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Klanhattan KlanVillage Documentary ep1: Had Time Interview

On: August 17, 2017

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Kevlexicon – Klanhattan KlanVillage Documentary ep1: Had Time Interview published August 27, 2015 This Economic History documentary has a free companion .pdf you can download here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByizAe4GpB1ARmtpbGNSUEpnUjA Check out all of Kevlexicon’s Research Materials (.pdfs) on: Google Drive Dropbox Video Playlist for Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape & Documentary ( and vimeo ) Download Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape – Median Income Edition on Bandcamp. Klanhattan KlanVillage Documentary episode 1 Kevlexicon talks about the situations that inspired the mistari (lyrics) of his new song, “Had Time”, off the Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape. Using the song as an entry point, Kevlexicon begins to talk about the larger global economic forces and hip hop histories that inform his recent works. Living in Kenya and reading The Economist, growing up broke, going to a decent college, talking about economic inequality, the Klanhattans and KlanVillages… *edit: yeh, the pic of Mumbai, India is actually Sao Paulo, my bad. (conflicting google image search references, wups) Excerpt from the .pdf: Reading Hamilton From The Left – Jacobin Mag https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/reading-hamilton-from-the-left/ “Two hundred years ago, Alexander Hamilton was mortally wounded by then Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey. Their conflict, stemmingRead More →

Kazi Kwa Washamba – Hip Hop & Hustling In East Africa

By: kevlexicon

On: August 16, 2017

In: Documentary, Music Video, Uncategorized, VLOG

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Kevin Teryek Kusini/Kevlexicon, edited by Monaja 28 November, 2012 Lecture notes Kazi Kwa Washamba Hip Hop and Hustling in East Africa First of all, I’d like to dedicate this lecture to all the East African hip hop heads I’ve been fortunate enough to work with. With this project particularly I’d like to thank Mwongela Kamencu, aka Monaja for editing and for his translation and analysis of “Angalia Saa.” Brief outline of Kenyan History I’d like to provide a context for understanding East African hip hop. To this end, I’d like to give a brief outline of Kenyan history. • The two official languages in Kenya are KiSwahili and English. There are over 42 other local languages, referred to as “mother tongues.” Swahili is a mixture of coastal Bantu and Arabic. Studies have established that Swahili was actually a Bantu language with heavy Arabic influences. The Swahili people existed before the coming of the Arabs. The Swahili language spread inland with the Arab slave trade. English spread with missionary activity, then colonialism, since the 1880s and 1890s. • In 1920, Kenya became an official colony of the British. White settlers profited from African forced labor on coffee and tea plantations forRead More →