“The King With Swagga” is Available NOW!
Featuring songs like: the dance banger “Fresh”, “Carbon Copyz” and the newest hit “So Awesome”!
Now available for download at these links below
iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/kingswaggaitunes
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/KKOFkingswaggaamazon
Track Listing:
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Go Hard Or Go Home
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Swag Music
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Fresh
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U Know U Like That
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So Awesome
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Grindin’
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Carbon Copyz
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Cookie Monster Man
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No Problem
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Rock and Roll (feat. A.P.T.)
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Life Without You
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What U Tryna Tell Me (feat. A.P.T.)
Download the album today and enjoy!
-K.K.O.F.
Changes To Music Video Blogs & More!
What’s up yall,
Okay, Check it, I got a request from a source, who I was extremely influnced by, I can’t really say his name because I got jungle craze at the moment, but you how I be giving insight on every detail of the music video, songs, editing, random blogs, etc… Well… it’s sort of a somewhat duplication kinda thing going on, in terms of promoting my stuff and editing music videos.
The point is, I am my own artist and people said I changed, which I have. I’ve changed my nickname, I change from being somewhat hard into somewhat of a christian type guy, and became a little bit too influenced that people starting to think i’m copying them. To those people who think I am, here is my true testimony, my true statement to that individual:
FIRST OFF, I, ADRIAN BURROUGHS (AKA K.K.O.F.) IS A TRUE MAN OF GOD, BUT PLEASE DON’T MAKE IT SEEM LIKE I SHOULD BE WORSHIPING THE DEVIL, I WANT TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BECAUSE HE MAKE THINGS POSSIBLE FOR ME TO SUCCEED. I APOLGIZE TO THAT PERSON FOR BEING TOO MUCH OF DUPICATE YOUR COPYRIGHTS TO CERTAIN SUBJECTS. I MEAN NO HARM TO THE TALENTED PERSONALITY. I WILL MAKE SURE THAT THOSE THINGS I’VE DONE TO OFFEND YOU THAT WILL NOT REPEATED. I HAVE LEARN VERY QUICKLY THAT THERE ARE OTHER THINGS CAN BE CREATED, THIS IS MY PLEAD FOR FORGIVENESS.
What i’m really trying to say is, there will no more long detailed insights to the music videos, tidbits, or detailed songs I post in the future, but I will give you a little description about the music video itself. Also my blogs and the look on my music videos will be different from now on. Now i’m really stuck of how to promoting my stuff now. I decided to do this because a person requested, so i’m gonna give this person his wish. I still will be posting up blogs but as much differently as I can.
On the bright side, My album “The King With Swagga” is dropping August 3rd. I hope you as excited as I am. Have a good one!
Yours Truely, K.K.O.F.
The Debut K.K.O.F. Album, “The King With Swagga” Comin’ August 3rd!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the wait will soon be over…
On August 3rd, Get ready for K.K.O.F, because he is coming with that fire!!
Featuring brand new HOT music from K.K.O.F., with songs that are gonna blow your mind, literally!!
With a special guest appearance by A.P.T. and production all by K.K.O.F. himself!
Available on iTunes, Amazon, Napster & other online stores!
About K.K.O.F.:
K.K.O.F. is a mega-talented rising star in the rap game, but he has been making music for 10 years straight and continues to maintain his focus on music. After releasing 8 mixtapes and getting discovered by his unknown fans, he decided to take the rap game seriously. What really got his movement started was his 2007 hit “Do It”, then two years, went to release his first street album “Beast Mode” in 2008. That next year, he released his second street LP “The Last Man Standing”, as well as his 2 mixtapes “K.K.O.F. Forever”, “Still On My Grind” (2009). Also in 2010, he release his most popular mixtape “The Redprint”, which has his main popular single “Never Been A Lame”, and also was the most downloaded mixtape in his music career. The song played on 4 radio stations in the U.S. and continues to be a memorable hit. K.K.O.F. has attracted new fans with his memorable performances and semi-controversial musical content. He has the dubbed the name, The King With Swagga!
