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Issue One
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La Melodia 3/5
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Melodee, how did you start rappin'? Have you had a personal hiphop experience, where you get mad about? And did you battle on jams?
Even as a young girl I would rhyme because I liked to play with language and I liked to talk about topics in this way. When I got older I was introduced to hiphop music: I loved it and I listened to it a lot. I always taped a weekly radio show called Vila 65 where I heard all the new hiphop stuff. I listened a lot to those tapes and I started rapping along with the tracks on these tapes. I thought it was a dope way of expressing yourself and making music. It suited me. I even started writing down the lyrics to the songs I had on tape so I could rap the whole track. At a certain point I started to write my own lyrics. I felt that was a good way for me to express my feelings and I felt I had a dope product when I finished a rhyme. Back then I started working with all kinds of different people and musicians and they felt I sounded dope so that encouraged me to go on with rhyming, not only for myself but also for others.
I checked the web for your crew "Imadodattaz", do they still exist? Did they released anything on vinyl? What does the crew name stand for?
Imadodattaz is my crew. It consists of rapper/producer, INT, rapper/producer Yskid, and MC Melodee. The name is slang for: I am going to do that...Imadodat! So Imadodattaz means that we are the people who are going to do it. Imadodattaz still exists, but at the moment were all working on other projects. Like me: I’m working on my solo project, La Melodia. INT is also working on a beat project. His first release will come out within a month or so on Kindred Spirits, a dope label in Amsterdam who also books success on a international level. Imadodattaz never released anything on vinyl. We worked on it and we had some opportunities, but they all resulted into nothing. That’s why I decided to do the solo project because I wanted my music on vinyl. Imadodattaz has one release up till now: that’s a tape...a fucking dope tape with 60 minutes of Imadoadattaz tracks and skits (and 2 beats).
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