"Gargamel Magazine
This Ugandan-born UK-based refugee is many Albums deep into a career that's very underground, although it deserves a wider appreciation.
Particularly for those tired of raps ghetto-centric rhymes, this chap has African-centric socio-tipped rhymes. The beats are sparse but work. There's variety, like the female cooing, and piano flourishes on the Non-Sequito, and Trade 2001.
His issues cover pre-colonial, colonial and neo-colonialism, and the mind state of black people, and white imperialism upon the black psyche. Occasionally, a laugh or a line he says, echoes of 2Pac.
On the thought-provoking Western Thinking, the potency of that track can not be overlooked.
He probably calls upon his hallowing experience in writing Child Soldier. Worth discovering via 2ban.co.uk." |
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