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DMV Unity: The Package Jams With Mambo Sauce

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R234dGg-Qr0

In the video above, The Package jams with Mambo Sauce, one of the leading go-go bands in the city. The two groups have never rocked together and it’s a great meeting between two powerful representatives of the city’s two main urban genres: go-go and hip-hop. The songs rocked are “Final Warning” (off of “Double R: Remixes and Rarities“) and “Lights” (off of Noyeek’s forthcoming second solo album, “Eartertainment”, coming later this year).

It’s beautiful how the band quickly adapts to a song they’ve never rehearsed, with Twink adding some cool drum hits to punctuate the chorus of “Final Warning”.

Attentive listeners will note that The Package is somewhat hilariously introduced by the name of their Twitter account, ThePackageDC.

Awesome to hear someone behind me say “That was one of the dopest…” behind me as the set ends. Ha-ha! Big up to whoever that was, glad you enjoyed the show!

This all went down at the Up and Up Showcase, which hits Liv (2001 11th St NW, 11th and U) every Tuesday night, show starting at 8:30 (happy hour 6-8), put on by the highly underrated superb hip-hop trio Gods’illa. Support those brothers, it’s a great event (they also just put out a very high quality debut album you should peep). Big up to the featured act of the night, NYC band Shinobi Ninja, and the other performers that rocked throughout the night, including Maimouna Youssef (nominated for a Grammy for her vocal work on The Roots’ “Don’t Feel Right”), Komplex a/k/a Kowboy Kom (of Fly Gypsy) and Tamika Jones.

Your Favorite Bloggers’ Favorite Rappers: The Package!

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on December 23, 2009
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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

Reasonable Doubt remix show/DMV EMA nomination

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on March 18, 2009
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The Package participated in the Reasonable Doubt remix project with some of the finest producers and emcees in the DMV area (remaking “Bring It On”). This project represents the second installment of a daring remix series (the first volume remixed/remade Illmatic) that challenges talented producers to take the original samples from songs on a classic record and flip them, as well as challenging emcees to bring new verses to match the intensity of the original lyrics. It makes the familiar brand new again. Keep an eye out for this project and if you’re in the DC area on March 26th, drop into the Expo (1928 9th St NW, off 9th and U) to see these tracks performed live! Brought to you by the great folks at Inner Loop Records (peace to proud new poppa, J-$crilla).

In other DMV news, the “Warning” video by The Package feat. Grap Luva, Enoch and Kokayi (produced by Surock) is nominated for a Best Video DMV Award at the DMV EMA’s. Video director NasJota is also nominated for Best Video Director.

The Package is scheduled to perform at the DMV EMA’s award show on March 29th, 7pm at the Hampton Conference Center, 207 W. Hampton Place, Capitol Heights MD.

Let me also take this time to thank all the blogs (like Flawless Hustle and Funkadelic Freestyles) who have shown love to the “Warning” video.

With that said, back to the DMV EMA’s…

More info and a full list of nominees can be found at the official web site for the DMV EMA’s:
http://www.dmvemas.com/v1/index.html# (the site has music, so if you’re at work, turn down your speakers…flash link for nominee list can be found on the right side of the opening page)

Hope to see some of you at the show!

DMV love,
Spirit Equality (A. Page)
Co-Owner, PKG Entertainment
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The Predominant Rap Conglomerate Sparks The Flame…

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on March 3, 2009
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We will be performing in a huge DMV jam session (FREE before midnight) at Almaz (1212 U St NW) on Saturday March 21, 9pm-2am. As you can see from the flyer pictured above, we have a show scheduled on April 3rd at Axum (1934 9th St NW), alongside Head-Roc, Lyriciss, Pro’verb, Krayola, and Lord Vada (FREE for ladies before midnight, $10 to fellas who get on the advanced guest list by emailing not4self@yahoo.com, $15 otherwise). We will be performing at a marijuana legalization festival on May 2nd at Malcolm X Park (16th & Euclid NW) and at the 40th Annual National Smoke-In on the National Mall on July 4th (23rd & Constitution Ave NW, Henry Bacon Field). Finally, we were selected to perform at the End of the Weak showcase in New York City on June 7. We should be going on at 11pm.

As a bonus to all y’all for reading all of that, video of The Package performing live at the H Street Festival in front of a diverse crowd in the heart of Northeast Washington can be found at http://vimeo.com/2683567

ps: I posted a recipe from Package member Grizz, a professional cook (and pictured above) on the blog for our Myspace page at myspace.com/itsthepackage for your eating enjoyment. Check that out!

pps: Thanks to Everyone Who Came Out At Indulj! For those who missed out, a few weeks ago we played to a packed house at Indulj in DC’s U Street corridor (the show was webcasted live on thehotconversation.com). Much love to everyone who showed up and supported us, especially the folks who bought CDs and all the lovely ladies in attendance! Big up to Krayola for organizing the show (cop a FREE copy of his ‘Resilience’ album when you see him).

Peace,

Spirit Equality
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