This started out as a very selfish song. I wanted to talk about the pain, fear, and this feeling of betrayal I found myself sitting with after 2010. A feeling that made me not want to be personal and share myself through my music. The time between then and now has been filled with some phenomenal weed songs but not the introspection and honesty people had come to know me for. With all that is happening in our country and our world right now I felt ashamed that I was hiding because my feelings got hurt. Especially in the safest medium for a black man to speak in, in the world today. So the song grew from being about me to being about what I really write for and what I'd give my life for. 
Red Apple. 

Red Apple prod by Crispy feat Jus Moni and Missy D of Lady Jams

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. 


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Life is complex. It has a staccato rhythm them drives and falls over the drum pattern of our heart beats. It isn’t a 2 dimensional caricature or even a 3 dimensional reality. Life is a 4th dimensional invasion from a place we can’t see, only feel. Khingz makes music for life. Not just about or based on but FOR life. For living for growing and tearing down walls that might stop that process.

His art is a reflection of the art of living. As such it refuses to be nailed down, categorized, pasteurized or defined on any but its own terms. This has always been his greatest strength and challenge as a creator. Wearing and breaking labels with every song made. Daring the listener to admit that rap music can be made differently. That it can mean more. Each album created has been an exploration of who Khingz is, as well as the world that raised him. 

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