Femi Kuti's new album, No Place for My Dream, comes out on June 25, and CBC Music streams the album until its release — have a listen.

LISTEN AUDIO Femi Kuti No Place for My Dream Knitting Factory Records Tracklist Streams until June 25, 2013 Femi Kuti faces the same challenge as Adam Cohen, Jakob Dylan, Ziggy Marley and every other famous kid of a famous musician faces, but with one added obstacle. Kuti’s dad, Fela Kuti, wasn’t just a famous musician a son would inevitably be compared to; Kuti senior was also a notable human rights activist and such a strong political force in Nigeria, speaking out against the repressive government of his day, that he was jailed and his family compound was burned. Musically, Fela also pioneered an entire new genre, Afrobeat, which is still going strong. (And then there were Fela's 27 wives, but that’s another story.)

Another part of Fela’s history that his sons (Seun Kuti is also a musician) inevitably face is the peculiarity that the very place the Nigerian government once torched, Fela’s Kalakuta commune, is now a museum, funded in part by the Lagos government.

The weight of all that legacy is woven into the music that Femi makes, which addresses many of the same causes his father’s music did — corruption in government, for example. Afrobeat also fuels much of the album, although Femi has also created his own style — less percussive, more melodic — as you can hear on No Place for My Dream.