Directed by Jae Hwang: cargocollective.com thekingswill.com To some people My love is somewhat alien; When he comes up, they start subject-changing, and In some states he's seen as some contagion - In those zones, he stays subterranean; Some love my love; they run parades for him: Liberal citizens lead the way for him: But the same time as these people are embracing him, Whole faiths and nations seem ashamed of him: They've tried banning him, God-damning him, Toe-tagging him, Praying that he stayed in the cabinet, But my love kicked in the panelling, and ran for it - He's my love! Can't be trapping him in labyrinths! - Maverick, my love is; he thwarts challenges; The cleverest geneticists can't fathom him, Priests can't defeat him with venomous rhetoric; They'd better quit; my love's too competitive: He's still here, despite the Taliban, Vatican, And rap, ragga in their anger and arrogance, Who call on my love with lit matches and paraffin - Despite the fistfights and midnight batterings - My love's still here and fiercely battling, Because my love comes through anything My love comes through anything My love comes through anything My love comes through anything

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Musa Okwonga took to the stage at the Tällberg Forum to give a poet's voice to the creeping changes coming upon our planet. www.tallbergforum.org

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"The Flight" My eyes open slowly - As I lie there, I see by my bedside each friend who knows me closely; So it's come to this. I'm aged halfway to eighty, And through each year my heart's loved bravely, therefore unsafely; I've 'faced fate down, led it a graceful dance, As it's chased me, I've raced it hard, outpaced it till the last - Till I'm aching, Till the pain's invaded so many places, I've had to stop accelerating. I used to be so arrogant; I thought I'd win life's marathon, But apparently there are no prizes for pride, or ribbons for diligence; In the end, there's just the end, which I naively didn't see; I thought I'd easily persevere, I thought they'd never send the hearse through here; You see, I've experienced so much, I've paid so many dues, That I thought this was a game I'd never lose; I started thinking I was immortal But the second I thought that, God chortled. They say God laughs when we make plans: He's watched me trace my path away from war-scarred foreign lands, Where AIDS cases and unmarked graves are common as grains of desert sand, Where solemn bargains for slaves are made each day by neighbouring clans; Where I grew up. Soon as I left the womb, I was running; There was always something to escape, be it Ebola Or just that drunkard driving that Range Rover, Racing over potholes, ten shots from being sober... That was me; ever escaping, Hoping, praying and close-shaving, Evading nature's worst and Mankind at its most perverse; No helping hand to <b>...</b>

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The very talented poet, MC and football writer Musa Okwonga drops some very special bars exclusively for Lyrix Organix TV.

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Project Window and Benin City's Musa Okwonga take a walk in the park, and with the help of ice-cream put the world to rights.

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This week Ikenna Azuike explores some bizarre television from Angola, Poetronica from Ugandan Brit Musa Okwonga and 50 Cent's Africa ambitions. Episode 21 of What's Up Africa, a weekly video blog presented by Ikenna Azuike and filmed and edited by Dominic Soete about creative Africa (Ikenna Azuike is Africa's answer to Ray William Johnson ;-)) BLOG OF THE WEEK: www.msafropolitan.com JOIN NOW @@ www.facebook.com www.twitter.com Don't forget to subscribe to the youtube channel!!

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Halloween single! This is the collaboration with Steve Mason taken from my solo album, "Distraction Pieces". Directed by Aaron Shrimpton & Scroobius Pip. Camera work from Tom Coles. AD - Chris Glasson. HUGE thanks to Nick at One Tree Hill and to all the crew and extras. The Torch builders and the make up artists. And the Beckfords for lending us some room. Remix package available on iTunes October 31st.

