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Moe Pope's career first took off in the early 2000s with the Bay Area-based hip-hop band Mission (who later became known as Crown City Rockers). After a series of 12"s, Pope appeared on the group's LP, One, in 2001, before deciding to return to Boston in order to look after his daughter. Back in his hometown, he connected with rapper/producer Insight and his five-man outfit, Electric (aka Electric Company).

Along with members Anonymous and Raheem Jamal, Pope broke off from Electric to form Project Move, issuing their debut album, Love Gone Wrong/Butterfly Theory, in 2006. As each group member went off to make solo records, Pope reunited with his former Crown City cohort Headnodic for the well received collaborative album Megaphone in 2008.



In 2010, Moe released his critically acclaimed Life After God LP, which was highlighted by iTunes on its 2010 “Rewind List.” Currently, Moe Pope is working on a few new projects, with a new production partner and a new label for his latest and most mature works to date. Here is a sampling of some of that new work as Moe collaborates with fellow Boston spitta Slaine on “Dead Kennedy’s.”

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On May 22nd, Casual, one of the most revered lyricists from the Hieroglyphics crew, will release his latest album, He Still Think He Raw. The album, a follow up of sorts to Casual's He Think He Raw album released in 2001, will be produced entirely by DJ Fresh & The Whole Shabang, and to celebrate the announcement, Casual is excited to release the album's Aris Jerome-directed debut video, "Tears."

The song, produced by Scandle, a member of The Whole Shabang crew, opens with a soulful organ chops and a vocal sample singing, "Here I am on my job/ Trying to work/ But the tears in my eyes/ Won't let me hide the hurt." Casual plays off the somber vibe to detail hardships of trying to scrape by, whether as a rapper, drug dealer, or regular blue color worker striving to make ends meet. While the first verse skews general, Casual uses the second verse to detail the struggles between a pimp and prostitute, as he raps, "He's just checking money, cause that's a pimp's job/ She work at strip clubs, and some temp jobs/ And it hurt her feelings, cause she was raised in church/ Now, when the pimp get money, all he say is, 'Church.'"

Maker Music presents a mini-documentary on 24 hours in the life of Cali emcee Murs, on the day before his 2012 Paid Dues festival went off in San Bernardino, CA. Murs visits Soul Assassins Radio, L.A. stations Power 106 and KDAY, rehearses with his crew Living Legends, tends to his fans and jumps onstage to kick off this year's installment of the annual hip-hop festival that continues to grow by leaps and bounds each year. Features Odd Future, DJ Quik, People Under The Stairs and more. Murs recently released Yumiko: Curse Of The Merch Girl, his album and graphic novel collaboration with Josh Blaylock, and released his Ski Beatz collaboration album Love & Rockets Vol. 1: The Transformation last year on BluRoc.

Today, Illmaculate is excited to release his new album, Skrill Talk, which is now available for sale via Wapikiya Records. To celebrate the release, the Portland, Oregon, native is giving fans one of the most anticipated tracks from the project, "Go Study," which features Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, and OnlyOne.

For Illmaculate, the youngest rapper to ever win Scribble Jam and owner of back-to-back titles at the internationally recognized World Rap Championships, it's been a little too easy for doubters to put his skills in a box. "Go Study" is Illmaculate's rebuttal to those uncertain of his skills as a well rounded emcee. "For those people basically saying that I'm just a 'battle rapper,'" remarks Illmaculate, "you better go study. It goes a lot deeper than that." And he promptly proceeds to drive that point home on wax, with lines like, "They wanna listen closely, and shove me in their box/ And try to pigeonhole me into something that I'm not."

Joining Illmaculate for the single are two of his personal favorite artists, Tech N9ne and Krizz Kaliko, along with Illmac's own Sandpeople crew member, OnlyOne. "The whole experience of creating something from the ground up with an artist I've looked up to since I was 15," describes Illmaculate, who remembers studying Tech N9ne's technique as a young, aspiring lyricist. "It was definitely surreal."

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"The long awaited, highly anticipated "New Deal" album is Here! Inspired by the current recession MC Squair Blaq (of Animate Objects & the Chicago Afro-beat Project) tells a story of a man who looses his employment to outsourcing, then while heading to the unemployment office his car breaks down and to top it all off after he finally makes it home he discovers that his personal belongings were thrown in the dumpster by a former girlfriend. The album produced and mixed by Mulatto Patriot has plenty of warm summertime sample based production infused with a good amount of live instrumentation. The 16 track Album features Psalm One, Pugs Atomz, Primeridian, Neak, S-Star and Charlie Coffeen of Sidewalkchalk, Kiara Shackelford, Lester Jay, Chris Paquette, The Fail, DJ Limbz & DJ Mr. Krime. Album Artwork by Enzo Moscarella."

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