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Happy New Year!! (And The Package Is Nominated Best Group!)

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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

Look Out Below (Theory remix)

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on October 25, 2009
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(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

Lights, Camera…Action!

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(photo by Shamus)

Thanks to everyone who came out to see The Package rock at Jammin Java and showed support for the release party for K-Beta’s “89 to 09″ mix CD (the reason for the celebration).

The set list was as follows:

Look Out Below (off the New Golden Era album)
Dimensions acapella verse
The Drug (off the New Golden Era album)
Final Warning (feat. Enoch 7th Prophet)*
Lights, Camera, Action (off of Noyeek the Grizzly Bear’s forthcoming solo album, Eartertainment)
Here I Am (off of Dimensions‘ upcoming solo album, Slanguage: A Brain Celebration)

* Final Warning will appear on The Package’s upcoming remix album, which will be available for free download this summer. More details to come.

We spotted a number of the DMV’s finest talents in the building: K-Beta, Flex Matthews, Ra the MC, Pro’Verb, Lyriciss, R.E.U.B., Krayola and many many more. We also had the privilege of seeing Dame Pix rock for the first time; he got busy. We missed a lot of the performances due to our tardy arrival, apologies to everyone whose performance we were unable to witness.

Big up to Betaraz and fam for putting together the whole event. Beautiful work, y’all!

On a sad note, our show at Expo this Saturday appears to be cancelled. We are having some communication difficulties getting that cancellation confirmed, but that appears to be the case.

We look forward to seeing you all when The Package rocks at the release party for our comrade Enoch 7th Prophet’s “Data Frequency” CD. $5 at the door, June 6th @ Axum (1934 9th St NW) (cost of entry gets you a copy of the CD as well). See you there!

ps: Big up to everyone I saw twittering about the show *after* I got home. I see you out there, Emperess! LOL. Please follow The Package at www.twitter.com/thepackagedc

pps: You can download a link to The Package’s recent “Ill Street Grooves” 89.3 FM WPFW radio appearance alongside Krayola (and a massive freestyle cipher with The Package, Krayola, Flex Matthews, myself and a very ill lyricist whose name I can pronounce but can’t spell (Va-Soo?), at http://www.divshare.com/download/7443220-26d

DMV Love,

Spirit Equality
Co-Owner, PKG Entertainment
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The Package Invades Art-o-Matic

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on May 10, 2009
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Art-o-Matic is an annual event collecting the best visual, cinematic, and theatrical art in the city within one multi-level structure (usually an entire office building) converted into a temporary museum for seven days a week for a few months, all FREE for the public to enjoy!

This year, on June 27th, there will be a celebration of DMV hip-hop for almost the entire day. Hosted by Flex Matthews, don’t miss this event where performers such as The Package, X.O., Pro’verb, Lyriciss Flow and about sixteen other lyricists will rock the stage from 4pm to 1am (including our longtime comrade Peace Justice Universal who was instrumental in the formation of this very site, an attempt at listing all the performers is below). It’s a DMV hip-hop marathon! We hope to see some friendly faces out there ready to rock out with The Package and the rest of our DMV brethren and sistren! See you there!

ps: A sorrowful word for our brethren in the MA/CT area, our 5/23 Springfield, Massachusetts performance date is cancelled. MA’s lost, however, is New Jersey’s gain, as we are scheduled instead to perform at the Jackson NJ stop on the No Profanity Tour 2009, with the same heavyweight line-up (Kurtis Blow, Dana Dane, Roxanne Shante, etc). This works out better for everyone anyway because Grizz couldn’t make the MA date due to work responsibilities, so now we get to expose the NP tour audience to the full Package experience! Further, this allows the entire Package fam to rock at Expo (1934 9th St NW) that same date (May 23rd), instead of Grizz holding it down for dolo/on his own.

In no particular order, the performers at the FREE event on June 27th @ 55 M St SE are: The Package, X.O., Ra the MC, Pro’Verb, Lyriciss Flow, Brother Maniac, Peace Justice Universal, Rosetta Stoned, Pro and Reg, Benji, Nick the 1da, Tomorrow’s Yesterday, Sammy Bravo, Substantial, Enoch the 7th Prophet, K-Beta, Nando, Lady A, Jade Fox, Mic the Finite, Von, Prhyme, Buddha Bless, Godisilla, Enjay, Tamu, The Liberators

DMV Love,

Spirit Equality
Co-Owner, PKG Entertainment

From May Day to Mid-May, The Package is On Smash!

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Looks like May is National Package Month, as The Package has four shows coming up, three of which are in the first seven days of the month!

We start off the month with a bang on May 1st (May Day), opening for Virginia’s own Skillz. That’s going down at Almaz (1212 U St NW) and ladies get in free before 11 (fellas, $10 for y’all before 11). Ra the MC holds it down for the sisters, while Midas and Shaka round out the bill. On the wheels, RBI, Marcnfinit and Mel B EZ will be DJ-ing on the venue’s two floors all night, so stick around after the show to bust a move or two (I, personally, will be rocking it old school style with the Cabbage Patch). Hosted by Asheru and Maimouna Youssef (vocalist from Skillz “Crazy World” and The Roots “Don’t Feel Right” singles)

The very next day, all supporters of green leafy plants and the decriminalization of such should make their way down to the abso-smurf-ly FREE Worldwide Marijuana March. Smokers and their supporters will be marching from Lafayette Park up to Malcom X/Meridian Hill Park on 16th and Euclid. I personally didn’t know tokers could walk that far, but Michael Phelps is in pretty good shape, so what do I know? Once at the park, at 2pm, the after-concert/rally will get to jumping. The Package wil be opening for H.R. (of the legendary Bad Brains). Other bands will be in attendance to rock out as well.

May 7th, The Package is rocking at Cake and Kisses alongside new Studio 43 signee X.O. and Senegalese rap stars on the rise Wageble. Hardcore hip-hop at its pinnacle. Bring your adrenalin and come ready to bang. It goes down at Asylum (2471 18th St NW, in Adams Morgan), doors at 8pm. FREE with free cake and desserts as well.

Last but not least, May 20th, The Package make their VA debut at Jammin Java (227 Maple St E) in Vienna VA. The Package will perform alongside an amazing lineup of some of the DMV’s rising stars: K-Beta, Thad Reid, Pro Verb, R.E.U.B , Krayola, Flex Mathews, Bo Jankans, White Folkz and Dame Plx.

Thanks to everyone for supporting The Package and the New Golden Era movement!

PKG Entertainment…we here now!