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I made this film
to explore how art and music

have the power to shift
global perception and influence.

Because of streaming
and globalization,

we've found so many
different types of music

that the world would never have
the opportunity to learn about.

And I think Wizkid,
and everything he symbolizes,

is a perfect example of that.

When you
see how far Africa has come...

...you cannot ignore
the impact of Wizkid.

He's putting us first

before any other culture
or tradition.

Wizzy! Wizzy! Wizzy! Wizzy!

If we are being honest...

the colonialists
took away our soul.

So, most of Africa,

we either dream in Portuguese,
French, or English.

And we speak
these languages fluently,

and we have lost our own.

All my dreams are in English.
All my thoughts are in English.

That means
what has happened is...

my computerized brain

that is African
has been taken away

and replaced
with the English mentality.

But now we have to understand

things are beginning to change.

We have decided
to promote our culture

and tradition through music.

Yes, we like The Beatles.

Yes, we like Michael Jackson,
blah, blah.

Yes, we like-- we still play
your music at our parties.

But the young
people have decided

we are going to promote
our own music first

before America or Europe.

Wizkid is a symbol of hope.

He gives young people hope
that all is not lost.

Finally, the world
is listening to Africa.

We have a very vibrant
young generation.

Standing firm with confidence

saying, "Look, it's our time."

Listen to us now.

As I grew older
is how I understood my power.

All right, let's go,
go, go, please. Yeah.

I'm representing
for my country,

representing for my continent.

Guys, stand back, please.

Mind your backs!

So, it was important for me

to show them
the power that they have.

And the power
that they can have.

London, make some noise!

The first
Nigerian artist to hit...

The most awarded
African artist of all time...

The Grammy-Award-winning

Nigerian pioneer
of the Afrobeats...

People don't really understand

how much Wizkid actually means.

There's nothing else like it
in the world.

# Eledumare bless you with body
Oh, baby, oh #

# Starboy go bless you
With money, oh, omoge, oh #

# Eledumare bless you with body
Oh, baby, oh #

# Starboy go bless you
With money, oh, omoge, oh #

# Oya, soco, soco
Soco, soco, soco #

# Soco, soco, baby, oh #

# Soco, soco, soco
Soco, soco, soco #

# Soco, soco, baby, oh #

# Soco, soco, soco, soco, so #

# Oya gbefu lokpu
Lokpo, lokpo, lokpo #

# Oya gbefun, baby, oh
Soco, soco, soco #

# Eledumare bless you with body
Oh, baby, oh #

# Starboy go bless you
With money, oh, omoge, oh #

# Eledumare bless you with body
Oh, baby, oh #

# Starboy go bless you
With money, oh, omoge, oh #

Now switch!

The most important thing in life

is to inspire, you know?

I carry myself with a lot
of pride as an African.

My kids are kings.

Everybody from where I'm from
are kings.

And that's what matters.

The way you see yourself.

Aw. Thanks.

Yeah, that was the shit.
That was crazy, man.

When I make records,

I don't think
about how big they'll get.

You can only hope to be
a big source of inspiration

to the kids
in the next generation,

and the generations to come.

Do you want to play the piano?
I don't believe it.

I'm scared.

Tell Daddy what you said

that you wanna be
when you're older.

- What do you wanna do?
- A violiner.

- You wanna play violin?
- Yeah.

That's crazy. I love that.

- Violinist.
- Do you wanna go to...

Do you want to take classes?

Do you want Daddy
to buy you one?

Yes.

- Yeah, I'll buy you one.
- And a case.

I'll buy you one in a case.

Show daddy how
you're gonna perform the violin.

Show him.

You're gonna be a star
like your daddy.

It's very, very important to us
to educate the world

about our culture.

I try as much as possible to put
that out there in the world.

My name's Jada Pollock.

I am Wizkid's manager
of eight years,

also his partner of six years.

You wear many hats,
for me, anyway.

Just finding that balance
of, you know,

who should I be today?

Should I be his girlfriend
that's gonna hold his hand,

or should I be, you know,

his manager that's gonna walk,
you know,

slightly behind him?

I love her so much, man.

You know,
she's very hardworking.

She... She's hands-on,

very passionate,
loyal about the work.

I just feel like women
are just easy to work with.

Women have, like,
mother instinct, right,

to hold stuff together.

Eight years.
It's been a long journey.

Being a manager
and understanding the industry,

it's been tough
for African artists

to get respect.

I remember Live Nation
calling me and saying,

"Tottenham have just turned
their stadium

into a live space,

and they're gonna start
having concerts."

"Think about it
and let me know."

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

has been widely acclaimed

as the best football stadium
in the world.

When Tottenham Stadium

actually opened...

...it was regarded
as one of the most prestigious,

high-tech,
state-of-the-art stadiums

in the whole of the UK.

The stadium actually seats
over 60,000 people

right in the middle of Tottenham
on the High Road.

One of the capital's top venues

for other sporting events
and even concerts as well.

Before 2023,
the only artists

that had performed there
were Lady Gaga

and Guns N' Roses,
which is insane.

And I remember, like,

coming off the phone
and thinking to myself,

"A football stadium?
That's a lot of pressure."

Uh, I don't know
how I feel about that.

I'm Seni Saraki,

CEO and Editor-in-Chief
of NATIVE Magazine.

