PRO8L3M

PRO8L3M is a Warsaw-based duo founded in 2013 by rapper Oskar Tuszyński, known as Oskar83, and producer and DJ Piotr Szulc, known as Steez83. From the start, the act was associated with broadly defined hip-hop and trap, but Culture.pl notes that the artists themselves would probably describe their music as pop-cultural rather than purely hip-hop. That distinction helps explain why the duo became so significant on the Polish scene. PRO8L3M’s signature style combines Steez’s futuristic synthetic production, Oskar’s distinctive delivery, longer narrative structures, urban storytelling and dystopian visions of the future, all reinforced by a strong emphasis on independence and visual identity. The first major...