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Joe Conifer

Oakland, United States

Hometown:

Bay Area

Relationship Status:

It's Complicated

About Me:

Like a voice crying in the wilderness, Joe Con, né Samuel Peyton Hobson, storms straight out of silence with the conviction and mind blowing vision of a man who has been to the mountain and returned, painting vivid landscapes with his poignant poison pen and redefining what it means to be an MC and an artist in 21st century Babylon, a.k.a. America.


Born and raised among the tobacco barns and horse farms of Kentucky, Joe Con immigrated to the Bay Area in 2000 at seventeen and found himself living in the Tenderloin, “where piles of trash contrast the weed smell” and “evil lurks” around every dark corner. It was from this glorious cesspool that Joe Con the doomsday poet and MC sprang up like a lotus out of mud, determined to slip through the cracks of a system he now perceived to be hell bent on subjugating the human spirit and replacing Life itself with man’s polluted image of It. And thank God (in all Her native tongues) he has.


Joe’s debut solo album Awake and Dreaming (Royal Ark Music, spring 2006) is the culmination of years of practicing the craft of leading a writer’s life, it is the full confession of a sinner who would be a saint, it is the first in what we all hope to be a long line of releases from the dopest, rawest realest cat the world has never heard of, and it is quite possibly one of the best hip-hop concept albums ever made. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.


With beaucoup appearances throughout the massive two-volume Joe Con mix tape set for release this spring/summer, several guest appearances and collaborations and two new albums yet to be dropped and West/East Coast and European tours wrapped up, 2007 is shaping up to be the year of the Con.
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Website:

www.royalarkmusic.com

Favorite Artist/Music:

Bad Brains , Awake Clique , Dejah Fortune , Joe Con , The Knife , Blonde RedHead , Wutang , Old Mobb Deep , Planet Asia , Turbin , Bob Dylan , Peter Tosh , M83 , GG Allen(for savey sessions) , Rammsteen , Brotha Lynch Hung , C-Bo - X-Raided , Messy Marv , The Exploited , Killa Priest , EL-P , The Killers , Mars Volta ,
The Damned

Favorite TV Shows:

Pride Fighting , UFC , Boxing , Cops , Globe Trekker , Iron Chief , Ninja Warrior