I Love You Full !

I was on the way to the quarry when my wife told me the news..

Mbah Surip has passed away.. News was that he fainted and was then pro­nounced dead pos­si­bly due to a heart failure.

For those who didn’t know who he was, he was no music leg­end like Michael Jack­son so most prob­a­bly there isn’t going to be any grand trib­ute con­cert for his funeral.. In fact until recently, mbah surip was an unknown street musi­cian, ded­i­cat­ing his life to spread­ing the music he loved, reggae..

With the unique fash­ion sense.. Don­ning the reg­gae colours on his head cover.. His dread­lock hair.. Pointy bright col­ored shoes.. His loud laugh.. His straight for­ward com­ments.. and his now famous quote “I Love you Full !”.. He was a one hit won­der with his catchy hit song “Tak Gendong”..

The most famous line in the song goes “Tak gen­dong.. Ke mana mana..” which means “I’ll carry you everywhere..”

It wasn’t the great­est song.. It was def­i­nitely catchy for most Indone­sians.. But more than that Mbah Surip and his song was an inspi­ra­tion to the many street musi­cian in Indone­sia to not give up on their quest for musi­cal glory..

Mbah Surip born as Urip Ariyanto on 5 Mei 1949, was divorced for 26 years and he is sur­vived by his 4 chil­dren and 4 grand­chil­dren.. He men­tioned in an inter­view that before he became a full time musi­cian, he tried a num­ber of pro­fes­sion.. Work­ing in an oil field, dia­mond mine, and he’s even trav­eled to Canada, USA and Jor­dan to look for work.. He also said that he holds an Engi­neer­ing degree, an MBA degree, and even a Doc­tor­ate degree.. I’m not sure how much of it were true… but it doesn’t make him any less interesting..

It is rumored that his esti­mated wealth to date was 82 bil­lion Rupiah.. That’s about 8.2 mil­lion US dol­lars.. If true its an unbe­liev­ably large amount for some­one who rose to fame less than a year ago.. I’m guess­ing that his wealth comes mostly from roy­al­ties that he is sup­posed to get from all those com­mer­cials, TV inter­views, Live shows, and of course the air­ing of his song.. He did pub­licly say before that most of his roy­al­ties hasn’t been paid to him in full.. I hope that all those mil­lions does actu­ally come to his fam­ily and not be manip­u­lated by the cor­po­ra­tions who owes him those money..

My wife was shocked when she heard of Mbah Surip’s death.. I told her.. “I guess its God’s way of telling him that he’s done enough.. Time to rest..”

R.I.P. Mbah Surip

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