Rolling non-US rap thread 2020

As always, the year in the title is not very important, and fack tha haterz

Previous threads: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Singapore's Masia One raps and plays a bunch of other styles on this album (featuring both SPOON and KC The Buzzin' Hornet, despite rumours that they refuse to share a studio)

Masia One - Far East Empress
- https://soundcloud.com/masiaone/sets/far-east-empress

https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000428862381-95dyqj-t200x200.jpg

Randa from New Zealand released the greatest single of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGL00154z9k

(their Album Of The Decade isn't finished yet)

I'm still looking for Deutschrap that I like as much as Ace Tee's fantastic track "Bist du down?"... it's been 3 years and everything else sounds like Tagesschau or a 10-cent Protools challenge. Maybe understanding it is a barrier to enjoyment somehow. I thought this album Komplexität by EBOW from Austria was pretty good, with the hot prodoocer Nik Le Clap.

In Paris PNL reached the top literally with their unprecedented Eiffel Tower music video, while the German visitors OZ, Zako159 and Chakka were left dans la rue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL4lpr4t2IM

The label La Souterraine has made a compilation album of female rappers they friended on French Instagram. Kind of a mixed bag, but for the brightest future I'm gonna bet on Holy G

LE RAP2FILLES SOUTERRAINE
- https://souterraine.biz/album/le-rap2filles-souterraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwSH3V1YVoU

THANKS YOU

In Paris PNL reached the top

"Au DD" was 2019's biggest video in France.

And you know you've made it when

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCUI22Vb4M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0mlvojQeBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCsLkQ6MmlE
^ 1.4 million views

(As mentioned in the videos list "Pookie", 2nd in France, was the most popular internationally)

From Ghana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DB3oND8hVA

Bosom P-Yung • Attaa Adwoa

From Ghana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DB3oND8hVA

Bosom P-Yung • Attaa Adwoa

Still tryin to work out what happened in Germany in 2019, but it seems everyone got out-rapped by a Youtube star whose video had so much product placement, it had to be labelled as an advert. Warning: Don't buy these glamorous products

Shirin David - "Gib ihm" (Give it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM8iKElUkXg

Posted by ShariVari in the ILM poll - Ukraine's Alyona Alyona, with the typical backstory of an O.G. from the Ends

[Alina] Pash also appears on Padlo by Alyona Alyona, who started out as a primary school teacher in rural Ukraine making viral videos and within about a year was one of the country's top rappers. Her album, Pushka, is excellent.
https://youtu.be/n8hiIhJNc8o

― ShariVari, Wednesday, January 8, 2020 9:24 PM bookmarkflaglink

A couple of other tracks:

alyona alyona - Завтра (Tomorrow) / Пушка (Bomb)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-JNyYY1Y9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sYUZEPIb2E

Some say it is the medicine
I say
it's the MEDITJIN

reboot \o/
The Greatest Aussie Music Youtube Thread Of All Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myKF9mxAJ70
(title is from the Yolngu languages, Yolŋu Matha)

Also, NZ's JessB was in the art gallery too

Angolan rap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rffNnhFSp4

Uami Ndongadas ft. Xuxu Bower • Ker Fofar

Videos Filmed In A Norwegian Supermarket:

MATATA - "MARE MARE" (ft. LAMAZ SPAN K.O.B)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bcjCqxSxfw

Matata; a freshman group in the Gengetone scene, have dropped a mad tune featuring rapper Lamaz Span K.O.B dubbed “Mare Mare”.
The powerhouse consists of Marcus, Freddy, Richie, Festus and Ken and they all drop some serious heat on this banger. – (NotJustOK.com)

I've already gone on about this in the album poll of one-vote wonders (and big thanks to its ILM voter) – MC Yallah teamed up with the French-Berliner DJ Debmaster to make a great album with the best blurb

‘Kubali’ catches Uganda-born, Kenya-based MC Yallah step on and off 11 seriously ruffshod productions blessed with the best of both scuzzy industrial fetish styles and up-to-the-second global bass/trap movements.

