Thank you for this video. It shows his greatness. He is my spiritual and musical mentor. I was lucky enough to have accompanied Baba to Ghana three times in the 1990s and Baba performed an African wedding ceremony for my wife and I. We are blessed.
So I searched "Babatunde" for some KSI clips, then this guy comes up with the surname Olatunji. A quick Google search reveals that this is no coincidence: THIS MAN WAS GENUINELY THE GRANDFATHER OF KSI AND DEJI. JJ got the name for his character from his late grandad.
0:45 That man on the right is actually JJ. He stopped making videos, grew out his hair and joined his old tribe to reunite with his grandfather, Babatunde the 3rd.
I saw this amazing soul years ago. There was no division between him and the audience it's as thought he was in everyone and around us at once. He opened the stage to all who dared to be free and dance on it. I played his drum and still feel his vibration. All he wanted was peace and unity.
I was so thrilled to have Baba as one of my many teachers. He was a man of depth- rhythm touched him deeply and it was evident that he lived his goal of empowering others with the drum, the voice and rhythm in general. I remember him playing Fanga in Nevada City when he'd come play there. I am so happy to share with so many people now in his honor! RIP, my friend! THANK YOU for the music!
Lovely! A great reminder of how fortunate I was to spend two week-long workshops w/Baba at Esalen in the early nineties. There was something innately special about him that made one feel extraordinaily privileged to be in his presence....
I took care of Baba when he lived in Washington, DC, briefly. Taking him to dialysis and helping him in any way I could while he was here... Then he moved to Esalen Institute, in CA, to live out his last days. I will always treasure the time I had with Baba while he was here on the East Coast.
This was a special man. If only more people in the world were like Baba, the world would be a much better place. Alafia----PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU. R.I.P. Brother....
This is a great outtake from an instructional video Baba did back in the early 1990's. It's Babatunde Olatunji, for those of you unfamiliar with his music. That's the magnificent Sanga of the Valley on the right side of the screen and another of Baba's longtime collaborators Sikiru Adepoju on the left. Both also played on Planet Drum, the full length CD that won the Grammy for best World Music recording in 1991, I think it was. That recording stayed at the top of the charts longer than any other recording in its category.
My sister studied dance at the lead drummer's studio in central Harlem. She was 4, 5 or 6. I was 9, 10 or 11. She's now a grandmother. I knew the lead drummer's son, Kwame. Played football at Harvard. Drowned and I still miss him. Visited their apartment on WEST END AVE, NYC. The father was never there but the setting was indeed regal. That's a great man, the lead drummer.
Though this sounds like Fanga, according to my good friend Zorina Wolf who worked/studied and played with Baba for MANY years, this song is actually called "Ife Loju L'aiye" - I was just about to go re-write my charts to Fanga! LOL - I also got to study and play with him but only a half a dozen times, including when he came out to Hawaii to be with us at Village Music Circles Hawaiian Drum Circle Facilitators Camp. It was WONDERFUL. Baba, Songo, Sikuru, and Gordy Ryan on Sanban when they were out west... what a hell of a team! :) East Coast had Bob Bloom playing with Drums of Passion. God Bless you Baba, RIP....
I had a healing moment in Malcolm x park ;Washington,dc the spirits were all through the treees the ancestors were fluttering up around high with the swirling of the leaves on and about...I transcend to a higher level that body needed from so much treatment ;steroid,chemo;radiation and h med.....I am so grateful so grateful so grateful ..
Baba gets total respect from West African drummers, so all the self proclaimed "virtuosos" out there who can not appreciate the beauty of joyful, (slower=more traditional) djembe drumming, you just don't get it. I enjoy and play the faster urban style myself, but I also love this. Peace.
nadanbrahma11 The way he brought the basics to the common western type was brilliant. Brilliant in the fact that he traveled elsewhere and had the gift of giving. Which is a sort of mastery of ego in itself. Do not envy this man for what he did or his success. Your apathy is weakness a shortcoming your teachers should be humbled by. Who are your teachers?
esto es fenomenal......yo que soy un amante a la buena salsa.......ahora si...me doy cuenta de donde vienen los ancestros del bongo............netamente africanos.....excelente
It is extraordinary that this exists, more extraordinary that its in a playable form anyone can access. If the world did not know what blessing was happening at that time, at least there are generations now and later who will all get to see and hear the heart!
I had the extraordinary experience of seeing Olatunji in Boston during the 60's at what was known as 'Winterfest' - a weekend of various arts performances and exhibitions. I was hooked on African percussion and sill am. He was a triple WOW
I had never been around a Djembe until I started attending our church. It is my favorite of the drums there. It's amazing how many different sounds you can get from just one drum, from Caribbean steel to bass.
