Breaking Down IDK & YungManny’s “495” (ft. Rico Nasty, Big Flock, Big Jam & Weensey)

May 13, 2020 JUKEBOXDC Staff Music No Comments  


Yesterday, Kevin Durant and IDK dropped a bombshell. For the soundtrack to Durant’s upcoming documentary Basketball County: In the Water, he and IDK had assembled a Juicy J-produced posse cut featuring some of PG County’s most influential rappers,  Weensey from Backyard Band, and upcoming Dumfries, Virginia artist Big Jam. Co-produced by IDK himself and the famed DJ Acyde, you can listen to the song, “495” above. For a brief recap of how the track came together, read on.

Kevin Durant, the P.G. native, has had a long history with the DMV rap scene. He has a decade-plus friendship with Wale. Durant appeared on Wale’s More About Nothing, his business partner Rich Kleiman is an executive producer of the documentary and was previously Wale’s manager. KD announced last week that fellow P.G. native IDK would be the music supervisor for the upcoming Showtime documentary, but it appears that the work has been happening behind the scenes for months.

 

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Big Jam and Big Flock both mentioned recording with IDK back in February of this year. Flock and IDK have history as well, dating back to 2016, before Flock was incarcerated. Flock, who has a long history with Rico Nasty, was released in the fall of 2019, collaborated with buzzing Bowie rapper Yung Manny, These titans of local rap lore, joined alongside Backyard Band legend Weensey and promising Northern Virginia newcomer Big Jam to create an exciting prelude to what will surely be an engaging documentary, a captivating soundtrack, and an interesting summer for DMV music. Basketball County: In the Water premieres on the 15th.

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Kahri 1k – Fort Night (Video)

May 9, 2020 JUKEBOXDC Staff Hip-Hop/Rap, Music No Comments  

New heat from Pusha’s chosen first signee. Info below

Ptersburg, Virginia rapper Kahri 1k, the first artist on Pusha T’s new label imprint, Heir Wave Music Group, Chris Thomas directs Kahri 1k’s (@kahri1k) official music video for “Fort Night.” Inspired by the Epic Games’ shooter-survival sensation bearing the same name, the visual opens up with a recreated scene from The Hughes Brother’s classic film Menace II Society and sets the tone for the Heir Wave Music Group (@heirwavemusic) poster boy’s four minute mini-movie. Later that day, Kahri and a team of bandits proceed to rob a luxury living quarters. Oddly enough, they don’t take any money or jewels; but instead seize vials of a glowing green serum which seem to give them x-men like superpowers, briefly displayed throughout the heist.

Equipped with a co-sign from Grammy-nominated wordsmith Pusha T as well as management from long time Trey Songz business associate Mumeet “Mu” Daddy, Kahri 1k is poised to be the next big hip-hop superstar from Virginia. The Petersburg raised entertainer has been commercially releasing music since 2017, but earned critics attention with the KingDrumDummie-produced street anthem “Pain.”

Kahri on the visual:

This song was an opportunity for me to show my fans how creative I can get. When we connected with Chris for the video treatment bringing the older and younger generations together was a goal of ours. That’s why we decided to include the “pulling drive bys” scene with Caine and Ronnie from Menace II Society in the beginning. You pair that with something as popular as Fornite and everything comes together smoothly. I don’t play the game as much as I used to, but I’ll pick up the stick every now and then.

“Fort Night” is the third video to be released from Khari’s The Ghost of Pecan Acres project. He previously released a Jordan Gonzalez-directed visual for “Trenches” back in February and a Shomi Patwary-directed visual for ”When They See Us” featuring Quando Rondo last month.

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