We've been
covering Nigerian music

and the cultures
that surround it

for the better part
of the last decade.

There's an inextricable link

between Nigeria
and the UK forever.

The UK is such a major factor
in how Nigeria became a country

for better and for worse.

Nigeria was kind of split up
very arbitrarily.

How, you know,
the colonial rulers left it,

set the foundations for what
we know Nigeria as today

in terms
of this huge wealth gap.

So, this show would be symbolic
being in London in a sense.

For Wizkid,
he's like a man of few words.

He doesn't really say much.

But no matter
how big he's gotten,

he's standing with us.

I think when I'm looking
at this Tottenham Stadium show,

it's a celebration
of Nigerian culture in London.

It is a form of rebellion

in terms of
we are taking up space.

Oh, like, we're here.

And I remember
telling Wiz about it.

I was like, "Look, you know,
we've got to make a call on it."

This is a really tough decision.

There's, like,
a conversation that people have

when it comes to artists.

Is it fair to place these social
and political pressures on them

and expect them
to be more than just artists?

I'm a very quiet human being.

I don't even like
to express myself.

I try to just be a musician.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Whoo!

Yeah, yeah.

I just try to make
the finest music that I can make

and the finest, you know,
sound that I can make.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm a true artist
before anything else,

and I'm a human being, so...

Just a little kid
from Surulere, man.

Just trying to make music, yeah.

My name is Sunday Are.

I've worked with Wizkid
starting from the beginning.

Wiz came from the hood.

From the ghetto.

I grew up in Surulere.

It's a very rough place.

Electricity is not 24 hours...

and I didn't have a lot
of clothes growing up

when I was young.

That's my reality.

In that kind of place,

people have
a different connection to music

after dealing
with all of that stress.

Music is a...

it's just a powerful tool,
man, to survive.

This is Fela Kuti
I have tatted on me.

This is a musician
that's from where I'm from.

So as a kid,

he was just a very big,
big, big, big influence for me.

# No freedom, no justice
no happiness, dem go, yeah #

- # Pansa, pansa, hey! #
- # Pansa, pansa... #

I think it's 'cause of how much

he pushed
the boundary musically.

It's an understatement to call
Fela Kuti a pioneer

of Nigerian music.
He changed everything.

Fela had one
of the greatest bands ever.

Listening to that,

it just captivated me
in ways I couldn't explain.

He was a big instrument
into why I believed

I could really make music,
you know?

I want you to look at me...

as something new...

that you do not
have any knowledge about.

Because most, 99.9 percent,

of the information you get
about Africa is wrong.

Fela was
a once-in-a-lifetime artist.

It was something
we'd never ever seen before.

If my father was not there,

there would be no Afrobeats.

But Fela was never mainstream.

After Fela,
we didn't get an infrastructure

that was built
to take all of these things

that he's shown and proved
were possible

to create global artists.

Especially if you compare it
to something like The Beatles.

This rock and roll group

has taken over as the kingpins
of musical appreciation.

When you saw this influx
of rock bands and music,

it just became
an entire industry

from the blueprint
of The Beatles.

But in Nigeria,

there just wasn't
that same moment.

What we forget again

is there's an industry
in America and Europe

where you go to school
to learn music properly.

Where is the big academy
in our Africa?

There was no backbone
to propel this act,

to sustain this music.

Music just wasn't
a viable option

for people to take
as a career path.

There wasn't enough in it

for you to be able
to take care of your family.

This is a little secret.

His parents doesn't want him
to do music.

They want him
to be maybe a lawyer,

to finish his school,
and be maybe a doctor.

My mom definitely
wanted us to stay in school,

but I had other plans.

I knew I was going
to be a star, man.

I knew I had to take my family
from that

into a different situation.

He was so close to his family,

especially his mother.

And I feel that that
is the main reason

why he has that determination
to make it out.

He was a young boy
that wants to do big thing.

That was Wizkid for you.

Make some noise for Wizkid!

I came out
when I was 19,

and there was no kid
doing music when I came out.

# ...If you see me drive by #

# Holla at your boy #

# I get more swag #

# Holla at your boy #

# I pop more bottles #

# Holla at your boy #

# And I'm chillin' with models #

# Holla at your boy #

Make some noise for Wizkid.

There was no blueprint for me.

I think if you're a new artist
in America,

you become part of this,
kinda, cookie-cutter system.

They take you to the label.

They take you to radio.
You're shooting music videos.

You wear certain clothes.

There will be a way
in which you can succeed

because there are people,
and businesses, and corporations

that have been around
for so many years

that they know
exactly what they're doing.

But Wizkid,
he didn't get that in Nigeria.

I had to build
a structure for myself.

I literally had to train
and learn,

you know, how to do this shit.

# ...Ni ojuelegba #

# They know my story
For Mo'Dogg's studio... #

His music,
it was everywhere in Lagos.

For the masses,
them, they look at it,

like, "Okay,
we actually have somebody,

a voice representing us."

# ...Ni ojuelegba... #

I think that name, "Starboy,"

came from the streets,

being a young boy
that became a star.

They started calling me
"Starboy, Starboy."

And I just took it, man.

"Oh, Starboy, Starboy."

If Wizkid
can break through from this,

we can also become somebody.

Yeah, make some noise!