His grandson dropped out of school, defeated Logan Paul and almost got a number one album You've done your grandad proud, Babatunde Olatunji The Second
Hey, Big Man - dat is great!!! Super super super...Hypnotizing (in the good sense) - just close my eyes and see the horizons of African savanna!!! Keep going and take care!!!
Yay Baba, Sanga and Sikiru! I believe this is from one of Baba's teaching videos - they do it so simply. Even then, Baba could not see - he had to be led up to the drums. Aah, but once he was there...
Fantastic ;) Don't know who Babatunde was or did but certainly knew were to put his hands... Together with "Drums of fire" are are in my top 5 videos ;) Read somewere he was blind?!?
Love djembe, spent long time in Guinea/Gambia. But to insult Baba not respectful of his achievements-wonderful recording Drums of Passion really brought WA drum to western ears,he popularised drumming, taught with love,got people drumming,having fun,loving the drum. I think you are doing this man a great disservice, underestimating the importance of his impact. Nigerian tradition uses different drums but your comment verges on snobbery. Don’t put it like that! Don’t like it ok. But don’t insult!
His grandson is also a musician now. In fact, go check out his most recent album New Age.
Edit: Dissimulation too.
Edit: Edit: All over the place too.
He's also a good boxer
@@glenn1001 did u also know that he turned super saiyan god
*Dissumilation
David Larsson this comment was made 8 months ago...
@@beaves7153 i know but i wanted to corect anyway
Mr Phil: Baba Tunde you should be in class right now!
He is. He's in music
@@ibrahimahmed6610 and he's the teacher!! 💯
Babatunde is in a music lesson with Mr Phil
Wata
He wants the wotah
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babatunde_Olatunji
Ksi's grandfather.
Possibly, they share the same last name
omg ksi
شرطة الشحاذين 😂💔
😂😂😂
@@ERMAC_FOOTBALL shut up before I will report for racism dickhead bruv
I can see where Olajide got his musical skills from. Grandfadah
Disky Gaming eeh ehh comea he booi i will beat yoo ass with a foufou stick
Babatunde has dropped out of Phil’s class and is now pursuing his love for music
You nailed it. It's not about speed, it's about being able to communicate. "I am the drum, you are the drum, we are the drum". RIP brother.
PEACE
how your life going dude?
Wow so much has happened in the world since this comment was made 😭 I hope you’re doing well
*_my man dropped a good beat._*
look at his face, he knows he's the man... ;)
fasho
😂 yeee
I was thinking the exact same thing 😂😂😂😂
Thank you for this video. It shows his greatness. He is my spiritual and musical mentor. I was lucky enough to have accompanied Baba to Ghana three times in the 1990s and Baba performed an African wedding ceremony for my wife and I. We are blessed.
Jj should react to this
So I searched "Babatunde" for some KSI clips, then this guy comes up with the surname Olatunji. A quick Google search reveals that this is no coincidence:
THIS MAN WAS GENUINELY THE GRANDFATHER OF KSI AND DEJI.
JJ got the name for his character from his late grandad.
EvoChanger same
Watch ksi's new video on his second channel, he never confirmed that hes his grandfather
Samee
Wait so KSI Liberian and not Nigerian? Or both? Edit: Nvm, I'm dumb. Mr. Oltunji was Nigerian and was just playing a Liberian rhythm
whos ksi
0:45 That man on the right is actually JJ. He stopped making videos, grew out his hair and joined his old tribe to reunite with his grandfather, Babatunde the 3rd.
It can't be JJ has no ability to grow a beard
My soul always awaken when drums are played. Ashe!
I was fortunate enough to see Baba Olatunji perform 2 times in college and meet him. Unfortunately he passed away in 2003.
I saw this amazing soul years ago. There was no division between him and the audience it's as thought he was in everyone and around us at once. He opened the stage to all who dared to be free and dance on it. I played his drum and still feel his vibration. All he wanted was peace and unity.
how did u comment 14 years ago
@@sleepy_dawgg1 don’t know maybe a message from Baba
I was so thrilled to have Baba as one of my many teachers. He was a man of depth- rhythm touched him deeply and it was evident that he lived his goal of empowering others with the drum, the voice and rhythm in general. I remember him playing Fanga in Nevada City when he'd come play there. I am so happy to share with so many people now in his honor!
RIP, my friend! THANK YOU for the music!
@@robertmoray988 Well, U should meet his Grandson
@@lordzofficial8967 Lol he didn't get the joke
@@glenn1001 ksi and deji huh right?
