2024-05-05T01:42:43Z http://codagroovesent.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=poem&rss=yes&xn_auth=no tag:codagroovesent.ning.com,2019-01-11:2948740:Video:178414 2019-01-11T21:14:49.537Z KAMAL IMANI (Director, Poet, CEO http://codagroovesent.ning.com/profile/KAMALIMANIDirectorPoetCEO

<a href="http://codagroovesent.ning.com/video/state-of-the-black-nation-2019"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="0" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/728246380?profile=original&amp;width=0&amp;height=0" width="0"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>What's really good? What's really going on? Your Minister of Culture kicks the poetic truth<br></br> <br></br> Listen to The State of Black America!<br></br> <br></br> by The Minister of Culture<br></br> Kamal Imani<br></br> <br></br> Poetically Speaking!<br></br> #spokenword #poetry #blackhistorymonth #blacknation #blackamerica<br></br> #kamalimani…

<a href="http://codagroovesent.ning.com/video/state-of-the-black-nation-2019"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/728246380?profile=original&amp;width=0&amp;height=0" width="0" height="0" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />What's really good? What's really going on? Your Minister of Culture kicks the poetic truth<br /> <br /> Listen to The State of Black America!<br /> <br /> by The Minister of Culture<br /> Kamal Imani<br /> <br /> Poetically Speaking!<br /> #spokenword #poetry #blackhistorymonth #blacknation #blackamerica<br /> #kamalimani #kamalsupreme. tag:codagroovesent.ning.com,2012-04-02:2948740:Video:97733 2012-04-02T00:46:47.815Z KAMAL IMANI (Director, Poet, CEO http://codagroovesent.ning.com/profile/KAMALIMANIDirectorPoetCEO

<a href="http://codagroovesent.ning.com/video/trayvon-martin-never-again-yo-hip-hop-poetry"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2511786652?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>"Never Again Yo" is a tribute to the murder of Trayvon Martin in particular and all innocent victims of crime, police brutality, injustice and war! This is hot spoken word-hip hop poetry with a seriously hot beat!<br></br> <br></br> Never Again Yo!<br></br> <br></br> Yo, My Blood is boiling yo<br></br> Cause they keep shooting down our babies and they let the murderers go…

<a href="http://codagroovesent.ning.com/video/trayvon-martin-never-again-yo-hip-hop-poetry"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2511786652?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />"Never Again Yo" is a tribute to the murder of Trayvon Martin in particular and all innocent victims of crime, police brutality, injustice and war! This is hot spoken word-hip hop poetry with a seriously hot beat!<br /> <br /> Never Again Yo!<br /> <br /> Yo, My Blood is boiling yo<br /> Cause they keep shooting down our babies and they let the murderers go<br /> <br /> But when a football player hurts a dog he goes to jail<br /> It looks like we can no longer let this system fail us!<br /> <br /> So this time around<br /> <br /> They’ll be no witness tampering<br /> No Scapegoating<br /> No Fabrication of Evidence<br /> No sprinkling a little crack on the victim<br /> No District Attorney’s bowing down<br /> No Judges being bought<br /> No so-called friends on the television…telling lies to your vision<br /> There will be<br /> No unanimous decision<br /> From a jury of so-called peers<br /> No changing of venues to racist towns<br /> <br /> This time around<br /> We the people<br /> Won’t be caught up in mass deception<br /> For this time<br /> We’ll be putting it down<br /> <br /> Allowing our souls to ascend<br /> Remembering all of the previous Trayvon Martins<br /> We say “Never Again”!<br /> <br /> Never again will we be undecided<br /> Confused or divided<br /> The Muslims, Jews and Christians<br /> Bloods, Crips and El Rukins<br /> Blue collar and white collar<br /> Will be united<br /> The lightskin with the darkskin<br /> The rich with the poor<br /> Because if we haven’t learned anything else<br /> We now know one thing for sure<br /> That we are one!<br /> The people of the sun<br /> And we’ll fire upon Babylon<br /> With the truth of our tongues<br /> Our enemies might start the fight<br /> But we’ll be the victors in the end<br /> Cause we’ve come a long way baby<br /> Now we say Never Again!<br /> <br /> They’ll be no blaming our President<br /> No hiding behind the blue wall of silence<br /> No Appeal for calm and non violence<br /> <br /> We will use every resource that we got<br /> Starting with a nationwide boycott<br /> They’ll be no new suits for Easter<br /> No turkeys for thanksgiving<br /> No Christmas<br /> We’ll do Kwanzaa<br /> They’ll be no scratching where we don’t itch<br /> No status quo<br /> No business as usual<br /> Antagonist heads will role<br /> Our holocaust must end<br /> And to that end<br /> We’ll say<br /> Never again!<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Kamal Supreme<br /> Red Black and Green!<br /> <br /> This style is revolutionaryart!<br /> <br /> Bless The Mic!<br /> <br /> <br /> Download on Bandcamp! <a href="http://kamalimani.bandcamp.com/track/never-again-yo">http://kamalimani.bandcamp.com/track/never-again-yo</a><br /> On CDbaby and Itunes 4/7/12<br /> <br /> Never Again Yo! © 2012 Kamal Imani (T.Oats)