About World View

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“Better get down with AWKWORD’s movement, he’s doing something very positive for the Hip Hop community.” — DonutsAndMilk.com

Rapper and Activist AWKWORD is one of the “dope artists” putting New York City Hip Hop back on the map (DOPEMusicBlog.com). He is also “the heart and soul” of World View (BuckMarleyXXX.com), the first-ever 100% For-Charity Global Hip Hop Album. Hosted/presented by DJBooth.net and also sponsored by End of the Weak (EOW) and The Morgan Stanley Foundation, AWKWORD’s “highly anticipated LP World View” (TheSource.com) is executive produced by AWKWORD and The White Shadow of Norway and mixed by Switzerland’s Vinyl Digger. With the intention of connecting us worldwide through Hip Hop music & culture, AWKWORD’s World View features contributions from every continent, approximately 20 countries and every United States region. The album boasts production from Harry Fraud, Domingo, Falside, etc., and guest emcee appearances from the likes of Joell Ortiz, Sean Price and KRS-One.

All of the proceeds from World View are being donated to Guns 4 Cameras (Aim to Live), a 501c3-registered nonprofit dedicated to eradicating street violence through the Hip Hop-inspired education and empowerment of our at-risk 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. He and the organization’s Spokesperson, Hip Hop icon Pharoahe Monch, have traveled the country speaking to the youth about Hip Hop, making the right choices, and putting down their guns and picking up their cameras (or their pens or their microphones) to be productive instead of destructive. Future plans for the organization include local gun-for-camera exchanges nationwide.

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 11 singles off World View, each of which has gained significant media attention. Since, AWKWORD has been featured by the leading Hip Hop magazines/sites, including Complex Magazine, Urb Magazine, The Fader, XXL, The Source, Hip Hop DX, Okay Player, Hip Hop Wired, Nah Right, DJ Booth, 2 Dope Boyz, Vlad TV, You Heard That New, The Well Versed, Earmilk, The Hip Hop Chronicle (UK), Rap Dose (Canada), Kevin Nottingham, Ashley Outrageous, The Sermon’s Domain, Xclusives Zone and more. He has also appeared on top news sites The Village Voice, Daily Kos, The Nation and Huffington Post, while his interviews and records get play worldwide, with features as varied as Hip Hop Nation Sirius XM, Rap Is Outta Control Radio, The Company Man Show on PNC Radio, Buzz Asia, Revolt Radio and Israel National Radio.

When World View drops in 2012, it will feature contributions from every continent, approximately 20 nations and every U.S. region — with incredible production and emcee cameos. It will be distributed digitally worldwide, with special bonus offerings through DJBooth.net; 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. That makes AWKWORD — and all the World View soldiers — revolutionary. And that means WORLD VIEW will help spark our revolution.

FOR MORE INFO: e-mail info[at]AWKWORDrap.com or @ him on twitter.