D1 expands distribution efforts

Astro America, LLC, the D1 parent company is proud to announce that it will distribute Centerline Music & Entertainment, Inc studio albums, through it's distribution agreement with Innovative Distribution Network - IDN.

The first release is a hip-hop album recorded by street prophet & poet K-E-V, the album title is "STREET TROPHY". K-E-V's dad got involved with his son's career in an effort to keep him from becoming another street statistic.

K-E-V puts his love for writing poetry to good use throughout his impressive Street Trophy album, telling tales, through his rhymes of what street life is really all about.

This album is dedicated to the loving memory of K-E-V's dad, Leonard Vaughan Robinson, Rest In Peace old friend. Leonard passed away February 15, 2005, but he lived long enough to make sure his son's career was on its way. This album would not have been possible without his belief in K-E-V and his financial backing.

The official retail release date for "STREET TROPHY" is April 26th 2005. Centerline's CEO & head honcho is Howard Scott Lipp. Howard started out in the music business as a kid and is a multi talented musician, engineer and all around digital wizard with over 15 years experience in the music business.

The first single from “STREET TROPHY” is titled "CHURRP"; it's all about cell phones and how much they are used in everyday life. The video was directed by a very influential hip-hop video company Radical Music, headed by world famous Video Director, Dave Meyers. Eric Shoe is an up and coming super star director & a very sharp understudy of Dave's that did the hands on directing of the CHURRP video although Dave was one of the first to arrive on the set and one of the last to leave.

As the story goes, when Dave was just about the graduate from college K-E-V was a young aspiring rapper and Dave needed to direct a rap video as part of his completion assignment, so K-E-V was his first effort at doing a rap video. Radical Music, Dave's company is now one of the most influential & respected video companies in the world. So poetic justice came to the rescue and Dave got Eric to complete what we think is a very good video with lots of pretty girls and a few great low rider car scenes. I mean what's hip-hop without the girls and the low rider cars?

Howard is very optimistic about the success of this street poet PKA: K-E-V and so Centerline has assembled a very powerful team of music industry professionals to handle radio promotions, publicity and marketing. They plan to work this new artists release very aggressively.

[Original Post by D1, at www.d1musicnet.com. View original source here.]