Kwame

Kwame or Kwamé is a Twi and Akan day name given to a boy born on a Saturday, originating in Ghana. People with this name include:

  • Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian-British philosopher of semantics and racism
  • Kwame Brown, an basketball player in the NBA
  • Kwamé Holland, an American rapper who enjoyed brief popularity during the golden age of hip hop; reemerged as a music producer named K1 Million
  • Kwame Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit, Michigan
  • Kwame Nkrumah (originally Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma), a Ghanaian politician (and for a time Life President) and one of the founders of Pan-Africanism
  • Kwame Raoul, a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 13th district since 2004
  • Kwame Somburu (Paul Boutelle), an American socialist political activist
  • Kwame Tucker, a Bermudian cricketer
  • Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), a Trinidadian-American black activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party
  • Osei Kwame Panyin, an 18th-century leader of the Ashanti Confederacy, located in what is today southern and central Ghana
  • Kwamé

    Kwamé (born 1973) is an American rapper who enjoyed brief popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is currently a music producer, sometimes credited as K-1 Million or K1 Mil.

    Biography

    In 1989, aged 16, Kwamé released his debut album, Kwamé the Boy Genius featuring a New Beginning, which he also produced with the aid of Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor. The 'A New Beginning' of the title refers to his backing band, which was unusual amongst emcees of the time. The album spawned the singles "The Man We All Know and Love" and "The Rhythm." The accompanying music videos featured a polka-dot motif in the costumes and production design. This was to become Kwamé's trademark and a hip hop fashion trend, as fans of his began wearing polka-dotted clothing. In 1990, Kwamé released his second album A Day in the Life: a Pokadelick Adventure, a concept album about a day in the life of a high school student. The album spawned the hit singles "Oneovdabigboiz" and "Ownlee Eue."

    In 1992, aged 18, he released his third album, Nastee. This album marked a departure for him, discarding the polka-dots and writing more sexually charged lyrics, in contrast to his previously playful, intellectual persona. The title track was a minor hit but the album quickly fell from the charts. His fourth album, 1994's Incognito failed to chart.

    Captain Planet and the Planeteers

    Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an American animated environmentalist television program created by Ted Turner, Robert Larkin III, and Barbara Pyle, produced by Pyle, Nicholas Boxer, Andy Heyward and Robby London, and developed by Pyle, Boxer, Heyward, London, Thom Beers, Bob Forward, Phil Harnage and Cassandra Schafhausen. The series was produced by Turner Program Services and DIC Entertainment and it was broadcast on TBS from September 15, 1990 to December 5, 1992. A sequel series, The New Adventures of Captain Planet, was produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Program Services, and was broadcast from September 11, 1993 to May 11, 1996. Both series continue today in syndication. The program is a form of edutainment and advocates environmentalism. In 1997, the series reran on Kids' WB! during weekday mornings right after Tiny Toon Adventures.

    In February 2009, Mother Nature Network began airing episodes and unreleased footage of Captain Planet and the Planeteers on its website.

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Oneovdabigboiz

    by: Kwame

    [Verse One:]
    Well I stumbled on a picture kinda made me laugh
    A photograph, what brought me right back to the past
    When I was a youngster
    Quite nerd type, that wanted to be amongst the
    Older, bolder, colder crowd
    With fat gold chains and strolled around
    In tucked silk suits, hundred dollar Bally boots
    Hat to a tilt and a felt substitute
    Fashions my have seemed to have worked
    But it seems I was a fake, and fakes look like jerks
    All I could do is scheme
    Hoping that one day I'll be on the top of the team
    No matter how hard I tried, I'd just collide
    With being a fool and an old guy
    It didn't work, and that annoyed
    And I asked myself why can't I be oneovdabigboiz
    [Chorus]
    [Verse Two:]
    Now I remember one day in the 7th grade
    A new girl came to school and I must say
    I slid, skid, crashed and got a crush
    On her and all other things seemed like a bluff
    I wouldn't dare to speak, didn't say a word
    Trying to be a big boy, I just became a nerd
    Doubting myself, thinking I'm all sissy and all
    Either I was too short, too shy, or too small
    Which was a sign of ignorance
    So I brought up confidence
    The next day I'm panicking
    Stiff as a mannequin
    What do you know
    She doesn't even show
    But there's tomorrow, the next day she came
    Arm and arm with some dude, with some gangster name
    Hopes and dreams in a flash were destroyed
    All because of the fuss of oneovdabigboiz
    [Chorus]
    [Bridge: Tasha Lambert] [singing]
    I'm the one that told you not to worry
    You'll grow up to be someone special
    Take your time and don't you hurry
    'Cause soon you will be
    [Chorus]
    [Verse Three:]
    They all have eyes, they all have two feet
    They used to pick their girls up but on a train we meet
    Why can't I be a big boy I used to ask myself
    And self said "Why do you wanna be someone else
    Why do you wanna wear what someone else wears
    Or get a cut, like someone else's hair
    Or be seen in someone else's glare
    You know what I'm saying (you're right)" YEAH!
    I'll do my own thing speak my own slang
    Be in my own swing, know what I'm saying
    'Cause baby I'm a star
    You know who the hell I are
    It's paying off a lot
    I had everyone rocking the streets and wanting the polka dots
    It's OK, this life is I enjoy
    And it's cool being Kwame, not oneovdabigboiz




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