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Kevlexicon – Hole ( You’re Just Poor )

2017-08-18
By: kevlexicon
On: August 18, 2017
In: Documentary, Music Video, Uncategorized, VLOG
Tagged: #Demografikkks, apartheid hoods, barbies, Black Gzas, Brat Apartheid, brats, Dandora, Demographikkks, Demography, econkkklan, Economic Inequality, Economic Racism, Education, ekkkspats, finance, Gas Fyatu, GDP, Grind State, Hole, IMF, Inequality, institutionalized racism, Kenya, Kevlexicon, Kibera, Kiswahili, KKKommercial, Klan Village, Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape Median Income Edition, lyrics, mababis, median household income, mf doom, Mistari, mitaa, Moshikali, mtaa, Nairobi, New Jersey, NJ Hip Hop, occupy wall street, per capita, plantation, Plantation Economic System, PlantationOwners, Prince Town, Princeton, Privilege, Privs, Programmed Economic Failure of the Village, safespace, segregation, Sheng, Sheng Rap, social justice, Ukabila Ni Ujinga, ukoo flani mau mau, Unemployment Rate, village, Village Hip Hop, villager, wall street, World Bank, You're Just Poor, Yuppies

Kevlexicon – Hole ( You’re Just Poor ) Published August 10, 2016   Video Playlist for Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape & Documentary ( and vimeo ) Download Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape – Median Income Edition on Bandcamp.   Footage shot @ Princeton, New Jersey #PrinceTown Median household income: $105.9k , 2013 Manville, New Jersey #ManVillage #Klanville #KlanVillage Median household income: $61.4k, 2013 Nairobi, Kenya #Dandora$hitty: Median Household Income (2013): data unavailable. howevs: The Gross Domestic Product per capita in Kenya was last recorded at 1133.46 US dollars in 2015. The GDP per Capita in Kenya is equivalent to 9 percent of the world’s average. GDP per capita in Kenya averaged 826.41 USD from 1960 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 1133.46 USD in 2015 and a record low of 481.38 USD in 1961. GDP per capita in Kenya is reported by the World Bank. Unemployment Rate 40 % Dec/11 Yearly GDP per capita 1133 USD Dec/15 Yearly GDP per capita PPP 2901 USD Dec/15 Yearly src: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/kenya/gdp-per-capita http://www.tradingeconomics.com/kenya/indicators Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape – Median Income Edition is the definitive version of the Klanhattan KlanVillage Mixtape. We know “ukabila ni ujinga”; there are two klans, the global elite minority “barbie” / “Klanhattan”Read 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 →