It's pretty fascinating, imo. I don't know if I actually understand this, but the officially sanctioned idea of Mayakovsky as the progenitor of russian rap is crazy enough to have me intrigued. Where is this new rap-positivity coming from? Are the rappers actually pro-Putin or is there something more going on? Please let us know if you come across any more info about this, ShariVari.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 13:50 (five years ago) link
So... Magnus Carlsen (yes, him) just made his debut as a rapper 6:20 into this song about a stolen moisturizer, lol:
https://open.spotify.com/track/30xYkYI3uta4moisnnpDmt?si=F7ZSYrJ_Sny0sJ3p2fxzFw
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 14 December 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link
Zambian-born Sampa The Great continues to live up to her name:
- https://sampathegreat.bandcamp.com/track/energy-feat-nadeem-din-gabisi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDubhAKSeB0
She's based in Melbourne, and she won the Australian Music Prize for Birds And The Bee9. The spoken part by Nadeem Din-Gabisi might(?) be in Krio language...
"Life is about balance," Sampa The Great tells OkayAfrica. "This year taught me a lot about this. It was very important to me to continue to apply this lesson in all aspects of my life. In the world we live in it is very important we re-evaluate our perceptions of strength and weakness and the balancing of the feminine and masculine aspects of all our energy. It's especially important in our deeply unbalanced world." – (OkayAfrica.com / Archived)
― sbahnhof, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
Ukraine's Alyona Alyona is very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FCMJ31i8Yg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aHep8LvQQc
― ShariVari, Thursday, 27 December 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
She is!
German rap has some problems:
- https://www.musikexpress.de/deutschrap-2018-jahresrueckblick-1174209
Not to mention giving a top award to an album with anti-Semitic lyrics.
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 30 December 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link