Amani Will / Wa Ama & the Lion Truth

Am Today

Back when Amani Will was known as iamani i. ameni. 

Our debut solo album ventures innovatively far from our original background with the fast tongued, lyrically gifted, justice minded, tich nhat han meets huey p. newton bay area hip-hop crew 'The Attik'. The Lion Truth keeps it's hip-hop bones while 2 chord strumming on some folk-hop soul experimental shit. Sweet, tender, funky, fun, eclectic, and deeply introspective. Waiting on the Pre(-)sent offers a better day in every song, it's theme music for the grown & growing, for the healers and the healing, & for anyone seeking something closer to ourselves. You'll find yourself singing along before you know it...

download the whole album here:
http://onlyiamani.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-on-the-pre-sent
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/iamani

Grace

i.Ameni the BeatMan is the Beat behind many of the favorites from Los Rakas, Ise Lyfe, The Attik, Brwn Bflo, Jennifer Johns, Bambu and more. He keeps us on our toes with an eclectic resume of his own works from folk to thoughtful oakland scrapper music. 

Los Rakas-Soy Raka (produced by Wa Ama & The Lion Truth)

Met this brother Eyesful on the street in Amsterdam on tour with Jonah Matranga in 2009, He was rocking the didgeridoo and beatbox hard, i sat down and we freestyled for a while. it was love at 1st rhyme :) we decided to kick it and ran into method man shortly afterwards outside a laundry mat. We kicked it with him while he did his laundry!!! :) we rocked a show later on and then spent the night riding all over Amsterdam with a crew of beautiful folks freestyling, smoking, feasting, and sharing story. one of my favorite days/nights for sure. The beatbox and sound fx on this track are from Eyesful's track 'Release the Freak'. there is def. More to come soon... 

watch the original magic here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JRSBrtlxa4&list=PLAB95A26AB5339D8B

Follow Eyesful here: https://soundcloud.com/eyesful

bless.

Power Begins Ft Eyesful

You, created only a little lower than 
The angels, have crouched too long in 
The bruising darkness 
Have lain too long 
Face down in ignorance. 
Your mouths spilling words 

today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, 
Come, you may stand upon my 
Back and face your distant destiny, 
But seek no haven in my shadow. 
I will give you no hiding place down here. 

Each of you, a bordered country, 
Delicate and strangely made proud, 
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege. 
Your armed struggles for profit 
Have left collars of waste upon My shore, currents of debris upon my breast. 
Yet today I call you to my riverside, 
If you will study war no more. Come, 
Clad in peace, and I will sing the songs 
The Creator gave to me when I and the 
Tree and the rock were one. 
Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your 
Brow and when you yet knew you still 
Knew nothing. 
The River sang and sings on. 


The River Sang ft Maya Angelou

Don't Get Lost In The Magic

this track came from the earthquake at 3am in late august 2014, heart break, reawakening, water in the desert and a good lion turtle friend of mine... what's the sensation?

Slowly

https://iameni.bandcamp.com/album/walk-right-up-to-the-son

Damn this track is deep y'all,
I found my father dead of a heart attack when i was bout to be 7. this is some of the story of my process with this... I found some family video's and the voices are actually my little sister and my papa... 


from: 
Walk right up the Son:
For fathers and the children of fathers, for fatherhood and fatherlessness, for men and manhood, for mothers and mothers trying to be fathers, and for the healing and celebration of our relationships to all of these... 

For my Father Harrison Simms

Walk Right Up To The Son

from the folk songs of the caucus mountains and that bay area slap

caucus mountain slapper

What can i say,
Redemption song is one of the greatest songs ever...

this is my humble attempt to make it swing and knock...



Bob Marley -Redemption Song-(Wa Ama & the Lion Truth remix)

From The Ascen-Dance Dj's medicinal mix "Sol Tree-t" 
https://amaniwill.bandcamp.com/album/sol-tree-t

medicine for the people.

nahko bares
bear heart (bare heart)

medicine for the people.

check em out...

http://nahko.com/
https://www.facebook.com/nahkoandmedicineforthepeople
https://twitter.com/NahkoBear
https://www.youtube.com/user/medicineforthepeople

i'm an open source kinda dude,
i hope it's cool Brother Nahko, that i added a verse 2 this track, put it on a mix, and offered it as a download to a select group of folks...
not tryna steal, only promote...

your music is so inspiring, so good, it pulled the verse outta me.

my humble receptivity,
if that's wack...

all due Respect.

