S & D: Foreign language hip-hop?

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are you sure its mali and not Senegal? Could be Positive Black Soul.

Bisso Na Bisso from Congo via Paris are prety good as well. I like what i've heard by Sultana, a female Turkish MC, a snatch of one of her songs can be heard at www.meta4world.cdinfo/html

More recently I've been enjoying ojos de brujos a flamenco/hiphop group out of Barcelona. More as i think of them

― H (Heruy), Friday, 8 November 2002 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

people actually LIKE italian and german hip hop? i mean, in my book that stuff rates pretty high on the unintentional comedy scale, but...yeesh. for what it's worth, i don't really care for the streets record, either.

i think some of that francophone african stuff is kind of cool, though.

― jq higgins, Friday, 8 November 2002 16:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I got this great french hip-hop comp Le Flow.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Friday, 8 November 2002 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

CAn't belive we haven't mentioned Saian Supa Crew. They're one of the best foreign language hiphop bands out there. Inventive beats and rhymes. Search: X Raisons.

― dog latin, Saturday, 9 November 2002 12:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually, if we're searching out Saian Supa Crew, the essential thing from them is there version of "The Unknown" by Mark B and Blade, which blows the original one so far out of the water it ain't even funny.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dutch: Extince, Brainpower, Spookrijders, Osdorp Posse
You do mean DESTROY, right? Brainpower and Extince are just plain embarassing. Although it isn't really Hip Hop (but still has it in their mix) I would recommend Urban Dance Squad. The only worthwhile Belgian Hip Hop I can think of is Starflam.

― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tystion, Tystion... da ni no...

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Urban Dance Squad

Aargh...they were abysmal. Spawned a whole generation of terrible, terrible rock/rap combos (I'm still trying to cope with the very existence of Rage Agaisnt The Machine). Though I did see Rude Boy at a Motorhead gig recently, I guess he's not all evil.

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 10 November 2002 14:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll take UDS over Rage any day of the goddamn week. And I think Rage found their own niche on their own (because nobody else wanted it).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 10 November 2002 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

twelve years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROCmxSoqlHY

Finding Skriptonit's Stil oddly compelling when it gets going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7-XwfudZnE

I don't hate Yung Trappa either, though i do think if you're going to call yourself Yung Trappa you probably need to have a look stronger than '15-year old Ed Byrne'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XAxf8aFtL4

Rap Monster (Korea) is legit good, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPC9erC5WqU

Keith Ape (also Korea) is getting more attention in the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWob6QZEIZg

I'm quite fond of Schwesta Ewa, Polish sex-worker turned German-language rapper.

― Ethnically Ambiguous / 28 - 45 (ShariVari), Saturday, 11 April 2015 10:04 (nine years ago) link

nine months pass...

Thought there was another thread for this but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slei8n08Cqk&feature=youtu.be&t=157

― video2000, Sunday, 7 February 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link

There was a rolling non-US rap thread last year.

Rolling non-US rap thread 2015

Possibly worth another for 2016

― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Sunday, 7 February 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link

Yeah, I'll make a new one soon if no one else does.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 7 February 2016 13:59 (eight years ago) link

Cool, last thread was great!

― video2000, Sunday, 7 February 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link

Rolling non-US rap thread 2016

― niels, Monday, 8 February 2016 13:42 (eight years ago) link

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