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Tags: Kaimbr, Kenn Starr, Kev Brown, Low Budget Christmas EP, Low Budget Crew, RODDYROD

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After a crit­i­cally acclaimed orig­i­nal release, Long Beach native Sareem Poems is releas­ing an unusu­ally com­pre­hen­sive Deluxe Edition of his album Black & Read All Over. The Deluxe Edition will include all four­teen of the orig­i­nal songs along with instru­men­tals for each track. The album's most unique fea­ture, how­ever, might be its remixes. Sareem chose to remix the album's cen­ter­piece track, "Lower the Boom" not once or twice, but half a dozen times. Each remixed ver­sion of "Lower the Boom" was given a dif­fer­ent name, and each fea­tures a dif­fer­ent pro­ducer and new guest verses.

"Rude Awakening" is the first of the "Boom" remixes, and fea­tures typ­i­cally fan­tas­tic con­tri­bu­tions from DMV super-producer and Diamond District emcee Oddisee, as well as lyri­cal con­tri­bu­tions from up-and-coming rap­per DMV rap­per Kenn Starr. Released by Mello Music Group, the remixes sim­ply had pro­duced too much good feed­back for the label to keep them unre­leased. Michael Tolle of Mello Music Group sim­ply had no choice- "the pro­mo­tional remixes started com­ing back from Oddisee, Fabio Musta, and Nick Tha 1Da and gar­nered so much atten­tion, had so many peo­ple ask­ing 'what album is that on?' that we felt we had to re-release the project with them included. We really wanted to make it worth people's while since the project had already dropped, so we fig­ured we'd give peo­ple the whole pack­age." The whole pack­age is about to be deliv­ered. Watch out for dig­i­tal release of Black & Read All Over: Deluxe Edition, com­ing December 1 on Mello Music Group.

Tags: Black & Read All Over, Diamond District, Fabio Musta, Kenn Starr, Mello Music Group, Michael Tolle, Nick Tha 1da, Oddisee, Sareem Poems

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Black & Read All Over is avail­able today on iTunes.

Tags: Black & Read All Over, Kenn Starr, Low Budget, Mello Music Group, Oddisee, Sareem Poems

There's a rea­son why I sub­scribe to Kenny's RSS feed. 9 times outta 10, it's gonna be some­thing I think is dope. This project is one of those..

1. Let It Be Known (feat. Hassaan Mackey & Silent Knight) (prod. Analogic)
2. The Truth (feat. Kaimbr) (prod. RODDYROD & Kev Brown)
3. In Check (feat. Oddisee & Supastition) (prod. Oddisee)
4. DJ Flexx Freestyle (’01 Throwback) (Live on WPGC Washington, D.C.)
5. It’s Time (feat. Soulstice, Eternia & Tiffany Paige) (prod. M-Phazes)
6. Low Budget All Stars (feat. Kev Brown, Oddisee, Cy Young & Kaimbr) (prod. Marco Polo)
7. Represent (feat. Akir & Oddisee) (prod. Oddisee)
8. That’s How We Kick It (feat. J. Sands) (prod. Chief)
9. Price 2 Pay (feat. Asheru, Oddisee & Darien Brockington) (prod. Oddisee)
10. DJ Eclipse Freestyle (’04 Throwback) (Live on WNYU New York, NY)
11. Wonder Why (feat. Wale, Big Sean & Mike Posner) (prod. 9th Wonder)
12. Q&A (feat. Oddisee) (prod. Oddisee)
13. The Dropoff (feat. JLaine) (prod. JLaine)
14. Kemistree Meets Low Budget (feat. Hassaan Mackey, Kev Brown & Gut) (prod. Young Cee)
15. DJ K.O. Freestyle (’04 Throwback) (Live on WRSU New Brunswick, NJ)
16. Coming Of Age ‘09 (prod. Nick Tha 1da)
17. Hennessey Pt. 3 (feat. Kev Brown & Raheem DeVaughn) (prod. Kev Brown)
18. Sum Ish For Dave (feat. Haysoos) (prod. 9th Wonder)

Tags: 9th Wonder, Akir, Analogic, Asheru, Big Sean, Chief, Cy Young, Darien Brockington, Eternia, Gut, Hassaan Mackey, Haysoos, J. Sands, JLaine, Kaimbr, Kenn Starr, Kev Brown, Low Budget, M-Phazes, Marco Polo, Mello Music Group, Mike Posner, Nick Tha 1da, Oddisee, Raheem Devaughn, RODDYROD, Silent Knight, SoulStice, Supastition, Tiffany Paige, Wale, Young Cee

Here's the final ver­sion of "Wonder Why" from Wale's Back To The Feature mix­tape that's sup­posed to drop some­time today… Props to Shake

Tags: Big Sean, Kenn Starr, Mike Posner, Wale

Tue Feb 10 doors @ 9pm
Red Lounge
2013 14th Street NW
Washington, D.C.

King RJ Presents: 2nd Annual Dilla’s Nite + Kev Brown BDay Celebration & All Aquarians
Resident DJ’s 2 Tone Jones & Roddy Rod
Special Guest DJ J. Laine
Hosted by The Legendary Grap Luva

Tags: 2 Tone Jones, Dilla's Nite, Grap Luva, J Dilla, J Laine, James YAncey, Jay Dee, Kenn Starr, Kev Brown, King RJ, Ma Dukes, Maureen Yancey, Red Lounge, Roddy Rod, Stones Throw Records