K.K.O.F. has also became a talented extraordinary beatmaker, where he proves to be one of the most dominant underground producer today. His beats are catchy, hypnotic, and on fire. Most recently (June 2010) K.K.O.F. produced A.P.T. hit song “No U Aint”, as well as last years, “Kate Gosselin Is A B***h”. He is also produced a lot of songs for major underground artists.
K.K.O.F. currently resides in Atlanta, GA. For Beats or Booking, contact K.K.O.F. at kkofmusic@hotmail.com
-K.K.O.F.
Info About The First Official K.K.O.F. Album: “The King With Swagga!”!
What happening people!
Well guess what, I’M BACK and I have finally decided to give you a little insight into my first album project. It’s was suggested by a lot of people who is into my music and i’m sure I will be doing a promo for it soon, so, for those people who have been patiently waiting for some new product from me, here’s some stuff of what you need to know about this album!
1. The album will be called…
“THE KING WITH SWAGGA”
Wow, I like that title, pretty cool huh?
There is a reason why I chose this title, here is the reason: I’ve been dubbed that name because of these 2 things, my cousin, and my former name. (1): My cousin nickname is Da Christian Wit Swagga, which is a little similar and (2): For those who remember way back when I used go by the name King Kut, well, the point is that i’m the king of catchy songs, king of catchy booty music and the king of the popular beat-making program Fruity Loops, which I use to make my beats, but there so much more why I got that name.
The “Swagga” part is extremely true about me, but to me, it’s not all about the clothes and jews, it’s about staying true to yourself and always put GOD OVER EVERYTHING, yes I also have a spiritual side as well, but then again, clothes can be a little factor to the story but i’m going to the details. Some people say the word “swag” is getting old, but the new and upgraded word is “Swagga”, what I call external swag, which will never get old. Also, I will let people know what kind of rapper I am and purposeful. The opening tracks from the album are more laidback and has that new school sound – you can compare my most popular “Never Been A Lame”, which is aggressive, but not like in a 50 cent type style where he is talking about killing people. I wanted some of the songs to give a feeling of “hyped out” style to the listeners.
2. The tracks are New Aged & Catchy!
Well, some might say that i’m a new school version of Master P, which who I get my inspiration from, as well as Gucci Mane; but my main goal for this album is to get my name out to the public, to make songs that would prove how much of a hit-maker I really am; and to display some of my beat-making skills as well because I believe have a chance of being on the verge of being a major producer in the game.
(a): SWAGGA
I’ve already detailed this in the previous paragraph. Needless to say, I am talented and well rounded, and I tend to do that best through writing. On one track, I display some of my best flows just in case people think I’m playing around, I don’t want people to know how serious I am about being a true musician in the game. On other tracks, I talk about things in everyday life from relationships to how i’m so “swagged out” I am, haters and the nature of foreplay.
(b): GOTTA MAKE HITS
At the end of the day, making music is something I made as a routine, but now, it’s supposed to make me money and get me noticed. I have become real good at creating choruses that are catchy, and selecting out my beats that will get the people bouncing on the dancefloor, or bumping in the car. I can do all that without having to talk about smoking, drinking, killing people, sexing, or the other things that most rappers be talking about. I don’t like to talk about that stuff because that’s not what i’m about. You will get to hear a little bit more about a little of my life on this album than I usually talk about on my mixtapes, also in a true ATL fashion with a twist.
(c) GOTTA GET THE BEATS:
Well, Some people think that I was making beats before I started rapping, I hate to boast, but yeah, i’m pretty good at making beats but what i’m trying to prove is that I started getting involved music as a rapper. When I first started rapping, I didn’t have beats and I didn’t know how to make them but I knew how to play the drums well, but not professionally; besides the point; I got a little notoriety, I’m still working on getting my own beats out there as well.
On this album, I got some beats I made that I feel are gonna go hard with the public. Some of them have certain concepts, while the other beats are just fresh with an K.K.O.F. twist. My beat-making style is pretty moderate or sometimes advanced: much like Drumma Boy or Jermaine Dupri, I like to make beat patterns that are relatively somewhat complicated, I like to challenge myself to be better and more effective when it comes to my beats.
