Nappy Nina (NY)

In this conglomerate of jazzy BoomBap artists, Nappy Nina is above all a message-strong artist who doesn't mince her words, talks about the reality of her life as a black, queer woman in the United States and also dares to leave the usual sound terrain of the Brooklyn movement from time to time. That's what happened, for example, on her 2019 album Dumb Doubt . The record sounds unusually smooth by Nina's standards. All the beats are still heavily influenced by jazz, but all the melodies are hand-recorded and not samples. The more serious lyrics about, for example, the difficult balance between touring life and love relationships are also accompanied by a moderate flow that no longer has much in common with the classic Oakland offbeat. Still, the sound on Dumb Doubt suits her just as well as the interwoven sample beats on the mixtape 30 Bags released not even six months after Dumb Doubt . Summary: There's something for every underground connoisseur from experimentalist to traditionalist in Nina's discography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nappy_Nina
https://nappynina.bandcamp.com/album/dumb-doubt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxKoNp8vT7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfGbNXZtSb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDz8jUgHfFE

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