the incredible lead single from the epic 'Life After God' album dropping on July 27th, 2010. Rain laced an amazing backdrop for Moe's distinct rhyme style....banging cut through and through!
MC Moe Pope's
career first took off in the early 2000s with 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 he decided 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’s members went off to make solo records, Pope reunited with
his former
Crown City cohort Headnodic for the 2008 well received collaborative
album Megaphone.
2010 finds Moe Pope with
a new production partner and a new label for his latest and most mature
work to date, Life After God. Produced (almost entirely -
Headnodic does supply the last beat as a
bridge to the next Megaphone project) by upstart beat smith Rain
(who has laid tracks for Masta Ace, Blacastan, Day Laborers and
others), Life After God is what contemporary Hip Hop should sound
like; not scarred to take chances sonically but with it’s roots firmly planted
in traditional Boom Bap and Rock. The duo enlists the vocals of fellow Beantown
legends Edo. G and REKS, Punk crooner/hypeman Chris Talkin and live instrumentation from Crown City Rockers alum. Brick
Records is pleased to
release this collective vision of Moe Pope and Rain, packaged in a 6 panel CD wallet
and including
full lyric sheets.
Envision the MC/Producer
platform of Pete Rock & CL Smooth blended with the abstract
prose of Bob Dylan and the pure adrenalin angst of Bad
Brains and prepare for your Life After God.