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www.balconytv.co.uk PRESENTED BY COLLEEN O'KEEFFE With their Outkast-meets-James Brown style, Benin City are one of the UK's outstanding new bands. This brilliant London five-piece outfit fuses funk, drum and bass, hip-hop, Afrobeat, poetry and jazz, fronted by two of the UK's finest spoken word artists, Joshua Idehen and Musa Okwonga. Benin City's single 'Work,' was played on Sky Sports' SoccerAM and featured as single of the week by Xfm's John Kennedy, who also featured them on his X-Posure live session. They have appeared twice on BBC3's "The Verb"; on the BBC World Service, and BBC 6Music with Huey Morgan of Fun Loving Criminals; on Reuters for their Africa Daily programme, and they have the enthusiastic support of Mark Lamarr (BBC Radio 2) and Craig Charles (Funk and Soul Show, BBC 6Music). They have supported Fool's Gold, Lack of Afro, Kid British, Lazy Habits, Kasai Masai, Sound of Rum and The Thirst. BTV:LDN is lovingly brought to you by Ruthless Imagery, Rock photographer to the stars! www.ruthlessimagery.wordpress.com PRODUCED BY RUTH MEDJBER TUNE IN TOMORROW FOR MORE BALCONY TV!

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The King's Will launch their second album, "The Swords Are Coming", on Thursday 3 May in Hoxton with special guest Scroobius Pip. Details here: bit.ly "Human After All" was directed and animated by collectiveoftwo.com For more music videos, visit thekingswill.com

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Track: EXTREMES Artist: Musa Okwonga Music: Giles Hayter Music Video for the track EXTREMES: Panagiota Chaidogiannou

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Me Wearing a stormtrooper outfit. Musa wearing Musa, Crowd doing the chair giggles. ALL YAYS

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Musa, the Gun, fights Joshua, the Knife. Worgie on the beats. www.myspace.com/wearebenincity www.myspace.com/worgiebeats

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04/04/12 The recent KONY 2012 campaign video has been met with strong criticism, but nobody can question its effectiveness in reaching a mass audience. The film, created by Invisible Children and featuring director and founder of Invisible Children Jason Russell, is reportedly one of the fastest spreading viral videos ever, reaching over 100 million views in a week. It has been criticised for presenting a complex situation as a simplified problem with a simple solution, for reinforcing the idea that Africans are helpless victims who need to be 'saved' by 'the West' and for misrepresenting reality. Despite its inaccuracies this campaign has created wider awareness about Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) than any news report or campaign that has come before it, so what can be learned? Join us for April's First Wednesday as we debate whether the KONY 2012 campaign is a force for good or a worrying development in campaigning. Hosted by Paddy O'Connell of BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House. With: Benjamin Chesterton, radio documentary and photofilm producer, co-founder of the production company duckrabbit and the website A Developing Story. Amanda Weisbaum, Programmes Director at War Child, who work on the ground with communities affected by the LRA in Northern Uganda and Central African Republic. Musa Okwonga, a football writer, poet and musician of Ugandan descent. He is author of A Cultured Left Foot which was nominated for the William Hill Sports Book of the <b>...</b>

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thekingswill.com - animated by Tom Bunker Lyrics: Marketing! Marketing! Marketing! Marketing! Friends, pick your pens up, pick your pads up - This is a lesson in - Propaganda! If you have a question On a stanza Wait till the end then Pop a hand up! To make your propaganda Spread like the symptoms of a cancer You must make it catchy, package it In adages, yes, in the form of a mantra: Just Do It, Just Do It, Just - Repeat, repeat, ad infinitum - Repeat, repeat, ad infinitum- Repeat, repeat, ad infinitum - Repeat, repeat, ad Infinitum - Rigid, ribbit, ridiculous! Next point in curriculum Next rule of propaganda: To distract us, soften language: To distract us, soften language: Let's say you've smashed a whole parish: That's called "collateral damage": And if you hate homosexuals, You're... Pro-family! Pro-family! Pro-family! Pro-family! Propaganda, propaganda: Truth needs light so we switch off the lantern: Propaganda: don't offer candour Dress up dross, till it's jolly handsome: Oh yes, the greatest skill of all To turn harsh thoughts to harmless syllables! Propaganda, propaganda It's not brainwashing, just branding! Marketing! Marketing! Marketing! Marketing! Marketing! Marketing! This is a lesson in - Propaganda!

