Spoken Word & Music

A little preview of the single of the summer. Lemonade that Bixh. Heartbreak to Mixtape in a song.

Lemonade That Bixh Demo Snippet

AKA "Lemonade That Bitch" the hit single off The Midnight Gospel mixtape by Amani O+

That Midnight Gospel

Mahogany Toned Matrimony

We working thru jealousy, embracing oneness, and celebrating our interconnectivity in Part 1 of this new track “Jealous No More”. 🎶

Big shoutout to the incredible Max Morin, who engineered this masterpiece and who was also in the room helping create the inspiration behind it, Nick Jonas’ “Jealous.” 🎵 

Let the spirit of unity and the abundant love of community, nature and the universe flow thru as you vibe out to this track.

Jealous No More Pt. 1

You've made me beautiful again 

You listen 
when I tell you how much I appreciate your essence 
And you hear it 
You see me 
Seeing you 
And I feel affirmed 
Because it is all I have ever wanted (to say) since last spring 
“Underneath the sickemore tree

Made me A...
more sicker emcee” 
With “a sickening addiction 
Living with this 
Living witness” to life and her shit list  
Would make you, run from “religion, …
 with the quickness” 

My country capitalistic 
Puts 
babies beneath ballistics 

where nice people are pressed into machine cogs
While *kats* that are *so poetic* spit poetry (later bars) in between subway cars 
And everyones too preoccupied pretending not to notice 
We're riding a reading rainbow 

No invite tho? 

to dine at life's table of pleasures 
And I feel guilty 
Eat with me 

The thirst in this city is outta control sometimes 
Considering the high level of I I don't give a fuckery!

A sister and brother 
giggle and tug 
on childhood
to my right 
and I can't help but to smile 

I’d hate to be the person who can

People respond to my questions 
about their happiness aggressively 
As if I needed a lesson 
in-all-the-ways-that-things-are-so-succinctly-screwed-up 

She's tense 
She's their mother 
She winces 
And grimaces 

She asks me to take the baby 
I would but I'm getting off the next stop. 
I realize she's speaking to her daughter who is shocked- 
that I would cradle a stranger 
 
Not knowing that I waltz horizontally with friends who make themselves strangers with great walls sealed with emotion 

Give me your body 
I cradle him too
Give me your boy 

I know you intimately 
And I don't know the first thing you 
 
I 
do know I gotta go back downstairs
tho ..The family dollar got pads cheaper than bus fare 
And after last night I'm flowin like a poet with Milky Way kisses along her cheekbones
“Alive with a hive of a mind buzzing with” rythmic words and lyricism 
No need to switch the *Algorythm* 
This is simply the that way it is 

sway with me 

But not the only the way it needs to be.



sway ... 4you, nyc & 4brooklyn

A verse i originally did for my cousin Shazam's track Strap'd ... that version ended up having my vocals misaligned so donfons reworked the beat for me and we put it out the track on it's own -really allowing the messages to shine. Power Packed Punch calling for liberation, celebrating personal growth through overcoming adversity, resilience and strength. And a whole lotta pussy love cuz I'm tired of hearing pussy as a synonym for anything negative being that it is the birth canal to the whole mammalian world!....cuz like why lie on the global and historical kitty?  #raptivism #activism #consciousmusic #movement #jersey #freepalestine #freethecongo #freesudan #handsoffhaiti

Songs of Joy Purpose + Survival

Alignment

Young Blood
(for Rema Olugbala)

They think they killed you 
But I saw you yesterday, 
standing with your hands in your pocket 
waiting for the real deal to go down. 
I saw you smiling your “fuck it” smile, 
blood in your eyes, 
your heart pumping freedom 
Youngblood!

They think they killed you. 
But I saw you yesterday 
in the playground. 
Black skin, sweaty, shiny 
hurling your ball bomb into the hoop 
right on target. 
Won’t be no game next time 
cause you ain’t hardly playing.

They think they killed you. 
But I saw you yesterday 
with your back against the wall, 
muscles bulging against the chains, 
eyes absorbing truth. 
Lips speaking it. 
Heart learning how to love. 
Head learning who to hate. 
Blood ready to flow 
towards freedom. 
Youngblood!

Youngbloods ain’t got no blood to waste 
in no syringes, on no barroom floors, 
in no strange lands 
delaying other Youngbloods’ freedom. 
We don’t need no tired blood. 
No anemic blood. No blood clots 
in our new body.

They think they killed you. 
But i saw you yesterday. 
All them youngbloods 
musta gave you a transfusion. 
All that strong blood. 
All that rich blood 
flowing through your veins 
toward tomorrow.

Assata Shakur  

They Think They Killed You #BLACKlivesmatter (by Assata Shakur)

Black Genuis. Soul Fire Farm.  We Ain't Gonna Stop Till Our People Are FREE!

Pastor's Suite Tracks 16 Bars for Science Hip-Hop Challenge manifests into such magic....

Science Class- feat. Horace Micheal, Jayton London & unEarthtone(Amani Olugbala)

Download & Donate here: https://livedehtdnaem.bandcamp.com/releases

For Dontay. 

This is a free release, however any money contributed will be donated to the families of victims of police violence.
credits
released 17 April 2015 

Written and performed by Masai and Amani 
Produced and arranged by Mike Arson 
Mixed and mastered by Fat Buckle Audio 

A reimagining of "Me and the Devil" by Robert LeRoy Johnson, as performed by Gil Scott-Heron 

In loving memory of Donald "Dontay" Ivy.

