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Economic Racism (Page 2)

Kevlexicon – Flowers

2017-08-18
By: kevlexicon
On: August 18, 2017
In: Documentary, Music Video, Uncategorized, VLOG
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Kevlexicon – Flowers Published April 26, 2016.   Video Playlist for Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape & Documentary ( and vimeo ) Download Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape – Median Income Edition on Bandcamp.     mistari / lyrics: Kevlexicon – flowers the pressure’s steady, years pass, flowers, no confetti, draw blood, but never give it back, if I could paint a pain picture with the drawn blood, I wouldn’t need to do this song, love, Outside, desire vampires, waitin in the shadow of time, Last time I blow my mind, with beautiful openins, just to feel like I had hope again, Feelins that’s dope again, Missin frenz, aint no comin back, so pardon me if my voice crack, Jus tryna get my voice back, Cuz it’s like joy got on another plane, and it aint been the same Permanent damage on a canvas with distortions, faces fade in my mind’s eye when I still need em, hungry futures, askin how’m I gon feed em, will the future hit again if I step in the line of fire? My eyes open but tired, walled off my heart thinkin it would heal, But it’s hard to tell if I can still feel, Opportunities slip andRead More →

Klanhattan KlanVillage Documentary ep1: Had Time Interview

2017-08-17
By: kevlexicon
On: August 17, 2017
In: Documentary, Music Video, Uncategorized, VLOG
Tagged: .pdf, Alexander Hamilton, American History, Anticolonial Resistance Movements, atomization, Audio Kusini, bangladesh, black panthers, Blind Willie Johnson, brats, C.L.R. James, capitalism, Christian Parenti, Demographics, drones, East African History, econkkklan, Economic Inequality, Economic Neoliberalism, Economic Racism, Exploitation, gentrification, Had Time, Hbo, Hip hop documentary, Imperialism, jacobin, jeezy, Kenya, Kevlexicon, Kitu Sewer, Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape Median Income Edition, lucky dube, Maji Maji Rebellion, Manville, Mau Mau Rebellion, Mayflower, Mike Davis, Mombasa, Nairobi, New Jersey, plantation, PlantationOwners, Programmed Economic Failure of the Village, Qama, rape, refugees, Research Materials, segregation, slavery, South Africa, The Economist, Turkana, ukoo flani mau mau, vice news, Yuppies

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 →

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