I still live with those memories
every day of my life till today,

so it's... uh, it's crazy.

Now,
we just touched down in London.

I'm looking forward to it.
A lot of people have been

showing me love, you know.
People saw me at the airport,

like, they were taking pictures.

I was just enjoying
being an artist

and just learning
and being accepted.

It was just a great time
in my life, baby.

Around this time,

the internet has become
a widespread tool.

More and more people
were streaming music.

You could listen to anything
from anyone,

anywhere in the world.

By 2012,
Spotify had 15 million users.

And by 2016,
it was over 100 million.

It created the perfect storm
for Wizkid

and African music to explode.

The popular music genre...

...exported from Africa
is now burning up the charts.

Africa has burst
onto the global music scene.

The biggest artists
in the world realized

in order to expand their reach
and their audiences,

they needed to tap in
with local artists

in those communities.

When "One Dance" came out,

it became the most streamed song
of all time

with over a billion streams
within one year of its release.

What's that like,
seeing that stage?

And the winner is Wizkid!

And the award
goes to "Essence," Wizkid.

# ...dey mess up your mind #

# And na me
Dey make you free up your mind #

# Say your body
Talk to me nice #

# Say na my love
You dey need for your life #

# Yeah, our love no be lie #

# See, yeah, we dey together
Yeah, day and night #

# Yeah if I leave you go kpai
Yeah if you leave I go kpai #

# I'm strokin' your body,
Baby... #

Certain collaborations
pushed him

to be arguably one of the most
famous Nigerian people

to the global audience.

# " FT.
JUSTIN BIEBER & TEMS PLAYING) #

Wizkid!

Wizkid has made the headlines

on the international
fashion scene.

And the Grammy goes to...

- Wizkid!
- Wizkid!

- Wizkid!
- Wizkid!

Even though Nigerian pop music

has just continued
to transcend...

it's been a battle
against perception abroad.

You know,
I've traveled around the world.

And I've had to have
very ignorant conversations,

you know, with people.

You have to school them
about what Africa is.

It's not just kids
with flies on their faces

on television and shit.

I think when we look
at the perceptions

of the Western world to Africa,

it really goes further
than music.

Even on the map of the world,

it shows Africa is way smaller
than it actually is.

It's a fact that you can fit
three versions of Canada

into Africa,
but if you looked at the map,

you would never be able
to see that.

Those type of things, like,
they seem, like, subtle,

but they're type of things

that are very much entrenched
in people's minds.

And I think it really affects
and really shows them

how a lot of Western companies

and, like, global corporations
treat not just music culture,

but the way they look
at African culture as a whole.

Afrobeats, if you were,

sort of, trying to define it,

as I'm struggling to do now,
you might struggle.

When Wizkid and everyone
started becoming more popular,

the UK created
the term "Afrobeats"

as a catch-all genre.

That essentially means
Nigerian pop music.

That's what it means
for all intents and purposes.

- Afrobeats.
- Afrobeats.

- Afrobeats.
- If you think about blues,

R&B, hip-hop, country music,

there would be no version
of reality

where someone would look
at America and say,

"We're just gonna call that
'America beats.'"

There's a level of respect that
we give to each of those things

because we understand
where they come from,

because we're taught
the history of them,

and because, I guess,
we care to find out.

So, it's like,

if you're not knowledgeable
enough to understand life

and to understand that
there's different types of music

in the world and people
make different types

of shit, that's on you, dog.
Like, I'm not gonna sit

here and...
...describe what I am.

You're the ignorant one,
not me, you know.

It was so easy
for someone abroad to be like,

"Oh, yeah, this Nigerian music,
we need a term for it,

'Afrobeats,'
call it 'Afrobeats,'

just add an 'S' to that thing
Fela was doing, yeah, great."

The term feels like

just yet another lazy attempt
to define something

that wasn't even theirs
to define in the first place.

"Afrobeat,"
like, without the "S"

is the genre
that Fela Kuti created.

There's a sound to it,

in the same way country music
sounds a type of way.

The ingredients are jazz
and a lot of African folk songs.

And on the sax,

it's my first son,
Femi Anikulapo-Kuti.

My father became
very ideological,

uh, revolutionary
with his music.

Music is a spiritual thing.
You don't play with music.

If you play with music,
you will die young.

See,
because when the higher forces

give you a gift of music,
musicianship,

it must be well used
for the good of humanity.

Goes to America,
meets the Black Panthers,

and he comes back,
and he is inspired by,

and wants to change Africa
with his music.

As far as Africa is concerned,
music cannot be for enjoyment.

Music has to be for revolution.

When I started going
to know more about his life

and, you know, how he lived
his life, it was just like...

# At that time, this was a man

that was really speaking
his truth.

We have to understand
that Africa

had just come out
of slavery and colonization.

Africa had just gained
its independence.

Nigeria, for instance, had just
even come out of the civil war.

And so many external forces
were there

suppressing the African mind.
And so they saw Fela as a threat

because Fela
was exposing corruption.

# All of us
To the first election #

# And the second election
All in Nigeria #

# And the second election
That you all see pass... #

He didn't really care

the repercussions of the things
he was dealing with,

he was locked up,
his house was burned.

When you are a revolutionary...

and you talk the truth...

...people will come
and slap you down.

You could say he was a warrior,
and his instruments,

his compositions,
were his weapons.

