As always, the year in the title is not very important, and fack tha haterz
Previous threads: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 5 January 2020 07:10 (four years ago) link
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
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 5 January 2020 07:11 (four years ago) link
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)
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 5 January 2020 07:12 (four years ago) link
From Ghana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DB3oND8hVA
Bosom P-Yung • Attaa Adwoa
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 11 January 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
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
― sbahnhof, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 00:28 (four years ago) link
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
― sbahnhof, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
Some say it is the medicineI sayit'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
― sbahnhof, Friday, 24 January 2020 05:50 (four years ago) link
Angolan rap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rffNnhFSp4
Uami Ndongadas ft. Xuxu Bower • Ker Fofar
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
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
― sbahnhof, Monday, 2 March 2020 04:21 (four years ago) link
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)
― breastcrawl, Monday, 2 March 2020 08:28 (four years ago) link
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 lockedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDMHMcVk8gY
Sho Madjozi: I was an accidental rapper #10Over10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8cSMYnEsmk
HAPA KUBASH TU... Kristoff, Yvonne Darcq, Kush Tarcey collabo workshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auz48zyNBxk
10 OVER 10 | Is Gengetone our new tone or have we gone too far?- https://youtu.be/_uWjW75QOg0
― sbahnhof, Friday, 6 March 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
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.
BackxwashGod 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-itSpotify: 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
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
Fun Dutch “urban”/pop rap (French title notwithstanding):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0NzqAXcZZMBoef ft. Numidia • Tout Est Bon
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubl2_wzYUG4
Lil Asaf - 3wwe prod. Khadije
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
More Dutch shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW6p5VMugcUJonna Fraser ft. Darkoo & Diztortion • Downfall
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 31 August 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
Don’t think I ever posted this earlier banger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERog-qY1-MYJonna Fraser ft. Frenna, Henkie T • Dior Money (produced by Spanker)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 31 August 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
Loooots of Ghanaian rappers (plus some singers as well):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXpIO-MzLtQDead Peepol x Rich Kent ft. Fameye, Medikal, Kuami Eugene, Tulenkey, Deon Boakye, Malcolm Nuna, Bosom P-Yung • Otan Hunu (Remix)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Sunday, 18 October 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
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=Ld2MyhcWXR4Architrackz ft. Poke • Hondsdolheidhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICM2sYAVXGcSaaff • Necklesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ-iq3ja_dgIdaly ft. Ronnie Flex • Voodooguaranteed to liven up any new year’s party!
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
New year new thread, note the change of title...
Rolling worldwide rap thread 2021
― sbahnhof, Monday, 4 January 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link