Pro Era – The Shift (EP)

May 27, 2014 JUKEBOXDC Staff Music No Comments  

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Pro Era partners with Scion AV for their new EP entitled ‘The Shift’. The 5 track ep comes with tracks from Joey Bada$$, CJ Fly, Kirk Knight, Nyck Caution, A La $ole, Dessy Hinds, Dirty Sanchez, Rokamouth and more. Take a listen to Pro Era’s new project ” The Shift” below via their soundcloud.

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LRG Spring ’14 Lookbook Ft. Raekwon, Pro Era, Black Cobain, DymeADuzin

February 13, 2014 JUKEBOXDC Staff Fashion No Comments  

LRG drops a video version of their 2nd Spring 2014 lookbook featuring a lot of hip hop favorites:

For LRG’s second installment of our Spring 14 lookbook, we teamed up with New York-based photographer Brook Bobbins and some of the freshest talent in the rap game. Waving the banner of underground inventive, Pro Era (CJ Fly, Statik Selektah, RokaMouth, Dirty Sanchez, Powers Pleasant), Dyme-a-Duzen, Boogz Boogetz, and Black Cobain. Longtime LRG family member, living example of overground effective, Raekwon the Chef made the cypher complete for LRG’s debut line for 2014. Underground inventive overground effective.

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Is There Beef Between A$AP Mob & Pro Era?

December 6, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

I had no idea until I saw this, but apparently, A$AP Mob’s Nast was accused of biting Pro Era’s style following the release of his Method Man-assisted visual ‘Trillmatic‘. The original story that we spotted in AllHipHop’s Community Section is below (you might want to read that first); above, A$AP Mob addressed the so-called rift with Hot 97.

Last night (Dec. 4th) A$AP Mob member A$AP Nast dropped his new song “Trillmatic” featuring the legendary Wu-Tang member, Method Man. The song and video has been well received, but not everyone is feeling it all the way. Various members of Brooklyn’s Pro Era crew took to Twitter to voice their thoughts on the song and the whole A$AP movement, in general. First, A La $ole took to Twitter and he had to say this: “Love to see more rappers bite the pro era swank. Good shit Nast. Smh lol whats new with these “New York” negus?”

La $ole quickly followed up his first tweet with some more harsh words for the fellow New York crew: “I got love for new york rappers but word is bond them asap negus is WACK. #Straightfacts. There are rappers then there are mc’s. You choose.”

Pro Era member Kirk Knight also had a mysterious subtweet at around the same time which could be pointing towards the same opinion: “Bravo bravo I’m so impressed.” Soon Pro Era rapper Rokamouth also weighed in and accused Nast of style jacking: “i don’t like that a.s.a.p. style jacking shit”

This did not sit well with Nast, who fired back, saying: “@rokamouth1 style jacking who my nigguh. 1990 born up you got us fucked up my g need to talk whatchu know” Nast then tweeted his thoughts on the Pro Era crew: “I GOTTA SHOW DEZ LIL NIGGUHS HOW TO REP THE 90’s FOR REAL”

Things got more tense when Rokamouth took shots at A$AP Mob’s stomping ground, Harlem: “You gotta come to Flatbush to get the real fronto not Harlem”

Read all of the tweets during this Pro Era/A$AP Mob exchange above and let us know where you stand on this. Are you Team Pro Era or Team A$AP Mob? And should the two young NYC crews beef after what Trinidad James said about NY?

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CJ Fly – Thee Way I See It (Mixtape)

October 5, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Music No Comments  


CJ Fly goes solo for this new tape, Thee Way I See It. As usual, this new offering from the Pro Era rapper is smooth, jazzy and very much a throwback, but that’s what you look for from these guys isn’t it? I still enjoyed this one and was impressed that he got Phife from ATCQ and Buckshot on it…My favorite track so far is “Su Preme” (and not because Joey Bada$$ is on it…I’m not too much of a fan actually). Stream/DL below.

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Joey Bada$$ & Pro Era’s Beast Coastal Tour (FADER Documentary)

May 23, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Videos No Comments  

Judging from this documentary, this tour was definitely one not to be missed.

The way Joey and the Pro Era guys command the stage, seamlessly passing the mic and ad-libbing for each other, you almost forget they’re mostly teenagers. When we met, though, they were playing Marco Polo at the hotel pool. Everyone was sick with something; they had bronchitis or strep or whatever disease you catch when you eat pizza every day and live on an RV with 10 other people. Despite their depressed immune systems, the crew was enamored with life on tour, balancing homesickness—missing their grandmas, bicycles and beds—with their youthful restlessness and thirst for exploration.

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Joey BADA$$ & Pro Era – KUBE 93 Interview

April 27, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Interviews No Comments  

Joey Bada$$ and the Pro Era crew came through KUBE 93’s Sunday Night Sound Session on 3/24/13 to speak with DJ Hyphen and J. Moore. The fellas discussed their background and how they originally came together, how they were put on to golden age hip-hop by their families, their ambitions outside of hip-hop, and what life is like on tour with the whole crew. They also touched on their upcoming projects, including solos from Joey Bada$$ and CJ Fly, and discussed how artists like Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, and the TDE camp are inspiring them as artists and businessmen.

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