Born: 1978
From: Stockholm, Sweden.
Marital Status: Married.
Occupation: Student of literature
Political: Socialist, Feminist, Anti Racist
Fan of hiphop: On and off since 1988
Taste: True School. Breakbeats and samples. East Coast and East Coast-sounding. 1979-the future, but with a heavy emphasis on the years 1988-1992
Other music: Jazz, Soul, Funk, Reggae, House, Classical. Almost anything except all kinds of metal and radio oriented pop, really.
Favorite producers: Pete Rock, Marley Marl, DJ Premier, Diamond D, Da Beatminerz, Erick Sermon, RZA, Havoc, Showbiz, Buckwild, Large Professor, Rick Rubin, The Beatnuts, Madlib, Grand Puba, Q-Tip, Lord Finesse, The Bomb Squad, Easy Mo Bee, DJ Mark The 45 King and many others (although not neccesarily in that order).
Favorite MCs: Rakim, Lord Finesse, Grand Puba, Sadat X, KRS-ONE, Edo G., Jeru The Damaja, MC Lyte, Big L, Percee P, OC, Pharoahe Monch, GZA, Rah Digga, Lord Jamar, Poor Righteous Teachers, MF Grimm, Billy Danze, Gregg Nice, Jay-Z, The Notorious BIG, Nas, Chuck D, Lauryn Hill, Papoose, Kool G Rap, Apani B-Fly Emcee, Talib Kweli, LL Cool J (1984-1990), MC Shan, DMC, Kool Moe Dee, Busy Bee, Styles P, Inspectah Deck, Slick Rick, Big Daddy KANE, Ghostface Killah, Queen Latifah, Mos Def, Last Emperor and many others (although not neccesarily in that order).
Medium: Strictly vinyl. KEEP VINYL ALIVE!
Online: I’ve been discussing hiphop online in Swedish and English since about 1997 on different blogs, forums and message boards, such as Davey D’s Hiphop Corner, SOHH.com, mokkamekka, youtube and whoa.nu under nics such as Soul Survivor, Tobbelito, Tobbelito78, Soul_Survivor_II and Cappuccinosocialist. My first hiphop blog was called truskool. It was in English and consisted of record reviews. Then I had Headnod, which was a blog in Swedish about hiphop culture in general. Finally I have the blog Cappuccinosocialist, which is in Swedish and deals with politics, culture, literature, art, music and anything else that comes up.
Why yet another blog? Three reasons: 1) I sometimes write stuff on forums that is worth saving or just too long for a forum post, 2) I need a blog strictly dedicated to true school hiphop and 3) I want to write about hiphop in english again in case some poor english speaking true school soul should stumble onto this. When I had Headnod I got quite a few e-mails and comments saying stuff like “Seems like a pretty cool blog, pity I can’t read Swedish…” or more truthfully they would probably say “pity I can’t read German” but it’s all good…
Content: No rules, really. Maybe I’ll post youtube links for days with little or no comment or maybe I’ll write a long-ass essay once a month on the state of hiphop culture and the evils of capitalism and commercialism visavi the art form we all know and love? Or maybe a little of both? Who knows? Let’s just see where the blog takes us. It’ll be true school all the way is all I know…
Ayo, what happened to Peace? Peace in the middle eas’!
