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Mojoe is a smooth, poetic, soulful Hip hop band with a fresh, live music vibe. Backed by a band, and the business proficiency of Mathew Knowles (Father of platinum recording artist, Beyonce Knowles and music mogul behind Destiny's Child), Mojoe is ready to set their mark to those ready to listen to something refreshing…something new. Mojoe's music and message is positive hip hop which is a departure from the negativity and controversy that current plagues this genre of music. Easy Lee (Charles Peters) and Tre (Treson Scipio) are MOJOE, a duo that has often described itself as The Roots meet OutKast over dinner with Marvin Gaye at D'Angelos house. Thats a party that anyone in their right mind would want to attend, a free-form jam with only the tastiest beats, rhymes, and harmonies, not to mention words and emotions that truly echo the barometer of urban life. MOJOE channels that spirit with Classic.Ghetto.Soul., a timeless showcase of its sumptuous blend of worldwise poetry, sweet soul melodies and harmonies, reverent blues and jazz, and Dirty South hip-hop. MOJOE has a couple of different meanings, explains Easy Lee, who was born in New Orleans but moved to San Antonio, where he attended high school with Tre. More than the average joe is what it stands for, but it also means that weve got something spiritual and magical, he says. It means that the best of what we can do is the foot we put forward. And theres, Got My Mojo Workin, an old blues term and song. So it alludes to the fact that we blend old school sensibilities with a new school style. We also hope to bring some light to the fact that San Antonio has a rich blues history and not just a Tejano history, San Antonio native, Tre adds, citing by way of example the many recordings that legendary blues artist Robert Johnson cut in his home town. Years before they made music together, Easy Lee and Tre shared a foundation of loving music, riding around while listening to the classics of soul and blues as well as the raw hip-hop that was bubbling up from the block. It was a space where the likes of Curtis Mayfield or Frankie Beverly and Maze could get down and get funky with the struggle rap of street poets like Geto Boys and UGK or the uplifting beats of De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest. Not yet full-fledged performers at the time, the friends nonetheless developed the open-minded musical outlook that they express now back then. But its performing in front of audiences that is a particularly good catalyst for the improvisation and boundary pushing that the group is really known for. MOJOE comes alive on stage with assistance from the inimitable Mojoe Family Band, a dedicated bunch with some colorful monikers: Funky Genius, Cooley High, D-Maddness, The Carter, and Nookie Coltrane. The group has steadily built a reputation for its performances throughout the South and continued to be a local favorite: Readers of newspaper The San Antonio Current have voted MOJOE as the Best Hip-Hop Group for four years running. Its in these shows and through Classic.Ghetto.Soul. that people can truly see and understand that for MOJOE, music is not so much a business, but a craft to be honed for the preservation of soul for all ages. |
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