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Gnawledge - El Manisero
This is something of a departure from the traditional hip hop sound that we tend to focus on here, but I have to give it up to my Boston College bredren Canyon Cody and Gnotes for coming up with an amazing take on the classic Cuban song El Manisero. The song is off the album Granada Doaba from Gnawledge, Cody and Gnotes' group, a flamenco hip hop album that was funded by Cody's Fulbright Scholar research grant. I could go on about how Antonio Machin's El Manisero ("The Peanut Vendor") is perhaps the most important song to ever come out of Cuba, with virtually every significant Cuban artist performing a remake of the song at some point in their careers, however Cody has already written a great analysis of the song.
Granada Doaba is available for free, so be sure to go cop it! And for comparison's sake, here's the original version of El Manisero:
Antonio Machin - El Manisero
3/01/2010 7:30:51 PM posted by Fresh