spanish language hip-hop

I realize she may be too archaic sounding for some of you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tco30Hj7sFE

I'm listening to Anita Tijoux, from Chile, right now, and liking her a lot. She did a guest verse on Julieta Venegas's "Eres Para Mi" a couple of years ago, and now her U.S. debut CD, 1977, is coming out in April.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqUKg1qUoNE

tijoux's also playing new york in april as well on a bill including pacha massive and mad decent's brooklynite maluca.

glad it didn't take long for chile to get mentioned, i've been so into what they're doing for a couple of years now. doesn't seem to get so caught up in beef/bling/swag/etc so much that it sacrifices the creative / fun / four-elements etc side of things.

one of the first big chilean hip-hop groups from the 90's (and according to wikipedia one of the most influential across all of latin america): tiro de gracia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftY1L_W4PpQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hukt-QYv6lE

they've been broken up for a while now, but the mc juan "pincel" sativo has still been doing his thing (and carrying the tdg name with him at times), but hasn't really had any good beatmakers behind him, and for a minute seemed to be heading into puffy territory... luckily recently he paired up with [also chilean] producer nick calaveras for their recent single "vete"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezND5Ii7YdM

calaveras did a few things with ceaese hiperkinetiko, that did a pretty good album "planeta mutante" a year or two back, came off as something not entirely unlike an amateur neptunes at times

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

organismo soulbeat. didn't put down their release "maceidonea" for a long time. chill smokeworthy type material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rlzO_vxh8o

bronko yotte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ox6Q6r84k

in the dubstep / bloghouse / etc world this guy 'douster' out of argentina has been getting attention lately, with material out on zzk + mad decent records. the thing that excites me about it is that he apparently has connections with the neighboring chilean scene, already having done dubstep + dancehall remixes of tracks from hip-hop group zonora point, and hopefully he'll be able to bring some light to the other groups around.

zonora point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDLLCBvjH4

i'd think the biggest current export is dj raff, already having toured the states a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FpRrgzTw8g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWBPwtsbh10

also: every wednesday there's a hip-hop radio show showbeats out of santiago on university uniacc's station that also gets audio + visually live streamed to the web. at the right of the page there's mp3s of recorded shows.

These were quite popular years ago:

Delinquent Habits - los tres delinquents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ulylXhthlo
Orishas - Represent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zOL_2y7-5s
Cartel de Santa - La Pelotona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_dz7nt44yA

Molotov and Control Machete are quite popular as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfmY9Wlxx0o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHBx9tznFOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UZUbQRwxdw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfHCOE0SLuk

LA's Akwid were always my faves. Start with Proyecto Akwid, which is the first actual Spanish language stuff they did. "No Hay Manera" was an LA hit I think.

juan data posted a pretty good mix over the weekend

Kind of an interesting video (at least for one viewing) but the music is about as boring as it can be. I do like the Kiss shirt. Sorry, unperson, but with rare exceptions Mala Rodriguez's music is a bore, at least if you can't understand the words.

http://www.youtube.com/v/YdPjnAAhRXs&fs=1&hl=en

― confusion is a walrus (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, June 6, 2010 10:11 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This one is at least different. Industrial jazz?

http://www.youtube.com/v/8uMln8aJqJ0&fs=1&hl=en

― confusion is a walrus (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:03 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah the first single for the new mala is pretty eh (the music sounds like a rework of bad romance) but otherwise the album is actually pretty good (although this should probably go under a hip-hop/pop thread)

http://www.youtube.com/v/3ATKHVe5PFQ&fs=1&hl=en

http://www.youtube.com/v/Ff7XSlH7ynQ&fs=1&hl=en

http://www.youtube.com/v/H5-RpdFWAHE&fs=1&hl=en

― fauxmarc, Monday, June 7, 2010 8:56 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, I was listening to some of it yesterday (it's already floating around) and I think I like it more than her last album.

― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Monday, June 7, 2010 9:01 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think the beats are really boring and there's hardly anything going on over top of them. I'm afraid I'm too uninterested to give it another chance and find out if I'm wrong. (I've already deleted this from my PC.)

(although this should probably go under a hip-hop/pop thread)

Hey! We're allowed to go moderately off-topic. I think Spanish-language hip-hop should be allowed on this thread, since I let reggaeton in, although I guess I could have stuck it on your Spanish-language hip-hop thread.

― confusion is a walrus (_Rudipherous_), Monday, June 7, 2010 9:12 AM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark

I'm addicted to that Anita Tijoux song ("1977")

Like this thread! Good work, guys

tijoux was in nyc a few weeks back finishing up her mini tour with rebel diaz, got some good press down.

seo2 (also chilean) - hola mundo ft. nauck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=butdGnpBgTI

was into cosculluela's vid for plaka plaka for a bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV-iEmLJerc

spain's jawars' players "supersonic" has summer jam down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBz5VvhLr4

kinetica's "nuevo dia" on (chile's, of course) dilema industria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdtQGtovp8k

also on dilema industria, gen - cielo (does work with kinetica on her new album i believe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qkq-y1GJNw

genio + baby johnny's mala tuya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrMoLqMNmsQ

THANKS fauxmarc

anita tijoux performing for free at the soho nyc apple store this evening as part of the latin alternative music conference

http://ny.remezcla.com/2010/latin/ana-tijoux-live-in-store-new-york-apple-store/

She's doing a late-night, don't know the cover price, poorly promoted gig Thursday night at Liv in W. DC (same night as Kassav).

also in nyc for the latin alternative music conference, panamanians living in oakland "los rakas" have been getting a lot of hype

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj3p66JnUPA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQQj-bJ4ams

sharif of recently broken up tr3s monos has first vid out from his new album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBb2H6WNG3o

dawizard - suenos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNIwRU4zzX8

chilean super-producer nick calaveras whom i've already mentioned a few times in this thread finally came out with his lp, la receta. everything i'd hoped, really - smooth production work and great choice of mcs.

combativo podcast

santiago's active right now, aside form the calaveras a couple of weeks back, noproblem company's dropped their new single, and cevlade's got a video, into both

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU7JCBhJ5dA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3vNsR7UDcY

older ilx thread

latin rap - s/d

mexican female mc nina dioz' el mixtape ii

it's kind of huge, she's got great hip-hop and global bass producers at her back (crookers, el remolon + villa diamante, el hijo de la cumbia); with the patterns of buzz around her i'm expecting tijoux levels of exposure in the english press

chino nino got a video in with tego

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb_W7ToidvE

When the hell is Tego gonna put out another album?

dunno, he seems to be busy touring a lot?

There's been talk of an album called Mr. T (ugh) since late 2008.

new puello vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IQ-IEf1OG0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYEc0p2PmOs

i want this kid to respond to rebecca black

NPR Alt-Latino writers love the 2012 Ana Tijoux cd (but mainly for the lyrics). On my one listen I was underwhelmed by the slicker production and the duets. Maybe I will give it another listen or 2.

It sounds a bit better on 2nd listen, and if I spoke Spanish I'd probably like it even more. Note-Spotify has her first 2 albums under Anita Tijoux and La Bala under Ana Tijoux

eh, she's kind of a default go-to thing to love in spanish hip-hiop at this point. i didn't keep the recent album around but might give it another shot

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/10/10/220095469/mala-rodriguez-and-the-women-of-latin-hip-hop

Here's something related to an NPR story i heard on the radio this morning