Your truly will be rocking @the Beatlounge in Bangkok on 09/06. The venue is located among the trendy mega-clubs pumping out EDA tunes along the RCA district. The Beatlounge is like a Hip Hop rebel base which will make any true head feel right at home. Veteran DJ Spydamonkee and the Paranormal DJ’s will be in the building.
Osaka Japan Dates have been confirmed. I will be performing these shows without DJ Cloud NI9E. These shows will be the openers for the 2014 Asia Summer Tour.
07/25 “Green Label” Event @ the Garden Bar.
07/26 “Kakuro” Party @ the Long a Long.
More dates TBA.
Now Booking for Asia 2014 Summer Tour
DJ Cloud NI9E x MC Kensho Kuma: 2014 Asia Tour
Touring In Support of Cloud NI9E’s Summer 2014 CD Release: “Alternative”
2014 CONFIRMED JAPAN CITIES TOUR: JULY 25 (FRI) to AUG. 9 (SAT)
*ADDED JAPAN/CHINA DATES: SEPT. 5 (FRI) TO SEPT. 21 (SUN).
2014 SE ASIA DATE AVAILS: AUG. 14 (THURS) TO AUG. 30 (SAT)
(Korea, Taiwan, HK, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indo)
Club/Festival Asia 2014 Bookings: asiancytouring@gmail.com
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“Peaceful Warrior” is a brand new banger off of my producer Cloud NI9E’s upcoming solo album; it features Justin Murta repping Vietnam and yours truly. Cloud NI9E brought a soulfully mature instrumental complete with a trumpet and I just had to bring a righteous verse to it. My 16 is a lot more militant RBG than usual and am extremely happy with the finished product.
“Peaceful Warrior” – Kensho Kuma
Reporting live from trenches of the golden state/
our experiences here, testing a soldier’s faith/
blaming the crime rate on weapons in Oakland? wait/
‘cause the residents overwhelmed by the local hate/
and social injustice and stopping my progress/
we hopping over barricades at Occupy protests/
middle class belittled as governments profit/
the devil with us no matter how omniscient God is/
represent peace, but I’m far from an pacifist/
never hesitant, ‘cause the scars of an activist/
mean something to us, we learned from the Black Panthers bitch/
to the liberals in Berkeley we be standing with/
local celebrity, verses for working class/
even if he a regular dude, he will merk your ass/
for us to change things will take more than earning cash/
so we are prepared to be right there when insurgents clash/
We don’t need no news programs broadcasting lies/
what we seeing everyday’s the truth we analyze/
we don’t need no governors lying to folks/
my people apathetic they ain’t trying to vote/
we don’t need no crooked cops beating down teens/
and you wonder why nobody will speak to police/
we don’t need no businessmen owning prisons/
I’m more than qualified to make my own decisions/
Yours truly has just been added as the special guest for the August 9th “Sound Fix” event @Long A Long. Osaka underground fixture DJ Godz will be holding down my set. This marks my fourth live performance for the 2014 Summer Asia Tour. ????????????????????????????????????????DJ Godz ????DJ????????2014???????????????????????
I recorded this track last summer with veteran Osaka MC’s Gebo and Mistah O.K.I. Produced, recorded, and mixed by Noah Beatz.
Kansai Soul Fiyah-
I convey the message like a translator should/
‘cause we the same regardless of the language or hood/
whatever continent, yup this man’s understood/
acknowledged by the ballers ‘til I vanish for good/
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what we take for granted isn’t normal to them/
we hella rich compared to Bangkok’s orphan my friend/
keep the checks I get or share my fortune instead/
Oriental soldiers chop off a foreigner’s head/
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2FS (Orukusaki x Kensho Kuma) Live Performance Footage @ the Elbo Room 12/28/2014. Shot by Tefari Casas. DJ Kevvy Kev on the one’s and two’s. Check the ending of the last clip… we’re presented with katanas..
DJ Dolbee is a veteran DJ/ producer located in Tokyo, Japan. He recently released “Still Underground” on CD and on vinyl. Buy it at We Nod Records, the illest independent record store in this solar system.
I met him in the late nineties when he resided in San Francisco, and was working at the now defunct Zebra Records on Haight Street. He was the first person to ever believe in my rapping abilities and is credited as being the first to ever record me and release any material with your boy Kuma on it. The “Nice Kut” mixtape was released in 1998 and features my first released freestyle ever.
Then he returned to Japan, had a label fly my big homie Tenzin and me out there, formed a crew “I.P.S” and featured us on a vinyl release. The 1999 “Catacombs” compilation was my official debut and remains my only vinyl appearance to date.
You probably know by now that I help organize a weekly event called Return of the Cypher, which is an open-mic jam session at John Lee Hooker’s Boom Boom Room on Sunday nights. You probably know that it’s the fastest growing Hip Hop event in the Bay Area and that we have a very supportive community. If you were raised by the culture, you will feel like you finally made it home. All MC’s are encouraged to spit. We will be celebrating our one year anniversary on 06/15 with an amazing showcase filled with a diverse range of artists that have come through in the past year.
Preceding the anniversary showcase, the San Francisco Black Film Festival will be premiering “‘Til Infinity,” a Souls of Mischief documentary. Needless to say, it is extremely appropriate to host a world premier documentary about the Bay Area legends before our platoon of independent rappers set it off.
“Still Making Moves” – Sohch feat. Kensho Kuma, Skalah, Hisanova, and DJ Audace. Sohch is my comrade/ engineer in Tokyo, and I have rocked numerous shows with his crew Life Penciled Crew. DJ Audace is a French DJ holding it down in Tokyo, and he’s scratched on many tracks of mine through out the years. I’ll never forget our “Deep Shit” parties @ Club Game in Shibuya; I remember living in Tokyo in ’06-’07 and I used to look forward to those parties every month. These cats have played a vital role in my international Hip Hop journey and they will forever have a place in my memory. I use my patented 4 bar switch evident on “Exact Science ver2.0” and alternate between Japanese and English every 4 bars on this track. Yours for free.
https://soundcloud.com/hisanova/still-making-moves-feat-kensho
“Still Making Moves”
このヒップホップドリームは笑えんジョークだ/
キャリアを積んでも消えない恐怖が/
狂わす、答えは草とコークか？/
No! 俺には分かるよ腐ってくソールが/
out of towners know us for bomb weed and murders/
but yo boy reps neither I’m a conscious observer/
a type of music that ain’t commonly purchased/
we possess a talent you ain’t honestly heard of/
ミーハーの所為か？ 混乱する方向性/
止めちゃった大ベテランとか高校生/
現場に来いよ 朝まで残れ/
分かってる奴らは必ず応答せい/
never been a game this a life or death errand/
no matter what happened I kept my headsets blaring/
rocking ‘round the world since you guys were bed wetting/
believing in only the most high and kept stepping/
大金を見せつけ東南アジア/
に消えてくオイラは怒れたアニマル/
得た経験はエロイ? じゃなくマジカル/
地元離れなきゃ見えん物マジある/
Yeah ‘til this business finishes my flow won’t end/
until I take my brother Ruksok out to Ho chi minh/
‘til national attentions on my coast again/
until the unlimited violence in Oakland ends/