Well, since this is my first album, I decided to have no guest producers on the album. Yep, all tracks are produced by me. Most of my beats have a dirty south bounce to them, while others are east coast related. I’ve produced stuff for this underground emcee from California named A.P.T., the creator of the Obama Milli Song. He used couple of my beats on his 2 album projects, and as well as his other alter ego puppet, who he acts as Non Juan. He has an album called “909′s and Heart Flatlines”, but that’s not all, i’ve also produced tracks for other underground rappers as well, like Doggie Fresh, Lil Cheezy, Chris Wayne, just to name a few. Out of those people, A.P.T. has been creating killer successful bangers my with beats. All of my beats are made on Fruity Loops and old version of Pro Tools. Hopefully, that will get me noticed for my beat-making skills soon.
3. How About The Promotion?
I’m still working on that part of the plan but guess what, There will be music videos from me!!
Some will be in the house and shot on the green screen, while the others will have “somewhat budget” and be shot outside my house. I haven’t made an K.K.O.F. music video since May, I may pull off something, and hopefully, you will be amazed.
Beside the music videos, I will also be planning on doing stuff like: Radio Interviews, Live Interviews, Live performances at places, and all that stuff, and plus, i’m seeking for people who interested in getting a beat of mine.
And I guess that’s all I have for yall! I’m almost finished with the album, I should be finished by next week so I can send it off to iTunes and have it posted as soon as it can, I will keep you posted with the updates.
-K.K.O.F.
So…I Get Paid Royalties, for what?, Time to Record again!!
Okay, so check it. I heard a year ago that if artist want to make money off their music, well, Tunecore is the site whereby you can load up your music and have it sent out to the major online music stores, like Amazon, Rhapsody, Napster, and iTunes.
My musician friend from California name A.P.T. told me about the site as well. I haven’t sent a song to Tunecore yet but from A.P.T. perspective, he decided to test out the program by sending one of his most popular songs, “The Obama Milli,” to their site and i guess, the experiment worked, and every since then, he have been getting actual royalties from TuneCore that they collected from the various site his song was placed on. So, The question is, will it do the same for me? I will have to find that out myself.
I also found some more things about it. I found out that if someone goes to any online store site and buys a song from me, I get paid for it, but not only that, if someone goes to Rhapsody and preview/plays my song, I get paid 9 cents. You might don’t think that it’s not a big deal but in the end, it’s adds up with people preview songs. So, that’s mean that i’m gonna be making a little money.
Imagine this: If I had a total of maybe 1o songs streaming over at Rhapsody, even at a conservative selective number of maybe 300 streams per song, i would be making at least $30 as the total amount. This might not be a big deal, but considering that most albums sell at maybe 7.00 a single, and knowing that not all people like purchasing full albums these days, getting paid for 10 steaming songs sounds pretty so great. I should of did this earlier.
But then again, that’s not even getting into how much money would be made if the whole album sells units,
Because I’d be getting $6.00 from each album, I wouldn’t even have to sell that many albums to be straight. Okay, let’s just say if I have one album up, my album goes to the sites I just mentioned above, and each site only sells maybe at least 5 albums a month. At $7.00 profit per album from each site, that would be $35 per site, with the 5 sites, which equals $170 per month, I think!!
As of now, I don’t have any albums out. Just mixtapes, which won’t count!!
Now that I’m realizing the money to be made, I’m thinking to myself why I didn’t sign up with TuneCore earlier this year before I release “The Redprint” mixtape. At the same time, I didn’t know that my two songs “Swag Game” and “Never Been A Lame” was gonna be my most popular songs.
But, as for them songs, them songs are gonna stay free, I think it’s a little late to sell them now, on top of that, I just put out a mixtape that is the same title of my hit song. I’m also confident that my new song, which I haven’t leaked out yet, is gonna be in the same boat as the two songs I just mentioned before, but sellable, if successful. Also the items I used to record my songs with last year are nowhere near as sophisicated as the stuff I’m using now – a better computer, professional studio mic, and other stuff.
