NEW MUSIC: AWKWORD – “Colors” (Original Version) ft. Werdplay of BLESTeNATION (Presented by Ungovernable Resistance)

As a follow-up to its interview with AWKWORD, Ungovernable Resistance unlocks the original version of AWKWORD’s track “Colors”. This version appeared on the 26-track free mixtape “AWKWORD Presents: WE ARE THE BASTERDS (The 9/11 Edition)” but has not been made available as a single until now. The final version of “Colors” is slated to appear on AWKWORD’s 100% nonprofit global hip hop album World View (2010? 2011?).

Click the image to download — and read AWKWORD’s description of the meaning behind the track.

Revolutionary Rap: The Anti-Injustice Movement

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Along with End of the Weak (EOW; EODub) and The Morgan Stanley Foundation, The Anti-Injustice Movement (AIM) is Co-Sponsor of World View, the forthcoming album from GYMR resident emcee (and revolutionary) AWKWORD. For more on AWKWORD/World View, click here.

Revolutionary Rap: The Anti-Injustice Movement Presents: Lyrical Warfare (ft. AWKWORD, Block McCloud, Capital X, Monte Smith and more)

01: Street Poet Monte Smith – Talk The Talk
02: AWKWORD – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (feat. Block McCloud & Riles)
03: Beast 1333 – The Global Resistance (feat. Lyrical Agent & Plato)
04: SAI – Taking AIM
05: Stream Of Consciousness – Disorder
06: Street Poet Monte Smith, Perseverance and DJ Vadim – Pull’n Your Card
07: Gabe ‘V-Non’ Rosales – Still Stays
08: Lyrical Agent – Open Your Eyes
09: Stream of Consciousness – Legend Begun
10: Greydon Square – Counter Argument
11: Perseverance & Capital-’X’ – Business
12: The Welfare Poets – Warn Them
13: Eastborn – Blair Witch Project
14: Capital-’X’ – We All In The Same Gang

Buy it on iTunes HERE.

The Anti-Injustice Movement (AIM) is a global movement of activists, political emcees and protest poets who are fighting together to achieve the slow but steady destruction of global injustice.

FREE RINGTONES: AWKWORD Latest/Greatest Hits: “Imperialism” x “New York Minute” x “Notes From A Different Kitchen” x “Stay Spittin Stay Flowin”

Click the appropriate button on the Myxer widge below to get the ringtone for free! Easy as that! (Also, give thanks for the freebies by rating and sharing your favorite(s)! And, by the way, additional information (and full mp3 access) for each track below the widget.)

(1) Imperialism ft. C-Rayz Walz & REKS (prod. Jonny Lupo (Moldova))

Get the classic hook from this banger that C-Rayz called one of the dopest he’s ever been a part of. Also featuring AWKWORD and REKS. Produced by Jonny Lupo of Moldova.

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(2) New York Minute ft. Jadakiss, Mazzi (S.O.U.L. Purpose), Vast Aire & Punchline (prod. Harry Fraud)

Get the classic hook from this 2009-2010 New York City anthem produced by Brooklyn’s own Harry Fraud. Featuring Jadakiss, AWKWORD, Punchline, Vast Aire & Mazzi (S.O.U.L. Purpose).

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(3) Notes From A Different Kitchen (Blog Rap) (prod. White Shadow (Norway))

Get AWKWORD’s intro and hook from his popular freestyle in which he calls out 46 blogs in 24 bars. Produced by The White Shadow of Norway.

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(4) Stay Spittin Stay Flowin (prod. FNTM (Czech Republic))

“Some a yall favorite rappers like to smoke they blunts / Some a yall favorite rappers like to drink get drunk / I’m inside all they brains, plus I fuel all they pains / I’m one a those crazy things that only god can change…” AWKWORD’s trash-talkin, sing-songy hook off this creative track that provides the listener the perspective of the blood that pumps through our bodies. Produced by FNTM of Czech Republic.

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To stream/download the tracks mentioned above, please click here and use the search function at the top-right.

Gettin Ups: EOW

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End of the Weak (EOW; EODub) is a sponsor of AWKWORD’s 100% nonprofit global hip hop project World View, along with The Morgan Stanley Foundation and The Anti-Injustice Movement.

EOW is the world’s longest-running weekly hip hop show, as well as a growing global hip hop crew. Salute.

2DopeBoyz Exclusive Leak: AWKWORD – “Imperialism” ft. C-Rayz Walz & REKS (prod. Jonny Lupo)

FREE #MUSICMONDAY: #FreeRayzWalz

Recently, AWKWORD linked up with C-Rayz Walz, REKS and 2dopeboyz.com for an exlusive leak promoting the forthcoming World View album. With production from Moldova’s Jonny Lupo, the track bangs.

C-Rayz called it “one of the top-five songs I’ve ever spilled my soul onto.” He predicted “this shit will make Uncle Sam piss his tight blue bubblegum jeans.” And dopeboy SHAKE agrees, as seen below.

From 2dopeboyz.com

With C-Rayz currently locked up*, Awkword thought it was a good time to let loose of this anti-imperialist anthem. I agree, this shit is dope. 2dbz premiere off Awk’s upcoming album, World View. Featuring guest emcees from coast to coast and production from 15+ nations and every continent.

* While the song is free, the artists are asking that you show support for C-Rayz by donating to his Paypal (suncycle7[at]gmail[dot]com) or reaching out to his family and management via Twitter.

Click the banner above to download. Or, click here. To stream, click play on the player below.

