Not sure if this even counts as rap, though Sivas is definitely a rapper, but let's get the thread rolling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkyreWbil78
Sounds like somebody wants in on the Calvin Harris/Weeknd success!
― niels, Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
SKYGG has hilarious bars, he's part of Khal Allan's project "Centeret", new single should have been a hit imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCoujFSEzfE
― niels, Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
3 x NL, 3 x BKO, love the beats, love the production:
BKO, “Gelato”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_8IchWFXao
BKO ft. Kimonomandem & Quessswho, “Last”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPSp_aEnoX8
Jerra ft. BKO, “Bom”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qy_3ukbOC4
― breastcrawl, Monday, 16 April 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
Good stuff! NL got it going on
― niels, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
this poor neglected thread :-(
There's been some discussion in Irish rap and obv Grime and UK rap 2018
― sbahnhof, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 07:25 (five years ago) link
This is a hit in a few countries, by the French-Malian Aya Nakamura, "Djadja" (posted in the Afropop thread)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGgnzc34tY
― sbahnhof, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 07:26 (five years ago) link
Latest single by Reykjavíkurdætur/Reykjavikurdaetur is their poppiest one yet, featuring the Icelandic singer Svala, a former Eurovision competitor. And the band unexpectedly teamed up with the male group Balcony Boyz this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9OR6ZTGlek
Their usual style is glitchy collaborative tracks, like "Kalla mig hvað?" [Call me what?]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKdzBT6EUT8
― sbahnhof, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 07:27 (five years ago) link
A couple from the New Zealand thread, by Rei and JessB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh7Cko-LeXk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shsq9SQHcEI
― sbahnhof, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 07:28 (five years ago) link
Danish group Natkat are finally ready to release their debut album, out Friday, single "Mørket kalder" has a p cool video too:
https://youtu.be/CEuETiKcGNs
It's obv very 90s throwback but if you like that sound, well, it's p damn good
― niels, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
Loke Deph also doing fine, contemporary sound, old school lyricismhttps://youtu.be/tmmHjRV4vu8
― niels, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 07:31 (five years ago) link
From Holland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSsm8IIfvtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sMrc0p70kThis one's a cover of a huge Dutch hit (and guilty pleasure) from 2000.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 07:47 (five years ago) link
Djadja is great!
I think I like the concept of Reykjavíkurdætur more than the execution...
haha that Stap voor Stap is horribly enjoyable...
― niels, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 09:10 (five years ago) link
I know right? So bad it's brilliant.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
not sure why but Oui by Sivas, Node and Gilli seems to be blowing uphttps://open.spotify.com/track/7j8K8PE1tO2TvhY15E8ZcD?si=LocAdttBTxeBpgVCeCOktQ
― niels, Friday, 5 October 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
This Dutch banger is huge in Turkey as well, for some reason:
Yung Felix feat. Poke & Dopebwoy • Loco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDs6dADBmI0
Same thing happened earlier this year with this one:
Bizzey feat. Jozo & Kraantje Pappie • Traag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z8NpmCqvZE
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
and niels, since you like “Djadja” so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkGiGf8utCM
Aya Nakamura • Copines
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
There seems to be a million Soundcloud (or VK) rappers in Russia at the moment - GONE.Fludd is currently one of the most popular.
https://youtu.be/_wp7zVOgzYI
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
I was just digging around in Russian hip hop, too...
https://open.spotify.com/user/thesoundsofspotify/playlist/2NweJbjBo0jbtRgYOalUDO?si=RwBsBUU5STK-ZRfCWT4NZQ
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
xp
лол, Мамбл-рэп!
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
Excellent!
Scriptonite and Pika are probably my favourite acts there but there’s a bunch of stuff on the playlist I have been meaning to check out.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
thanks breastcrawl - not as great as Djadja, but v nice all the same
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
She just released her new album as well (still not seeing her as “rap”, but I’m fine with this thread being about non-US “urban” music or whatever you want to call it)
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
yeah def, not like it's flooded anyway
will check out the alb
― niels, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
this 2014 DJ Premier/Dynamic Duo collab is great, any other Korean rap recommendations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYz-LjtiVOc
― niels, Saturday, 1 December 2018 09:18 (five years ago) link
Big news on the Thai scene - it's Rap Against Dictatorship
The song’s lyrics, which confront corruption, nepotism, the lack of accountability and transparency, poor healthcare, suppression of freedom of speech and the privileges afforded the rich while the poor suffer, are some of the most forthright criticism of the military government to appear in popular culture since they took power. - (The Guardian, 30 Oct 2018)
Rap Against Dictatorship - “Prathet Ku Mee” (Which is my country)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZvzvLiGUtw
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Responding swiftly, the military junta released its own rap song (???) ... the club banger "Thailand 4.0"
- https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/1568634/lame-government-rap-responds-to-prathet-ku-mee
"It received polite and scattered applause from the 500 young entrepreneurs and unicorn executives"
― sbahnhof, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 05:30 (five years ago) link
that is hella cool.
― niels, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link
There’s some interesting stuff going on with Russian rappers and the government at the moment. The rapper Husky got arrested last month for shooting a video in public without a permit and it seems like a couple of members of the government (potentially even Medvedev) intervened to get his sentence quashed. The extremely pro-government TV pundit Dmitry Kiselyov then devoted a segment of his show to defending the Russian rap scene as heirs to the poetic tradition of Mayakovsky.
https://meduza.io/en/news/2018/12/03/russian-state-tv-pundit-sticks-up-for-rappers-dropping-some-sick-mayakovsky-lyrics
There are strong rumours the government paid Slava KPSS to release the track Vladimir Putin ahead of the last election as well.
https://youtu.be/veFih7cxWSQ
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 12:37 (five years ago) link
that is kinda fucked
― niels, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
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