– I think damnit’s cool that in just these few days they’ve got the courage to stand up and play in front of all you people.
This is how part of the great praise for young rap talents sounded from the Danish musician, Bigg Kaka, who is the musical director of the rap camp, Allattarl!, and has been to Greenland on several occasions.
– I think damnit’s cool that in just these few days they’ve got the courage to stand up and play in front of all you people.
This is how part of the great praise for young rap talents sounded from the Danish musician, Bigg Kaka, who is the musical director of the rap camp, Allattarl!, and has been to Greenland on several occasions.
Allattarl! is a new project that gives young people in Nuuk, Paamiut and Nanortalik the opportunity to explore rap, poetry and music as creative forms of expression and runs until mid-June.
The project has been developed in collaboration between Det Starter Med Musikken, which is a Danish social economic non-profit association that works with music, rap workshops and creative communities for young people, especially in vulnerable positions, and the Nordic Institute in Greenland (NAPA).
– We landed on Monday. On Tuesday we held an open house where people were allowed to come out and see. On Wednesday, people started standing with a microphone for the first time – for some, writing and recording. On Thursday, they had all recorded. On Friday there was practice. On Saturday they recorded a music video and today they are on stage, elaborated Bigg Kaka, who believed that the participants deserved another round of recognition.
The audience agreed and responded with cheers and applause.
Tears and pride
The final concert was held in Killut, the old Godthåb, where the director of NAPA, Susanne Andreasen, welcomed the friends, family and acquaintances present, just as many from the rap world had turned up happily.
Susanne Andreasen subsequently gave the floor to $MALIKK, who at high speed and with lots of energy controlled the course of the battle on stage for the next hours. And also gave a few numbers along the way. But Lukas, who raps in Jamaican, Danish, English and a few words in Greenlandic, had the opening number.
Afterwards, the rap queen Parnaq got the floor. She was – justifiably – proud.
– I am happy to say that this is the first time that there are so many girls in a rap camp. That only makes us richer. With those words, the four little princesses are here!
The music was about girl power and even though they put out something shy at first, they managed to set the audience on fire, and parents held up their mobiles and tried to film the best they could, danced or bopped their heads.
A touching moment occurred after a powerful number performed by some of the girls. Among the audience was a mother who had been cheering, cheering and dancing along throughout. With tears in her eyes, she turned to the person next to her and proudly said that it was her daughter who had just been on stage. Most parents know the feeling – the immediate urge to tell everyone nearby that it is your own child who has just done something very special. Whether she picks up that it’s FiNNi she says it to, but he sees her pride and meets her joy and congratulates her.
Among the many, thoroughly talented rappers, it is impossible to avoid “Små’erne”. They captured the hearts of everyone off the stage. And for that matter, those on stage too. “Små’erne” are three little boys who rapped as if they had been on a stage for 20 years. Impressive little creatures.
Music as a way for the young men
While NAPA’s writing competition Allatta! for several years has had challenges in attracting young people – especially boys and young men – who are interested in the rap project Allattarl! proved to be markedly different. Here, it has been relatively easy to get young girls involved, while at the same time the project opens a door to young people who may not see themselves as traditional writing talents, but who express themselves through music and song lyrics.
– NAPA’s writing competition ALLATTA! Have now run for a number of years and we experience that it can be difficult to attract the young, especially men/boys. But many people write texts in other ways, they write e.g. to music. That is why we are now making another offer for young people where they can express themselves artistically in a good way, says director of NAPA, Susanne Andreasen.
The course ends with concerts where the young people perform their own works, and afterwards the texts are collected in a joint book publication in Greenlandic, Danish and English.
