Soulution "Shine Through"
When I think of the Hip Hop I love, it’s not the hard core gangsta tales that inspire me but the soulful productions that any number of emcees chose to rhyme on about their life. From Nas telling stories about the view from his project window to Brother Ali doing the same almost a decade later or delivering a sermon about the modern day fuckery that is American politics ( “Uncle Sam Goddamn” anyone?) the music of these tracks and countless others inspire movement and excitement. The canvases produced by record collectors provided the right back drop for inspired poetry – and that is Hip Hop. Soulution may be an unknown name in the country which birthed his chosen genre of music, but he certainly managed to capture the pens of a number of talented emcees – some known and some not so known, but all incredibly talented at delivering impassioned rhymes for the people to take in and enjoy. Being born in the Netherlands in the early 80s, one listen to Soulution’s debut album Shine Through ...