Who is Kapwon?

Q. How would you describe your style of Hip Hop?

Abstract I guess, because I approach things from a slightly dif­fer­ent angle to a lot of artists out there. I am not try­ing to get a mil­lion views or a record deal with some para­sit­ic label. I am try­ing to bring some­thing to the table to make people think and get a bit of edu­ca­tion through the music, so it is not just for enter­tain­ment. My music serves a spe­cif­ic pur­pose to raise the vibra­tion of the people and remind them of things which were swept under the car­pet for a very spe­cif­ic reason.

Q. How power­ful do you think Hip Hop is with­in the con­text of fight­ing against the powers that oppress us? 

Extremely power­ful and, in my opin­ion, still the only genre which has held onto its
raw polit­ic­al edge. The powers that oppress us are very scared of Hip Hop and that is why they have made a very big effort to attempt to infilt­rate and cor­rupt the mes­sage of Hip Hop and see it watered down into some plastic rub­bish as we see in the likes of Young Money, Rick Ross and the rest of these actors

Q. Through­out your music you make quite a lot of ref­er­ences to spir­itu­al­ity. What does spir­itu­al­ity mean to you and how big of a part does it play in your life? 

Well I do not really know what spir­itu­al­ity is but I just fol­low my heart and the signs. Every­one has their own signs and they are laid out in front of you to assist you in your path and learn­ing. It takes an obser­v­ant mind to notice them but they are there and that is what I fol­low. I do not really prac­tice spir­itu­al­ity, I mean I med­it­ate and do a lot of men­tal and inner work, but that is just nat­ur­al. You know, you clean your room, you clean your face, you clean your dog, so why would you not clean you mind? Yeah, to sum it up, I just fol­lowed the signs and it got me here, so it would be ignor­ant if I did not give cred­it to the uni­verse in my work. Give thanks and praise!

Q. You also do a lot of art work. What is the con­nec­tion between your music and your art work? 

I am just a vehicle for the vibra­tion that comes over the air­waves. I then record it with art, poetry or music. Before this I used to spray my mes­sage on walls and any oth­er sur­faces and if I was not doing art or music, then it would be com­ing in some oth­er form. They are just tools for record­ing the mes­sage and my mes­sage, as I am sure any­one that knows me under­stands, is quite simple- that we are all one and part of a col­lect­ive con­scious­ness, regard­less of polit­ic­al, reli­gious or any oth­er divi­sion and that we have been lied to about everything from day one. On top of that, before day one, there was a whole time before this that they failed to tell us about and nobody seems to want to talk about. That is my mes­sage there.

Q. You have set up a pro­ject called Free Your Mind. For the people read­ing this that do not know what this is about, could you please explain what this is and what your aims are?

‘Free Your Mind’ is a pro­ject star­ted by a group of like-minded artists, musi­cians and act­iv­ists. The name ‘Free Your Mind’ applies to extract­ing the mind of an indi­vidu­al out of the pris­on cre­ated by soci­ety and oth­er tools which act­ively seek to keep the mind closed and shut off from cer­tain areas of think­ing. The aim is very simple, to encour­age self-belief  and to spread con­scious energy, be it in the form of art, music, poetry, pub­lic speak­ing or any oth­er means to bring about an increase in the aware­ness of those around you. We are build­ing a web­site now and will be hold­ing events as soon as things are running.

Q. What are you cur­rently work­ing on? 

Wow, I am work­ing on a lot! I do not do things by halves, trust me on that. I am build­ing web­sites for Kapwon­artist and Free Your Mind, record­ing Akash­ic records part 2, teach­ing graf­fiti work­shops in the com­munity, host­ing the Guer­rilla Repub­lik UK event this month in March and the Street Cypher after­wards. I run a t‑shirt print­ing busi­ness and do a lot of private com­mis­sions of sac­red geo­metry and polit­ic­al art­work so that helps to keep me busy as well. So I am work­ing on quite a lot. Oh, and some oth­er stuff, but I can­not tell you about that yet. Just watch this space! I have built myself a nice found­a­tion now and this year I plan to build on that and keep it mov­ing!!! Peace.

If you want to know more about Kapwon make sure you check out www.kapwonartist.co.uk