Kokayi - "Roxstar" Music Video Ft. The Rockafire Explosion

Taken from the QN5 Vimeo Page - The debut music video from Kokayi. taken from his critically acclaimed new album, 'Robots & Dinosaurs' on QN5 Music. Order now @ iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, UGHH & Fat Beats.

VIDEO CREDITS:
Director: Donlee Brussel
DP: T. Burton
2nd Unit: Huston Tronnes & Nick Schwarz
Editor: Justin Krook
Colorist: Frank Berrios @ Encore Hollywood

SONG CREDITS:
Written & Produced By: Kokayi
Remix By: Tonedeff

For more info: QN5.com

MORE NEW SUBSTANTIAL & KOKAYI!!!

Peace folks...

Here's a little we dropped just in time for father's day. Enjoy and pass it on.



Here’s a special Father’s Day dedication to all you patriarchs out there.

New-Daddy Substantial enlists the talents of local DMV artists Gods’Illa and QN5 labelmate Kokayi to expound on the art of being a papa in 2009. This track was produced by Marcus D. (of “Day In The Life (f/ Steph)“ fame) and is taken directly from their forthcoming Japanese-Only collaborative album, Jazzmatic (Music To Take Your Breath Away), due out this fall on Tamashie Creations/Elevation Records. In the meantime, tell your baby mama we said ‘whuttup’.

You gotta love it...

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DC ARTIST/GRAMMY NOMINATED KOKAYI SIGNS TO QN5 RECORDS!

MAD PROPS!

New York City Independent hip hop label, QN5 Music, has signed Washington, DC’s Grammy-nominated emcee/singer/producer, Kokayi, to its official stable of innovative artists and producers.
Pronounced “Ko-Kah-Yee” (or KOKE for short), this 202-native takes his name from the Swahili word meaning “to summon the people”. Musically self-sufficient and versatile in ways that the QN5 roster is known for, he produces his own music, writes his own rhymes, sings from the gut and is self-taught on several instruments.
A prime example of QN5’s New Hip Hop aesthetic, Kokayi joins the label as an in-house producer and artist who will release the sophomore follow-up to his independently released 2007 debut Mass Instructions. On his own, he’s already managed to tour the world and snag the aforementioned Grammy nod for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for his collaboration with vocalist Wayna.
What’s equally impressive, is his prolific output. Kokayi is keeping busy on multiple fronts with appearances on forthcoming QN5-releases as well as several side-projects already in the works – including a joint-project with producer Sharkey entitled Dastardly and a full-length project with his Afropunk band, The Caesarz. This high level of productivity goes a long way to prove his self-proclaimed mantra of “Less Talk, More Walk”.
“Honestly I pour everything out on a song. It allows me to free myself from any inhibitions,” Kokayi says of his approach to music. “If I can move people that say they don’t like hip hop, than I know my job is done.”
“I’ve always been extremely proud of the roster I’ve assembled under the QN5 banner and I’m highly selective of who we work with – but when I heard Kokayi’s Mass Intructions album, I was floored,” says QN5 label founder, Tonedeff. “This is a cat who seamlessly blends genres without so much as flinching and brings his own unique sound, slang and vibe to the table. His talent won’t allow him to play by the rules, so QN5 is definitely the perfect place for him.”

SEANNIESSENTIALS SPECIAL! Inner Loop Records - Reasonable Doubt Remix Project

DC heavyweights Inner Loop Records, are back at it again with their second installment, of classic, album, remix project's...Following up on last year's, highly downloaded Illmatic Remix Project, this one has a monster line-up, picking a wide-range of DC's top-talent...Oddisee, XO, K-Beta, Asheru, Raheem Devaughn, Kenn Starr, Judah, Kokayi, there's too many to name! Cop this shit, stop sleepin'...

http://www.zshare.net/download/57936925a319a1f4/

REASONABLE DOUBT REMIX PARTY @ EXPO, TONIGHT!!!

DC Heavyweights Video Collab!

The Package, Enoch, Noyeek, Kokayi and Grap Luva - The Warning(Produced by Surock)


Warning from E-hab abasaeed on Vimeo.