JAMIE KENNEDY SIGNS WITH WARNER BROS. RECORDS
COMIC ACTOR/RAPPER BEHIND MTV’S HIT REALITY SERIES BLOWIN’
UP TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM ON JULY 11
KENNEDY IS # 1 on MYSPACE; VIDEO REACHED TOP 10 ON YOU TUBE
June 27, 2006 — Burbank, CA — As fans of his MTV reality show
already know, Jamie Kennedy is trying to 'blow up' and make it big in
the rap world. Now the Philly-bred actor-comedian has signed an exclusive
deal to bring JKss Records — the label he formed with best friend
Stu Stone — to Reprise Records, which will release Kennedy and Stone's
debut album, Blowin' Up, on July 11th.
Indeed Kennedy, who is best known for his hit prank show on the WB The
Jamie Kennedy Experiment, has already blown up in the online community.
He is the Number One artist on My Space, the hugely popular social networking
site, where previously posted tracks, including “Circle Circle Dot
Dot” and “Rollin W Saget” received more than 2 million
plays. In addition, the new video for “Rollin W Saget” —
featuring former Full House dad Bob — hit the Top Ten on YouTube
the day of its release and is now nearing half a million views.
In addition, Kennedy and Stone have created unique content for the Internet,
including weekly podcasts about the music and video, audio ringtones,
and voice ringers and ringbacks. They also collaborated on a ringtone
with rapper/actor Ice T, who appears in Episode 2. The ringtones can be
purchased by texting JKss to 73804. Fans can also hear them on Kennedy
and Stone’s website, jkssrecords.com. MTV and Kennedy created messaging
after each episode of Blowin’ Up aired, which drove fans to iTunes
to buy that evening's episode and featured song.
Blowin' Up, produced by Toronto native Stone, is a lighthearted rap album
with comedic undertones and poppy beats that spotlights Kennedy and Stone's
hilarious partnership. It features cameos by several guest stars who have
appeared in the series, including Houston rapper/jeweler Paul Wall on
"Mattress Mack," Bay Area hip-hop legend E-40 on "F*ck
Jamie Kennedy," and Toronto rapper Kardinal Offishall on "Rush
the Club." Ice-T and Limp Bizkit turntablist DJ Lethal also make
cameos.
The series premiered on MTV on May 16th and soon became one of the most
popular attractions on the music network's broadband video channel Overdrive,
where Kennedy and Stone will host every show on the channel the week their
album is released. Blowin’ Up, the series, chronicles the duo's
attempts to become rap stars. Along the way, Kennedy and Stone star in
a local mattress commercial in Houston, perform at a Beverly Hills Bat
Mitzvah, and solicit advice on how to break into the business from Def
Jam founder Russell Simmons, rapper Bow Wow, and comedian Tracy Morgan,
who tells them: "First, you gotta get a chick pregnant. Step two:
You gotta get a grill. Then you gotta get shot."
Expect more outrageousness when Kennedy and Stone release Blowin' Up,
the album, coming at you July 11th.
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