New album by Supaman is a great start of the new musical year
The musical year starts very very well with the new, long awaited album by Supaman, a rapper from Montana and a child of the Apsáalooke, more widely known as the Crow Nation.
Supaman has more or less the same approach as Native American rapper Frank Waln, whose album The Bridge ended up in my list of fave albums of 2017, in that he mixes modern rap and hiphop with traditional music and powerful recorded speeches to tell a story of identity, oppression, racism and discrimination, but they also convey a message of hope.
Each of them has a very distinct sound, however, with Supaman laying more emphasis on the traditional music and instruments than Waln does. Also traditional dancing in a traditional outfit is an important part of Supaman’s act.
You can download his new album Illuminatives on iTunes.
Oh, and you will love the third track, Nativekeyz Interlude, containing a flaming speech by Louis Farrakhan ripping journalist Mike Wallace apart for calling Nigeria “the most corrupt nation on earth”. – “Can you think of a more corrupt one?” Wallace asks. “Yeah”, Farrakhan replies, “I’m living in one.” (PB)
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