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Irelands Rappers? :p

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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    P4DDY2K11 wrote: »
    I'm a huge hip hop fan and i have to say the majority of irish hip hop is pure concentrated shíte.

    It's not an irish thing and it should be left to americans and some english people, in saying that there is some half decent irish artists out there but as i said the majority = scutter.
    I rember when people said the same about British hip hop. Its very new in this country but I have heard talent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    CiaranMT wrote: »

    The production is quality on this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,220 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Glad someone's already posted Messiah J - I used to think this genre was ****e until I discovered them a few years back.


    Same here. Didn't even know Ireland had a rap scene really but I heard that song on a radio show for Irish music and I liked it. Listened to some of their other stuff and it was just as good.

    Had completely forgotten about them and that song, glad it's back in my head.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21 SpikeMilligan




    Thought the documentary was good. It could have focused more on the music and less on the some of the background stories.Still, if it promote some of the talent in Ireland, then happy days.


  • Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭ItsNugget


    I think that fella spiral off bb inspired most of them , and well that says it all , what do you think?

    Nobody who raps in Ireland was inspired in the slightest by Spiral. THAT opinion is way off.

    Anyway heres two vids that were on the doc last night




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Class az - the evidence is probably one of the best rap tunes to come out in the last year (worldwide), irish rap has come a long way and weve got some talent in this country, l love seeing the typical racist responses of 'wigger' and other phrases implying rap is only for black people. Yet another successful AH thread


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    for me an irish guy rapping is like a chinese lad with a bodhran, they just dont go together


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    On the Republic of Telly the other night there was a gang from Carlow rapping, it was very funny and good.
    Messiah J are decent and I'm sure there is some decent stuff around too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    Rap music to me means Chuck D, Beastie Boys, Afrika Bambaataa or even the godfather himself Gil Scott Heron RIP.

    Not some pasty Irish kid who is pissed off cos he cant afford an ipad 4 (or whatever ****ing version is out now)

    agree, but you forgot about Dre

    ps thought the Class A's were good though


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    thebaz wrote: »
    but you forgot about Dre
    I see what you did there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭falan


    Can't believe no-one posted this yet...



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Seachmall wrote: »
    The only reason Americans, and English to some extent, have dominated rap is because they've been doing it much longer and they've much larger populations.

    For some reason the general Irish populace is far quicker to instantly mock something Irish than dig a little deeper and support it. The population at large loves a winner, but you need to start winning for them to love you. See every sports trend in this country ever, especially the sudden upsurge in people who loved cricket a while back.

    It's the same musically, unless it has a guitar in it and is vaguely like U2 Irish people have no time for it.

    Melodica Deathship ftw.


  • Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Dean09 wrote: »
    99.999% of it is pure cringeworthy shíte
    Too generous with you assessment.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q




    Only cringy when they try and disguise their accent. This is a quality tune.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    The rubber bandits started out very hip-hop before becoming more mainstream (A marketing decision I'm sure but we all have to make a living).

    As was said, it's a new genre in Ireland, give them a few years to develop. Groups like 'The Streets' made excellent rap music (if you can avoid being a pedant about sub-genres) that was relevant to English culture.
    I'm very excited to see what Ireland can produce once the culture begins to develop its own identity a little further away from its American counterpart.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭d-gal


    Irish rap has improved immensely over the last couple of years



    Really like this guy's music


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    We should stick to the Irish dancing and sean nos singing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    buck65 wrote: »
    On the Republic of Telly the other night there was a gang from Carlow rapping, it was very funny and good.
    Messiah J are decent and I'm sure there is some decent stuff around too.

    Messiah J are brilliant, I wandered into their set at Indiependence a couple of years ago, it's not normally the kind of stuff that I'd listen to, but I was blown away! I'd love to see them again.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Did anyone else misread the thread title as "Irelands rashers" and get hungry?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    Let them have at it and best of luck to them.

    Like everything, there'll be a few jokers amongst the people who are serious about their music and sadly they'll represent the entire population of Irish rappers in people's (blinkered) view.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    d-gal wrote: »
    Irish rap has improved immensely over the last couple of years

    Really like this guy's music
    I don't think he's fly enough!


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy




  • Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    Reminds me of a chat up line used by a farmer from my area.

    "I'm a rapper... I (w)rap bales"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭Whyner


    For some reason the general Irish populace is far quicker to instantly mock something Irish than dig a little deeper and support it.

    They feel safer that way, afraid to go against the grain.

    I really enjoyed the program the other night, really entertaining. Yeah I did find some of it funny as it's my first experience of Irish rap but after a while I thought they were deadly, doing what they want, with passion and determination..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭trooney


    Surprised scary eire hadn't got much mention before the above, seeing as they were pioneers in the Irish scene.
    There also used to be two guys I used to see on grafton st who used to do some decent rapping and selling CDs. Never bought one. Sorry I didn't now. (anybody recall who they were?).

    Anyhoo - this is pretty relevant again these days -



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    trooney wrote: »
    Surprised scary eire hadn't got much mention before the above, seeing as they were pioneers in the Irish scene.

    They actually got mentioned on the second page.

