I used google translate to post the interview Jenny Damberg did with me & Stor a couple of weeks ago.
We actually had the front page of “DN PÅ STAN” which is their cultural inclosure. Stor´s name is actually translated to BIG in the article, and i don’t have the patience to change it.
PATO POOH & STOR
The first time they met was to make up on stage. Ten years later, rappers Big Pooh and Pato not only two of the Swedish hip-hop’s most high-profile new names, but also good friends. On Friday, they are on stage together in Stockholm.
Large: Me and Pato are equal in a way. We have always had a dream in our head. We know what we want to do, the moments we want to experience. We understand each other when something good happens. Pato was the first who stood up when it became clear that I won the P3 Guld.
Pato Pooh: I was so happy! And take, if I was so happy when he won, I wonder how happy I will be when I win.
Big and Pato Pooh. Ulises Infante Azocar and Patricio Silva. Two of the Swedish hip-hop’s most talked about new names, the first awarded to a P3 Gold statuette for the album “New school leaders”, the other one nominated for a Grammy for hitvideon for the song “Follow Me”, which he did with Adam Tens take. Present a joint concert at Fasching and one ep in the pipeline. Friends since their teens.
This Wednesday night, they plowed through the slush along Skeppsbrokajen to Reisen in one of Old Town warped spirit house. Hotel guests in bathrobes passes on the way down to the gym, otherwise it is sparse in the room.
Big and Pato Pooh is here because I drew them here in order to participate in the rapquiz as once a month, collect a bunch of hip-hop journalists, bloggers and DJs. But rarely rapper, Petter and his gang of Natural Bond heckle, for example, frequently to be too nervous to attend.
At one table, the two take turns to play the tape.
The first time they met was on stage. The first time, with some reservations, since they, with parents from Chile, mutual friends in Rinkeby, and membership in the Chilean guitar club in ABF-house inside the city, had many common circles for not having crossed each other’s orbit earlier.
But the first time they actually met, it was on stage, in raptävlingen “Stockholm’s best”. Large was 13 years, Pato Pooh 16th
Big: I did not know there was a contest until I got there. I thought it was a common event. It was 30-year-olds there. Afterwards, someone spread a rumor that it was my brother who had written my lyrics. I found out about it several years later, and only, “I do not even have a brother!”
Pato Pooh donated. Large (when the duo Big & Small) finished second. The years passed, the Grand became good friends with Pato Pooh baby brother Pablo, often hanging at home with the family silver, and again and again they met on stage.
They took turns winning.
If you were to meet today, who takes home then?
- I have a P3 Gold, it has not he, haha, “said Large.
Large has been rapping since he knew it was what he did, “he says.
- And when I was a little older, eleven twelve, when we began to choose their own clothes and have their own style when I rapped.
Ten years later he made “new school leaders” - “I’ve always felt like a cord children, but knew that one day, when will my time. That’s the title refers to “- an album backed by large sections of the old school. The Brothers Salazar, from The Latin Kings, accounting for several productions.
“Great is the absolute best rappers we have worked with”, has Masse Salazar said.
Petter guests, as well as Promoe, Fille and Adam Tensta. At the award ceremony at P3 Guld cover large family, and Ayla. Ayla also means family, in Arabic, and his gang since their youth in the youth court in Huddinge. Even acclaimed duo Mohammed Ali is there.
Pato Pooh writes songs with R & B singer Ricky and operates on its own a studio, where Ken made his latest album, and where Agnes has also played a role. He works with a bunch of young guys in a clique that calls itself Dehdinpoik, but nonetheless says:
- I am quite alone in my position, in the case of hip hop.
- Great is the only one I would ka lla my friend. I work with many, but he is the only one I call a Tuesday evening to ask what is happening.
When did you know that you were friends?
- It grew, “said Pato Pooh.
- The first time I went out - I had been and played out before, but the first time I was at the club - I borrowed Patos leg. I went to the farmer. I was nervous that it would work, we’re not particularly like - but luckily, people think all blatta look the same - it went well. I do not remember what it was for the club, but I was drunk inside. You were also very nervous, “Fuck not up my leg! Fucka not up my leg! “Says Large.
