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DJBooth.net: “NYC underground mainstay AWKWORD has been hard at work on World View, his 100%-for-charity digital full-length, for five years. Now that’s what I call Dedication. After half a decade of perseverance, he’s finally secured a release date for the set and, to celebrate, he’s premiering a brand new single in the DJBooth complete with the official art work (above). Here, a pensive piano beat by Romania’s Dismas and Serbia’s Trillian backs AWK as he tells the story of Hezues R. An underprivileged youth raised in the ‘hood by a single mother, he was inspired to found the charity Guns 4 Cameras after nearly losing his life; he was shot at 22 times at close range with a 22 at age 22. Brooklyn emcee Centri laces the final verse with a harrowing personal narrative from the street. Sponsored by The DJ Booth and Morgan Stanley, World View will be released for digital purchase on February 2, 2014 with all proceeds from its sale going to Guns 4 Cameras.”
http://www.djbooth.net/index/tracks/review/awkword-dedication
http://awkword.bandcamp.com/track/dedication-feat-centri-prod-by-dismas-romania-x-trilian-serbia
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When the gun draws, it doesn’t matter who’s in front of the barrel or behind the trigger. Guns DO kill. And Pharoahe Monch (spokesperson for Guns 4 Cameras, 501c3 charity recipient of http://rapgenius.com/AWKWORD’s DJBooth-sponsored 100% for-charity WORLD VIEW project [2.2.14, DJBooth]) is on the right side of the issue.
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The US and Italy connect on this half English, half Italian record off producer Cletus’s Romablaster Mixtape, via Relief Records Europe (December 2013, http://ReliefRecordsEU.com).
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Grassroots Suicide Prevention presents: AWKWORD – “#AaronSwartz” [feat. LAW | prod. by Steel Tipped Dove]
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As we have seen with the passing of Capital Steez and Freddy E this past year alone, we have a mental health and suicide issue in Hip Hop. HipHopDX, AllHipHop, Rap Rehab and others have written on it in 2013. And this is representative of a larger trend in America, with a suicide occurring every 15 minutes. Then consider all the young (and older) people still alive and suffering.
Aaron Swartz, the founder of Reddit, was systematically targeted, arrested, prosecuted and harassed by the federal government, essentially for being down with the likes of Wikileaks and seeking freedom of information. He was 26 when he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, having hanged himself. The young man who invented RSS at 14…
I can relate, as I do quite personally in my new song “#AaronSwartz”, produced by Steel Tipped Dove and featuring the guitar and singing talents of seven-time Grammy nominee LAW.
This rap Suicide ‘PSA’ is sponsored by Grassroots Suicide Prevention and will appear on AWKWORD’s DJBooth-sponsored 100% for-charity global Hip Hop project ‘World View’, as well as Steel Tipped Dove’s ‘& a whole bunch of crazy motherfuckers’ mixtape, also dropping Monday, July 1.
For more info and other music, go to http://AWKWORDrap.com.
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“Don’t let the stage name fool you – when it comes to rocking the mic, Booth newcomer AWKWORD is anything but. As proof, I present the NYC repper’s current single, Doctor Doctor; premiered over on RefinedHype, this record finds Malaysian beatsmith MajoR R.E. cooking up a funky, sampled beat to back AWK and guest emcee GuessWho as they demonstrate just how ill (both literally and figuratively) they are.” – DJBooth
WORLD PREMIERE via RefinedHype: http://bit.ly/12Ww0t3
[Show YOUR Support – Click and Like on Facebook!]
TWEET:
Got #meds? DL: @AWKWORDrap ft. GuessWho? – “Doctor Doctor” (prod. @majorre [Malaysia]) bit.ly/Y9rgr3 via @DJBooth cc @EugeneKozack
Buy the 68 MB CDQ here, NAME YOUR PRICE, and DONATE 100% to CHARITY: http://bit.ly/16xCJst (bandcamp)
http://awkword.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-doctor-ft-guesswho-prod-by-major-r-e-malaysia
[All proceeds go to World View charity Guns 4 Cameras, a 501c3 nonprofit that goes beyond the gun-exchange program, working to eradicate street violence through the Hip Hop-inspired education and empowerment of our at-risk youth.]
DJs, DOWNLOAD the CLEAN version here: http://bit.ly/Wt0spG (AudioMack)
CREDITS:
Artist – AWKWORD
Song – Doctor Doctor
Featuring – GuessWho?
Produced by – MajoR R.E.
Album – World View
Cover Art – Andreis Costa
REVIEWS: http://bit.ly/140OZSN (AWKWORDrap.com)
‘FLASHING SKULL’ Gif Cover Art: http://bit.ly/Wt0zkW
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