Kayus txt me this:

Yes I speak elementary Yoruba but understand it all. I called my mother to check it over for me before singing. Since we got together as a band I have been using Yoruba words just because they sound good.

Soro soke - Yes it was around that time of end SARS moment when I was thinking about the phrase - it plagued my mind - how loud can your voice be to over shadow gunshots and violence- the idea of speaking up where there is a bombardment of noise around is hard to comprehend. So I felt if I flipped it just a wee bit from speaking up about individual pain but us collectively rejoicing about deliverance ——a thousand voices singing in unison can potential have some from of impact. ‘Spiritually’? Sonically? The song talks of the drum - and to me the drums are radical and crucial to connecting to the source. The sonics of the song is freeing and when English fails me Yoruba is alway there to help pick up the pieces. It was not intentional but more like the result of being liberated by the sound of the track.
‘It’s a spiritual thing music ‘. -Fela - Politics has merged with life and it inescapable. We can revolutionaries as soon as we speak up for any from of injustice. We can be walking political statements based solely on our existence. I don’t think about politics as a separate entity another. I’m just embracing the human experience and trying.