Dansk Rap: 1988-2003

by Jasper Scott

Ain’t globalization grand?  I mean, how else would we have such a wide range of rap music.  From West Coast to East Coast and across the pond to… Denmark?

Dansk Rap 1988-2003 is a double disc compilation album of the best of the best of fifteen years of Danish rap. But what is Danish rap?  With names like Faktaposen, U$O, Flopstarz, and Humleridderne, who the fuck knows.

Here’s a few of the better cuts off this compilation.  Even if it sounds like garbled Dutch, or inbreed backwards-talking Norwegian, it doesn’t take much to recognize Denmark as the leader of Scandinavian hip hop.



Some of it sounds like cheap porno loops, or like Mariah Carey songs if she was doing her thing in the seventies.  Yeah… like I said, cheap porno loops.  Salli, Jeg gør lige hvad jeg vil.mp3

And it really doesn’t matter what language you speak, or rap, the acronym V.I.P. is universal.  And what better name for your rap group than another, albeit pseudo, acronym?  This here is the Bone Thugs of Denmark.  Ya heard.  B.A.N.G.E.R.S., “VIP”

One of the songs on this album, I swear, is just that David Bowie tune played backwards.  What’s it called?  The one from Labyrinth.  Jo-C-Fine, Respekt.mp3

And like most American rap, the Danish they too rap about being “fucked up.”  Only in Danish, it’s “Fuck’d op.”  And it sounds like some jenky poseur who heard “California Love” one too many times.  And then added some steal drum action?  Suspekt, “Fuck’d op og misforstaet”

You got the typical shit, something like gangsta rap only it’s about Istedgade and Vesterbro instead of Compton and Bed-Stuy.  Rip Rap & Rock, Vesterbro.mp3


Jeg forstår det udmærket godt.

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