Wintertijd

Hipperdehop I

Earlier I kicked off the Que Onda Latin compilation, but I also listen to Hip-Hop from strange places. Of course I listen to some of the US artists, but I've got a thing about hip hop from other countries as long as it's well done. So I'm doing two compilations in parallel: Que Onda for your Latin sounds and Hipperdehop for your ghetto kicks.

The first song for Hipperdehop is not exactly from the Ghetto. The Swedish Ragga/Hip-hop outfit Rhymatic is not normally my cup of tea because it's just that, a reggaeton and ragga outfit. The one song featured here is from their 2005 album "Skak ditt Asul" and it is more old skool (if you allow me to abuse that term). The funny thing about these people is that they do their rapping in Gotländska, a dialect from the Swedish Island Gotland. This dialect is a wee hard to understand sometimes, but the use of it in Ragga-style rapping is surprisingly appropriate.

The song in question is, of course, about hoes. Over here we call 'm "luder", not bitches. Gråbo is a neighborhood in Visby, the Island's capital, and the song details the adventures of a protagonist that sees himself get rejected by gold-digging stuck up women, tourists from the mainland, and goes home to the hood to get some good ghetto loving from a Gråbo-ho. Of course this is a rather big load of crock, because Gråbo isn't exactly a ghetto even by my Dutch standards, and the women in it are just... well... Swedish. But it doesn't make the song less cool.

Without further ado I urge you to enjoy the first song on the Hipperdehop list, Rhymatic's Gråboluder.

Posted by Chris at September 1, 2007 01:00 PM