With Wizkid,
he knows Fela's story.

He has an ideological mind.

He's an inspiration.
He's a big inspiration to me.

Music is the weapon.

Music is the thing
of the future.

Music is the weapon
of the future.

I think it's fitting

that that's what
we're seeing now.

Wizkid, he's almost
taking up that mantle,

not on a, like,
necessarily activist level,

'cause Fela was very much
a full-time activist,

but he's consistently pushing
the boundaries

as to what people
even view Nigeria as.

That's a very crazy position
to be in.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

Yes!

Yes!

For Wizkid, he has to figure out

how to navigate
being this person

that people look up to.

It almost feels like Wizkid
has to perform at Tottenham.

They look at him
as this beacon of hope.

This Tottenham moment
is bigger than music

and, you know, me.

It's something bigger
for the culture as a whole.

I'm the first African artist
going to Tottenham

to perform, right,
and it's like...

It really helps
push the culture forward,

you know, and in a great light.

Music is the weapon
of the future.

Wizzy! Wizzy! Wizzy!

Of course I'll do it.

From when I was 15 years old,

I started calling myself
"Starboy" after Wizkid.

I've been a die-hard fan.

I fix cars, I ride bikes,
and I drift cars too.

As a kid growing up in Nigeria,
it was tough.

The chances of getting jobs
is actually really, really low.

There are too many youths
out there,

unemployed,
roaming around the streets.

# Turn up your body
Make you feel all right #

# Flyin' the kele
Wey go cool my mind #

# I wan' do anythin'
I want tonight... #

Afrobeats is part
of our lifestyle.

# ...Turn up your body
Make you feel all right... #

Remove music from your life,

bro, you're empty.

You get it,
'cause there's nothing

to keep you going.

Listening to Wizkid's music...

I felt really,
really connected for it,

'cause looking
at his background,

where he comes from, Surulere,

it was really,
really inspirational.

It gives more Nigerian youth
hope because they're like,

"Yes,
he has gone through it too."

"If he can do it,
there's still hope.

There's still hope
for the future."

Whenever I see that
they announce a live concert,

I always look
for means to stream it

so that I don't feel left out.

But this one
that he's performing

in one of the biggest stadiums
in the world,

this is
a one-lifetime experience.

If I was to make
this trip to London,

I would be the happiest man
in the world, for real.

I believe I can do it.

In another giant stride

for Nigerian music
and Afrobeat...

One of Afrobeats' biggest names,

Wizkid, taking to the stage.

The pop star has been visiting
Tottenham Stadium

ahead of a landmark gig
at the venue next month.

We had the offer
on the table for a few weeks.

And before you know it,
you're like a month out.

We'll bring you out
to the center of that pitch.

There's gonna be more photos
and more videography.

For, like, the past week,
I've been telling him,

I'm like,
"I've got really bad anxiety."

You've been covered
in the Evening Standard,

which goes around
the whole of London,

8 million papers
are getting sold out.

So, big numbers, man.

He doesn't show much emotion.

I don't know
if that's a good thing

or a bad thing.

This is the first time
that we're doing a stadium show.

When you walk out there
and you see the seating,

it feels more intense.

I'm like, "Fuck, this is big."

Seeing how much we have to do
in such a short space of time,

this is gonna be really hard.

She's gonna be doing
the interview with you.

And this is gonna go out
on Friday, mate,

this is gonna go
straight out to all of London.

- This is Alison.
- Hi, Alison
from the BBC.

Nice to meet you.
If you'd like to come...

Now,
with the 60,000 capacity here

at Tottenham, do you feel
any pressure to be Wizkid?

I've always just felt

there's this insane amount
of pressure on him.

We're going
straight over for the photos

here, mate. I'm just gonna
lead you back across, okay?

From the industry,
from the audience,

from just Nigeria as a whole...

for him to be the flag bearer,
for him to be the forefather...

he's like the national hero.

He's, like, one of the biggest
ambassadors for Nigeria.

So I'm gonna brief him
in what you're gonna do, right?

Let's just get a picture
of you holding it, Wiz.

And I don't know that
the biggest American rappers

or artists can even relate
to that sort of pressure.

If an American rapper
comes to Lagos

and their show doesn't go well,

they don't have millions
of people at home

feeling embarrassed
and betrayed.

It's an unbelievable amount

of scrutiny
to have to deal with.

It has to go well...

for him and for Nigeria.

I used to reply his stories.

I wished him happy birthday
back in, uh, 2019.

And this was when I used
this sound.

Yeah, this was my favorite song,

"Blessed,"
I told you about, like...

You get. I used on this one too.

You see. So...

Big Wiz has been a very
big motivation to me.

To be a star boy,

I have to stand out,
do things differently.

# P... #

In my crew,
the Lagos BMX crew...

I have some really,
really amazing guys.

The most times when you riding,
you need to, like,

listen to something
that will keep you going.

My crew really loves Wizkid.

# ...Omo na
You be my business, o #

# I know you wanting
All my talk... #

We'll just be jamming,
popping tricks, just grooving.

I usually listen to him
all the time.

# ...And you no dey shock
Me pass the money, my baby, o #

# If I wan dey love
I wan dey love you, my baby, o #

Yeah!

BMX CREW MEMBER 1:

Hopefully,
hopefully it work.