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thekingswill.com - directed by Berkavitch [Lyrics] Testing, testing; electronica - Show me a rut, I'll show you an occupant; Is what it is, I'm living monotonous Going through the motions, so robotica; CV: replete with accomplishment - Elite GCSEs and a scholarship - Got a good job in some very big offices Boss saw my social life and abolished it - Paid wages, never paid compliments - My pay-cheque was the faintest of solaces - Dreams stayed choked in my oesophagus - This was the road and I'd chosen to follow it; This was the road and I'd chosen to follow it... This is all I am This is all I am This is all I am This is all I am - I am become -- Robotica - Swapped heart for SIM card of a Nokia - Exchanged brain for photocopier - No original life, just borrowing -- Eyes turned to TV monitors - Wifi in my veins like collagen - Always plugged in, always following Living my life as hollow as vol-au-vents -- Look in each town, you'll find a lot of us

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SHO HAI, also know as Hate (Violadores del Verso, Zaragoza,Spain) performing this classic 'The Canteens' King' last 3rd December 2011 together with R de Rumba (Dj) and Ossian @ Si Solo Si 1st Anniversary with Phi Life Cypher, Morf, Putotreze, Prose, Dubbledge, Oliver Sudden, Aka Soul, Skriblah Dangogh, Jaz Kahina, Hodge, Musa Okwonga, Fieldz J, Feral Calisthenix and TPS family

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[Lyrics] One two, one two! One two, one two! Testing, testing; Testing, testing; Testing, testing; electronica - Show me a rut, I'll show you an occupant; Is what it is, I'm living monotonous Going through the motions, so robotica; CV: replete with accomplishment - Elite GCSEs and a scholarship - Got a good job in some very big offices Boss saw my social life and abolished it - Paid wages, never paid compliments - My pay-cheque was the faintest of solaces - Dreams stayed choked in my oesophagus - This was the road and I'd chosen to follow it; This was the road and I'd chosen to follow it... This is all I am This is all I am This is all I am This is all I am - I am become -- Robotica - Swapped heart for SIM card of a Nokia - Exchanged brain for photocopier - No original life, just borrowing -- Eyes turned to TV monitors - Wifi in my veins like collagen - Always plugged in, always following Living my life as hollow as vol-au-vents -- Living my life as hollow as vol-au-vents -- Living my life as hollow as vol-au-vents --

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This is a video for "The Swords Are Coming", the first track from the debut gig by The King's Will, at CAMP, on 13.12.11. Directed and produced by Craig Thomas (www.craigthomas.net with Steven Phanides on 2nd camera. [LYRICS] The Fool, verse 1: The swords are coming! Don't let your positions fall for nothing; The swords are coming; So guard your halls, warn your beloveds; And stand your ground, Maintain terrain, Only chickens change their lanes! Though this is a slog against all odds: You must fight Fate with faith! Stay diligent, brave citizens, Engage this gravest predicament! Your will is the difference, But the swords will test you, rest assured!... So bless you all: Now venture forth, Defend your forts! Yes, they are belligerent, But you are magnificent! [CHORUS: The Siren] The Fool, verse 2: My dukes and duchesses, Take up your cutlasses!... Verily, we've never seen devilry such as this, And it must desist, We must resist these Tides of such murderous Turbulence, Malevolent purposes Encircle us, Still, our will is permanent - We stay untamed, irreverent! Though we're at the precipice We will never slip, No, we'll never falter! Their swords may assault us But we will never be brought to their altar! Indeed, the swords are coming, Sinister forces walk among us; The abyss waits gaping - Now we - Make proof of our greatness!

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thekingswill.com Passport I have your passport. What more could I ask for? From its few clues, I can soon deduce Who you were, how much further in your pursuit That I have to go, for it's natural That a son plays catch-up, that's his role; Yes, that's his role... ...So; Dad, you came from Uganda Born in its Northeast in early Forties... It's clear from the cluster of stamps in here You loved Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania - Loved travelling, Dressed sharp as a javelin; Handwriting, sleek...yes, I see comparisons; Even your jackets I wear as well, Those Seventies classics that they rarely sell - And look! I outgrew you, I six-foot-twoed you, Touché, you lose, at six-foot-one; And as for professions, we've different ones... Didn't mimic you as a medic - I loathe blood - But I've opened more wounds than you ever closed up, Sewed up, since we poets, we bare souls More urgently than you surgeons repair souls... ...It says here you were born five days from Christmas; I used to own your leather-bound book of Scriptures But to my mother, that's now been restored For my rapport with the Lord isn't warm as yours, Isn't warm as yours... ...Speaking of Mother, given you're her husband You'd think she'd mention you loads, but she doesn't; I guess she's still upset that you went to war But when she talks of you, there's an impressive warmth: "He's the best man, you can rest assured; Didn't think that the fist was the best resort; Only thing, I confess, that I'm left to mourn's That he walked <b>...</b>

