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Kevlexicon – Knobs

2017-08-17
By: kevlexicon
On: August 17, 2017
In: Music Video, Uncategorized, VLOG
Tagged: ACLU, American History, apartheid, black lives matter, Christian Parenti, Democracy Now!, depression, DIY, feminism, finance, Forbes, Government, Hbo, Kenyan Hip Hop, Kevlexicon, kkkolonialism, Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape Median Income Edition, Knobs, Lynching, Mass Incarceration, Michelle Alexander, NYTimes, Outsourcing, Prison industrial complex, Prison Unions, Prisons, sexism, Skills, slavery, Suicide, The Economist, vice news

  Kevlexicon – Knobs published May 26, 2015   Video Playlist for Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape & Documentary ( and vimeo ) Download Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape – Median Income Edition on Bandcamp.     Mistari/Lyrics: knobs You gotta make it like a discipline, this life is like a riddle and, am fiddling with the knobs tryna figure it out Vision external, lakini najua tuna-feel epidermal, Lost some organs but kept my heart, that’s more important Spit endorphins, swimmin thru my pain for lost frenz, Backwards ahistorical lens, and half-assed investigations, Handed down diagnosis: morality police that hold the keys to bein free, Energy efficiency wasted on the bloat, so you can have an extra boat, We drownin in poverty while u float, Fly girls hop a plane, stewardess, got too many sistas used to this abusive shit and stress, Hand up the dress, the other hand holds you down, Walk-in heels, no clouds, head bumpin, glass ceilin, It’s all economics, safety nets and no feelins, safe bets n inattention, take the credit, but u never get a mention, Literacy provided for u to imbibe the apartheid bullshit that they spit, Reactionary militants on some killin shit, …but we don’t fite theRead 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 →

Had Time

2017-08-17
By: kevlexicon
On: August 17, 2017
In: Music Video, Uncategorized, VLOG
Tagged: apartheid, Debt, Economic Inequality, Had Time, Kevlexicon, Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape Median Income Edition, lyrics, Manville, Mshamba Guilty, New Jersey, NJ Hip Hop, Poverty, Programmed Economic Failure of the Village, social justice, ukoo flani mau mau, Washamba Wenza

Kevlexicon – Had Time published August 27, 2015   Video Playlist for Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape & Documentary ( and vimeo ) Download Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape – Median Income Edition on Bandcamp.   Lyrics: had time This is such a bad time to be alive, u realise, u wish u had time, to go back, it doesn’t last, it doesn’t work, you’re on your ass and it hurts Pain in the life, the silences and the absences and the holes, that swallow u whole, Opportunity, nothin new for the youth, approachin 30, I kno its no longer about me, Tools to lead, withheld by those that inherit wealth, and they don’t share it well, Can’t expect that to change, so u deal wit it, Starin down hard facts, in the mirror, every mornin, I don’t write bcoz it’s boring, I don’t fight bcoz am warrin, Am not worried, this a warnin, Eyes closed like, minds in a poison dimension, Privlives in transit, rural poor in suspension, Life’s not like a movie, it’s like a quest to get (scene)seen, High (div)visibility, hostility, on the road to get cream, Not-so-clean lottery dreams, bank slaves to debt schemes, You take me but u don’tRead More →

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