Gangsta, I scoff at thee!
Good day and welcome to another episode of "Musicians Who Make American Gangsta Rappers Look Like The Gigantic Pussies They Truly Are"...
... because while, say, Fitty Cent slanged some rock and got shot a couple times, that's really nothing with being CONSCRIPTED AS A CHILD SOLDIER IN THE SUDANESE CIVIL WAR! Not even close, I'd venture. But that's what happened to Emmanuel Jal when he was a kid. Seriously, watch the Youtubes below before you move along from here to your favorite Japanese tentacle rape manga site. Emmanuel survived and somehow got out, determined to try to promote peace in Sudan through music. To that end, he recorded this record with Muslim Sudanaese oud player Abdel Gadir Salim (featured a while back here)... which is significant because while in the "child army" Emmanuel was charged with basically killing himself as many Muslims as possible. So nice turnaround. The music itself is, well... amazing. This is no haphazard ramming together of styles into some tepid world music mess. This shit organic, tough as nails and the real deal...
And you know, Rap in languages other than English can be pretty hard to get into, since so much of the point is what they're saying, ya dig? But I have no such problem with this record, 'cuz shit just sounds good. And here's another Fitty comparision... they made a movie about this Emmanuel Jal as well. And it, like the music, is far real-ier...
I think that proves my opening statement, no?
... because while, say, Fitty Cent slanged some rock and got shot a couple times, that's really nothing with being CONSCRIPTED AS A CHILD SOLDIER IN THE SUDANESE CIVIL WAR! Not even close, I'd venture. But that's what happened to Emmanuel Jal when he was a kid. Seriously, watch the Youtubes below before you move along from here to your favorite Japanese tentacle rape manga site. Emmanuel survived and somehow got out, determined to try to promote peace in Sudan through music. To that end, he recorded this record with Muslim Sudanaese oud player Abdel Gadir Salim (featured a while back here)... which is significant because while in the "child army" Emmanuel was charged with basically killing himself as many Muslims as possible. So nice turnaround. The music itself is, well... amazing. This is no haphazard ramming together of styles into some tepid world music mess. This shit organic, tough as nails and the real deal...
Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim - Nyambol (ysi)
And you know, Rap in languages other than English can be pretty hard to get into, since so much of the point is what they're saying, ya dig? But I have no such problem with this record, 'cuz shit just sounds good. And here's another Fitty comparision... they made a movie about this Emmanuel Jal as well. And it, like the music, is far real-ier...
I think that proves my opening statement, no?
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