@@HassanAhmed-rf9xr Yes
Babatunde here playing drums while his grandson is playing with a viner's career
And youtuber, boxing , rapper
I was listening to Olantunji since I was 9 years old!!! Yes He Influenced me to play the Congas!!!
RIP BABATUNDE OLATUNJI.... African drum legend
Proud nigerian here!
4 years later: same here
Lovely! A great reminder of how fortunate I was to spend two week-long workshops w/Baba at Esalen in the early nineties. There was something innately special about him that made one feel extraordinaily privileged to be in his presence....
The ,"Master," at work! Missing Chief Bey!!! R.I.P.
I took care of Baba when he lived in Washington, DC, briefly. Taking him to dialysis and helping him in any way I could while he was here... Then he moved to Esalen Institute, in CA, to live out his last days. I will always treasure the time I had with Baba while he was here on the East Coast.
Babatunde...thanks man. Your good vibes just shook me out of going in a bad direction.
May you continue to find Peace and Strength
Dayyyuuuummmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!! Incredible and just to think Santana loved this guys soul. May the Universe Bless Olatunji on his eternal journey(s)
This was a special man. If only more people in the world were like Baba, the world would be a much better place. Alafia----PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU. R.I.P. Brother....
Hello broda it's me babatunde
Those guys' faces when playing explain everything. They are playing not just with their hands, but with their hearts.
I'm so proud today to listen to his music in late 80's... This guy is a Legend to me.
just the first 7 seconds alone blew my mind.
mind still blown
Melvin X What a madlad, you commented 8 years later on the same account
Melvin X you know who is grandson is?
excellent rhytms :) hypnotic :)
Nigeria's gift to the World COMMUNITY, MASTER drummer Babatunda,HIS drums OF PASSION.....PS CAN I GET A WITNESS, SIP,IN THE AFTERLIFE......
I always come back to this, can't get enough of it. The core, the heart.
This is a great outtake from an instructional video Baba did back in the early 1990's. It's Babatunde Olatunji, for those of you unfamiliar with his music. That's the magnificent Sanga of the Valley on the right side of the screen and another of Baba's longtime collaborators Sikiru Adepoju on the left. Both also played on Planet Drum, the full length CD that won the Grammy for best World Music recording in 1991, I think it was. That recording stayed at the top of the charts longer than any other recording in its category.
Paul Skiff pls refer me to more western African instrumentals
This is awesome. Very underrated music.
Love it!!! The real thing!!
My sister studied dance at the lead drummer's studio in central Harlem. She was 4, 5 or 6. I was 9, 10 or 11. She's now a grandmother.
I knew the lead drummer's son, Kwame. Played football at Harvard. Drowned and I still miss him. Visited their apartment on WEST END AVE, NYC. The father was never there but the setting was indeed regal.
That's a great man, the lead drummer.
i come back to this video in my favs every now and then just to listen-never will get old. one of the masters
I keep on listen this tune over and over again, and I never got tired of it. Gos bless Master Babatunde. Best regards from Guadalajara, Mexico.
Though this sounds like Fanga, according to my good friend Zorina Wolf who worked/studied and played with Baba for MANY years, this song is actually called "Ife Loju L'aiye" - I was just about to go re-write my charts to Fanga! LOL - I also got to study and play with him but only a half a dozen times, including when he came out to Hawaii to be with us at Village Music Circles Hawaiian Drum Circle Facilitators Camp. It was WONDERFUL. Baba, Songo, Sikuru, and Gordy Ryan on Sanban when they were out west... what a hell of a team! :) East Coast had Bob Bloom playing with Drums of Passion. God Bless you Baba, RIP....
ksi you nailed this!
I love this from South Africa
I had a healing moment in Malcolm x park ;Washington,dc the spirits were all through the treees the ancestors were fluttering up around high with the swirling of the leaves on and about...I transcend to a higher level that body needed from so much treatment ;steroid,chemo;radiation and h med.....I am so grateful so grateful so grateful
..
i like when he hits the 2 drums at the same time.
still like that part
Sounds really really good! Babatunde drums from the heart. Feeling it!
"From the base motherland, the place of the drum" -Chuck D.
African drumming is like the heartbeat of our civilization.
Baba gets total respect from West African drummers, so all the self proclaimed "virtuosos" out there who can not appreciate the beauty of joyful, (slower=more traditional) djembe drumming, you just don't get it. I enjoy and play the faster urban style myself, but I also love this. Peace.
nadanbrahma11
The way he brought the basics to the common western type was brilliant. Brilliant in the fact that he traveled elsewhere and had the gift of giving. Which is a sort of mastery of ego in itself. Do not envy this man for what he did or his success. Your apathy is weakness a shortcoming your teachers should be humbled by. Who are your teachers?