As of that, I have taken down two songs off “The Redprint” mixtape and i’m gonna re-record them, as well as other songs I put out last year, and new songs. I’m still on the 45 day hiatus but my job cut way too much of my hours, so that leaves me 4 off days for next week – so, I will have time to record songs.
I’ve also found out that it usually takes 6 weeks or more to get on all of the online sites, so maybe I should all my songs done by the end of July, sent it in August and they probably be posted in September. This is gonna be my first (debut) online album i’m working on and I gotta do some more research about any else I can find out. I’m not all that well-known but if I keep doing what I do, then it could be an automatic promotion, if that possible, and plus, people can actually google and find out who the world am I!
-K.K.O.F.
The Inspiration To My Beat-Making!!
This is my 4 year making beats and the thing is, I learned how to make them in a short amount of time. When I first started making beats, they were uptempo or fast paced. Most of my first set of beats were into a pop form, because I was in that kind of mode. Before I was making beats, I was using other beats, the producers who I know personally. Three of the beat-makers went to school with me. Their names were Jack Chane, J.J. Playboy & Chris Wayne. These are the reason why I decided to pursued beat-making.
Jack Chane who real name is Chane Jackson is the cousin of the other producer who I just mentioned named Chris Wayne. He was my first ever personal producer. Basically, his beats had a very close comparison to Just Blaze and The Neptunes. The beats he made was hard knocking and had you dancing. He also produced my very first mixtape “The Beginning Of King Kut” in 2002. Plus, he produced 2 more of my mixtapes, can’t remember what I called them but every song is his was pretty much fast paced and danceable, that’s the kind songs that i’m good at making. So where is he now, well, we got into an argument shorty after my 19th birthday and pretty screwed me over for money. I haven’t heard from him since then.
J.J. Playboy, real name is Jason Peterson. I met him at middle school. I was freestyling outside one day and shorty after, he came up to me and ask me do I need beats. I told him that I needed some for my 4th mixtape. He told me that he can make beats and he would like me to listen to them. He sent some beats the next day and he listened to them. The beats he made blew my mind. He gave a CD with 14 beats on them. Some of them were fast-paced and some of them with that dirty south style to them, I wanted them beats. So I asked him on the next school day how much was the CD of beats he gave me, he said that he was not planning on selling them but he charge me only $10, so I payed him and I quickly recorded song off his beats. A year later, he gave another set of beats, so I used them too. The last time I seen him was in my junior year in high school before I had to transfer to another high school called Grady High. We lost contact with each other since then. He was a great beat-maker and maybe one day, I might bump into him somewhere in Atlanta.
Chris Wayne, real name is Christian Wayne and the cousin of my former producer Jack Chane. I met him about 5 years ago when I perform at his sister’s birthday party, his sister was my ex-girlfriend. He started out as a fan of me, he would always speak to me and tell me how much he likes my music. He even freestyled for me once. We went to the same High School for 3 years and when I transferred, I didn’t see him until I moved into Decatur a year later after I graduated from high school. I happen to bump into at another venue where I was performing, he figured he’d keep up with me on the internet. 3 months later when I broke up with his sister, he contacted me on my email and ask me would I listen to his beats, I couldn’t turn that down. So I listened to them and his beats sound much different then his cousins, he was a beast on the piano. I told him I liked them and he gave me 6 beats for free. A month later, I collab on a song with him called “Them Girls Love Me“, he was putting together his first mixtape and I was gearing up for my 6th mixtape “No Pain, No Gain“. We performed the song in Riverdale at a pool party and the song became a hit. Every since then, we been putting out hits together until 2 years later, I learned how to make beats and at the time, he joined a rap group called The Young Riders. I haven’t heard from him since he joined the group, but then…I managed to bump to him in Kirkwood, my stomping ground. He had left the group and we talked. He recently just joined another unsigned rap group but we still talk to this day.
