August 21st, 2006 San Antonio, TX - The San Antonio duo Mojoe are readying the release of their debut album, Classic.Ghetto.Soul. for September 12th, on Mathew Knowles’ Music World Entertainment. Set to present a different side of the often pigeon-holed sound of Southern Hip Hop, the release is being described as “The Roots meet Outkast over dinner with Marvin Gaye at D’Angelo’s house.”

It’s no secret that Southern Hip Hop often dominates record spins and sales, but it can be overlooked that there are various types of Hip Hop coming out of the South. The music is inspired by everything from chopped and screwed to old southern soul.

Mojoe is a prime example of a group that is influenced by a number of different artists including the likes of Frankie Beverly featuring Maze to A Tribe Called Quest. They also cite the Blues as having a heavy influence on their sound which is not always a genre of music that Hip Hop cats acknowledge as a main source of inspiration. “Much of our influence comes from the Blues because the Blues is about what’s going on with the artist’s life, what they’re going through at the time, and what they feel about what’s going on in the world around them. That’s what Hip Hop is about too.”

Classic.Ghetto.Soul, is scheduled for a September 12th release on Mathew Knowles’ new label World Music Group, also home to Sunshine Anderson who struck success with her smash single “Heard it all before” back in 2001. Mojoe also hopes with their debut album they can dispel stereotypes about Texas hip-hop. “I think the biggest misconception is that they think all Texas artists talk about is cars, money, women and jewelry. I believe the industry isn’t reaching out to artists that come straight from their soul and talking about something different. The industry is just focusing on one aspect of Texas.”

Once everything is said and done, Mojoe wants to carve their own lane and be known for making good music. With an already strong following in their home state they hope the rest of the world will soon agree. ” We are just trying to accomplish to attain more fans and the vision that we set with at the beginning which is being who we are and putting music back into the game the industry. And we want to be responsible for that.”

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