RRR018 Kameelah Waheed - America The Beautiful EP (Original + North Street West Remixes) | Kameelah Waheed

RRR018 Kameelah Waheed - America The Beautiful EP (Original + North Street West Remixes)

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3.	Kameelah Waheed - America The Beautiful (North Street West Vocal Remix) 04:51	buy track
4.	Kameelah Waheed - America The Beautiful (North Street West Dub) 05:14	buy track
5.	Kameelah Waheed - America The Beautiful (North Street West Instrumental) 04:51	buy track

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Ramrock Red Records are truly delighted to be releasing Kameelah Waheed’s extraordinary ‘America The Beautiful’ EP – one half on Ramrock Red and the other half on the house label, F*CLR.

On ‘America the Beautiful’ Kameelah delivers powerful spoken word lyrics, pledging allegiance to the people of America - to the dreamers, the lovers, the thinkers, and the risk takers. At the same time, Kameelah questions how many rights will America change and how many souls will America break. She skilfully delivers her conscious narrative alongside a rolling hip house beat, reminiscent of Harlem’s Last Poets who spat lyrics about the 1960s African American civil rights movement and Gil Scott Heron, who also conveyed his messages through a fusion of funk, soul, blues and fly lyrical content. Kameelah’s ‘Avant-funk’ release is a nod to 80s New York, Defunkt, Talking Heads and Ze Records – all sounds coming out of the city at that time. Loaded with talent, the poetry is written by the hand and from the heart of Kameelah who engages a cast of amazing musicians to work on the project and who have all worked with the likes of Lauren Hill and the legendary Diana Ross. Kameelah also produces the track with Kelly Murray, her partner in Ke’Wah Productions.

Reworks come courtesy of one of the UKs most prolific underground production squads. On this EP, Ashley Beedle, Darren Morris and Jo Wallace from North Street West lay down their signature moves and grooves on the title track with a vocal, instrumental and dub. It’s a homage to composers of vintage US cop show themes, Lalo Schifrin and Quincy Jones, with an undercurrent of ‘street sounds’ and tough, inner city funk - you can almost see the steam coming up
through the manhole covers.

New Jersey based hip hop artist, Kameelah Waheed, grew up with music all around, with world beats, island and tribal vibes coming from inside her Islamic home - MTV meshed with rap blasting from every Philly + NJ radio station, while house parties were playing four to the floor and electronica. Her musical denial was the catalyst for her explosion into sound and later her versatility as an artist, producer, writer and performer who has worked within a myriad of styles from neo soul to hip hop, to house, releasing previously on BBE, Rapster Records, and Philly Through My Ear. In 2020 she dropped her highly respectable, ‘Holding On’ on Ramrock Records.

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released August 13, 2021

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Ramrock = reggae Ramrock Blue = soul Ramrock Red = Balearic/Hip Hop/Jazz/Electronica.
Jo is part of the North Street Studio One Remix crew with DJ/producer Ashley Beedle + musical supremo Darren Morris. Artists include Greg Blackman, Ghetto Priest, DB Cohen, Joseph Malik, Pauline Taylor, Steven Christie + Kameelah Waheed. 2021 is full of musical goodness. ... more

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