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Song Info
Appearing on AWKWORD’s DJBooth-sponsored 100% for-charity global Hip Hop project, World View, the activist emcee’s newest release “Back to BK” is a celebration of the Borough of Kings, featuring Brooklyn’s own D. Julien (Flatbush), Dom O Briggs (Bushwick) and Poison Pen (‘Bed Stuy’s Best Buy’), with gritty production and classic cuts from Tone Spliff and studio engineering from Brooklyn nomad Harry Fraud and Park Slope’s Steel Tipped Dove.
The record begins with AWKWORD’s verse — written a few years ago while he was moving out of Brooklyn (also when he wrote the hook) — in which he longs to return to a past life represented by his time living in the borough where his great grandfathers immigrated from Europe, where his grandfather ran the streets as part of a Jewish gang, and where his own father was born.
AWKWORD is followed up by three fellow buzz-making emcees and current Brooklynites, who all deliver hard-hitting verses, and then an extended outro displaying Tone Spliff’s now-famed turntablism skills.
Song Credits
- Song: “Back to BK”
- Artist: AWKWORD
- Featuring: D. Julien, Dom O Briggs, Poison Pen & DJ Tone Spliff
- Producer: Tone Spliff
- Album: World View
- Label: Sub-City Productions x The DJ Booth (DJBooth.net)
- Vocals (Verses): AWKWORD, D. Julien, Dom O Briggs, Poison Pen
- Vocals (Hook): AWKWORD
- Production: Tone Spliff
- Cuts: Tone Spliff
- Mix/Master: Tone Spliff
- Executive Production: AWKWORD, Tone Spliff
- Engineering: Harry Fraud, Roger ‘True’ Guzman, Steel Tipped Dove
- Cover Art: HypeForever
