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Sep 292009
Sep 242009
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Efter att Dogge spelat in klassiker starkt influerad av västkustens berättarstil, Looptroop arbetat fram en blek kopia av vad Non Phixion och Arsonists sysslade med, Ken släppt tio skivor starkt påverkad av New York (hälften boom bap, hälften kommersiellt-känslosamt), Stor gråtit på micken likt Ghostface, och Aki visat att han likt Cormega med lätthet kan kombinera hög teknisk kunnighet med tungt berättande så släpper Stockholmssyndromet lös en video som direkt för tankarna till den smutsigaste södern. Det är Lo-Fi. Det är skita i. Det är beats som påminner om hostmedicin. Det är början på ett nytt kapitel i boken om svensk rap.
Sep 132009
Out of the Midwest badlands of Gary, Indiana, Freddie Gibbs brings us the best from three coasts, spinning street tales and spitting game with the skills of a New York battle rapper and the laidback flow of a Californian. And that’s over chopped up soul samples a la Just Blaze or that dirty south John Carpenter funk (Murda On My Mind!).
This tape does not disappoint.
Sep 112009
Thanks to Sonny Balboa for finding this one… I don’t understand what they’re saying, but this here is still one of the best rap videos, ever…
Mafia K’1 Fry – Pour Ceux
Talking about great videos beyond språkförbristningen (aka the barriers of Babel), check out these clips with Brazil’s best. A dope beat, dope deliveries, powerful visuals… sometimes that’s all that’s needed…
Racionais MC’s – Vida Loka (parte 2)
Racionais MC’s – Diário De Um Detento
Sabotage – Respeito É Pra Quem Tem
Aug 132009
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Jul 252009
Såg precis Carlito live på Möllevångsfestivalen. Då han bara har tre låtar ute (så vitt jag vet), så var han smart nog, att efter ha kört sina hits D Sån Där, Säg Pass! och Babylon Brinner (och gjort det bra), låta några andra hungriga rappare ta över. Först körde Ja-da (?) en låt, och det var bra, men sen kom Aki och hans grupp Labyrint på och stal hela kvällen, trots regn och keff ljudtekniker.
Aki är känd från sina verser med Kartellen (bl a sken han starkare än alla på Samma Knas Varje Dag). Det var kul att se han med Labyrint, de har verkligen kemi och vet hur man gör show. Jacco är grym, och dom andra två vill man också se mer av. När Professor P gick på med sina fesljumna amerikanismer efteråt var det som natt och dag. Ett mixtape är på väg. Och se dom om du har chans.
Carlito har också en EP på gång. Guldburen ska den heta, om jag förstod det rätt.
“tacka emot och hoppas på ett bättre liv i himlen,
men det enda som finns där är sateliter som tar bilder”
Jul 242009
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Ikväll 21.00 spelar Carlito på Möllevångsfestivalen. Missa inte!
Jul 222009
This is good News. Trife Diesel (former Trife Da God) is my favourite rapper without a solo album. Been waiting years for a full length.
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The tracklisting seems to be once again plagued by way too many features. If Put It On The Line and that Theodore Unit album would have had less filler rappers, they’d been classics. And much of it would have been thanks to Trife. The track with Royce sounds hard, though, so let’s hope for the best.
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Jul 162009
Out of all the vicious beef tracks ever recorded, Never Personal hits me the hardest. When Mega Montana is going for the throat – it’s over. The competition can go home. His combination of advanced microphone mathematics and undilluted street venom makes him unbeatable. Especially when it’s over what sounds like a leftover from The Infamous-sessions. And there’s an open, honest quality to it that makes it even more powerful. Contrary to the title, this time it seems to have been personal.
This was recorded after his fall-out with Nas, following industry problems related to their work with The Firm. (An older Cormega gives his side of the situation here). The beef is squashed, but these tracks stand as testament to Cory’s status as one of the most ferocious rhyme spitters ever.
Part 2 is more of the same. Foxxxy Brown goes in against Nasir, showing the world who’s the best female who done it (next to Rah Digga and The Lady Of Rage, naturally). I took these two from the J-Love tape along with a live clip of Mega dissing Nas using his own song titles. It’s pretty clever, if you ask me. And yes – sorry about the sound quality.
Jul 072009
“… I’m pure New York, got train tracks inside me…
Blaq Poet Don’t Give A Fuccc!”
The hardest track out this year. While half of New York is busy trying to sound like the South, the other half is trying to emulate the mid-nineties. But while they are looking to the past, Poet is doing what he always does. He is bringing the hardcore with renewed energy. I missed this kind of aggressiveness in rap music today.
Not the most innovative album ever, The Blaqprint still hits you as hard as anything from the golden era of harcore New York. Apart from some filler guest raps, it is packed with Primo-produced bangers like the one posted above. Some posters claim that the production is subpar, that DJ Premier has fallen off, that he needs to update his drums. That is not true. S.O.S. and U Phucc’d Up and Never Goodbye and Hood Crazy and especially the chilling Voices shows you why.
It is a shame and a testament to the sad state of music that you will not hear anything from this played on the radio or in the club. It is not even fair, I mean, Blaq Poet went out of his way, I mean really stretched his format to make a hot club track. Perhaps he shouldn’t have named it Stretch Marks & Cigarette Burns.
“You aint heard this type shit in a very long time…”