Rolling non-US rap thread 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JyTolNxJ5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvOSFrr_N78

from last year but just discovered Ukrainian rapper Alina Pash who raps over dance grooves that incorporate Ukrainian folk music, both the tracks she has released so far are fantastic

Sarkodie is Ghana’s biggest rapper, but I find his singles very hit or miss these days. This new one is banging though, thanks in no small part to Akan, Ghana’s best new rapper:

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

Sarkodie ft. Akan • All Die Be Die

(Akan’s Onipa Akoma album, released in 2017, is extremely good btw. It was #4 on my 2018 ballot, although I somehow never stanned for it.)

(crossposted this on the Rolling Afropop thread)

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/02/20/from-storytime-to-millions-of-hits

A nice piece about Alyona Alyona from Meduza.

I wrote about this in the film thread, but 'Gully Boy' is a pretty fun hip-hop flick about a young man from the gully - played by a 33-year old superstar who looks nothing like a 20-something from the gully - who rises to the top based on his fire inside. The tracks are written by the rappers it's based on, and they're pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGmbUdf6lEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGKJBPFdUA

From kpop 2019

Really should post this over on the J-pop thread but on a similar tip, Japanese-Korean artist Chanmina raps/sings in both languages + English. She's a Big Bang fan if it's not obvious.

― Roz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ1caaQYkz0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWnbqs2f-8

some of the worst music ive ever heard in my life is in this thread

Thanks for posting Snelle, ArchCarrier. I wasn’t aware of him. Good track.

Thanks for the replies -- both of you :)

lol @ the idea of Deej really enjoying any of these!

btw thanks for making a thraed of Zheani , Aussie rapper from the Gold Coast. She's quite good, but I worry that she might lack confidence :)

There's also a thread for the Icelanders, and about time:

Reykjavíkurdætur - Iceland's 15 Member All-Female Hip-Hop Crew

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/arts/music/french-british-hip-hop-afrobeats-afrotrap.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_ms_20190315&nl=louder&nl_art=7&nlid=37355772emc%3Dedit_ms_20190315&ref=headline&te=1

Om Frenchie and Yxng Bane

This Dos Monos album is absolutely insane! https://deathbombarc.bandcamp.com/album/dos-city

a month late but that snelle track linked up thread is probably my favourite track of the year so far (non koffee division) only enhanced by the fact that the guy in the video looks like a young loius van gaal!!

The new PNL album, Deux Frères, is incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtyHYIpykN0&frags=pl%2Cwn

Didn’t see this one coming:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8504409/old-town-road-producer-youngkio-interview-lil-nas-x

For the Dutchies:
https://www.nu.nl/muziek/5836290/nederlandse-youngkio-in-contact-met-bekende-amerikanen-na-nummer-1-hit.html

Another Dutch one (video shot in Suriname):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyFUcNPg62k

Bizzey x Ramiks • S/O naar de... ❤️

Love the sampled (?) pan flute (?) riff.

Lyrically, it references this Dutch rap classic from 2007 (providing me with an excuse to post it here):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsTYev-jiII

The Opposites ft. Dio & Willie Wartaal • Dom, Lomp & Famous

Norwegian summer jam #1. When I dj'ed a party on Saturday I had to play it like six times.

ISAH & Dutty Dior - Hallo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acAnMhjoyD0

nice one!

The new PNL album, Deux Frères, is incredible.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, April 8

Another link for the Eiffel Tower video, "Au DD", in case it had an error message

https://youtu.be/BtyHYIpykN0

Apparently no band had ever filmed a video at the top of the tower before?

Deux Frères is pretty good from what I can understand, but the album really spends a lot of time in slow or mid-tempo. (I know that's their 'thing'.) The brooding track "À l'Ammoniaque" has a funny moment after @1:09 with a Simpsons sound effect of a crow, to either increase or undermine the serious atmosphere.

Good stuff from South Africa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL3pHQEy1iE
Touchline ft. Makizar • Zone 6

Suboi, from the big thread of Vietnamese Music/Music in Vietnam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gERJjsDhe0g

And two tracks from New Zealand by CHAII and Randa a.k.a. LarzRanda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q00SjA7DSc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ixBzaig76I

“I been noticing a lot of senior citizens out getting the milk or whatever lately, they always seem to have a solid trouser and laceless sneaker situation going on. Old people got swag.” So you see, ILMers, there's still hope.

Dutchies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMMOfu04STI
Henkie T ft. JoeyAK • Snelle Jongen Dunne Jasje

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lvgKDpiSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdF2wXc3LuM

New album by Sampa The Great, The Return

- https://sampathegreat.bandcamp.com/album/the-return

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1878237415_16.jpg

Haven't had time to process it all yet, but at least half of the 75 tracks are great

yeah, that's my experience too. she's killer live!

Should've scrapped the second half imo.

The album it’s from is two years old at this point, but this video for it is brand new and worth posting - Ghanaian rap at its best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4cgb1QZ3vQ
Akan • Aprodoo

Dutch rap crew Broederliefde, who have a happy history of
indulging in their Caboverdean roots, working together with *fucking Dotorado Pro* on their latest album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc1SsGcskWY
Broederliefde • Moni Mi Suku

(I love this current timeline where African pop is becoming part of the tapestry all over the fucking place, the actual biggest story in music in 2019 if you ask me)

you've done a lotta work delivering it to this board this year; thanks!

http://blissout.blogspot.com/2019/11/straight-outta-atlanta-to-bratislava.html?m=1

Just saw this Simon Reynolds blog post about European and elsewhere trap rap

apparently SSIO has to change his number a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WubC91-Wv9Q