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Issue One
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La Melodia 1/5
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MC Melodee and the DJ and producer I.N.T. are La Melodia from Amsterdam, Holland. After performing on February 18 at Kindred Spirits Special with the Digable Planets at the Paradiso in Amsterdam La Melodia later joined with Oh No, Wildchild, Percee P, Rocc C and DJ Romes on the Stones Throw Disrupt Massacre Tour throughout Europe from February 25 to March 21. I met MC Melodee and I.N.T. at V8 in Durmersheim, near Karlsruhe on March 14. Two days later we met again in Cologne. I was surprised how young they are and how nice and professional they work. Before the show started I was able to do a short interview with them.
At first I thought you come from England because of your nice English rap style. So where do you come from?
Yeah, well originally I’m from Eindhoven that’s a place in the southern part of Holland, but I moved to Amsterdam four years ago.
Do you rhyme in the Dutch language?
No, I started out rappin’ in English in ‘97 and then after two years I did a Dutch project with Terilekst, also a guy from Holland and I tried it out for a while, but I decided that English, is still even better. So that’s why I switched back to English and I’m still doin’ it.
I didn’t hear any male or female raps from Holland, you are the first MC I’ve heard about. Can you tell me something about the dutch rap scene, which artists do we have to know outside Holland?
The Dutch rap scene is quite alive at the moment. There are a lot of MCs that are stepping up right now do their own thing. The level isn’t always as high though, but I can tell that people are really working on improving their skills. There are a lot of good MCs that are being signed at the moment. These guys are all rapping in Dutch though. If you kick it in English over here it’s way more difficult. Since Dutch is the language we speak over here, there are a lot more people (the general public) who prefer to hear Dutch rhymes. The MCs who rap in English are often more a part of the underground scene.
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