Hmm. Hmm.

Amen.

Thank you.

Karen is our creative director.

She understands Wiz,
which I think is key,

especially when you're dealing
with an artist

that already has a vision
of how he wants things.

My job is to push
whatever image possible

that's going out there with Wiz

that I'm involved in
to be inspirational.

Karen is like...

...she's like mother, man.

Just reminds me of my mom.

I love her so much.
I love her too much.

She's done this for years too.

For Made in Lagos,
the album cover.

I didn't look at him
as an African man.

I looked at him as a man.

I didn't look at him
as an African artist.

I looked at him as an artist,
not an African musician,

a musician first
who happens to be African,

because I am not interested
in hearing music that profound

and putting him in a category.

When I was showing
all of these images to him,

I said, "You know, you could be
like the Black Marlon Brando

in Streetcar Named Desire.

Stella!

Or the Black James Dean.

What'd you do that for?

And it's not
that he had to be them,

but he was able to represent

to his generation what they did.

It shows his strength and power,
but also his vulnerability.

I feel that Wiz performing
in Tottenham...

is going to upset
quite a few people.

Too bad.

Get used to it, get ready.

I want you to try...

He needs to show the power
of the new genre of music

that has been introduced
to the world globally.

It's more than one sound,
it's more than one color,

it's more than one category.

Today we've come
for a site visit.

We have come to structure out

how we're gonna be laying out
the stage.

So, before we sign off

on the actual layout
of the show,

just come here
to physically feel it.

We really want to make sure

that everything is going
to come together in time.

There's a lot
on Wiz's shoulders.

I can't even imagine
where your mind is at

when you're about to do a show

and you're having to deal
with that news.

This is not
about entertainment anymore.

This is not about success.
This is about your loved one.

In African family structures,
especially when it comes to mom,

it's a very special bond
and relationship.

When the news broke,

we just believed
it was canceled.

You know, you were just waiting
for an email to say

it wasn't happening anymore.

That does something to you.

He wanted to quit a lot.
So...

Yeah.

It was a time where I felt
like he was forced to reflect.

But Wiz realizes that this show
will open so many doors

for artists coming up under Wiz,

for executives to understand
the reach of the sound.

And for every kid back home

that is dreaming
of becoming Wiz,

it's going to give them a dream

to know that it's possible
to get there.

Yeah, exactly.

- That's right.
- I swear.

Got it.

Oh, boy.

S King
has never left Nigeria before.

Most people never
get the opportunity

to leave Nigeria.

Getting a visa to travel
out of this country is...

it's very hard.

When you get to the embassy,
you get interviewed.

Put together documents
and the things required.

By the end,
some get turned down.

Those that colonized us,

now giving us hard time
for us to go visit them.

For Big Wiz,

the more successful
he is in his career

all over the world,

the more successful view
we get as Africans.

There's this underlying audacity

that comes
from the Western world

and from the people

who essentially
destroyed countries

in the way that they choose

to show those countries
after they've destroyed it.

On the road now, the troops have
reached their first objective.

The Nigerian War specifically

being one of the first wars
that was ever televised.

When Wiz has success,

the perception of Nigeria,
the perception of Africa,

starts to shift
ever so slightly.

For a region of the world

that has so much potential,
the impact is transformative.

It shouldn't take for people
to like a song,

for them to feel that
there is an entire country,

an entire continent, of people
that are worth investing in

to see what they can do

and to see what else
they can bring to the world,

to bring to art, to media,
to anything outside of that.

But at the same time,

it takes for one thing
to make you feel comfortable,

to make you see someone
in a different way,

for you to believe
that they are worth your time,

for you to believe that maybe

it's worth me finding out
what else they can do,

what else they have to offer.

Somebody like me,
who has grown up

from my father's
struggling times,

my generation,

seeing how we have been trying
to break this door open.

This is where Africa needs
to now put its foot down.

We're not just about music.

Africa was never
just about music.

This is the time for us
to have electricity in Nigeria.

This is time for us
to build our rules.

This is the time for us

to make Africa
the envy of the world.

But, like, the play--
you play the...

- Hi-hat.
- ...hi-hat is where I want you
to be cleaner.

So, we'll try it.

Sorry. Slow, slow.
That was melodic.

Here gotta feel right.

Because if it doesn't
feel right,

we're gonna lose the energy
of the music too, so...

I'm a very hands-on person.

Like, I want to see everybody
doing their job.

Every... Every section
of my work,

I want to see all of that
moving at the same pace.

We are one week out.

We're having a huge problem
with our visuals.

What I'm saying
is that can't be the only look

because it's not sexy.

You want to feel that you are...
you are the Nigerian on stage.

Like, you want to feel
their power.

We're not getting any
of that with those images.

When you put it next
to the song,

it's got nothing to do
with the song.

So, my job is to make sure
the production side,

the staging,
that we're not following,

we're leading.

This is deep. This is Tottenham.

This is bigger
than Madison Square Garden.

Can't play games.

Everything's got
to look considered.

But we just look
like we're crazy.

Like we're children,

and we don't know
how to do a show.

What? You can't do that,
not with Wiz.

This is a test.

I wonder if he realizes
how big of a deal it really is.

Hopefully he doesn't feel
that weight,

because that can infiltrate
his performance,

infiltrate his creativity,
and he could be sidetracked.

