Akala appreciation thread

[Riley Escobar]

Possibly the greatest MC to come out of my country

The evolution from boastful grime to conscientious hip-hop

If you only listen to one song in this thread, let it be this






21 Shakespeare plays in two verses

 

[Depreciating Asset]

Never heard of him but I listened to Find No Enemy and he goes in on social-political issues, black music and race in general. Pretty cool.

 

[Riley Escobar]

Never heard of him but I listened to Find No Enemy and he goes in on social-political issues, black music and race in general. Pretty cool.

He's ridiculously intelligent. Maangamizi's like that too, only focused mostly on the history of Africa and slavery

 

[Riley Escobar]

New album dropped

 

[bigmac]

High school. House parties, all my nikkas going buckwild reeling off every word to Shakespeare

OP didn't even post "Bit By Bit" too. Crazy record.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Only person I can think of right now who did 'conscious' better was MCD from Silent Eclipse.

 

[Yehuda]

He was talented in numerous ways at a young age, including football where he was in both the West Ham United and Wimbledon youth teams, only to have his chances of playing professionally ended by injury. He was seen in the Sky Sports advertisement for Copa América 1999 performing football skills in a Brazilian-like kit.