| Issue One | La Melodia 3/6 | |||
you know first say harder because I’m from Holland, but what helps me of is that I’m traveling with these artists from the states, so maybe, but I don’t really experienced it like that.
Of course it’s so that you know I’m from Holland, so Holland is a very small country, if you wanna go overseas, you gotta at first rap in English and then you also gotta to take care of your promotion, you know, so if I just stay in Holland, no one will know me.
Are there any other female MCs out there?In the past there has never been a lot female MCs in Holland. Up till 2 years ago I only knew of 3 other femcees. Right now there are more female MCs in Holland. I found that out especially last year when DLQ (Dutch female mc) set up a female MC tour through Holland. On this tour about 8 or 9 female MCs participated. That was dope because every girl has her own style. Unfortunately there are no other females who are busy with putting anything out on vinyl and only two girls are doing her own show: DLQ and Bad Brya.Melodee, how did you start rappin'? Have you had a personal hiphop experience, where you get mad about? And did you battle on jams?Even as a young girl I would rhyme because I liked to play |
with language and I liked to talk about topics in this way. When I got older I was introduced to hiphop music: I loved it and I listened to it a lot. I always taped a weekly radio show called Vila 65 where I heard all the new hiphop stuff. I listened a lot to those tapes and I started rapping along with the tracks on these tapes. I thought it was a dope way of expressing yourself and making music. It suited me. I even started writing down the lyrics to the songs I had on tape so I could rap the whole track. At a certain point I started to write my own lyrics. I felt that was a good way for me to express my feelings and I felt I had a dope product when I finished a rhyme. Back then I started working with all kinds of different people and musicians and they felt I sounded dope so that encouraged me to go on with rhyming, not only for myself but also for others.
I checked the web for your crew "Imadodattaz", do they still exist? Did they released anything on vinyl? What does the crew name stand for?Imadodattaz is my crew. It consists of rapper/producer, INT, rapper/producer Yskid, and MC Melodee. The name is slang for: I am going to do that...Imadodat! So Imadodattaz means that we are the people who are going to do it. Imadodattaz still exists, but at the moment were all working on other projects. |
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