Promoe Album: “Government Music”

I've been a turntablist, mixtape DJ, and Hip-Hop fan for about ten years now, and after hearing LoopTroop for the first time just time a few months ago, I can say that they are undoubtedly my favorite artists. This album is incredible, but I haven't been dissapointed by ANY of their music...seriously! Americans are missing out, if they had ever even had a chance to hear them, they'd be #1...no question. Their music is passionate, intelligent, & pure...nothing like where Hip-Hop (by & large) has ended up. Their music could do the world some good.

This LP is the bomb! I'm not too up on the whole looptroop thing, but Promoe's solo album is really good. The production is fantastic and forward thinking and this LP really does breathe some much needed fresh air into hip hop. The (in the main) political lyrics are thoughtful and the rhymes are as good as any US emcee (of course not quite up to UK standards yet!!) ;)

Get hold of this... you won't regret it!

I've heard a number of the tracks on this album after stumbling across Promoe in a Gatas Parlament video a while back.

I've decided that I'd rather hear him rap in Swedish or Norwegian or whatever the language was that he used in Antiamerikanskdans

-- I don't speak either of those, but it sounded *awesome*. In English it's all pretty trite -- not-particularly-inspiring rhymes in a similar vein to Rage Against The Machine, but rendered as straight hiphop. "Conscious" or political it may be, but these tracks lack the teeth and wit of groups like The Coup.

His delivery and cadence in English just aren't particularly dynamic. Catch this cat in his native language instead.