Me And The Devil (In loving memory of Donald "Dontay" Ivy)Amani O+ & Masai ATG #BlackLivesMatter

A sonic spill of spirit guides, sacred cravings, and early-morning noise.
Oats & Tatas is what happens when the ancestors hum over breakfast and you’re just lucid enough to hear it.

Buddhism in the belly. Liberation in the leak.
A song to chew on slow

Support The Movement 

Oats and Tatas

Entitled was written in the Sonoran desert as the world shut down.
A sonic shoutout to the essential, the forgotten, the fierce 💫
Genderqueer, Fat, Disabled, Spectrum, Black, Femme, Indigenous, Working Class, Young people, Elders, the mother drum, and our non-human kin.
An ode to the lives we lost because of ableism, eugenics, and the world’s refusal to heed the calls of disability justice advocates.
For the ones who kept each other alive while the oceans returned.
We can rest. We can love. We can thrive beyond capitalism.
This is proof:
we ain’t have to pay to make it work.
You don’t have to earn your breath.
i want you around.

Support The Movement  

Entitled

So Boom. I was depressed ... still kinda am, and felt like I needed to turn it around to do my work in this movement for liberation. So I hit up the Homie and we freestyled to a Lil Jon type beat we'd found and this was what came out. We all have a role to play in building the new world. Don't forgot you are necessary, capable and brilliant at whatever it is you do best. We need you, your hope, your creativity, your you. So stay hopeful ho

Hopeful Ho

For everyone, for Poetically Undefined, for the Poets, for QEW 7, for the reader, for the listener, for YOU!

Visit www.amanipoet.com for more poetry. 

(Background music The Album Leaf Into the Blue Again cover. The Album Leaf website http://www.thealbumleaf.com/index.php?galleryNum=0)

Brilliance (For You)

Poet: Amani O+
Audio: Catching Flies - Let Your Hair Down

(He Came With Love) Wednesday morning poetry

Thank you 518. Can I hug you all? Yeah you ... I am consistently honored and inspired

Can We Get Much Higher (Early Ode To Black Love)

Boss Mode Produced By Donfons With Kat So & Jayton

Lyrics: 

Tunes here to Ration the passion and Truth that i seek 

Come on
🖐🏽 👌🏾 Imma take you home 
And i know that my chrome is embedded in the rock that I’m throwing so I stopped taking shots at my the pane of my siblings 
saw we all hear to love and we gotta home live in 

Earth 

Lizzo taught me 
We in a two story 
True story oh bore ya with me with a hate 
cuz you fake 
Got a cake and a fatty 
And a whole team 
Of Baddies 
Call em eat right live good go slow You big ya small ya Beautiful 

Place a kiss on lip of the petal 
That you pluck 
With consent 
Be gentle. 
 
Give thanks 
While emb-
racing the flower
 or let it be Let it go 
Watch it grow 
Aaaaall of puppet 
Aaaand Gepetto 

Since i was little for the people,

Born with sword and the chord in my tongue 

Learn from the elders, 

- do it for the young - 
 - Who done come 
To do it all again,
   Re-In
Carnation
Re - In 
Ca
Suckerin sucker rash 
And All tarnstions 

Boarders ain’t real 
nor are Nation 
We all siblings,

Babies meerly dribbling 

We are all each other each other we

Been
 one another’s mother 

The chicken is me the children is we the species is being 
The genus is light 


I Don’t wanna fight no more 
Drop ya weapons to the floor 
come and dance over in to the middle  
Save a little for our love 
 for the homies that ain’t here 
Or that’s queer 
Up lift and pro tect em 

  Make this groove an anthem a lesson 
Put ya left leg in 
if you can 
And groove to the left 
If you can’t aaaant
Then pick 
ya yo next best if 
you can 

and from left 

gon shuffle to the right 
That’s right 
Gin shuffle to right 
You light 
We gon 


Take it on down give thanks tap the floor if you can Either way 
you we know we gon dance 
Either way we know 
Either you gon dance 

Freestyle 
Freestyle 
Star child 
Re wild 

207
wind it up to receive 
some more of these blessings 
I ain’t stressing with accomplices protecting black black bodies
 down to ride for me 

share resources 
justice based lottery 
Reparations reparations 
Reparations 
Revelation 
Saying gracing 
Elevation 
Levitation
Leavin dream like 
Happiness my occupation 
Levitation 

Pro immigration 
Re
presentation
Product of great migration
Know I’m here for 
The Mini
 melanation

It’s gon be alright 
It’s lit 
Gonna be grit

Decolonize
Reindigonize 
Whaaaaa


5/1 or earlier 2019

GRIT

Quick mix of tracks by "the B.L.A.C.K. label" raptivists Amani O+ & donfons from 2015 to 2019. Peep the Growth.  Follow the Journey. More to come 2020.

Black Farmer Shuffle - Amani O+ AND Donfons - prod. donfons (2016)

Beyond the FkBoy - Amani O+ - prod. donfons(2018)

Everyone has a fascinating story. I like to hear them I like to tell them. In my mind (heart) I paint scenes, choreograph ballets with my words. I'm a plant it's my photosynthesis, I'm a sun it's me shining, I'm a newborn just inching towards a beautiful boob...I'm just doing what I know how to do and investing my time in what I think is important. (I was recently deathly afraid that line would make me sound conceited).

We are all Divine ...this is me having the audacity to let my light shine. I WANT YOURS TO TOO! 

I "pray" for a divine-awareness revolution where everyone realizes that we are already on heaven and that life is truly ours to direct. 

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." Audre Lorde
Inspirations: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qptyt0-S9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXq_mVU8nyc

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