Here's a thing or 5 that I've been working on recently.  Will definitely add/change several elements before any of this is finished.  Excited to get to share more hopefully soon.

How to Outrun a Supernova June 11 Instrumental Demos

From Khemmeta's upcoming How to Outrun a Supernova EP.

Video now playing on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpLFn3RCABk

How to Outrun a Supernova

Moeser Lane

this is it, (what?) lucini pouring from the sky
acid rain, (what?) burns through your skull then attacks your brain
cauterizes eyelids, buys your silence for a chance at safety
then sells you violence as a crime prevention tactic, wait

act now: comfort for the low price of happiness
searchin for your place in life? everyone knows it's stackin chips
amassin cash, collectin feta, bread and cabbages
doin' donuts in that new-new til you crash the whip

acceleration is the name of your existence
if you ain't levetatin you're a drain upon the system
but anyone can make it, so ignore the stats and averages
broke mother fuckers begging congress not to tax the rich

swear to god your lotto numbers the truth
you'll take theoretical riches over funds for our youth
schools close, prisons open, and a stadium's raised
a monument to a god that keeps the brainless enslaved

and that's just who you worship when the saying's engraved
on every seed that bares that evil root, satan's related
to that greed is good philosophy, and you ain't even got it
so that's stockholm syndrome symptoms you exhibit when you talkin

all that shit (what!) denial river and you drowning
cuz you thought that liquid premise you stepped out upon was ground
but that's north pole water, meaning you ain't got ice
you got a neck fulla sweat, face serving surprise

yeah we heard all your lies, your words are birds without flight
come around my apes' cage, catch a turd in your eye
you should see the shit we droppin, it's certainly live
and if you step into the octagon you'll certainly die

r.i.p. and condolences, to your peoples and folks
but we chew through the punchlines and your whole team is a joke
hardee har, thirty bars deep, beasting the most
you keep talking bout you feastin all we see is the choke

all you fiends can just smoke, while we eat and we grow
dub i government done warned you that all the money is coke
and you ketricel whitin' so you a soldier for massa
obedience is life but revolution's disaster?

introducing metamari damacy, the doctor said take 
forty eight bars, of this to cure you from the common plague
i'm an astronomy subject, spacial anomaly  
them other rappers spit bars that are post-lobotomy

this is how it's gotta be, stop hedging ya knowledge with
the fiction that mass suffering services the economy 
the corporate devil's profits are brought to you by your poverty
tryna keep the makers and workers down under lock and key

they tryna buy your government, fools don't have to listen
they'll replace the constitution with the rules of acquisition
then juice your whole existence, if we chose to let them get it
but the revolution's movements will consume the useless pigs 
this is it!

This Is It / Lucini (Greenhouse / Camp Lo Remix)

When you lose your loved one too early, how do you make sense of the senseless?  How do you expand their legacy to where it should have been and still find the space for mourning?

Music video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/etNnjO6fNAg
EP on Bandcamp (with exclusive eBook): https://khemmeta.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-outrun-a-supernova
All the links: https://linktr.ee/khemmeta

Buy on Bandcamp

Escape Velocity

Lyrics:

Walk through the valley of the shadow.
Believe that the sun’s on the other side.
Know you aren’t alone in your battles.
You’re a bright spot in somebody’s sky

I don’t always feel faith.
Sometimes i gotta conceal rage.
Sometimes i gotta keep it cool or things get real grave
Me even writing this feels, like a surreal page


What is faith,
Which ways can it bend?
I got faith in my pen,
i got faith in my friends
Write a path of our survival,
faith’ll transcend
Block hostile energies,
keep faith to defend

What’s faith look like,
Which ways can it bend?
I got faith in my pen,
i got faith in my friends
Write a path of our survival,
faith’ll transcend
Block hostile energies,
keep faith to defend.


