Voca, Under Palm Trees - EP

As the syrupy, screw-styled hip-hop became the marker for Texas rap music in the mid-2000s, artists like Mojoe's Easy Lee and Tre were broadening that definition with their own Texas brand of hip-hop soul. The bluesy touches and live instrumentation from their Mojoe Family backup band off their first album, Classic.Ghetto.Soul., introduced a unique duo that could meld soulful singing, expressive rhymes, and spoken word into a cohesive whole, which explains why they would describe themselves as "the...