Nahko Bear & Medicine For The People Ft Wa Ama & The Lion Truth -Wash Away - (Sol Tree - T Mix)

and i heard the prayer bell ring in the center of the earth
and i was cracked open.

naturally i found this

the rain-bro A-Natural wrang the bell and set the tone with the silky ass riffs you hear in here 

one of my favorites.

enjoy

My Soul Ft A-Natural

...?Ready.?...

JamesAmutabi Todaii & Amani Will / the Lion Truth bring us:

The 1st of many to come 
from the Creative Liberation Network Sun.
 
We shine into our agreements and undo any tangles 
that wrangle the us that's free, 
and sing new songs of liberty.

Pick a card, any card, and see how we agree...

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Magic without Magicians

In Agreement

From Amani Will & Wa Ama & the Lion Truth's Up and coming 
'Dilla-Gently : a J Dilla Mixtape'

& the Creative Liberation Network's Daily Q's #CLNatthebend Heyokha new moon #1

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Who are we – ancestor to be! Take us on a tour of our family tree. 

Share a song from the rhythm of our roots, a photo from our Hue-full trunk, writing that represents the reach of our branches, art drawn to leave, a video of our fallen nuts, fruits and flowers. Feel no pressure, just the invitation.

Each offering is perfect – completion IS perfection! Post your response on your social network sites and in the CLN Facebook Group if you are inspired to share. 

#CLNatthebend


Lyrics:

I was an egg in my mama’s ovaries 
when my mama was an embryo in my grandmama’s uterus
pops was 11 years old 900 miles away
with no idea of what their love would do to us
now I’m here again on the planet near it’s end
o-zone brought the black light and the mirrors in
lookin at this blood and this semen
wild nights crazy dreamin’
fat parties exercise the exorcism free the demons
hangin’ from my family tree
fruits like the liberty 
statues of empire 
how’s that from a G.O.D.
politican on that free will
atleast that free labor 
strange cuz that slavery 
ain’t savin me and who’s this savior
jesus Christ 
I love that man
But they used his name in vein
I’m going cold turkey
Giving thanks
gettin off the kane
I’m able bodied
Walking struttin skippin into a dance
How my grandmamma used to do 
In buck skin pants
When the land was getting thirsty
And the people needed crying
Before we drank from bottles
And the spirits started dying
Pour a little sumin out
Feed the tree that grows us all
Winter’s coming then the spring
But 1st we free fall x3
From the land of the free 
Free the land 
Free we

Dilla-Gently : A J Dilla Mixtape

Free Fall

www.IAMMANY.us

Everything that's happened and everything that's happening
is for learning to love myself
ourselves, our self.

Sometimes without the one's and things i wanted for help
speaking in a love's language that i can recognize.

But at the beginning's end, the bend,
it's all for learning to open our eyes,
every little cell in my body can see,
what's love's language when we're free
like completely interwoven entities?...

who am i?

Image from Creative Liberation Deck www.HoodHippieUniverse.com/clnnowdeck

This 1's 4...

1st CLN moon - Day 2 - the Quest

Who are we – ancestor to be! Take us on a tour of our family tree. 

Share a song from the rhythm of our roots, a photo from our Hue-full trunk, writing that represents the reach of our branches, art drawn to leave, a video of our fallen nuts, fruits and flowers. Feel no pressure, just the invitation.

Each offering is perfect – completion IS perfection! Post your response on your social network sites and in the CLN Facebook Group if you are inspired to share. 

#CLNatthebend



The Oris Have Your Head

In this song, we simply call the names of the Rose in a few languages from my lineages.

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Okookoosisi Rosu (Igbo)  
Dh'èirich             (Scottish Gaelic)
Tsistunagiska      (Tsalagi) 
Bilie      (Yoruba)
Ros            (Irish Gaelic)
Waridi  (Swahili - meaning rose and rosary) 

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The Rose is a special ancestor, 
invoking heart medicine,
a universal teacher,
of one of the core aspects of our humanity.

The Rose is both the fools journey, 
a journey through all the paths of love,
and all the labyrinths of our hearts,
and the Rose is the multiverse, 
offering universal truths, spiritual science,
and awakening into the great mystery,
a re-membering with life itself.

Be wise with boundaries,
so you may bloom your tender petals in all their glory,
so you may forgive and heal in the recognition of self love,
so you may shed your walls and step into the wild, 
free and wise and at the mercy of life. 