Faith ain’t just a building
with stained glass and a steeple
Let me show you by my works that i
believe in the people
I mean myself and my fam,
The diaspora of africa;
working class of all the nations
On the spherical planet

When the fear has been banished
and we’re clear on the advantages
Of loving one another
And sharing our bandages
For the cuts and wounds
For when luck is something other than smooth
And we need a little nudge to get through

I believe that we can all
learn and teach love
Even at the precipice’s edge,
we can reach love
Steady together as we
charge into the breach love
Before and after it comes to that
i will preah love

Don’t wait to perfect it,
you deserve to
Let love lead and
carry and even nurse you
Have faith in the mirror,
don’t dessert you
Have faith in
healing whatever’s hurt you


What is faith,
Which ways can it bend?
I got faith in my pen,
i got faith in my friends
Write a path of our survival,
faith’ll transcend
Block hostile energies,
keep faith to defend

What’s faith look like,
Which ways can it bend?
I got faith in my pen,
i got faith in my friends
Write a path of our survival,
faith’ll transcend
Block hostile energies,
keep faith to defend.


In this year they curse,
i wrote 96 verses
17 beats
sweet enough to eat dessert with
55 songs
up on Soundcloud or Bandcamp
No questions bout the work
you understand that

Now if you didn’t before,
and there’s infinite more
Where that arose from
unlimited stores
...My pen got more
Liquid than the ocean
Stick around, watch me work
I’m finna show something

Faith is tangible.
Put your 7th candle to it.
it’ll light with a brightness
haters can’t handle viewing
Shine on, regardless
Starlight, we all kinda
Star stuff, and if we share our
faith it’ll be alright

All eyes to the present
A gift from time
I’m the branch, sprouting fruits
With the gift of rhyme
The kinara is solid. Seven candles lit
I wanna thank you all for taking
this fantastic trip.


Walk through the valley of the shadow.
Believe that the sun’s on the other side.
Know you aren’t alone in your battles.
You’re a bright spot in somebody’s sky

I don’t always feel faith.
Sometimes i gotta conceal rage.
Sometimes i gotta keep it cool or things get real grave
Me even writing this feels, like a surreal page


What is faith,
Which ways can it bend?
I got faith in my pen,
i got faith in my friends
Write a path of our survival,
faith’ll transcend
Block hostile energies,
keep faith to defend

What’s faith look like,
Which ways can it bend?
I got faith in my pen,
i got faith in my friends
Write a path of our survival,
faith’ll transcend
Block hostile energies,
keep faith to defend.

Faithbender

Lyrics:

Our Kinara is solid,
black candle's lit
Meditating on the house
Built from family bricks
Ain’t no Homer Simpsons here
No "TRAB PUK CIP"
Heavy together like the pages
in a manuscript

Put em in a backpack get ripped
from exertion
Mom dared me to read science
fiction written for older persons
At a young age,
so when i sunk in quiet as an old sage
Back in middle school
i had an excuse

Dad was tempting us with coding,
or vials of different potions
Or robots singing “Daisy Bell”
Capsela built for rolling
He showed me possibilities
for us were like the ocean
You only need to build a buoyant
boat and get to rowing

And my bro’s the other running back for
all those plays
Salute Richmond’s promise maker:
Dub.I.Goals made, yeah.
I’m Issa Rae on SNL
the culture on my back
Tryna find a way to
root for everybody black.


U.N.I.T.Y.!
Feathers flap together and fly
U.N.I.T.Y.!
We're above the top of the sky!

Kinara (featuring WiG, Crossword and Soul Hacker)

Lyrics:

Nia is the longing of
yesterday for tomorrow
Today is a rental from fate
you only borrow
Clay’s still awaiting your
hands to take form
Like ndizi still awaiting the
signal of rain storms

Rain storms like a flag
send saplings up to grasp
For the sun, need a branch
Need the air, need to gasp
Photosynthesizing
The light is the food
Before food gets ripe
And can lighten your mood

Nia is the pigment that
Comes out of my pen
Modifying how the paper
Interacts with the light
Which informs the way my eyes
Receive my scribbles and prints
Which becomes the way my voice will
interact with the mic

