About World View

SET TO DROP IN 2012

Brought to you by DJBooth.net and sponsored by The Morgan Stanley Foundation and EOW (End of the Weak; EODub), AWKWORD’s #WorldView full-length album is the the first-ever 100% For-Charity Global Hip Hop project, featuring contributions from every continent, approximately 20 countries and every region of the United States, with guest emcee appearances from the likes of Joell Ortiz, Sean Price and KRS One, among many other Hip Hop heavyweights who have volunteered to help represent the cause.

All proceeds from World View are being donated to Guns 4 Cameras (a.k.a. Aim to Live), a registered 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to eradicating gun violence through the Hip Hop-inspired education/empowerment of our innercity youth. The organization’s founder, Hezues R’ was shot at 22 times at age 22 — and survived to re-dedicate his life to saving the streets. The organization’s Spokesperson is hip hop icon Pharoahe Monch; he and Hezues have traveled the country speaking to the youth about Hip Hop and making the right choices.

With World View, AWKWORD is continuing that tradition of using Hip Hop music to connect people for positive change, as well as furthering his own legacy as a fighter for freedom, justice and equality (see here.)

AWKWORD stands behind a decade-plus in the music business. His first release, “the Sub-Way mixtape,” featured such hip hop icons as Raekwon, Killah Priest and Remedy of Wu-Tang, ILL BILL and Necro, Tragedy Khadafi, GURU of Gang Starr, Scram Jones and others, and received rave reviews industry-wide. According to Elemental Magazine, AWKWORD showed the most heart on the album, while Juicy Magazine said standing out from Eminem would be easy…

The AWKWORD solo debut, “See the Light” (an Exit 97.7 Top Album of 2008), was the inspiration for World View, a global phenomenon growing daily, receiving radio play all over the U.S., Europe, Asia and even the Middle East.

As AWKWORD puts it… “When my solo debut dropped in August 2008, I started getting mad requests for acappellas for remixes. So, I decided to hold the World View Remix Mixtape Contest for producers around the world. The response was crazy. Cats from Malawi, Malaysia, Namibia, Brazil and Moldova hit me with some heat. The plan was for the best remixes to comprise an AWKWORD remix album, but I received about 100 submissions before I cut off the contest. So, after a few listening parties, and with the help of some friends, I cut the track list down to the top 20, representing every continent on earth. Together, these tracks provided a survey of the world of Hip Hop, through the eyes of AWKWORD and some of our greatest (mostly unknown) Hip Hop composers… But that wasn’t enough — so I asked some of the dopest emcees in the game to join me, and some of my producer friends to lend their talents as well. And, with that, World View — the concept and the foundation for an album — was born.”

Since December 2009, AWKWORD has recorded and released nine singles off World View, each of which has gained significant media attention, landing features from Urb Magazine, XXL, The Source, Hip Hop DX, Nah Right, DJ Booth, 2DopeBoyz, Vlad TV, The Hip Hop Chronicle, Kevin Nottingham, IndieHipHopNet, Ashley Outrageous, Refined Hype, BuckMarleyXXX, etc., and rotation on Hip Hop Nation Sirius XM, college radio and global FM radio.

When World View drops in 2012, it will feature production from every continent, approximately 20 nations and every U.S. region — along with a number of befitting emcee cameos. It will be distributed digitally worldwide; and 100 limited-edition, autographed physical copies (CDs) will be pressed and made available exclusively through http://AWKWORDrap.com.

#WorldView is the FIRST time anything like this has ever been done in hip hop. AWKWORD is a revolutionary. And WORLD VIEW is just the beginning of his (OUR) revolution.

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