Hegemony by Ben Sharpa. Album: B. Sharpa. Pioneer Unit Records, 2008.Soweto-born underground hero Ben Sharpa’s debut B. Sharpa manages to violate your brain and set your ass boiling. His raps are a whip of agitprop street academia, internet references, science fiction and pop culture, while production combines everything from Sega sound effects to electro-industrialism - a managerie of gritty cop-show out-takes and synth swoops that will evoke the nightmares of b-boys of old. -- Miles Keylock, GC Magazine (Oct 2008).
The influences he lists on his myspace page range from the Wu Tang Clan to KRS 1 to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to the Fugees. But Miles Keylock is right. Sharpa's stripped down beats and eerie sonic landscapes remind me more of the Onyx and there is something about him that's so Das EFX. Which ever way, he is voodooing old school hip hop like something insane.
Mad props: Sean at Africa is a Country.
Mad props: Sean at Africa is a Country.
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