Majek Fashek Quotes

Nigeria, Guitarist
February 6, 1963 – June, 2, 2020.

Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek was a Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was best known in his home country for the 1988 album Prisoner of Conscience, which included the multiple award-winning single "Send Down the Rain". Also known as The Rainmaker, he worked with various artists worldwide including Tracy Chapman, Jimmy Cliff, Michael Jackson, Snoop Dogg, and Beyoncé.

Also known as Songwriter

You cannot fight the press, you cannot fight the media. They are the ones that will tell people what is going on, so I cannot fight the media. They said I’m crazy, I use cocaine. Well, I still use cocaine. I dey blow my nose, I dey smoke my Igbo. As I speak to you, I have cocaine in my pocket and in my house. I still dey use am. I can’t stop. How will you play music with a ‘normal eye’? You can’t be a good musician playing without getting high. Pastors dem dey high too. The truth is that you can’t be on the human level and give the message. The humans are looking up to you, so you must be superhuman to live up to their expectations.

Majek Fashek
- People
- Speak
- Media
I make sounds while all these young musicians make jam, I make good sounds but they are always jamming, they don’t make good sound, they just jam.

Majek Fashek
- Musicians
- Sounds
- Jamming

When will the African people unite? When will the African people come together? Europeans, Americans getting stronger every day, And there is disunity among the African people

Majek Fashek
- People
- Stronger
- African
I was sick, anybody can be sick. What I have is a spiritual problem which I am dealing with. Even in the Bible, it was stated that we are not fighting against flesh and blood, but wickedness in high places. I am a freedom fighter, I can never be shot like Lucky Dube, I am invincible, you can’t shoot me.

Majek Fashek
People must talk. But they make you popular; that’s the truth.

Majek Fashek
- People
- Truth
- Popular