Rebstar rushes un towards his debut album “Girls Like Nicole” with the new single “Thing About You”. This time it’s more of a pop arrangement with a catchy chorus, but still unmistakably Rebstar’s a bit playful and toungue-in-cheek-rap.
I wanted to make a record that you can listen to in your headphones with your eyes closed, and still see everything I’m saying.
Rebstars site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp
The Malmö rapper Saint has released two more tracks in the Autumn while we’re waiting for his debut album “Asylum”, which is supposed to come out in the end of this year. On the song “For Life” Rebstar, his colleague on the label Today Is Vintage, also contributes.
Saint on Facebook
And now hip hop from the US and Sweden. It’s about the American artist RNA the Messenger who has released the song “Marco Polo” where the Swedish producer Theold has created the beautiful music arrangement. The song is the first taste of the upcoming album “Here Cometh the Dreamer”, to be released in the end of this year or in the beginning of next year.
RNA the Messenger has also another alias, DNAtheG, under which he released the great EP “The Code” last year. Below you’ll find two tracks from the EP as well; , “One Reason” and “Teenager on Drugs”.
RNA the Messenger’s site – on Facebook – on Soundcloud
Adam Tensta
Another “Catching Up”-post, today with a hip hop theme. I don’t receive that much hip hop; not that surprising since there are other colleagues that do a better job with it; but what I do get is good:
The versatile Rebstar has released the first single from the upcoming album “Girls Like Nicole”. It’s called “Safe Safe” and is a tribute to Rosengård (neighbourhood in Malmö) and Zlatan.
The likewise creative Adam Tensta has been collaborating with the producer Carli resulting in the three-track EP “Black Taxi Joints”. The three songs will be released one at a time each week on the blog Discobelle. First up is “Head Trippin”, including the South African artist Spoek Mathambo:
Joined by Rebstar, Saint has created his version of Rick Ross’ “The Devil Is Alive” in this remix/cover:
Östblockarn takes us back to the eighties and runs around like Leisure Suit Larry in his morning gown in this video. Funny enough a game in the same spirit, with Östblockarn as one of the characters, is being created by NMRosta, who’s also responsible for this video.
Skuggan av Svampen launches the detergent Dirty! “- People are tired of walking around smelling of tussilago. There’s a need of going back to something primal and dirty, Skivling says. Dirty works just like any other detergent, but with the opposite effect.”
Cleo
There’s no question that there is an imbalance between men and women when it comes to recording artists. If you look a little deeper than the top lists it’s even worse: looking through the numerous Swedish pitches I get I estimate that around 10% come from female artists or band with female members. I have no simple answers to why it is like this, but I think that it’s one of the most important challenges for the Swedish music scene, to change this, and most certainly for other countries as well. There is some hope, though; this year I’ve received more music from female artists than ever before, if that counts for something.
Hip hop is a genre that’s often in the line of fire in discussions about the lack of women. I’m not going to dig deeper into that here, since Meadowmusic hardly can be seen as representative for this genre. Instead I’m going to present a couple of great women in Swedish hip hop, because they do certainly exist, here below in the shape of Cleo and Rawda. In interviews with Peter Wickström from Awesound they tell us what’s been important for their musical careers, about songwriting, and other stuff.
(I’m afraid these interviews are in Swedish without subtitles.)
This post is also the start of a collaboration between Meadowmusic and Peter Wickström from Awesound TV, where we aim to present some interesting interviews with artists and others. Most of the time as video interviews, but we may vary with other formats as well. Besides making interesting artist interviews Peter also runs Awesound where he offers song coaching for artists, choirs, well anyone who wants to take their singing ability to a higher level.
Nathalie “Cleo” Missaoui is a fascinating artist and person. She creates fantastic music both as a solo artist and in numerous collaborations; with Looptroop Rockers, Adam Tensta, Syster Sol, in the Swedish-South African music project KWAAI last year and presently together with Kristin Amparo, to mention a few. Everything shoe does is also permeated with a passion for social issues; against rasism, social injustice and violence, on stage as well as off stage. She’s the kind of person that doesn’t ask permission, a doer, while most of just sit in the TV sofa muttering something about disagreements. Here are a few songs and a chat she had with Peter Wickström.
Rawda is a young interesting hip hop artist. She kickstarted her “official” music career in the Autumn with the cheeky single “Backspegeln”/”Bli inte sur”. Here she is in an interview where she tell us about her career so far, about songwriting etc. You’ll also find the music video to one of the songs from the single, “Bli inte sur”.
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