Artist: Timbuktu
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Oberoendeframkallande
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
The Botten Is Nadd
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Timbuktu has earned a reputation as Sweden's most influential political hip-hop and tap crossing creative person, called by some "the rapper fifty-fifty your grandma knows." Born January 11, 1975, Jason Michael Robinson Diakite's African-American father and Swedish mother played out clock time living in both Sweden and Chile. His multiethnic and transnational upbringing open him to a wide variety show of melodic styles and influences. He began rapping in the early '90s, quickly becoming a fixture in the Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Malmö live rap music scenes. Writing lyrics in Scanian and English, Timbuktu teamed up with a Danish rapper in the mid-'90s to form the multilingual yoke Excel. The partner off released unitary album, entitled Lustrous Lights Big City, earlier disbanding. Timbuktu's solo life history was initiated by the release of T2: Kontrakultur in 2000. Refusing to weewee down his lyrics for commercial success like so many of his American counterparts, Timbuktu chop-chop earned a reputation as a voice of political dissent and challenge. His confrontational lyrics and inclusion of musical influences like common people, megrims, reggae, and West African styles made the music both hard to categorise and wildly pop. An brutal chart presence and regular performance schedule over the track of several age made Timbuktu Norway and Sweden's most famous urban voice. By the 2007 sack of Oberoendeframkallande, Timbuktu had racked up foursome original album releases backed by his possess Juju Records.