My dad use to play with him, made me love and enjoy African dance. Miss the truly ....talented from amongst us (
no one gives a damn
OMXR03 shithouse
@Min Kim bruh i dont like fascists either but how is he one? also he just wants to make a joke, if he ment it then it would be written differently
I want to attend at least one live drumming performance this year... And it better be as epic as this!
i met babtunde and drums r awesome!!nuff said.
iriiiieeee, mon
datta cool I-a-binghi riddim, fe true
luv & peace
I remember Babatunde Olatunji We thank The God for his existance and his coming to America to reconnect us the X slave with our Mother Africa..
Sanga of the Valley ..Sikiru....and Baba !!! Yes ..thank you !
esto es fenomenal......yo que soy un amante a la buena salsa.......ahora si...me doy cuenta de donde vienen los ancestros del bongo............netamente africanos.....excelente
Wow, I Love this.
the KuKu rhythm.... very well done.
Fanga
Wow beautiful your not human if you don't feel something special when hearing this nice beats
This is Absolutely beautiful
Amazing artist !!!!! Just mindblowing.......thnx for sharing. Bless...
It is extraordinary that this exists, more extraordinary that its in a playable form anyone can access. If the world did not know what blessing was happening at that time, at least there are generations now and later who will all get to see and hear the heart!
nice strong drumming skills nicely done.perfect afrobeat
I had the extraordinary experience of seeing Olatunji in Boston during the 60's at what was known as 'Winterfest' - a weekend of various arts performances and exhibitions. I was hooked on African percussion and sill am. He was a triple WOW
Good rythm...you go papa you are so good.
I got to see him in the 80s! I feel so fortunate!
Thanks for uploading. I saw Babatunde band in concert once after a drum workshop. Great memory. Great music. Great man.
BRAVO!!!! I could jam to this all night long.
That's awesome . It is awesome how there are so many types of music in the world.
Ashe, ashe! My spiritual grandpa doing what he does. Thanks for posting this!
He is the Professor !
Superb !
Amazing....
Friendship greetings
I live in Sentul, Bogor - West Java (INDONESIA)
We had to dance to this at my school already
i am an african AMEN! and proud
I saw him perform in Chicago. My husband surprised me with tickets
baba roots n flowers garden 2nd life
who knew this would be the sweetest thing ever?
Conoci a este genio gracias a mi amado pae Humberto que Bara Lode lo tenga en su santo reino.
I had never been around a Djembe until I started attending our church. It is my favorite of the drums there. It's amazing how many different sounds you can get from just one drum, from Caribbean steel to bass.
His grandson dropped out of school, defeated Logan Paul and almost got a number one album
You've done your grandad proud, Babatunde Olatunji The Second
nah
Fabulous. Enjoyed every moment.
RIP!
Missing You profoundly
What a Void!;!😅😅😅😅❤❤❤❤
Hey, Big Man - dat is great!!! Super super super...Hypnotizing (in the good sense) - just close my eyes and see the horizons of African savanna!!! Keep going and take care!!!
That must have been an honor to play with Mr. Olatunji
I keep coming back to this clip. I love it. A lesson in drum composition.
I miss Baba. I saw him at S.O.B's (Sounds of Brazil for those who may not know). He was and is so inspiring.
used this during my meditation n it was so magical...ty for sharing
I love this video. One of my favourites on youtube.
Yay Baba, Sanga and Sikiru! I believe this is from one of Baba's teaching videos - they do it so simply. Even then, Baba could not see - he had to be led up to the drums. Aah, but once he was there...
Brilliant. That's what african drumming's all about.
Fantastic ;)
Don't know who Babatunde was or did but certainly knew were to put his hands... Together with "Drums of fire" are are in my top 5 videos ;)
Read somewere he was blind?!?
Thank you Lord for sharing such great talents with us! So proud to be African!
wow amazing vibe created :)
this is the first verse in down like that
I'm a professional drummer, and a big KSI fan!!! how great is this??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
O corpo começa a dançar mesmo que você não queira, parece magia. Adorei.
a great display of rythm & soul. i'm glad this was posted.
BABATUNDE IS ACTUALLY REAL!!!!🤯
Love djembe, spent long time in Guinea/Gambia. But to insult Baba not respectful of his achievements-wonderful recording Drums of Passion really brought WA drum to western ears,he popularised drumming, taught with love,got people drumming,having fun,loving the drum. I think you are doing this man a great disservice, underestimating the importance of his impact. Nigerian tradition uses different drums but your comment verges on snobbery. Don’t put it like that! Don’t like it ok. But don’t insult!
Precioso, sensual, con mucha fuerza.
this one frees my soul and spirit.