KidCal-Calvin Ho (calvin@hklink.net)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:34:32 +0000
Check Japanese acts like the Silent Poets-who get regular french rappers on
their albums. Maybe hard to source in the US, but worth the effort.
As well Yellow Productions label has earlier releases of french rappers,
very good.
Cal.
Michael Aregood wrote:
> Is this stuff getting released on vinyl as well? I often see compilation
> by French rappers but seldomly on vinyl....anyway this one is on Virgin
> and it's called: Quelques Gouttes Suffisent. worth checking out.
>
> My sentiments exactly... maybe i'm not looking for it in the right
> place. Though the one thing that i recently picked up in vinyl was a
> compilation from a dj called Cut Killer called Operation Freestyle. It's
> got 3 records of originals and 2 more records with all the
> instrumentals. It's got some pretty fat beats and a couple tracks are
> outstanding (i wouldn't say it was outstanding on a whole though) On a
> couple tracks the vocals sound kinda wack even though i can't figure out
> what they're saying. But the tracks that are good, are great in my
> opinion. It's on sony france. Check out the corny graphics, or if you
> can read french go here...
> http://www.sonymusic.fr/cutkiller/
>
> My favorite comp (cd unfortunately) is Jimmy Jay's Les Cool Sessions 2.
> Lady Laistee is the bomb! Any more contributions to the french hip hop
> discussion would be much appreciated.
>
> peace,
> argo
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