Looptroop Rockers

The Apa­jävel tee is back in stock at Impala Malmö and at the upcom­ing Tim­buktu & Damn! shows. Hand­printed by Dick and his crew at Impala Möl­lan!

Peace! / ´preme LTR

I just got this video from Nesto Ultra­m­ag­netic, France!

‘We got the top of the under­ground, top of the main­stream — we rule ‘em both and every­thing in between!’

After my new sin­gle ‘Sven­nebanan’ — so far — got 70 000 views in 5 days, and every­body from blog gurus to main­stream press have appointed it the num­ber 1 sum­mer tune this year, and a lot of so called true Loop­troop fans have com­plained that we used to be bet­ter when we were more under­ground — I would like to do two things.

Firstly I would like to tell the peo­ple who say things along the lines of ‘they used to be more real when they dropped Mod­ern Day City Sym­phony’, that you obvi­ously didn’t lis­ten to it back then. Cus if you had you would know that even back then peo­ple were say­ing that we sold out cus we released ‘Mod­ern Day’ on a cd. So the album you’re refer­ring to as real today, the true fans back in the days were call­ing fake.

And every album we have released since then has been received the same way: with ‘The Strug­gle Con­tin­ues’ we def­i­nitely sold out cus all of a sud­den we were singing, and talk­ing about love. ‘Fort Europa’ might have been more polit­i­cal, but then that was the prob­lem instead, and ‘Good Things’ you prob­a­bly still remem­ber what peo­ple said about it. Maybe it’s time to real­ize that we will always change our sound (even though you can still hear it’s us), and break new ground? We don’t like repeat­ing our­selves, we like to evolve. And you don’t have to like the new stuff. Just under­stand, that some­thing you think is real now, some­one else has deemed sell out before — and most likely, some­one will con­sider what you think is sell out now, very real in the future.

Sec­ondly, I would like to smack you over the head with April’s song of the month, noth­ing less than an instant clas­sic called ‘Grow­ing up on the Road’. It fea­tures none other than COS to the MIC, and it’s pro­duced once again by Astma and Rocwell. If you find it hard to believe how I can release ‘Sven­nebanan’ one day, and this the next; under­stand that we got too many styles for any­one to keep us pigeon holed.

Down­load the Wav here! Down­load the mp3 here! And down­load the lyrics here! The art­work is designed by Time Will Tell (it’s a photo taken dur­ing one of our tours in Aus­tralia — I would say the first one, but who really knows). It was mixed by Astma for DLX enter­tain­ment, and mas­tered by Sören von Malm­borg in Cos­mos studios.

We’re going on tour in Swe­den with a van packed to the rim! Me, Perry Schumi and Mix­tro Vladi you already know. The rest of the peo­ple may be new acquain­tances to you: The Spi­der­dogs is the live­band I will be tour­ing with, Vanessa will be back­ing me on vocals — and Mofeta o Jerre will warm you up together with the Spi­der­dogs. I’m really look­ing for­ward to the tour and I hope I’ll see you out there some­where! Check the tour­dates now!

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KOM DIT!

I made a song called ‘Ya Slip­pin’, as a teacher in a hiphop school. The stu­dents’ assign­ment was to make a song that could have been on, for exam­ple, Nas’ Ill­matic or any of the leg­endary hiphop albums through the years. They were to study the styles and, not copy, but more to make some­thing in that spirit. I tried myself, together with Astma who pro­duced it — with EPMD’s Strictly Busi­ness — and this is the result. It was a tough assign­ment, and I don’t think this song sounds like it could’ve been on that album — but it gave me inspi­ra­tion any­way. Note: THIS IS NOT THE SONG OF THE MONTH! That song has been a bit delayed and will be released mid April or so — I hope this will do till then.

Down­load the mp3 here, or the wav here! Lyrics…