Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas
Anywhere in Argentina if you will sing this song, people will follow you with an: "JENNIFER LOPEZ NANANA, ABRIO LA HELADERA NANANA". This 90s band rocked our world, and they still do! But more impressive is that I been listing to their songs for years! but I never new that it was HIP HOP until this week! how is that even possible? Well I always thought they were more funk jam, and rap! but I didnt know that is all part of HIPHOP jam!
Dante Spinetta, Emmanuel Horvilleur the gods of the argentinean hiphop brought us some Rap, some funk, breakdancing and even some Beat Boxing!
As we talked in class, Hip Hop started in the bronx, NY. Since 1948 the freeway Cross Bronx Espressway, that connects the traffic between the Bronx and Manhattan, was been built. When a freeway is constructed in the city, there is always people who are affected by it. In this case all the neighborhoods in the South Bronx making people forced to be relocated, and making all the house lowered property value. Which meant that most of the people that needed to live in low rent would live in this Slum Lords. Criminality, gangs, drugs started to be the main ingredient of the Bronx.
In the 1997-1998, Illya Kuraki and the Valderramas, recorded their fifth album, "Versus" where!? in the Battery Studios, New York! With some sould, funk, rap combined! I imagine as a rapper, as Hip Hop Artist its an honor to record in the homeland of the Hip Hop culture! The first cut was "Expedición al Klama Hama", one of the most beautiful songs of the band.
Come with me, and free your find, try to enjoy la mejor musica Argentina!
ZTB.
Bronx,NYC
Berlin, Germany