The chances
of getting the visa

is actually really, really low.

It's a big stress.

It's a very, very big stress.

Happiness is actually free.

You just have to start
with what you have,

where you are
and what you have access to.

That's all it takes
for you to be happy.

Yo! Yo!

"Your travel document
and supporting document

are now ready for collection."

I say yes, come on!

Yes! Come on!

I don't even know
what I'm saying.

Come on.

We thank you
for the provision of this food,

and thank you
for everything going on.

Real good. We thank you for...
You've blessed this food for us.

Thank you,
and in Jesus name we pray, Amen.

This is the week into the show,

so sleep is secondary.

Like, we'll sleep the day
after the show,

but we've literally
been doing, um,

rehearsal from 4:00 p.m.
till maybe 2:00 a.m.

Musically, we've got
some ground to make.

We've had some additions
to our musical setup.

This is Benjamin.

The one half of Cavemen,
him and his brother Kingsley.

They are joining me
for this show.

They're artists themselves.

The Cavemen are now
musical-directing the show.

So, they're gonna handle
the musical direction

and be a part of the band.

From the music
point of view,

we're maybe two weeks behind
where we should actually be.

My main concern at the moment

is just the flow
between the band and Wiz,

running the show
from top to bottom.

No, just shutting
that, uh, outro part.

So, you sort of, I think
it was eight bars before,

let's keep it at four bars.

And I haven't heard
the full setlist just yet,

played out in one go.

Stop it right there,
yeah, that's great, yeah.

Then there was kind of this idea
to do different texturing,

but to kind of have
all these women's bodies.

And then this hawk that, like,

looks like it's kind of
coming out of the 3D billboard

and then kind of, like,
lots of fire.

And then this idea

that we thought could be
really beautiful for "Essence."

Mm-hmm.

This is cool.

But it feels like more of an--
This is the strongest one.

This one?

We were thinking it would be
cool in the middle of the box.

Yeah, my only problem
with... with that is,

like, how much space I have
to perform in the front.

So, this is right in the center.

- Right here?
- Yeah.

It needs to be, like, you know,
that's what I was saying,

the video
from the rehearsal space,

they all need
to be with me in the front.

This part, like,
we need to do that.

Oh...

You mean the fact
that you don't have much space?

Yeah. I don't have
much space at all.

I think we're very limited
in space in that respect

because we've already
hung all the steel for that.

So, things can't move
between now and show.

It's just not enough space
for me to perform in.

There's problems
with moving

pretty much anything
around at this point

since we're so late
in the game.

Permitting is a big thing.
Barricades is a big thing.

No, nothing is moving.

I'm saying we just need
to create the space here.

Like, even if we pull out
the riser right here, like...

I really wanted to be here
weeks before,

so if I wanted to change shit,
I could change shit.

You know what I mean?
Like, this is the problem.

The biggest problem right now

is me performing,
like, you know...

With your band. Like, out there.

Out here,
and it just feels tight,

you know, sensual, sexy.

Yeah, it's got soul.

Musical soul, like, it's not,
like... You know what I mean?

Because once you start doing all
of this other stuff,

it takes away from this essence

and the substance of,
like, you know, real music.

Wiz is a perfectionist.

Wiz always wants his fans
to feel

like they're coming to see
a whole new person.

- Cavemen's drums.
- Yeah?

Uh, are we sorting that,
what's the situation?

If Cavemen are playing out here,
for their set...

Mm-hmm.

...and then
they're playing back here

- for Wiz's set.
- Yeah. Yeah.

We can't have... We have
to have two different kits.

His focus on attention to detail
is borderline scary

when it gets to things
like this.

Somebody told them

that Wiz wants everybody
to move in

and out with wireless.

They want the DJ down
at the B stage

and in the center of the stage
and in the box.

Wait, wait, wait...

I'm tired.
I'm overwhelmed.

I'm very, very anxious.

Just get us on the call.

Nobody's pointing fingers.

Nobody's calling you out.
Nobody's blaming you.

We just want solutions.

At the end of the day,
we can, like, nitpick it,

but we don't have enough time.

I'm so excited
to see Wizkid in London.

The view I have of London...

I don't know
what my expectations are.

I used to be worried that,

"Wait, what if I want to go
to this place?

What would my movement be like?"

Now having the opportunity
to even see my guy

on stage live, bro, damn.

It's really, really exciting.

I keep my expectations high
for the show

because magic will actually
happen there.

I know. I know already.

London, here I come.

We are one day out.

Internally we are trying
to pull together

to make everything happen.

But we should try
and run it as a show...

- As a show...
- ... from top to bottom.

The fact that Wiz is headlining
Tottenham Stadium,

as a Black man,
it just hits different for me.

I couldn't have seen this
growing up as a kid.

There were a lot of Africans
at that time

who weren't proud
to say they were African.

I didn't see a world
where Afrobeats,

Black music being made
in the diaspora,

could headline
any stadium in the UK.

Especially for me,
being someone who grew up

in, uh,
inner London in the '90s.

Like,
racism definitely existed.

Saw it firsthand.

There were definitely moments
of racial tension.

Clashes at an anti-racist march

in southeast London.

If there's a big gang
of Black boys, yeah,

police always think robbery.

