Promoe
Promoe (Mårten Edh, born Nils Mårten Ed, 28 April 1976) is a Swedish rapper, and member of Swedish hip hop group Looptroop Rockers, formed in Västerås, Sweden, 1992. He released his fourth album in 2009 entitled Kråksången, and later the same year followed up with the mixtape Bondfångeri. Promoe has a background of graffiti-writing and many of his songs deal with graffiti.
Place in contemporary hip hop
Promoe released his third album in 2006, entitled White Man's Burden. This was followed with a DVD titled Standard Bearer, which includes a documentary about the development of White Man's Burden and a concert from Copenhagen.
In 2006 the German rapper Kool Savas released a diss track in which he slighted Promoe among other German and international artists. Promoe's response was the song "Sag Was" which he posted on premier German hip hop site rap.de, and was also released on a 7" LP and also on the CD of Standard Bearer in 2007. It has gone as yet without answer.
Promoe has been featured on many tracks with both Swedish and international artists. The song "These Walls Don't Lie", produced by DJ Large and mixed by Soundism, used a sample from Hugo Montenegro's "Classical Gas", which had already been known for its use in "Mama" by late New York based rapper Big Punisher.
Podcasts:
Promoe
ALBUMS
- Kråksången released: 2009
- Standard Bearer released: 2007
- White Man's Burden released: 2006
- The Long Distance Runner released: 2004
- Government Music released: 2001
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by Promoe
Headache
by: PromoeThinking's a headache - that's why we avoid it
thought reveals truth, and the pain of the facts
thinking's; ache - that's why we avoid it
Reach for my hand,and i'll give you my soul
Man i-m running through life with blinders
avoiding the signs that are yelling out loud and clear
that my time is runnin out quicker, though i'm clone
with the liqour and i'm young and my ticker's still
strong - it ain't long till i'm gone with a flicker
My whole race is gone sicker DNA molecular structure
like pieces of puzzles that ain't fitting my muscles
degenerated, my semen's sedated from stress and toxic
waste my whole being's mutated (my soul)
Don't even mention my soul it's been gone for so long
i'm feeling like a black hole
I lost my religion, and lost touch with my inner self
being consumed by the flames of a sinner's hell
stumblin around in a state of mass (confusion)
and i see no solution (confusion)
but to turn up the music to soothe this (pain that i'm
feeling)
Thinking's a headache - that's why we avoid it
thought reveals truth, and the pain of the facts
thinking's; ache - that's why we avoid it
Reach for my hand,and i'll give you my soul
I try to open my heart-find it hard to open my window
tell large let's echo across the globe from the disco
where people sing Julie driscoll (now i see rainbows of
many more colours)
In a world that's black and white you're taught to act
your type like it's a fact of life avoiding the real
facts - we spiral downwards inbreeding a bunch of
spineless cowards
Livin in an illusion we define as ours
nationalism's that kind of prison we assign all power
desperately clinging on to it until the final hour (i
heard someone crying)
Well it was i,i-m feeling tired of lying and denying
the obvious how we making like ostriches holdin
ourselves as our hostages,adisgrace to philosophers and
how we rather not think about it cus...
Thinking's a headache - that's why we avoid it
thought reveals truth, and the pain of the facts
thinking's; ache - that's why we avoid it
Reach for my hand,and i'll give you my soul
the leaders got headaches
givin the people more headaches
ain't no need for paramedics
this desease is too deadly
the leaders got headaches
givin the people more headaches
ain't no need for paramedics
this disease ïs too deadly
Thinking's a headache - that's why we avoid it
thought reveals truth, and the pain of the facts
thinking's; ache - that's why we avoid it