Watch Part 1 and Part 2 of The Package decimating the stage at Almaz above. The crowd was hype and Enoch got them even hyper with his “1, 2, 3 Theory drop that shit!” chant in Part 2…
The song order is as follows:
What You Sipping On?
Your Time Is Up
Cold World
Final Warning (feat. Enoch 7th Prophet)
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“Final Warning”, of course, is still available for free download as part of the 20 track “Double R: Remixes and Rarities” project at http://tinyurl.com/pkgrmx2
The first three songs will be included on the forthcoming second album from The Package, “The It Factor”
As you can see above, yesterday marked yet another successful strike in The Package’s campaign to take over the DMV, from Richmond to Baltimore! I just had a poll on Twitter about whether Baltimore was a part of the DMV…the results were mixed….what do you think? After you check out all the love Baltimore gives The Package in the video above, maybe your opinion will be swayed!
Once again, it’s on!
In the video above, The Package kills the stage yet again as they open for the legendary Myka 9 (f/k/a/ Mikah 9 of Freestyle Fellowship). I caught everything except the introduction from the host, Enoch 7th Prophet. This was part of the Upper Echelon tour’s DC stop. Tame One didn’t make this particular stop on the tour, unfortunately, but Prop Anon, Boombap Bullies and C-Chan were there to represent. Other performers included Educated Consumers, Ardamus, PG Skillet, Rosetta Stoned (well, really just Mental Stamina) and Watusi. There was also a lot of awesome freestyling over the dubstep sounds of top choice selector JKaNizzle throughout the night (including a bit by yours truly, video will come if I can find it).
Peace to the peaceful,
Spirit Equality
Singer/spoken word artist Dehejia Maat has blazed stages from DC to Japan. Here, she covers the Billie Holiday classic “God Bless The Child”, then segues into some very psychedelic poetry about her aquatic origins (Hendrix is smiling somewhere). Best of the golden era, with a touch of the new…the new golden era…shining in the now. Check out the video above and drop your responses below…
And she just dropped a CD and a new book as well…
An older interview below:
Peace to the peaceful,
Spirit Equality
Talk about starting the new year off right! I just got word via email that The Package has been nominated for Best Rap Group in the 2010 DMV Music Awards (formerly the DMV EMAs)! And many of our comrades are also nominated in various categories! Check out the full list of nominees at dmv202.com and congrats to Team Demo, Enoch 7th Prophet, XO, Oddisee, K-Beta, Princess of Controversy, J-Mills, Whitefolkz, and all our other fam who were nominated!
(several of our fellow nominees contributed to the excellent Package remix album, “Double R: Remixes and Rarities”…I hope you downloaded your free copy at http://tinyurl.com/pkgrmx with the hundreds of other kind souls who have so far!)
The Best Rap Group nominees are:
Oy Boyz
M-1 Platoon
LikeBlood
The Package
1st Family
Wasteland Mob
Dyfor Entertainment
edit: The award went to…..Likeblood. Congratulations to those brothers, we opened up for them and Raekwon at the 9:30 Club just a few weeks ago. Very personable brothers.
Peace to the peaceful,
Spirit Equality
Melanie Fiona and Noyeek…
I wonder if he wrote this song from the Double R with her in mind?
As soon as I took this flick, I knew it would be a good year for us…beauty is a good luck charm, so Grizz standing next to her must have surely been a good omen. LOL. Sure enough, the year ended strong with LOADS of critical love in the blogsphere for the “Double R: Remixes and Rarities” project (which you can still download for free right here), including an extraordinary review by the newly revamped Start of the Line blog (welcome back to the blogosphere, homie!) as well as love from heavyweight bloggers such as the Okayplayer-approved good folk at rappersiknow.com (Jamie B and FWMJ, what up!) and SOHH founder’s eponymous blog kevinnottingham.com
(12/27 update: Flawless Hustle also joined the Double R party; thank you for the love as well!)
Endless respect to the early adopters who hopped onto the Double R movement when it first dropped just three weeks ago: DJ Heat, Rule 4080, Inner Loop, For The DMV Only and Upset the Setup. Thanks y’all!
You really can’t get enough shots of Ms. Melanie Fiona in your life, so I might as well hit you off with another…
Roc Nation, what up! Tell Hov to holla at us, man! LOL…
ps: I also had loads of fun rhyming at Bohemian Caverns tonight…respect to Mental Stamina…Dimes jumped on stage for an impromptu battle session…niceness! Anyone with video or photos, please holla….
