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'Angelo’s house. That is 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 a unique blend of world-wise poetry, sweet soul melodies and harmonies, reverent blues and jazz, and Dirty South hip-hop.

Years before they made music together, Easy Lee and Tre shared a foundation of loving music, riding around while listening to soul and blues classics as well as the raw hip-hop that was moving 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 meaningful 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 branded DIRTY GENES.

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Hip Hop/Rap

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