Kin Camell " Too "

Too musical
Too unusual
Too lyrical
Too spiritual ....

Kin Camell's "Sonic Boom"

Chronic consumed

Kin sends

Sonic Boom

Like my style

Was Guile

Plus How

Brung me

Trunk tree

Now

My eyes

Chung Li

No bolony

Only

Ken and

Yolanda

Can Sun me

Got cha

Charged like Blanka ...

Kin's a man

Kin's a man

In a land

Of serpents

And danger

A perfect

Stranger

Like Balki

Damn right

My hands write

The life of Alchy

Kin's in a cloud of tree

singed doubt and grief ….

Kin Camell's "Action Of Passion"

Holdin raw
And goin bald
No Rogaine
Got mo lines
Than Soul Train
So I'm
On a role
Like Esther
Ya know
My sole pleasures
Ta go bless her
Huh
Dont judge
My soul loves
So what ?
Kins pen
 showed up
To take her
To nirvana
 Cheef's Love
Was enough
To fill
Thee void
Why kill
And destroy
Since Kin's
vibe heals
With deep joy
My actions of passion
Got ya unfastened
Ol stroke
No joke
And the tounge lashin
Trill spill
Ya fell
One lastin
Trip ta bliss

Kin Camell's "Been N!ce as Glen Rice"

Behind

These lines

Kin's been nice

As Glen Rice

Trust the stuff

My pen writes

Sends flights

At zen heights

A pure honah

Measure the pleasure

As nirvana

A pur honah

Measure the pleasure

As nirvana

Behind these lines

And in between

I redefine

Then redeemed

From thee mess

And b

I resigned ....

Kin Camell" Not Glue"

Ol thrilla dude

On gorilla glue

Oh well sir

No Elmers

We aint glue

KiN Camell

Been ta hell

He aint coo

Trill spill

Still ….

It's cool

Dont need

To

Blow trees

With you

And this means

Its no we

Shit's through

Cheef knew

People's

evils

Lead to

Deceitful

Ventures

Then folks

injured

Then soak

dentures

No fables

Even this heathen

Needed

Those staples

In head

Kin bled

Yeah

Comedy = No Joke

Comedians such as; Dick Gregory , Richard Pryor ,Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle and Micheal Che utilize observational commentary which address the hypocrisy that exist in " The Land of The Free". The Chapelle Show highlighted social inequities in the U.S with skits like Tyron Biggums where a blind Black man is a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The skit goes on to underline how ignorance and fear further perpetuate acts of racism aka acts of domestic terrorism. In the everyday world Melanated people use humor to reduce the sting racism inflicts and the way Melanated people did not allow "Barbecue Becky" to take away there beautiful day at Lake Merritt is just one of many examples .

Ps I came across this interesting information and wanted to share ……. Poet Maya Angelou was quoted saying, “the slaves were not allowed to laugh on many plantations. When the urge to laugh became irrepressible, the slaves had a ‘laughing barrel’ into which they would lean way down, with the pretext of getting something, and laugh. The slaves would then go back to whatever it was they were doing.” White people viewed slaves laughing as a form of disrespect to them. Some plantations owners had barrels set up on the plantation and when a slave heard something funny they would have to run off to one of these barrels in order to laugh. Some people believe that this is where the phrase a “barrel of laughs” derived.

Work Cited

https://blackthen.com/a-barrel-of-laughs-why-slaves-were-not-allowed-to-laugh-on-many-plantations/

Pps I noticed a common theme with Melanted people  giving nicknames to the racists ladies who harass them as well. Its safe to conclude that this action reduces some of hate by adding humor to a potentially life or death situation. I recall an off duty officer pulling a gun out on my cousin's father. This incident was provoked by a child supposedly  kicking his fence. There was no humor in our situation however my family was so relieved none of us got shot we did kind of laugh on the way home.

Kin Camell Peace to Althea Gibson

Ill be the rhythm

My styles free

Yah

I gift em

Like Althea Gibson

I serve love

And my word does

Bond

No James

Unless its Lebron

Um, yes

This is the bomb

Like Cunningham

To Moss

Or the Running Man

Across

The stage of graduation

This is the age of maturation

And Aquari us.

Mam

I Carry trust

Bam !

I barried lust

With actions of passion

Not cash and fashion.

