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Suicide EP is an extended play by local Kansas City rapper K-town. It was released on November 23, 2010. Every track was produced by K-town himself, but under KuietBoy Productions. The EP features local artists Yung Tay, Blew, Tony Kordell, Mr. Slikk, Cash-D, and Tezmania. The EP was sold online and and physically shortly after Thanksgiving.

Background
The album was inspired by his attempt to commit suicide due to his ways of differing from others, living a homebody life, and his struggle to be successful. The EP created a restart for K-town when he was blessed with the song Tell It Like It Is which describes how quietness created a brick wall of being a popular kid in school, and being the uninvited of a average teenage life. Some songs describes his pursuit to be successful. Other songs described the overall teenage life with girls, and envy with others who will antagonize against him as heard on the song Be Cool.

Recording
K-town described this album as the hardest EP to record due to difficulties of the equipment he had. The computers that he recorded on crashed down several times causing him to lose certain files including the instrumentals to the songs Everywhere, On My Drake, and Early Funeral. Yung Tay join K-town to mix and master the album. This made the mixing and mastering for K-town and Yung Tay challenging. After K-town returned to Kansas City, the computer he was provided with to finish the production had less memory to run the program K-town recorded on. K-town prevailed with the equipment he had and finished the final material in the middle of September.

Release and Promotion
The EP had several difficulties of being manufactured causing 531 to reschedule the release date. By the expected date, 81612 Entertainment did not have enough copies to sell. The EP was released online on the expected date on 531's ReverbNation profile and other online stores. The hard copies were sold shortly after Thanksgiving. The hard copies still contains the Yamu version of the front cover instead of 531's version. A music video for Tell It Like It Is was released in May during the formation of 531 Recordings which he founded. The video was released on the labels YouTube account. A music video for the next single Everywhere was rumored to be in production, but was canceled. A listening event for the EP was held on the same day of the release date on the 531 recordings website.

Reception
During the release of singles Everywhere and Early Funeral, K-town received recognition from different states in the midwest other than Kansas City and Minnesota. The day after the release of Early Funeral, K-town was notified that he received recognition from England. As of January 2011, K-town revealed that they sold out the first shipment. K-town plans to seek another distribution company to distribute his projects more professionally, but stated that he was happy with the responses and reviews of his debut release.

Samples
"A Moment of Silence" "On My Drake"
 * "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" by Jay-Z
 * " Forever" by Drake

Personnel

 * Shakia - backing vocals (Maurice Pt. 2)
 * Yung Tay - composer, mixing, mastering
 * K-town - production, composer, mixing, mastering, executive producer