Rap cover-versions eh…… The nadia of commercial cynicism or the zenith of postmodernist self-reflexivity? Probably neither but here’s two recent examples of rappers covering rap songs….
First up is Buck65’s Bike For Three side-project (The “More heart, less brains” albums dropped on Anticon last year) and their reworking of the MC Shan album-cut, “MC Space.”
What’s the point in making your cover-version more retro/dated than the original? Dogg only knows….
And here’s an acoustic rendering of a Cru classic from the multi-instrumentalist Chamber-pop-fanatic and Eastcoast-Truskool revivalist, Lushlife.
This painstakingly faithful reproduction shouldn’t work but, IMHO, it’s splendid….
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