Tell me that when you rap along to your favorite hip hop track you don’t feel like you’re suddenly on a podium speaking to the people. Not as much a specific type of genre as it is a tool to express one’s thoughts. I think the record really embodies a lot of what hip hop is in it’s core, at least to me. Why should one listen to that record today? Anything about the album that speaks to the people today as well? And of course a rap fan’s dream the star-studded remix was crazy. This track in particular influenced my rap style a lot: energetic, in your face and brutally honest, through metaphors and such. I guess you can’t go wrong with a Godzilla sample (musically, legally you can and did) and again with the audacity of starting a song after an intense and dark intro, just blasting into a raging banger telling people to ‘get the fuck up.’ Powerful stuff. It’s a tough call, but I’ll have to go with Simon Says. What’s your favourite song on the album and why? I also love the audacity of the record, lines like ‘smack a nigga in the mouth, stab his mother in the eyeball’ just get you every time. Internal Affairs has dark-vibed storytelling in a complex, but comprehendible way that really spoke to me in a way that no other record had ever before. Back on topic, I found it so compelling, that PHAROAHE MONCH would years later become a huge influence on my own flow and style of rapping along with other of course. What happened when I first saw/heard PHAROAHE MONCH was that I was blown away by his mind-bending flow and how articulate they still were taking complexity and fast rapping to a next level. Please explain in a few words why it is so special for you? Godzilla sample: awesome, getting sued: not so awesome. Later I learned it was due to a drawn-out lawsuit over a Godzilla sample in Simon Says. I was happy I wasn’t too far behind on his journey, or so I thought: he released his next album Desire in 2007 which was a long time for a kid in elementary school. As any child of the internet age would’ve done, I quickly googled who this guy was and how I’d missed him before now and found that he’d released one album so far. I think it was the Simon Says video on a throwback hip hop top 10 list or something. I saw PHAROAHE on MTV and it blew my mind. Was there a special trigger that initially made you buy the album? It’s actually really cool that the parental advisory stickers don’t matter in Finland, so I didn’t need mom or dad to buy it for me, although they were hesitant over the artwork and track names like Rape, haha. In any case, I was like 8 – 10 years old a passionate music fan, thanks to my parents. I’d like to think it was in 2002, but it could’ve been later. I bought the record a few years after it had already been out for a while. Pharoahe Monch – ‘Internal Affairs’ (1999)ĭo you remember when you bought that record? Find everything you need to know about the event on December the 11th right here. The young fella from Finland will be performing at the December issue of Berlin’s Ja Ja Ja Club Night as well. Quite quickly you’ll get an idea what influenced him with this record. This time Finnish rap prodigy NOAH KIN talks about a hidden hip hop gem from the late 90s, in form of the solo debut by former ORGANIZED KONFUSION member PHAROAHE MONCH. In this category NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION lets the artist’s do the writing as they share their personal stories and feelings on their most loved record with us. We all have this record somewhere in our hearts and private collections. Whether it was the sound around the times of your first kiss or the starting point of your own attempts to take a deeper look into new musical territories. Music that accompanied yourself through difficult times, records that acted like a friend when there was real one around.
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