S & D: Foreign language hip-hop?

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Okay, so I was just listening to this Israeli Arab hip-hop group called MWR ( http://www.mwr.org ), and was wondering what other foreign language (okay, non-English speaking) hip-hop groups were worth checking out.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, my bad, that link doesn't work. Don't click it, please, for the love of god!

― nickalicious, Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

MC Solar en francais.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Control Machete y El Gran Silencio en espanol de mexicano. Palabra.

― Matt C., Thursday, 7 November 2002 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

the german hiphop thread

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 7 November 2002 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can't really claim to be an expert, but some I enjoyed in the charts:
French: MC Solaar, Alliance Ethnik, NTM, IAM
German: Curse, Ferris MC, Spax, Die Fantastischen Vier, Samy Deluxe, Fettes Brot
Dutch: Extince, Brainpower, Spookrijders, Osdorp Posse

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 7 November 2002 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

personally i find french rap plain wrong.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

German: Kinderzimmer Productions, Funf Sterne Deluxe, Fettes Brot.

Portuguese (Portugal): Sam The Kid.

Portuguese (Brazil): Gabriel O Pensador, preferably the early stuff.

All of these might sound crap to you if you don't understand the language(s)- certainly my Portuguese friends weren't amused in the slightest when the version of MTV that we got on cable turned out to be a German one broadcasting tons and tons of German Hip-Hop (currently we get MTV Israel- boy, do they love their Vines and Las Ketchup. They also make odd top10 countdowns, including "best Australians" which gave me the absurd pleasure of seeing Nick Cave & The Bad Seed's "Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow" on MTV!)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

www.italianrap.com

For those of us reppin' for da boot.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Agree about Italian rap. The Italian language seems made for it somehow.

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 8 November 2002 00:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

dj krush's code 4109 features a japanese mc or two on some of the tracks.

― msp, Friday, 8 November 2002 00:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

trying to fit all of foregin hip-hop in this one nice, small thread with only the very very famous people from a few countries is just dumb

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Friday, 8 November 2002 04:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

its a start

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 8 November 2002 05:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

In Japan, there's currently a glut of atrocious commercial rap, but I can recommend:

Scha Dara Parr (aka SDP) - guested on De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate, friends with De la & the Beastie Boys. Worked with/Been remixed by Diamond D, Prince Paul, DJ Premier, Cornelius, and many others.

Tha Blue Herb - These would be the Japanese rap group DJ Krush included in the Code 4109 mix.

― JS Williams (js williams), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cool, thanks! I've heard lots of MC Solaar, me likey.

I have a tape of some hip-hop group from Mali that raps in English (sometimes), French (sometimes), and what-sounds-like Swahili (sometimes)...anybody have a clue what these guys are called?

― nickalicious, Friday, 8 November 2002 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

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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