Also featured on these leading hip hop sites

- LI Empire
- Real Hip Hop Forever
- MBC Digital
- 1134 Mix Show
- WE ARE hunted (“99 most popular emerging songs”)
- Dot Got It
- Off The Trax
- The Hip Hop Chronicle (UK)
- Raw Rap (Poland)
- Get Known Radio
- Bostonianz 617
- Not I Said The Fly
- Dope Drops
- Hood Hollywood
- Ethereal Material (3-Hour DJ Tim Mix, 06/08/10)
- I GOT SOLE HIP HOP
- Mixtape Leak
- Nation of Hip Hop
- NEWSoDROME
- iHipHop.com
- Ink Drop
- Musik Share One
- The Hype Machine

Also from AWKWORD, C-Rayz Walz & REKS

- AWKWORD – Notes From A Different Kitchen (Blog Rap) (prod. The White Shadow of Norway)

- AWKWORD – New York Minute (World View Remix) ft. Jadakiss, Mazzi (S.O.U.L. Purpose), Vast Aire & Punchline (prod. Harry Fraud)

- C-Rayz Walz – “Explosion” ft. Royce da 5’9″ & Tamu (DJ I-Dee)

- C-Rayz Walz – “Catching the Strange” (prod. Falside)

- REKS – “Rap-A-Nomics” ft. Slaine & Torae (prod. Statik Selektah)

- REKS – “Henny at Halftime” ft. Ron Artest (prod. Statik Selektah)

AWKWORD “Notes From A Different Kitchen (Blog Rap)” Featured All Over The Web

Click the play button to stream.

Click the banner to download the mp3.

Or view any of these top sites that featured the track:

- Notes From A Different Kitchen
- Hip Hop Forever
- Work Harder
- Crate Scienz

BACKGROUND (brief):

The big homie Sha Stimuli told us “the blogs are gonna eat it up” — so we had to shoot this new freestyle over to yall… AWK drops 46 blogs in 24 bars!… Did you make the cut?

Vocals by AWKWORD; production by The White Shadow of Norway.

For more information, please click here.

ALSO FROM AWKWORD & THE WHITE SHADOW OF NORWAY:

AWKWORD – Notes From A Different Kitchen (Blog Rap)

As featured on the blog by the very same name…

The big homie Sha Stimuli told us “the blogs are gonna eat it up” — so we had to shoot this new freestyle over to yall… AWK drops 46 blogs in 24 bars!… Did you make the cut?

Vocals by AWKWORD; production by The White Shadow of Norway.

This is one of many collaborations between AWK and White Shadow, who is also serving as co-executive producer of AWKWORD’s forthcoming Word View album, the first-ever 100% nonprofit global hip hop project. With production from 15+ nations and every continent on earth, and all proceeds going to combat youth street violence, the album is designed to connect us all, and better our communities, through the transformative power of hip hop.

Expected to drop in late 2010, the album features AWK alongside such hip hop heavyweights as Sha Stimuli, Jadakiss, Punchline (eMC), KRS-One, Main Flow, AWOL One, Poison Pen, Reks, C-Rayz Walz, Mazzi (S.O.U.L. Purpose) and more.

LINKS (high-quality mp3):

- Option 1
- Option 2

LYRICS:

… we goin in!…

2dopeboyz, unkut, on smash /
white shadow, awkword, beats and rants /
in the smoking section, ask miss info to dance /
i got cocaine blunts and hip hop tapes in my pants /
east coast critics are biased, so they say /
but we been cloud kickers, since back in the day /
its not all 4 arrogance, i got poisonous paragraphs /
and fraud’s 38th notes, embarrass that ass /
you got elite taste?, and every chicks a fiya starter? /
oh word, okay player, nah right, dont bother /
im sicka than average, youre something like a rapper /
go paint the world pink, youre just a nod factor /
im the calm and the kaos effect, day in the lyfe /
work harder, up north trips, to dr. jay’s live /
real talk ny, sucker free, that real ish /
mbc digi, necole bitchie even feel this.

ALSO FROM AWKWORD & THE WHITE SHADOW OF NORWAY:

The White Shadow of Norway Named Co-Executive Producer of World View (the album)

Although somewhat less well-known than his European bredren The Snowgoons, The White Shadow of Norway is a global hip hop legend in his own right. Not only does he produce, he’s got the DJ and mix game on lock out there.

White Shadow has worked with the likes of Supastition, Illmind (G-Unit), Wordsworth, Malik B (The Roots), Easy Mo Bee, Celph Titled, Vinnie Paz & Jedi Mind Tricks, Block McCloud & Brooklyn Academy, J-Zone, Tash (The Alkaholiks), Pace Won, Maylay Sparks, Reef The Lost Cauze, Grand Agent, Louis Logic, Krumbsnatcha, Esoteric, Slaine, Clockworx, Jamalski, Infinito 2017, and Azeem (Spearhead).

White Shadow has shown unwavering support for AWK and the World View project. This is AWKWORD’s brother from another mother. Hence, he has been named Co-Executive Producer of the project AWKWORD has called his most important contribution to hip hop (and society) to date.

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AWKWORD Live at Southpaw

On January 22, 2010, AWKWORD appeared live at Southpaw in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, alongside Jabba (a.k.a. Hip Hop Pantsula) of South Africa, Asheru (of Boondocks fame) and Umi (dead prez affiliate), for a hip hop show benefiting the fight against AIDS in Africa, as well as promoting hip hop in education.

To read the original article, please click here.

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

AWKWORD - Live at Southpaw

BY THE WAY, IF YOU SEE THEM CATS RESPONSIBLE FOR (VIDEO) FILMING THE SHOW, TELL ‘EM TO HOLLER AT US. WE WANT THE FOOTAGE!