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March
Javon Black, Lil Kee, Strizzo tear up Jook City
Here's a name you'll want to learn: Javon Black. The R&B artist is making a spalsh in Tampa Bay with his single Shawty Tear It Up, which is in rotation on Wild 98.7-FM and 95.7-FM The Beat. "Javon Black's record is a hit. I really think that this is what's going to be the one for Tampa. You can't go anywhere in the Tampa Bay area without hearing Shawty Tear It Up," says Ron "Jomama Johnson" Shepard, program director at 95.7-FM The Beat.
(Click the player on the right to hear an mp3 of Javon Black's Shawty Tear It Up.)
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