From david turgeon Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 19:32
From david turgeon Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 19:32
> I believe that Solaar has one of the smoothest and most rhythmically facile > flows in hip-hop, and I mean all hip hop, in any language. Granted, the > backing tracks are at times a bit heavy on the fromage (kinda fuzaky cheezy), > but you can't question the man's dextrous flow. oh, he's got flow. but his lyrics are quite cheesy, & his backing tracks, as you've noticed, are not just a bit dull. his first few albums at least had some originality, but starting from after "prose combat" it went down the drain, & i believe that most french hip-hop happening nowadays kicks solaar's ass with 2 feet up in the air. that said, said french hip-hop tends to follow the exact same formulae as u.s. hip-hop: music for would-be gangsters & their would-be big-breasted girlfriends in their would-be convertible cadillac. all this to say that solaar is more or less the equivalent to <insert the name of whatever classic rapper who hasn't really done anything worthwhile lately> for the u.s.: he "started it", true, but let's just say he's not very interesting nowadays, at least from what i heard. -- david turgeon at http://www.notype.com