Bay area hip-hop artist, Bob J.r., has
released the first EP in his Truth Music movement, “Real Hip-Hop.
California
Bay area hip-hop artist Bob J.r. has released an EP titled “Real
Hip-Hop,” his first officially published album. The EP primarily
features Bob J.r.'s vocals, lyrics, and orchestration as a
contemporary example of the Berkeley hip-hop sound, and solidifies
his claim to the local mainstream.
Far
from the typical beats and cliched chord progressions of contemporary
top-40 hip-hop, Bob J.r.'s “Real Hip-Hop” is a fresh, honest
treatment of the genre's roots, utilizing classic rhythm patterns and
minimal background fill, a style with the space and deep groove of
nineties hip-hop that also manages to sound raw, edgy, and modern.
A
musical autodidact, Bob J.r. taught himself to play the drums while
growing up in Oakland, California, as Bobby Nathaniel Hamilton Jr.
His first live performances were for the congregation at his family
church, which he played at the age of ten to much acclaim and
encouragement, but it was in secular hip-hop that Bob found his
musical inspiration.
High
school found him collaborating with friends on live instruments such
as a snare drum, saxophone, trombone, and bass guitar (occasionally
onstage) and rather than attending classes, he soon found a home on
the UC Berkeley campus where he could experiment with lyrics and
refine his freestyle-rap technique. He began to produce, engineer,
and record his own tracks on an old Casio keyboard with an audio
cassette input.
From
the beginning, Bob has always emphasized the importance of truth in
lyrics, which is part of his “Truth Music” philosophy. Bob says
of this, “We have to change the format of hip hop and talk about
real life situations. The time has come for the younger generation
get some kind of structure and guidance.”
Bob
J.r.'s EP, “Real Hip-Hop,” is available online now.
The EP “Real Hip-Hop” is
distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com)
and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
ARTIST
CONTACT INFO:
Phone
– 209-688-6745
eMail
– hmisterbob@aol.com
website
– http://www.reverbnation.com/bobjr
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