Random Youtube finds eh?
Growing up (said the 2nd year student) , I think rap music wasn’t a huge part of it all for me in truth. A Tribe Called Quest, MF Doom, Gang Starr, Atmosphere and some other odds and ends featured alright, but I wasn’t getting invited anywhere with my LP collection to say the least. You could more or less write me off as ‘Hype Machine Hip Hop’
From the Irish school I didn’t know a thing, but was fond of Collie (…Is Ainm Dom is a top class album, even if only for the line “Music is the only thing I have a passion for, don’t care about fashion buy my jocks in Dunnes Stores” ) and Captain Moonlight, along with some odds and ends.
By pure chance I stumbled across this on YouTube today. Make of it what you will. It’s all the more interesting for me knowing absolutely nothing about this stuff in Ireland. For me, on the first listen, the Rawsoul lad hammers this one. Just a bit. No more nails against bluetack really.
About a million miles away from one of those Seamus Ennis posts, isn’t it?
“This depressing misfit is about as camp as Electric Picnic”
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Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
Irish Hip Hop is so hit or miss, yer right about Collie (and his other stuff is wicked too) but beyond him not much has excited me in years. The young lad in the video got fucked in the deep end wha?
Nice find Donal. Bet you think you can do better? 😉
Everyone loves a good auld rap battle fight:
Rawsoul’s part of the Class A’z group with Terawrizt, Redzer (who’s MCing the battle above) and Nu-Centz. Some of their stuff is actually interesting dealing with the Lisbon Treaty, social problems and the usual braggadocio shit.
Whatever you make of their stuff, it’s interesting to see some genuine Dublin hip-hop that isn’t just a bad imitation of American hip-hop.
Plus you gotta love anyone who has an album cover of themself in a tracksuit clutching a can of Dutch!
^ I agree 110% BOZG.
Really like some of Rawsouls stuff on his myspace (myspace.com/rawsoulofficial)
Like I said, I blissfully know nothing of this stuff. Youtube.
I dunno, this made me feel really uncomfortable, I had to pause it half way because I was cringing too much.
Yer man Rawsoul came out with some alright lines but but his voice is really annoying.
I think this is my fave Irish hip-hop track though it’s ancient http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiSDF1bT59A&feature=related
Ta Kitteh for ScaryÉire – didn’t even bother looking for them on Google / YouTube – thought it was all too long ago..
Remember them from college gigs (when I was bleddy there – which shows how long ago it was). They were great live.
Must try to track down that LP.
Is that a Kildare accent they have ?? From somewhere beyond Ballyfermot anyhow.
About a million miles away from one of those Seamus Ennis posts
Dunno about that d – some Irish trad singing (the likes of the stuff Ennis recorded for RTÉ/Beeb) has a rate of delivery / level of wordplay that’d leave some rappers breathless. Can hear traces of it in ScaryÉire.