That's why... That's why
you can't walk in the mass.

That's why all us lot come here
one by one or two by two.

I've been searched
loads of times, yeah.

People beaten up,
stabbed, what have you.

Would you like
being called British?

No, I'm not British.

It's not my fault
that I was born in England.

We've been brought over here,
and we're bottom of the table.

We've been treated bad.

I'm not going to say,
"Yeah, I come from that place."

That I've been tr...
been treated bad in.

What did slavery do?

Slavery took our identity.

What did colonization do?

Colonization replaced it.

We want to impress Europe.
We want to impress America.

What about our own impression
of ourselves?

How many of us dream
in our languages?

How many of us think
in our languages?

How many of us implement
our culture in our daily lives?

That is the effect
of colonization.

As much as I've sounded
pessimistic,

I'm very optimistic.

And I see a lot of good things.

I would say Wizkid
is one of them.

Now, with, like,
my son and his age mates,

just seeing how proud
they are to be African,

it's... it's incredible.

And Wizkid and the Afrobeats
movement as a whole,

I think, has sort of been
at the fore of this change

in sort of sentiment towards
where you're from as an African.

There's that pride there,
especially being
in the diaspora.

Sometimes you get lost
in the middle.

With Afrobeats, it's kind of
brought us all together.

Bless.

Wizkid, Wizkid. Wizkid, bro.
Everywhere, bro, you see?

I grew up listening
to African music.

Starting from the legend
himself,

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

Seeing where African culture
is now...

it's like,
"Yes, we did this together."

Africa is evolving.

This is not where we were
20 years ago,

and this is not where we were
about ten years ago,

and now things are getting
better and better

and better every time.

You can easily
get access to stuff

via social media,
via your phone.

That's what
you see when out there,

people all over the world
listening to our songs,

jamming to it.

As long as you have internet,
the world is yours.

Big Wiz, he's there, up there.

Representing Africans.

Huh?

No, mesmerized.

All right.

Long day.

My mom is the love of my life.

She holds everything together
in my family.

She's the glue to,
like, all our lives.

The last few days
have been heavy.

Wizkid's real name is Ayo.

He comes home being Ayo.

But then, you know, he leaves
the house being Big Wiz.

And I don't ever see
when Wiz has fears.

So, we should actually
be okay for...

We're gonna walk in five.

All right, let's go,
go, go, please. Yeah.

Guys, stand back, please.

All right, please, security.

Mind your backs!

After Wiz,
check everyone's wristbands.

Has he got his mic?
Is the band in position?

Come on!

London, make some noise!

# Dem inna, inna
Inna, inna, inna #

# I know sey dem
Go pray on my downfall #

# I'm still a winner, winner
Winner, winner, winner #

# Me never let them play
On my banjo #

# Dem inna, inna
Inna, inna, inna, oh, na-na #

# Don't know why they pray
On my downfall #

# Born winner dem
Go play on my banjo #

# Never #

Let's go!

# No console
Now everybody dancin' for me #

# I'm on the move, no be Keke
Now everybody askin' for me #

# I dey go collect wetin baba
God dey destin' for me #

# What's lost now found #

# So we can sing Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace, all night #

London!

London!

Let's go!

# Ni ojuelegba #

# They know my story
For Mo'Dogg's studio #

# I been hustle to work, eh
Ni ojuelegba, oh #

# Me and Silly
For Mo'Dogg's studio #

# We been hustle to work, eh
Ni ojuelegba, oh #

# They know my story
For Mo'Dogg's studio #

# We been hustle to work
See eh, e kira fun mummy mi o #

# Ojojumo lo n s'adura #

# Mon jaiye
Mi won ni wan soro ju #

# Won ni, won ni, won ni
Won soro ju #

- # Feeling good tonight #
- # Feeling good tonight #

# This thing got me
Thanking God for life #

# Thanking God for life #

# I can't explain #

# I can't explain #

Listen!

Music is very, very powerful.

It's amazing
to touch people positively.

# Oh, oh, oh... #

Let's go, let's go.

# Starboy dey for you #

# Baby girl
You fine you set, oh #

# Girl, you make
My eye dey red, oh #

# Anytime you no dey
Close to me #

# Yeah, yeah... #

Let's go, sing!

# ...Burn that spliff
Be your Romeo #

# Wa lomi, oh, ragabomi, oh #

# Got your back, wa sun bi, oh
Ja sungba, oh, omo jupa, oh #

# Touch me
I touch as e dey, oh #

# Oya so mi so, ka l'ole, oh
Chop, me I chop anoti, oh #

# Je, je, je... #

I represent for a... a culture
that is very beautiful.

# ...Ma ko je bi ogbono
Ma bo je bi jollof #

# Tell me what I cannot do
For your love #

# Olopa go carry all of us #

# If they carried deuces,
I don't wan talk #

# I no go respond... #

Let me hear you say,
"Yeah, yeah."

# Mhmm, hmm, hmm #

# Wey come cooli my body
Eh, eh #

# Whoa, I'm in the big mood #

# Girl, I dey feel you #

# Something wey come
Cooli my body #

# Tell me will you do #

# I'm in the big mood #

# Girl, I dey feel you #

# Something wey come
Cooli my body #

# Tell me will you do #

Let's go!

