D.C. Rapper Kokayi: Label Deal, New Website, Upcoming Show
D.C. rhymer Kokayi (profiled in City Paper last December) just inked a deal with French label Just Like Vibes, which will distribute his album Mass Instructions in France and sell song downloads internationally. Kokayi explained it this way via e-mail:
... the Just like Vibes thing happened by sending out the music as often and as far as i could send it. Given the far [and] inexpensive reach of the internet, i zipped up the record and sent a yousendit file out to everyone i knew from as far as Perth, Australia to right around the corner. ... One of the people i sent the record to is a French rapper named Asco, he's from a group called Bunzen and we have stayed in contact since we met in Paris when i had a deal on BMG. He works with just like Vibes and let his folks hear it, they liked what they heard, we spoke about some terms and i signed the deal last Sunday when i went to perform at Sons d'hiver.
Sons d'hiver is a music festival held every year southeast of Paris. Kokayi also has launched a new Web site with a page of music, and he'll be playing a show Friday night at the new Artmosphere Cafe in Mt. Rainier, Md. A portion of the proceeds will go to the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School.
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Kokayi is a DC Hip-Hop Legend!
Opus Akoben
I.T.
Freestyle Union
Production
Theatre
the brother has always been at the top of the game with originality and creativity. one of the bests, and its great to see an entity get behind the brother!
these are things people in dc who know what time it is need to be saying about this brother. we need to support him as home as much as folks support him away from home.
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