Kin Camell's peace to Little Ann

Peace to little ann

Cheef's a brittle man

Since he

Gave her

His aorta

(He stays in a blur)

His motor's order

Is out of sync

When hes out of the pink

Cease rewindin

My memories tape

Like Hennessey taste

She's remindin

How wild

And Toxic

Thoughts get

Kin Camell Massive

Deep.

Peace to Roy Ayers

Cheef seeks

Joy to share

That feelin

Of mass healin

Not mass

Like Catholic

This bastid's

Mass is

Massive

Like The Blackness

In contrast with

the grafted

I mean

Dan Patrick's

Fam

And the Baptist

Or

Your fam that practiced

Islam

This song

Is bomb.

And this groove lifts

my fam who is

Jewish

True ish

Peace to Leon Powe

Peace to Leon Powe

Cheefs beyond go

Speech neon glow

Peep my freon soul

Eyday

flakes

Deviate like septums

And de appreciate

My blessin

I strive

To alleviate

The stressin

Med i tate

And med i cate

Ta el e vate

To a betta space

This basta

Is nasa

With wit
I Splash ya

It gets intense
Since
Desperation
And patience
Dont mix

(Cheef ,No shit)
(We Go Flip)

Like Dominque Dawes
Ima feed the raw

We on now
Peace from Cheef
To Simone Biles

Kin needs a Lisa Lisa

Solo dolo
On the high route
So much death and stress
All cried out

I need a
Lisa Lisa

Lets
Cult i vate
Yes
Mo ti vate

And Jam
Like Jars
Or
Perserves
If you perfer

Por fa vor
Please release
For sure

Kin's sins and depression

All the raw

Kin invested

And gist left with

A grim small intestine

Born hard

No porn star

Yet my balls

Isnt questioned

Gave yall my all

Despite my sins

and depression

Kin Camell "Its Plain" ( No Mayo)

Shark

Deep

My art

Beats

From 52nd

To ya part

Of the street

Or hills

Most folks

Snore on the skill

Ignore my will

To strive

Since Kin's

A man

That can't

Afford wheels

To drive

Its plain

(No mayo)

(Flow yayo)

Stickin to my script

Like Kane

From Kung Fu

And um gumshoe …..

Kin Camell ish

His

Soul is Gretzky

Sold coke

(Huh)

No  pepsi

So, lets see

If the gist of this

Ol dude's

Recipes'

Is

Soul Food

I bless ya peeps

Peace to the goodie mob

I roll Goo

No cookie coma

Peace to Tookie and lonas

On a limb

Dwayne caint hang

He needs to slang

His diction

This mission

Is a gift

With the rhythm

For Nina Simone, more than a poem

Ken Camell ll

October 15 2019

Afram 26

Professor Erica Williams

              More than poem for Nina Simone ......

At age 3 she

began to handle piano keys

In 1955 she was denied

Acceptance into college

when she applied

It was due to

Segregation

America's apartied

but despite all the hatred

to the school of juliard she made it

on her track Mississippi Goddamn

she let ya know life was risky

for a Black Man

this is

More than a poem

about nina simone

She's a revolutionary

with a microphone

When she sung

She hit america like a cyclone

Her beautiful thick lips

Spit soulful linguistics

If you missed it

Go to the store

and cop a disk quick

(Huh) cop a disk quick

And her song sinner man

fed my soul like dinner fam

her songs provided

Info on legislation

Such as jim crow

And segregation

its crazy though

her songs don't get played

on the radio

but she's important still

She inspired Erykah Badu

And Lauryn Hill

Some say nina's

Demeanah was meana

The average senorita

But thats because

America didn't treat hah

With respect

So she chose to reflect

the fact

Thats its a blessing

To be Young, Gifted and Black !

                               

Nina Simone is a Woman who is undervalued and I love to give her the proper respect she's deserving of. She is a radical human being plus a musical genius and that's why I prepared this assignment.

Eyes Watch
Kins seen
In between
Oz and Ox

From Belly
Hun smell tree
Roastin
Cheef's Potion
Be Potent

Death is nice
Next life

Deep Stroken
(in Eve's Ocean)

Kin's ol tank (top)

Tribe

Thanx tha dank

Cheef refrains

from ya crank.

