SWAGGER
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Barbamamma look a like M.I.A. performed “Paper Planes” at last Sunday´s Grammy awards introducing a supergroup of rap, consisting of Jay-Z, Lil Wanye, T.I. and Kanye West. While the tuxedoed rappers banged over M.I.A.´s line “No One On The Corners Got Swagger Like Us”, I was thinking: Werent the mid 1970s rock supergroups the signifyers of the genre´s last breath – just before punk kicked in and turned rock music upside down ? Isnt´t this memorable performance shown at the Grammy´s a sign for a similar development in rap? Maybe it had to take a pregnant UK MC to show what the future could be all about…