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This is a video for "Love, Against Homophobia", from the debut gig by The King's Will, at CAMP, on 13.12.11. Directed and produced by Craig Thomas (www.craigthomas.net Sung vocals by The Siren (Ann Bailey, www.thunderlungs.com Love... We'll break our shelter in the morning sun; My love... We'll still be standing when tomorrow comes, When tomorrow comes... To some people My love is somewhat alien; When he comes up, they start subject-changing, and In some states he's seen as some contagion - In those zones, he stays subterranean; Some love my love; they run parades for him: Liberal citizens lead the way for him: Same time as some countries embracing him, Whole faiths and nations seem ashamed of him: They've tried banning him, God-damning him, Toe-tagging him, Prayed that he stayed in the cabinet, But my love kicked in the panelling, ran for it - He's my love! Can't be trapping him in labyrinths! - Maverick, my love is; he thwarts challenges; The cleverest geneticists can't fathom him, Priests can't defeat him with venomous rhetoric; They'd better quit; my love's too competitive: He's still here, despite the Taliban, the Vatican, And rap, ragga in their anger and arrogance, Who call on my love with lit matches and paraffin - Despite the fistfights and midnight batterings - My love's still here and fiercely battling, My love's still here and fiercely battling, Because my love comes through anything My love comes through anything; My love comes through anything... Love... We <b>...</b>

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KONY 2012 video link: www.youtube.com LAtimes article: latimesblogs.latimes.com KONY 2012 website: kony2012.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com My channel:www.youtube.com A video gaining international attention is trying to use the power of the Internet to stop Joseph Kony, the head of a small but infamous militia that has terrorized northern Uganda with killings, kidnappings, mutilations and torture. The unusual and controversial new campaign spotlights the horrors inflicted by the Lord's Resistance Army, a militia that for years has been notorious for abducting children to fight as soldiers and suffer as sex slaves, as well as for mutilating its victims. But the campaign has also spurred a debate about whether the nonprofit behind the effort and its empowering tools of social media -- Twitter, YouTube and Facebook -- are dangerously oversimplifying the dilemma. The video campaign was launched this week by Invisible Children Inc., a San Diego-based nonprofit that produced a half-hour documentary that aims to ramp up international pressure to arrest Kony. The militia leader is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of committing war crimes. Kony has been pursued by the United States, which launched a military mission in Uganda last year to stop him and other Lord's Resistance Army leaders. US officials said the brutal militia had pushed at least 400000 people out of their homes. Yet Kony has so far remained on the loose. The campaign argues that Kony must be <b>...</b>

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thekingswill.com - animated by Jessica Davies Lyrics: Self-Improvement. It's me who chooses how much better I should do: Eg, in the small matter of cleaning my room. Speaking of which, So much for self-improvement: It was my New Year's Resolution To clean my room, And now it's December, And my desk is messy as ever. Looking from left to right, Its contents reveal a mind not focused, But aimless: A pack of silica gel from new trainers; Unfiled invoices, Unlearned poems, Passports old and new, Two pairs of cufflinks (One with a box, one without), Cups and glasses kidnapped from the kitchen And many pennies of change, Each one of which came from a wasted pound. Looking at the desk, the signs aren't hard to decipher; There isn't an inch of empty space, Though you're meant to be a writer. This isn't the room of a man with a masterplan. This is the room of a man who's doing it all Just because he can. Self-Improvement. First there's the marketing - And then there's me. First there's the: Proud poet prolifically pulling off Particularly multisyllabic rhymes with polish and authority - And then there's the older brother who is slightly too sarcastic Who is thirty - thirty! - and still has issues with his accent. Self-improvement. Change Things. Change your default answer from No, to Yes. Eg In future, when having an intense inner dialogue with your stubborn self, Respond initially in the affirmative and not the negative to the following commands: (A) Try this, it might work. (B <b>...</b>

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