{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"AWOL one Featuring KRS one - New Release!","description":"Play this in your podcast (legally!) - click herecheck it out\/ buy it at emusic check it out\/ buy it at iTuneslabel: Cornerstone RASIn today's hip-hop world, cluttered with the same gat toting, money\r\nthrowing, pseudo tough guy personas, it's never easy to stand out from\r\nthe pack. Enter AWOL One, best known for his work with seminal Los\r\nAngeles underground group The Shape Shifters. Known for his trademark,\r\nraspy, off cadence flow, AWOL has always been one of those MCs who can\r\ntake a rhyme anywhere, over any beat. In the process, he\u00c3\u00a2\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds established\r\nhimself as a well respected subterranean rapper who can rock mics and\r\nshows with the best of them; he's performed alongside the likes of\r\nCommon, De La Soul, Cypress Hill, Afrika Bambata, Jurassic 5 and\r\ncountless others.\r\n\r\nAWOL's new solo album, featuring KRS-One and production from the likes\r\nof Grouch, DJ Rhettmatic and Pigeon John, and slated for release on\r\nCornerstone R.A.S., is a perfect example of the creative genius that\r\nhas earned him his rep. Replete with soulful, synthesized, neck\r\nsnapping beats and AWOL's vivid parables, clever rhyme schemes and\r\nsometimes sing-song delivery, this is, in his own words "the best work\r\nI've ever done." Of course, AWOL has been putting it down in such\r\nfashion since his days coming up in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley\r\nduring the late eighties, the formative years for West Coast hip-hop.\r\n\r\nIndeed, AWOL grew up going to the legendary Good Life's Project Blowed\r\nopen mic sessions in Los Angeles and started hanging out with the likes\r\nof Mass Men, Aceyalone, Rob 1 and storied Cali graf crews CBS and LSD.\r\nWith such companions, it was no surprise the aspiring hip-hop junkie\r\nfell into b-boying-tagging, djing and eventually writing rhymes.\r\n\r\nDuring his early 20's, AWOL did all sorts of odd jobs to keep his\r\npassion for hip-hop alive and raise his baby daughter in the process.\r\nSoon, through his deft turntable skills, AWOL was afforded djing gigs\r\nfor various low ride tours and found himself heading toward where he\r\nwanted to be. It was rapping and performing behind the mic that\r\nultimately interested him most.\r\nread more about AWOL here","author_name":"iodaCAST","author_url":"http:\/\/iodalliance.com","html":"