Peace to the peaceful,
Spirit Equality
update: The show went well. The Package got to rock four songs (Final Warning, What You Sipping On, Here I Am and Lights), the last two of which were a medley due to the limited time in their short set. The crowd showed a lot of love and Dimes made sure to urge everyone to come to this fine site of ours so that folk could download our remix album assuming you haven’t already! So, after you click the lovely blue link in the prior sentence and dig on the sounds of The Package as remixed by some of the area’s best producers, you can marvel at the fact that you received this joyous gift for Free.99! Nothing beats FREE MUSIC in a recession, especially when it’s outrageously dope. :-)
side note 1: The footage above isn’t ideal because I was not able to secure a video pass beforehand and had to shoot guerilla-style.
side note 2: Does anyone know why Noreaga didn’t make it to the performance?
Peace to the peaceful,
Spirit Equality
The Package’s “Double R: Remixes and Rarities” project can be downloaded for Free.99 right HERE! This very special project features contributions from the DMV’s finest, including: Kev Brown, J-$crilla, Kokayi, DJ Eurok and Drew_Kid, E-Minah, Krayola, Enoch 7th Prophet, Laelo Hood, Head Roc, Pure Fiya, Nazz, Nicole Rumeau, Jack Danger, and Spirit Equality*. It’s a DMV family affair and we’ve giving it to the world as a special “thank you” to everyone who has supported The Package and the New Golden Era movement so far! We love all of y’all! Extra special love to everyone who contributed to each song on the project. Some of the tracks are remixes from originals featured on the “New Golden Era” album (still on iTunes *smile*), while the rarities are either exclusives from upcoming solo records from Dimes and Grizz that you will hear in radically different form on those respective projects (e.g. Miss Yum Yum) or songs you never would have heard otherwise in any form (e.g. Dimes 10.0). Theory mixed the entire project to perfection.
* On “Salute”, but uncredited.
Special shout to DJ Heat, Rule 4080, and Inner Loop for being the first bloggers to show love to this project. For The DMV Only and Upset the Setup also showed love. Thanks y’all!
DMV Love,
Spirit Equality
(December update to this post: Pictured above are Noyeek (a/k/a Grizz) and Dimes of The Package. As you can tell from the picture, they put a great deal of passion into their music; you can download their latest work, the “Double R: Remixes and Rarities” project, for free, so please click right here to download now!)
It’s that time again! Allow us to present the third leak from the “Double R: Remixes and Rarities”, as the crew re-creates another “New Golden Era” banger: “Look Out Below (Theory mix)”. Theory cooked up this red hot remix.
“Double R: Remixes and Rarities” will be available for free download in November. Keep checking in regularly so you don’t miss out!
ps: Big up to the good folk in Baltimore who gave The Package such a warm reception at the contest at Club Reality to secure a possible opening slot for the upcoming Method Man/Redman/Snoop Dogg tour. Send positive energy our way, hopefully we will be the act that gets selected!
pps: I inadvertently said Dimes co-produced this remix earlier, but Theory set me straight! My bad!
ppps: Be on the lookout for “Concrete Jungle” by Laelo Hood, K-Beta and possibly Draus (also according to Theory, who produced the track). Theory is also in talks to mix part (or possibly more) of Laelo Hood’s next record, his first on Inner Loop Records, his new label home.
ps: Big up to the folks at “Are You In That Mood Yet?” for spotlighting “Blue Collar” off the “New Golden Era” album, a real jewel on the album if you haven’t heard it yet. Check them out here!
- Spirit
The Black L.U.V. (Love Unity Vision) Festival goes down the third Sunday of September every. This year, they invited The Package to rock the stage. And so they did, as you can tell from the video above. This year’s show also featured other incredible DC-based live performers such as Cornel West Theory, N’Digo Rose and Godisheus (”gotta see us”). Additionally, former Black Panther Party chair Elaine Brown and hip-hop icon/inventor of the scratch Grand Wizard Theodore were both honored, in person, for their cultural contributions. DJ Dirty Ice also gave a brief but impassioned eulogy to Grandmaster Roc Raida, who passed away the day prior to the event.
Be sure to mark your calendars to check the next Black LUV Festival out on September 19, 2010!