All of them people are the reason why I wanted to become my own producer. The thing is, they all are not in the same boat as me because I already got quite a buzz of me working with other artists. I produced more beats for artists than they did. I work hard each day to make sure my beats sound differently than others. My favorite genre in my profession of making beats are dirty south rap, as you can tell if you heard my songs or people who I produced song for. Like for example: A.P.T.’s upcoming song I produced for “No U Aint”, a very hype southern style beat at my best.
I also have a section on my site where you can find my production credits, but they’re not the only artists I produced songs for. Not only I can create dirty south beats, I can also remake a popular beat. As a matter of fact, I’ve remade a beat for A.P.T. puppet project Non Juan. I remade Snoop Dogg’s “Sensual Seduction” beat into a parody of Non Juan’s “Erectile Dysfunction” beat, sound almost just like it but if you listened closely, you will tell the difference. I have also remade 3 songs of Master P, which I have sold to other artists.
Now I feel like it’s my time to get recognized for my past works. I have also learned that if you give an popular artist a beats that you’ve made, it will get you attention and people will start to see that you have the skills of beat-making. The songs I produced for A.P.T. has been hits, so yeah, I make hits and I suggest that if you’re an artist who wants hits just like A.P.T., then you should give me a try and trust me, you WILL like my beats. I work so hard on them beats and it has payed off. Who said that you can’t be a rapper and make hot beats, NOTHING & NOBODY. Get with the beat-making movement of me, because i’m the #1 source for great beats with great sounds.
-K.K.O.F.
Who’s better King Kut or K.K.O.F.?
Well…first of all, I have to say that people still know as me King Kut, i mean the person who always says “King Kut On Fire” on the past songs I made. I admit it, at the time, my music was not the best including my unserious lyrics but I never knew people would take me so seriously.
Why I say this? because I happen to listen to the old songs I made in the past (as being under the name King Kut), it really hit me. When I did my music, I was in “play-around” mode – not being too serious about the music I make. I noticed that some of the words in my songs didn’t make sense but my choruses would not be denied. Now I say that I learned my lesson when it comes to making music, mean what you say and watch how you say them OR make a decent song without playing around. When I first started rapping, my lyrics and everything made sense but after then, I got unserious and just didn’t care, but then I realized that I was losing some fanbase and respect of my music…that hit me VERY HARD!
Now, I’m back to the REAL rappin’ man I always wanted to be. I glad someone told me that my old songs where not consider “serious”….but also, i’m amazed that people still like the “old” verson of me. Fans of my old music know me as King Kut are asking me why I changed my name and my style and I found people were upset that I changed. As for my NEW self as K.K.O.F., people are starting realize that i’m finally being serious with making good music.
Let me set the record straight for the people who know me as King Kut OR want me to turn back into my PAST self…
I am NOT the same person no more, I made a commitment to myself to come out more harder and focus than ever, it doesn’t work that way anymore…althrough, I still got that drive but as for my NEW self, it’s time for a change – and change is NOW!
If you don’t like the way I do things, then keep it moving because what you remember about King Kut, you will not see anymore. If you’re stuck on past King Kut, then get out of that stage and recongnize the NEW verson of me, K.K.O.F. of course. God has gave a second to redeem myself once again and so far, I proved it…but my music has also changed too, I do this for your respect, as I said in my song “I Do This” and yes, i’m still producing beats and trying to take it far as I can. This is a new year and it’s not too late to do it again, i’m still learning how to push myself far as I want. My music is gonna deturmine which is me is better, i’m liking my new self, I happen to get fanbase and performing place – which is great. I wouldn’t change it for anything and NOBODY will not spoil it, if you thinking about trying to stop me, DON’T!
I am a changed man and in the hands of GOD! It time to do things right people!
Speaking of music, I am working on a brand new mixtape/EP that I think will be my most best mixtape to come, it will have some crunk, club and inspirational songs on it. You will be not disappointed when you hear this mixtape, plus now I got a new mic and more bangin’ beats. I will tell you more about the mixtape later.
I hope you like the new ME and forget about the past, after all, God made it happen and without GOD, I wouldn’t be nowhere. I pray everyday to avoid the past and look forward at the future. That’s all for now! God bless you all!
-K.K.O.F.
