tell them Zoyana.
Tell them now.
[upbeat music]
Tongo fever.
The people fever.
The leader Luther.
The people shout out Luther.
Tongo fever.
No pay for teacher.
More pay for speaker.
The people shout out Luther.
Check your time, it's freedom saboteur.
I dey for work, I dey find wetin to chop.
If you do your own, you go get enough to chop.
Them other people no care if we no chop.
Shey you dey feel the fever, the feeling fever.
You feel the fever, the feeling fever.
Shey you dey feel the fever, the feeling fever.
You feel the fever, the feeling fever.
Don't trust the preacher.
Them other tribes are very off.
Those people now unbelievers.
The people start to scatter.
For Tongo fever, some they seek the visa.
Some they sell the visa.
We looking for flag that's cleaner.
Check your time, it's freedom saboteur.
I dey for work, I dey find wetin to chop.
Make you hear.
If you do your own, you go get enough to chop.
Tell my brother, make he hear.
He say he know the place wey sweet pass here.
Where the people care and the government fair.
I tell am say I hear.
If I hear plenty, plenty stories.
Now when you go, you go hear the true story.
Things dey hard for everybody.
Rain get, na you e need.
[upbeat music] Some people stay through the wear and tear.
Now how you go tell if you real, I swear.
Love no be game like chess.
Dark-skinned people dey here.
Plenty, plenty stories.
Now when you go, you go hear the full story.
Things dey hard for everybody.
Rain get, na you e need.
Ah.
[upbeat music] Plenty, plenty stories.
I start to talk and we go dey till the morning.
E dey hard.
Rain get, na you e need.
Eh.
[upbeat music] [cash register dings] [wolf howls] Don't bring me down.
I'm floating over the clouds.
This green and stout.
It's taking over the house.
Shey we no know where we dey go.
But we no know where we're coming from.
My teacher say the story long.
Ah.
And so he dance all night.
I'm just a young man from a small town.
Me and my people, we love the good times.
You see, the good times, they never come.
We take the bad one, we drink a cheap wine.
Your dad.
Your dad.
Your dad for me.
We're too young to matter.
You're too old to bother.
So take your history with you.
We go borrow from your own now.
See, we no know where we dey go.
We no know where we're coming from.
My teacher say the story long.
[laughs] And so he dance all night.
Just a young man from a small town.
Me and my people, we love the good times.
You see the good times, they never come.
We take the bad one, we drink a cheap wine.
Your dad.
Your dad.
Your dad for... [laughs] See, we no know where we dey go.
Shey we no know where we're coming from.
Then go with-
with-There's too much risk involved.
Yeah.
I'd rather just be indoors.
Yeah.
I don't wear Christian Dior.
No.
What am I missing? I was on the streets for too long shifting jaws.
Every other night a different broad.
Broad.
I don't wanna be involved.
Had to say it twice for the misinformed.
Had to pay the price for a decent job.
Involved.
[singing] Emi ni temi.
O ko ju mosehun o ba won aja.
Emi ni temi.
O se koko, mo ma ba won debe.
Mo faraya, o tun ni n ka lo.
O gbori wo le, mo gba ara won be.
Emi ni temi.
Ori lo ran mi, o gbe mi debe.
I ain't never wanna be involved.
No. There's too much risk involved.
Yeah.
I'd rather just be indoors.
Yeah.
I don't wear Christian Dior.
No.
What am I missing? I was on the streets for too long shifting jaws.
Every other night a different broad.
Broad.
I don't wanna be involved.
I've been about it, I've been around it.
I came from nothing, now the crib surrounded like, uh.
I done made a dip around it.
I don't want the F-R-S creeps around me like, uh, uh, uh, uh.
For all of the times we had F in classes.
Uh-huh.
Now we the talk of the F-ing classes.
Mm.
Feels more like I'm in an ethnic crisis.
Hold on.
Yeah, now we put the S in S classes.
Uh-huh.
Check the tactics or text semantics.
Mm.
Holy Water flow like I met St. Patrick.
Uh.
Give me one of those, let me bless the masses.
Mm.
Always on my toes like I left gymnastics.
Uh.
Everybody froze when I lit the matchstick.
Uh.
All of y'all tools, no chairs, no classes.
Whoa.
[singing] Emi ni temi.
O ko ju mosehun o ba won aja.
Emi ni temi.
O se koko, mo ma ba won debe.
Mo faraya, o tun ni n ka lo.
O gbori wo le, mo gba ara won be.
Emi ni temi.
Ori lo ran mi, o gbe mi debe.
I ain't never wanna be involved.
No. There's too much risk involved.
Yeah.
I'd rather just be indoors.
Yeah.
I don't wear Christian-