Pato Pooh: I was nervous. But it went well.
Pato Pooh’s father is a musician. Sub-solo, and the group Sangre Morena, who plays groovy Latin America.
- He is my greatest inspiration when it comes to music. I really like all kinds of music, I have just stuck to rap himself.
- My mom is my greatest inspiration when it comes to work. I will be stronger to fight, I’m the type of person. Mom came here with Dad. She cleans, she works hard, while she took care of the family. It’s a bit hard to explain what I’m doing. But then rang a friend from Chile who had heard my song, and then it became much more real for her. She was so proud. It made everything so much more worthwhile for me.
The race starts. The first black and white copied sheets distributed. The other teams gather in clusters of five six people around the table. Big and Pato Pooh - Law Yoldash & Co. - can get by with a corner. They are just two.
Part one is to recognize who is the image, and what the person is a rapper sidekick to. They bend forward, writing feverishly.
- What are the bad pictures! Had not the Grand known Martin [one half of the Lorentz and M. Zacharias], we would never have taken Ornish says Pato Pooh.
The next category is a common thread-torque. By the third track comes Big “Little shorty” show up.
- I should rename it! Then it becomes just as we get right. Nobody can say anything, haha, “he says.
What is the thread then?
- There is no common thread between Big and Big Daddy Kane! If it does so, he should know it then!
Large turn out with their hands.
Pato Pooh puts aside his pen.
Quiz drags on. One hour, two, three, finally, they must go, Large to cut a video for the song “Everything we’ve done,” in Flemingsberg, Pato Pooh on.
Therefore, placing itself Yoldash Law & Co. did not. But to be a question in a quiz crack still have all the right, straight off.
They are not equal in every way. A rapping in Swedish, the other in English, for example.
And when Pato Pooh line up what he is doing, alongside his day job as recreation leaders, he stops to end the stream of recordings, remixes, discs with a “I wish I could clone myself!”
Great is his opposite.
- The fact that I Freestyla so much people think I’m very productive. I’m not, “he says.
- The songs on the “new school leaders” are the songs I made 2008/09. It is a struggle. There is anxiety.
What is it that makes you still do it?
- The need to try. 19 out of 20 days does it not. But the twentieth day do it.
At Large “New school leaders” are, among other things, “Aina”, a melodic attack on racism and brutality by the police. Through song runs a matched sample of Sheeba “Aina” ( “Calm down now, and va ‘only on the e’”). It begins however with a completely different sound recording, by the Malmö police who talk about “apajävlar” as they should “give so much stress that he can not stand on his feet” Rosengard in spring 2009.
- The media has already forgotten it, it disappears like everything else. But they say there is only enough for 20 songs to the same topic. It is so clear when you hear them that they are accustomed to say and do exactly what they want, “said Large.
The cartel, which has presented himself as a very tough, rowdy, gangster rapper, is on the album. How are they working with?
- They are good. They say what they think. And it is good that they exist, just as it is good that [dance beat oriented] The machine is - because it is good to have a width in the hip-hop as a genre.
- And it is not surprising that they are as a society look like it does. It is clear that there is a hip hop group that is gangsta if checking out the books, and films such as “fast cash”, which made the gangsters. People are obviously interested. Movies, books, it’s okay, it does not have any problems. But when someone raps - then it is suddenly real.
Why is it so? Music in general has higher authentication requirements than other expressions.
- No. Just hip hop. A rock can sing “I shot a man with my fathers gun”, and it’s just … charming.
But why is not it hip hop?
- There is a tradition to write about what is fair. It does not write about anything. I want to make songs about anything. As “Little shorty”. People ask who it is. It is not about any particular. It’s about the feeling when you see a girl you think is good looking and just “why is she with this guy? She should be with me, I would be much better for her. ”
- Perhaps I have not felt this way since I was 15 and I have not lived the whole “little shorty”. But there is still a feeling I have. I want to capture those little details.
The common thread between Big and Big Daddy Kane? Size, of course!