I love the

Skunk

I aint got

No shank

O No pump

Gist an ol tank

Ken is Zen

Ken is Zen

than he's evah been

This nerd deserves

Jenny from the Jeffersons

Kick it like karate

Get lifted

Like a Marley

Mam,

Even Dan

Agrees Cheef's

The man

With the Thundah

And

Since Ken's

Tribe survived the tundra

Land

Of Alaska

Its no wondah

This Bastah

Has tah

Splash ya

Ken is Zen than he's evah been

The nerd deserves

Jenny from the Jeffersons

Kin Camell Peace Lord

Peace Lord

Cheef wars

With bliss

And greed whores

So his soul

Is consoled

By n!ce

Key boards

My dope notes

And waves amaze

Like sea shores

My steez pure

I be sure

Night and Day

Why detour ?

The way I write's

My right of way

Supplies thee cure

A solution

To the pollution

Be fore

We snore

Eternally

Kin's Journal speaks

Life Reflecting Sketchings

Ken Camell ll

Oct 6 2019

Afram 26

Critical Response Essay #1

The importance of leaving a written or verbal narrative is imperative to ensure melanated people will no longer be removed from history (Eurocentric perspective of time) or our story (Asiacentric perspective of time). To share our story is too resist.

On page 30 of Black Culture and Black Consciousness author Lawrence Levine clarifies "slave music regardless of origin was a distinctive cultural form and it was created or constantly recreated through a communal process". With this statement Levine clearly explains slave songs served as a Melanated social commentary or as I like to call them "Life Reflecting Sketchings".

Resist failing to voice the U.S and the Western World consistent  socio economic atrocities which ravage the quality of life for the majority of the Earth's human population. Resist staying silent about the blood sweat and tears Melanated people lost while building Colonial plantations and maintaining the U.S labor force ( chattel slavery, convict leasing, 3 strikes) .

Despite having ample reasons to stay pessimistic , songs expressing resilience while acknowledging the everyday struggle of surviving represents an organic form of resistance. Providing people with hope and reason to hold on to the possibility of rising above whatever obstacles hindering  progression is invaluable. Songs of upliftment convey spiritual support in times of despair (the valleys) and in times of joy (the peaks). It doesn't matter if its hectic work week or you are experiencing the loss of a loved one.

Whether in the form of art & entertainment (music ,film, sports)  or politics to defy the status quo through "distinctive cultural forms" (unconventional) expression is the epitome of resisting. These rad expressions are representations of how one person can make a difference and change people's perspective. Radical Melanated people such as ; Jack " The Galveston Giant" Johnson , W.E.B Dubois  ,Paul Robenson, Mahailla Jackson, Odetta , Billie Holiday, Leotyne Pryce, Lauraine Hainsberry, Paulie Murray , Nina Simone , Curtis Mayfield Bobby Seale & Huey Newton , Thommie Smith & John Carlos , Shirley Chisolm, Spike Lee ,Mae Johnson, Ryan Coogler, Kolin Kaepernick and Ava Duvernay are all testaments of resisting.

Levine reminds the readers that " the slaves oral tradition , their music and their religious outlooks served as a cultural refuge from the slave system".

Levine concludes the 3rd chapter with emphasizing the fact that  slave songs and spirituals are independent cultural forms therefore the reader can connect the dots between the blues , jazz , soul and hip hop and also understand how powerful music is.

Kin Camell Damn Right

Damn ,

Write

To

Rise

In

Battle

And

Life

Is us

Kins up

And tends

Tah give a fuck

Yall,

I'm no prostitute

All

My lines

Yah gots tah salute

No twenty one

Gun

Kin hes the son

Of a bum

A brotha

Unda massive

Drastic

Tactics

So Camells

The Bastid

To Unveil

Magic

Damn

Right

To

Rise

In

Battle

And

Life

Kins deep melanin

Try keep

tellin them,

Thy deep mel a nin

Ya Eye,

peeps reflection

When

My ex,pressions

Bend,

(Repeat chorus 3x)

the hands of time

since,

Tribes' expectin

Wins

And im

Sketchin gems

Despite

Pestilence

Cheefs

Fresh again

And mam

Deaths been

Testin Kin's

Testicles

Its best ya know

Try keep

tellin them,

Thy deep mel a nin

Ya Eye,

peeps reflection

When

My ex,pressions

Bend,

Cheefs' sketchin

With a number two

Ya cant test

The Number won

Der fol