# Make we go dey sempe #

# Pour some liquor
Dey do me jeje #

# Get somethings wey dey
Bother my head, I swear #

CREW MEMBER 1:

CREW MEMBER 2:

Let's go, sing this shit.
Let's go!

London Town!

# Juls baby #

# My days
When I'm not with you, baby #

Say what?

# Oh, your love keeps me warm #

# Unconditional prisoner
Number one #

# Your love give me
Somethin' I want #

# Your love give me
Somethin' to feel #

# Your love give me
Something that's real... #

CREW MEMBER 3:

We all have, um,
things we have in our head.

"Yeah, I want to be this,
I want to be that."

But at the end of the day...

people decide
what they want to see you as.

What you stand for.

That's what matters.

The generation before us
got bullied so much.

I felt it.
I felt it in my heart.

I... I felt
the pain of our parents.

They didn't
understand their power.

I'm looking forward
to a great show.

Flight was good.

I'm with my people.
I feel loved, you know?

I know what I did
for that generation.

I changed the perception

of just how parents in Africa
see kids in music.

CREW MEMBER 1:

Wiz realizes that...

this show isn't about
what he's wearing.

This show isn't about
what the production looks like.

What his show is going
to mean...

...to Africa...

is hope.

Whoo! Whoo!

# Say I wanna leave you
In the mornin' #

# But I need you now
Yeah, yeah #

# I find you
I give you all you're needing #

# I know you what you like #

# What you like #

# I feel it comin' #

# Time is of the essence #

# Whoa, whoa, whoa #

# I tried to teach you #

# Say I need some lessons #

# I need to give it all #

# I tried to leave but I can't #

# I don't know why
You're the one #

# Turn me out of my mind #

London, sing that shit.
Let's go!

# You don't need no other body #

# Yeah, yeah #

# You don't need no other body #

# Whoa, whoa, whoa #

# Only you fi hold my body #

# Only you fi hold my body #

# You don't need no other body #

# Say na me dey
Mess up your mind #

# And na me dey
Make you free up your mind #

# Say your body
Talk to me nice #

# See yeah we dey together
Yeah, day and night #

# Yeah, if I leave you go kpai
Yeah, if I leave... #

# I'm stroking your body, baby
Loving your body, baby #

# As you're whinin' your body
Baby, so crazy #

# Lovin' your body, baby
Gyal iwo ni temi #

# I just wanna let you know #

London, sing it
with me, let's go!

# Give me all you need
Give you all you need #

# Gave you all
Make ah give you all you need #

# Give you all you need
Gave you all #

# Make ah give you
All you need #

# Every touch you need
Give you all #

# Make ah give you all
You need #

Let's go, sing it.

# You don't need
No other body #

# Yeah, yeah #

# You don't need no other body #

# Whoa, whoa, whoa #

# Only you fi hold my body #

# Only you fi hold my body #

# Whoa, whoa, whoa #

# You don't need no other body #

# Baby, I want you there
Yes, I want you there #

# Promise to treat
Your love fair #

# Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa #

# When we touch
How we connect... #

# You don't need no other body #

# You don't need no other body #

# Only you fi
Hold my body, girl #

# Only you fi hold my body #

# Whoa, whoa, whoa
You don't need no #

# Yeah, yeah #

# Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah #

# Oh, yeah #

I fucking love you, London.

Yo, that was amazing! Damn, bro.

Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, darling.

I flew in specifically
just for this,

and I'm flying out tomorrow.

That's how much of an important,
uh, moment it is.

And I've come here with my mom
as well and my sister.

Like, I brought the family
as well, you know?

So, yeah, it's beautiful,

it's really beautiful
to witness. Hello, Mama.

Songs like "Ojuelegba."
He brought back memories,

and he's still...
I'm so glad he's still there.

He's still...
He's getting better and better.

Essential personnel
only, please.

Essential personnel only.

I've been watching him
since I was really young.

And to see him come this far
is just amazing.

Honestly, I felt so emotional,
especially that ending.

...like old African
musicians like Fela.

They couldn't do this.
So, if we...

if, in our generation,
were able to do this,

I would say,

awesome, you got to be proud,
do you know what I mean?

Because then the future
is bright for African music.

The legacy... tomorrow,
they will talk about him.

He lead, and the rest follow.

Man, I feel blessed working
with amazing people,

the whole team.

Playing these venues, man.
I feel blessed.

Can't even put the words
to it right now, you know?

We did it.

It lets people know
you have the opportunity

to come and do something
as big as this.

So, the future of Afrobeats--
We're doing stadiums now.

One billion UK streams. Wow.

Thank you, thank you, guys,
I appreciate it.

Uh, I feel blessed.

Wiz has taught me,

at times when you want
to give up, you don't.

He's a fighter,
and he's made me into a fighter.

I believe

you're a product
of your environment.

That's why it's just
so important for me

to always fly high.

Fly in the highest colors
that I can, you know?

I'm representing for my people.

And just shining light

to the most amazing things
that happen out there.

There is deeper stuff in Africa.

Just as a moment in general.
It's just an amazing time.

Just to be Black.

Because this generation
understands the power we have.

That's why you see a lot
of creative energy

going around this generation.

His rise has been
really, really inspirational.

The moment you think
you can do something,

you definitely can do it.
As long as you take action.

The future
is bright for Africa.

This is definitely
just the beginning.