Sevillian
rap artists (raperos)
are the true
spokespeople of the pueblo
(people, society in general) speaking
out about
everything from
politics to religion and from
economy to morality. Out of all of them I suggest you to study closer
the following performers:
DEKOH, SFDK, Zatu, ToteKing, Shotta, Zeropositivo, Juaninacka,
Xinkoa, DJ Makei, Puto Largo, Acción Sánchez, La Alta Escuela, and
El Tralla. You can find information about them all on the Internet,
but mostly in Spanish. Therefore there
is no point in adding
all
the
links here
for your consideration. Though, I have the whole thing stored.
I
have tried to cover the entire metropolitan area (area metropolitana) - including the localities up to 10-15 km from the
city, which is everything there is between Rinconada and Dos
Hermanas, Sanlúcar la Mayor and Alcala de Guadaira - for not leaving
the rap artists from smaller towns out, like Dogma Crew from Mairena
del Aljarafe for example.
I'm
not a rap addict myself, but I can't deny the poetry of the lyrics
sung by the Spanish-speaking raperos, especially by those from Spain. They are the best lyricists in the Spanish music industry (no ofense). The
examples I give you are a good way to listen to the sound of
Castilian spoken in Andalusia as well as to see what are the streets
of Seville and homes of Sevillians like. You should watch the videos
for that reason alone. It would be, of course, better if you
understood Spanish to appreciate these guys and to enter into
their mentality. But maybe you do.
Anyway, what they all have in common is that they are committed to their city and their neighbourhoods. Here you have just a piece to prove my point. Then, they often show themselves in their videos with
a local graffiti artists (grafiteros) and tattooists (tatuadores), and they use from time to time the English words you can only understand knowing their dialect (e.g. harcor for "hard core").
Sevillian rap, here it comes:
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