I interact with the mic
To turn sadness to hype
To help your passions ignite
To make my madness a spice
For the harvest’s first fruit
satisfaction delight
I try to channel what the ancestors would
Have me to write


When you find your purpose
You will bathe in light
Any obstacle before you
Won’t delay your stride

Will you let your purpose
Demonstrate your might
Stand before the ancestors and
Let them see their babies thrive


Nia is Swahili for purpose
So the meaning is urgent
both timeless and current
When you find it you nurse it
On the grind til it’s hurting
then rewind and rehearse it
You align with the works
That you design

First fruits sold at the
Market and you refined
To a juice nourishing your
Community through your light
You could live this
Or a million other lives
You could be a builder
Or a farmer or a scribe

Whatever you find
Within yourself to give the world
Outside yourself it’ll be something
That is felt by those who need it
However we’re moved along
This sheet music we’re inked upon
The songs of our forebearers are a
gift to those who heed em


The oppressed’s calls for justice echo
Louder than kings
Most our ancestors’ dreams were even
wilder than King’s
With their lessons you will sow
Many harvests to reap
With their blessings you can reach
Any star that you see
Nia.


When you find your purpose
You will bathe in light
Any obstacle before you
Won’t delay your stride

Will you let your purpose
Demonstrate your might
Stand before the ancestors and
Let them see their babies thrive

Find Your Purpose

My projects are available on Bandcamp.  HOW TO OUTRUN A SUPERNOVA is out now!

Last year I promised myself I'd put out a dozen EPs.  The last, KINARA, dropped on New Year's Eve.

WINTER FOREVER, co-produced by Denley, dropped on Christmas Eve.

SHINE FACTORY, my tribute to Rebecca Sugar and the Crewniverse, released December 4. 

BE BRAVE... and FOOL'S THERAPY, both produced entirely by Kenneth "Adrenalyn" Acklin, released on December 1 and November 20.

REVOLUTIONS REVELATIONS released in November.  Produced entirely by Keith Kubota.  My rap sermon about how Christianity has been hijacked by profiteers, and what that means.

The only official Trixta Treat project TREAT YO SELF 2020 featuring Soul Hacker(RIP) as Killary Shanks dropped last year. 

RARIFIED GASEOUS ENVELOPES, EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES, THE FIRE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, THE HOUSE BY THE RIVERSIDE, and STABLE FABLES are all available on Bandcamp. 

DIE MAD ABOUT IT available now!
https://khemmeta.bandcamp.com/album/die-mad-about-it

REVERSING ENTROPY is now playing!
https://khemmeta.bandcamp.com/album/reversing-entropy

BOOSTER SHOTS is available now! http://khemmeta.bandcamp.com/album/booster-shots

My peoples & My family:
BNV: Bion Involution Hailing from the Bay Area, Khemmeta & Jimi Swaggart take Hip-Hop everywhere it's never been before, often kicking and handcuffed, but only sometimes gagged.

ALLIED INTELLIGENCE ENTERTAINMENT:
WiG
Pride City Purpose: (Young Franchise, Ike Honest and the Born Historian)
Crossword
Young Oak

CROWN COLONY: San Francisco, CA
Broken Figures - http://soundcloud.com/broken-figures
Pandas Puking Kittens - http://soundcloud.com/pandaspukingkittens
Wolfram Kitchen - http://soundcloud.com/wolfram-kitchen
Benito - http://soundcloud.com/benitosfo
Burny Kutter - http://soundcloud.com/burny-kutter
Lippe - http://soundcloud.com/lippe
Latent Sea


And my siblings in debauchery in supplemental vaccination from the MAV days and beyond. . . 
Denley - http://soundcloud.com/denleymusic 

and
Onesevenonenine - http://soundcloud.com/onesevenonenine

AKA...
Tadashi - http://soundcloud.com/tadashibeats

AKA...
Knoxin - http://soundcloud.com/knoxin

Khemmeta

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