    Love Scary Eire tbh, RiRa is as talented as they come and Mek is unbelievable on the decks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭godscop


    The funniest tv show i have seen in along time. Can anyone take these clown's seriously ? Wasters the lot of them. If it was done as a comedy like a Dublin version of the hardy bucks it would win awards. Redzer dancing going in to the 21st and the pub empty. Siyo steals the show. He agrees with his mother its time he moved out. In the next scene he goes house hunting. Then the classic gig "this is for me ould wan, i love her, im never leaving home " Comedy gold. These losers need a tv series :cool:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    I ain't gonna lie to ya, this is as good as it gets lads.
    Up there with Chuck D and possibly Rakim.


    Ladies and gents, may I present, Tom the junkie rapper



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    I ain't gonna lie to ya, this is as good as it gets lads.
    Up there with Chuck D and possibly Rakim.


    Ladies and gents, may I present, Tom the junkie rapper

    URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD_s1uPheEY&feature=player_embedded"]link[/URL

    In fairness there are better videos of Tom



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    I ain't gonna lie to ya, this is as good as it gets lads.
    Up there with Chuck D and possibly Rakim.


    Ladies and gents, may I present, Tom the junkie rapper


    Jesus.

    I remember a strange pair I actually interviewed back around 2004. One was a junkie and rapped, the other fellah was from Oxford and did a mean beatbox. They had one song that was just brilliant, "towering inferno", about life in the flats. Wonder what became of them. I hope that's not him. :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭Chairman Meow


    geeky wrote: »
    Jesus.

    I remember a strange pair I actually interviewed back around 2004. One was a junkie and rapped, the other fellah was from Oxford and did a mean beatbox. They had one song that was just brilliant, "towering inferno", about life in the flats. Wonder what became of them. I hope that's not him. :(

    I saw tom the other day, someone finally bought him a backing track, so at least thats lowered the embarrasment factor a bit. Or raised it, im not sure.
    Odd coincidence tho given it was a coupel years ago when i last saw him perform, he was rapping the exact same line on saturday as he was all those years ago, something about masturbation in prison.

    Also id just like to say to all irish rappers everywhere, stop. Just stop. Youre an embarrasment to yourself, and to the country as a whole.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Nice to see somebody remembering Scary Eire. :pac:


    But seriously lads, Irish rap is ****e.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    Also id just like to say to all irish rappers everywhere, stop. Just stop. Youre an embarrasment to yourself, and to the country as a whole.

    Exactly, if your not good at something straight away then give up, even if its something you enjoy. Also, kids learning to ride bikes should be beaten with a hurl if they fall off just to reinforce the bad memorys of bikes as they are letting the country down being from Ireland and that.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭IcedOut


    The lads at the end of the Republic of Telly were better than nearly all of the lads on that show


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭tiredcity


    geeky wrote: »
    Jesus.

    I remember a strange pair I actually interviewed back around 2004. One was a junkie and rapped, the other fellah was from Oxford and did a mean beatbox. They had one song that was just brilliant, "towering inferno", about life in the flats. Wonder what became of them. I hope that's not him. :(

    Think he used to perform as the Man and Machine? Was taking photos for a project around temple bar around 2004 and have an idea that's what he was calling himself then. He seems to have cleaned up recently which is good, there's a newer video here (would be better without the other fella in it but hey): http://youtu.be/0sarMri-CqI


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭alandublin33


    cringeworthy ****e is on again , another reason for people outside Dublin to dislike us! we're not all like these tossers I swear!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭cruais


    Oh Lordy Lordy Lordy... Shockin stuff!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner



    "the irish can't rap?"
    i choose to disagree.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    cringeworthy ****e is on again , another reason for people outside Dublin to dislike us! we're not all like these tossers I swear!

    If someone dislikes another person simply because they're from Dublin, those people are fcukwits. Simple.

    To say that no Irish people can rap is a bit silly. It's like saying 50 years ago that we can't play football.

    If you enjoy something that much, then it's only a matter of time (in some cases) before you get very, very good at it.

    As I said, best of luck to them.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    cringeworthy ****e is on again , another reason for people outside Dublin to dislike us! we're not all like these tossers I swear!

    True. Most of you are a very special kind of tosser, each one unique...like snow flakes, or Garth Brooks albums. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,004 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Whyner wrote: »
    I really enjoyed the program the other night, really entertaining. Yeah I did find some of it funny as it's my first experience of Irish rap but after a while I thought they were deadly, doing what they want, with passion and determination..
    ....regardless of their obvious lack of talent, wit or self awareness.

    When the 'rap battle' ended with a sheep shagging slur versus a 'yore Ma' jibe, I laughed my ass off at the dim, juvenile, braggadocio of it all.
    Most of the rap (when it could be understood) sounded like a whiney call to the Joe Duffy show delivered in rhyming couplets.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭ebixa82


    Seachmall wrote: »
    I'm assuming that's "MissElayneous", skip to 1:30 to bypass the banter with funny accents.


    Funny this yoke was on about tolerance, respect etc. of other races, religions, creeds in the show and was in the papers last week for violent disorder during the queen's visit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭alandublin33


    True. Most of you are a very special kind of tosser, each one unique...like snow flakes, or Garth Brooks albums. :D

    ABD strikes, small towns small minds


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    ebixa82 wrote: »
    Funny this yoke was on about tolerance, respect etc. of other races, religions, creeds in the show and was in the papers last week for violent disorder during the queen's visit.
    She was asked to rap about Finglas... It's clear that she spent a lot of time writing and learning that rap, it wasn't off the cuff and it had nothing to do with Finglas!


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