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AWKWORD - Throw Away The Key (No More Prisons)

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Artist: AWKWORD

Producer: L.Ment

Album: World View

Label: Sub-City Productions

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America doesn’t do anything in moderation. When we’re thirsty we grab a 64-ounce Double Big Gulp, when we watch TV we flip on a 72-inch HD, and when it comes to locking people up, we’re not just number one, we crush the competition. There are currently more than 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S. - China’s a distant second with a meager 1 million - and yet most Americans don’t think of their homeland as the world’s biggest prison state. Here to help change that is AWKWORD and his new world premiere Throw Away The Key (No More Prisons). With Toronto producer L. Ment laying down a pacing and bluesy beat AWK gets right to work with bars aimed at tearing the bars off America’s myriad of prisons: “Born into prisons, most ghetto buildings got bars / when you live without sh*t, go head and worship them cars.” Sometimes it really is bigger than hip-hop. For more music that’s not afraid to take a stand, keep an ear out for AWKWORD’s upcoming World View album, dropping via The DJBooth later this year.

This song first appeared on the Independent Chart on August 6, 2012
   

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DJ Z
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DJ Z
Total Ratings: 11662
Rating:  43211
Some people just want to party it up, booze all night and enjoy the company of other sexed-up folks in their age range. This song is not for them. This is the for the grown, the mature, the wise, the thinking crowd. For people who believe music is about more than trying to make money, but rather a medium to share a viewpoint.
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Posted on Jul 30, 2012    

refynedtayste
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JKay
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Posted on Jul 30, 2012    

djblaze
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djblaze
Total Ratings: 7999
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Great lyrics... Delivery is always off for me with Awkword, but his bars are spittin the truth on this one, so I gotta give him props...
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Posted on Jul 30, 2012    

afakempire
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Total Ratings: 11
Rating:  54321
Takes balls to release shit like this. Most won't appreciate the message.


Posted on Jul 31, 2012    

Karan Gupte
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Caveman 305
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|an
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The Mick
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Total Ratings: 6
Rating:  54321
INCREDIBLE. love the flow, the beat and the message


Posted on Aug 02, 2012    

saving-earth
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Total Ratings: 1
Rating:  54321
Chicago is a wasteland, even colder in the summer / no education, programs, now they murderin eachother -- you kidding me!? Shit is dope! And AWK sounds great on this beat. I can feel the passion, pain, soul


Posted on Aug 02, 2012    

JunkBonds
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Total Ratings: 24
Rating:  54321
LOVE IT! Hip Hop x Activism.


Posted on Aug 07, 2012    

Lewis 'LH' Hegeman
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Total Ratings: 19
Rating:  54321
Classic Awkword... Cant wait for World view


Posted on Aug 07, 2012    

Mr. Intelligent
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Total Ratings: 7
Rating:  54321
So, so good. Need more of this at The Booth (my already favorite site)!


Posted on Aug 07, 2012    

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