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About Me

Rapper, Producer, Engineer, Crate Digger, Shoe Head, Super Hero ect. Living Proof is my crew and the Mighty Northwest is my home. In late 2007, Living Proof released our debut album, 'Roots To Branches,' 14 tracks produced by Sapient of Sandpeople and features from Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship, Liv Warfield, AED, and members of Sandpeople. Currently I'm working on production for my solo album entitled "Soul Music," out early 2009. All beats on the page are available for purchase $100+. Feel free to contact me here or on aim- topeknows.
Living Proof has worked with and/or shared stages with: Myka 9, The Coup, Grouch, People Under The Stairs, Blue Scholars, Common Market, Shawn Jackson, Blu, One Be Lo, C-Rayz Walz, Cool Nutz, CunninLynguists, Grayskul, Josh Martinez, Sleep, Sandpeople, Step Cousins, Braille, Gabriel Teodros and more. For booking info contact: [email protected].
Living Proof "Roots To Branches"
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3719 N Mississippi Ave.
1428 SE Hawthorne Ave.
2605 SE 122nd Ave.
2033 NE Burnside Rd.
15705 SE McLoughlin Blvd.
360 Vinyl
214 NW Couch St.
Everyday Music
1313 W Burnside St.
1913 NE Sandy Blvd.
Music Millennium
3158 E. Burnside
iTunes
SuperHappyWax.com
CDBaby.com
UndergroundHipHop.com
AccessHipHop.com
Gray Matters + Living Proof @ The Crystal Ballroom
Filmed by Dast

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/30/2004
Band Members: Prem & Tope the best of both
Influences: Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, David Porter, James Brown, Fela Kuti, Alice Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Gil Scott-Heron, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Outkast, Jay Dee/J Dilla, Common, De La Soul, The Roots, Madlib, Oh No, A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Jay-Z, Willie Hutch, Erykah Badu, Georgia Anne Muldrow, The Isley Brothers, Smokey Robinson, The Flaming Lips, Donny Hathaway, Sly & The Family Stone, The Beatles, Otis Redding, Raphael Saadiq, Dwele, Leon Ware, Leroy Hutson, Bob Marley, Murs, Little Brother, Sa-Ra, Nottz, D'Angelo, The Temptations, Parliament, Funkadelic, Jimi Hendrix, Willie Mitchell, David Axelrod, Flying Lotus, Nas, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Slum Village, Blu, Mikah 9, Elzhi, Devon The Dude, Black Milk, Oddisee, Hi-Tek, Pete Rock, & many more.
Sounds Like: When A Womans Fed Up by R. Kelly
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Gray Matters x Tope x Nykon x Amsterdam in Bend

Ok, so this is mad late. This show almost didn't happen due to a lack of dj + tables. Luckily, the homie Nykon came through and Brady supplied his tables to the cause (big up STATE OF Mind!! not to b...
Posted by Tope of Living Proof on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:23:00 PST

Copacrescent x Tony Ozier x Tope x D C-Lo @ Berbatis

Berbati's is always cool, because the staff is always good to us. LP is kind of on some Norm!/Cheers ish there, haha. Anyways, Todd + Co. we're on point when I arrived. As usual, I had no dj, so the s...
Posted by Tope of Living Proof on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:12:00 PST