Blog: Listen Before You Buy

This isn't the hip hop your mother warned you about. Proe belongs to the school of hip-hop that is still musically sound enough to call itself hip-hop, but not actually bad-ass enough to earn any real street cred. But sometimes being bad-ass isn't actually what hip-hop is about; it is about playing with sound in a way that other styles can't. His lyrics don't touch much on dangerous and criminal undertakings, and for those of us who sometimes can't stand to always fill our minds with filth, but still appreciate the triumph of a [...]