A fair bit of Irish rap stuff has appeared on my radar lately so I thought I’d put the best of it all in one place here and you can have a listen. Recommendations are welcome in the comments section.
Lethal Dialect
Lethal Dialect’s LD50 album from earlier this year is one of the best Irish rap albums I’d heard in a good while (slim pickings and I don’t listen to that much of it I’ll admit that) and here, ‘Keep It Real’ serves as the followup to LD50 II.
Metamorphose by Lethal Dialect
More tunes on Soundcloud.
Ath Cliath Records – Dawn Till Dusk
Shapey Fiend sent on this Ath Cliath Records compilation Dawn Till Dusk. The work of Jambo and Jonnyboy from Donaghmede, there’s a healthy switchup of styles here taking in dubstep and dance rhythms. There’s even a Damien Dempsey cameo on the last track. Here’s the opening tune:
01 The Sun feat.Hazy Jane by athcliathrecords
There’s some nice variation in styles here:
09 I Remember by athcliathrecords
04 Fallin’ Generation feat.Joey Mac & Garry O’Brien by athcliathrecords
Loud Mouth Collective
Exxon Valdez and Redahan/C.F. Meister both operate in a more jazzy ’90s hip-hop style. First up is Exxon’s Sir. Renovich with these two tunes with production by Luke B and The Gruesome Twosome:
And also from Loud Mouth but more instrumental beat oriented is Redahan & C.F.Meister split EP:
Elsewhere
You might have seen this tune from The Animators knocking about recently. I know it was on Broadsheet.
Dougzy is a 17 year-old rapper based in Galway but his style is more Southern swag than Irish swag.
Links
If you’re looking for more Irish hip-hop go straight to the specialists.
http://craicmusic.wordpress.com
http://www.irishhiphop.com
http://www.rapireland.com
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Sketch Nine put out an EP aswell recently, heres one of the tracks : http://soundcloud.com/meltedmusic/theyre-watching
Was talking to Matt from Melted in Belfast last week, should probably have had another look through the roster too. http://meltedmusic.co.uk/
Oh really? Hope he had nothing but good things to say, haha.
Yeh absolutely, been checking out your tunes cos of him and Eimear’s recommendations.
Sweet, cheers for checking them out.
One more recommendation, but I do rate this guy highly.
American/Brazilian/Irish rapper D’Lyrious. Two free mixtapes put out over the last couple of months
Great production value & some tight lyrics too
http://soundcloud.com/dlyrious/07-dope-prod-kid-la
Heya respectful blog as always man. Just want put it on here that I have recently set up my blog dedicated to Irish hiphop and so if anyone looking to get tracks/albums etc reviewed to get in touch w me and even just check out the blog, details are all on there. Sound.. http://www.hiphop32.com/
Dated like bebo.
Well these lads are in the Button Factory next Wednesday, great craic live!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5klc6-av2c
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Thought I’d throw this in here. This Side Up, hip hop band from Sligo, a few old tracks on their soundcloud, but they just put out a brand new one inspired by W.B. Yeats, which I’m pretty sure is a first for Irish Hip Hop.
http://soundcloud.com/hamsham
http://soundcloud.com/hamsham/something-in-the-air <latest track
https://www.facebook.com/pages/This-Side-Up/293904774832?sk=wall&filter=1