MC YALLAH X DEBMASTER - Kubali
- https://hakunakulala.bandcamp.com/album/kubali

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0285077612_7.jpg

Reminder that I’m including the Afro-relevant stuff on this thread on this Spotify playlist:

ILM rolling✳️all-inclusive✳️afro 2020

(“Mare Mare” and “Kubali” included, it’s now 117 tracks deep)

10 OVER 10

Music TV in the West may be fading away, but in Kenya there's a Friday night show that's appointment viewing. 10 Over 10 is a live program that's been going for a few years, showcasing rappers, singers, and Kenya's sickest DJs, many of them with memorable stage names.

It's on for a couple of hours on Fridays, scheduled from 19:00 GMT (but may start late).
The channel, Citizen TV, has a rewindable live stream:
- http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChBQgieUidXV1CmDxSdRm3g

It's also caused a moral outrage because the dancing contains so much unfortunate booty-on-crotch action, no doubt accidentally.

These were the most toned-down episodes:

10 OVER 10 | Rosa Ree and Timmy Tdat keep it locked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDMHMcVk8gY

Sho Madjozi: I was an accidental rapper #10Over10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8cSMYnEsmk

HAPA KUBASH TU... Kristoff, Yvonne Darcq, Kush Tarcey collabo works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auz48zyNBxk

10 OVER 10 | Is Gengetone our new tone or have we gone too far?
- https://youtu.be/_uWjW75QOg0

I will often check out the Rate Your Music Charts for the best of the year and play things that look interesting. I have found out about some of my favorite new albums this way (I discovered the Idles debut and relevant to a hip-hop thread, JPEGMafia, this way). The other night I played what the chart says is the #52 album of the year and was blown away.

Backxwash
God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It

http://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3260782780_16.jpg

Bandcamp: http://backxwash.bandcamp.com/album/god-has-nothing-to-do-with-this-leave-him-out-of-it
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1rE7wAUQnDD109mldMff6p?si=ElVGqKl_TISdS-d3O5dNOQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9rOFb989g

Backxwash is a Zambia-born, Montreal-based transfemme rapper/producer. The first thing you hear on the album is Ozzy Osbourne; later on she raps over Led Zeppelin. The record has a claustrophobic Nu Metal feel at times. But the anger is definitely modern. It is pegged as horrorcore but unlike the horror is real now. NPR's Lars Gotrich is evidently a patreon as well. Maybe some of you will dig it. As an aging metal guy, I like one rap record a year these days and this seems to be the one.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eatq-MeVAAoW9yC.jpg

Fun Dutch “urban”/pop rap (French title notwithstanding):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0NzqAXcZZM
Boef ft. Numidia • Tout Est Bon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubl2_wzYUG4

Lil Asaf - 3wwe prod. Khadije

More Dutch shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW6p5VMugcU
Jonna Fraser ft. Darkoo & Diztortion • Downfall

Don’t think I ever posted this earlier banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERog-qY1-MY
Jonna Fraser ft. Frenna, Henkie T • Dior Money (produced by Spanker)

Loooots of Ghanaian rappers (plus some singers as well):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXpIO-MzLtQ
Dead Peepol x Rich Kent ft. Fameye, Medikal, Kuami Eugene, Tulenkey, Deon Boakye, Malcolm Nuna, Bosom P-Yung • Otan Hunu (Remix)

some of my favourite Dutch bangers of recent months - as is my wont, more “urban” than pure rap per se, with the last one veering quite closely to r&b, so please forgive me, I’m just a soul whose intentions are good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld2MyhcWXR4
Architrackz ft. Poke • Hondsdolheid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICM2sYAVXGc
Saaff • Neckless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ-iq3ja_dg
Idaly ft. Ronnie Flex • Voodoo

guaranteed to liven up any new year’s party!

New year new thread, note the change of title...

Rolling worldwide rap thread 2021