The rose, a perennial, speaks of a longer term growth,
root your trajectory in deep cosmic and personal love.

Let the courage of the heart guide you to beauty.
Bloom and let the world be touched by your essence. 


Call upon them Okookoosisi Rosu for the strength we all need right now. 

#CLN8thAir 
#CLNshamelessdemonlover

Okookoosisi Rosu

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lyrics:

4 years in the concrete jungle alone in the shaman training here in the west
blessed with tests to keep me abreast
in the milk of my mama
in the prayers I keep in vest
pocket
rock it in my chest  
cosmic erotic is wet
water is life mni wiconi no phony phonogram for the record
we loop it until we wreck it
check it out of the box
in breath
with life and death
intention directs
energy intersects select mirrors the soul reflects
 
we doing our best
bet, bet, bet
 
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life is a gamble
river ramble to the sea
you sea your destiny
can’t be avoided, voided, voyeur-ed
bon voyage it’s who you be
bee your honey
let it be queen
play write and make a scene
daylight your Hughes can’t differ your dreams
let em be king,

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I know
why the wild bird sings
 
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follow lay lines for the lay man
lay out your tracks on the beats
migrate from my grains
and my game
in my name we gone feast
invite in the angels and beasts
and demons ready to eat
be seated completed
in history
victory of defeat
go back to soil un-soiled
be spoiled
turn to dirt round a seed
forget your words learn to read
the scars and stars as energy
manifest potential as lineage enters me
until you are now me
and I am ewe
follow the sheep
to the wolf with the key
the Apu's calling to leap
they bop you bop you
you cheat
they got you got you
that’s your family
fanning the
flames of the embers of the soul of your self
you are the tender and the light and the heat
you are the wealth
of all of life
belly button of the universe
the source of your sight
 
you and who else?
 
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I know
why the wild bird sings

Journey through the Multiverse

I know why the Wild Bird sings (400 years alone in the concrete jungle)

iamani i. ameni and his jazzy-nasty-funky-folky-hop-pop-indie-soul sings to the best in us all. We can’t help but sing along. His honesty takes us on a walk through ourselves; his songs, theme music. As producer, emcee, singer/songwriter, and master of ceremonies with a unique amalgamation of musical styles and subjects, he offers something to everyone. i.Ameni has shared stages with the likes of E-40, Krs-one, Goapele, Dead Prez, Hamsa Lila, Brett Dennen, Jonah Matranga and more. His expression, more ceremony than show; is informed by years of grassroots organizing, unraveling the cultures of oppression across the country with renowned local and international organizations, and exploring the dimensions of his very own heart, mind, and spirit. Raised by the social justice and inner evolutionary movements, his music is marinated in calls to justice, love and freedom. A tender vocalist whose heart is heard in every note, a lyrical wizard concocting potions for a new tomorrow, a beaming man who skillfully journeys us to ourselves, i.Ameni makes music for the family of humanity, and it slaps!

Check out his stuff here!

http://www.iammany.us/

Iamani I. Ameni - The Seventh Generation

Amani Will, Wa Ama & the Lion Truth, Wa Ama Ni Um, i.Ameni the Beatman, iamani i.ameni, Anansi, Be Do, The G.ourney, and the Many many, many many more. 
 

Anyway, They bring us a tender vocalist whose heart is heard in every note, a lyrical wizard concocting potions for a new tomorrow, a BeatMan merging bass heavy rhythmic trance with ancient future sounds, and a beaming man who skillfully journeys us to ourselves, Amani Will and that Ascen-Dance Music is music for the Evolution!!!

They, are the Beat behind favorites from Los Rakas, Rakaa Iriscience, Living Legends, Ise Lyfe, The Attik, Brwn Bflo, Coco Peila, Jennifer Johns, Bambu and more. They keep us on our toes with an eclectic resume of their own works from folk-hop to thoughtful oakland scrapper music. 

They have shared stages with E-40, Krs-one, Goapele, Dead Prez, Hamsa Lila, Brett Dennen, Jonah Matranga and more. Their performance, more ceremony than show; is informed by years of grassroots organizing, indigenous ritual and consciousness, and many lineages of resilience. Raised by the social justice and inner evolutionary movements of Oakland and Berkeley, their music is marinated in calls to justice, love and personal inquiry. 


#iammany1
#theLionTruth

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