Young Ivy & Blänk - Shirt Off
Young Ivy is a Sweden-born MC living in Atlanta. Blänk is a production team of two guys, Klas and Mats, from northern (Lapland) Sweden. The video creatively has Blänk walking around spraypainting a Young Ivy dancing jovially.
The music, which they call eurotrash, sounds like dozens of British and American house artists from the late 90s that are still infecting our minds to this day. Now I have the hindsight to know that this track from Blänk will still stick with me ten years from now.
The vocals from Young Ivy sound like Kanye West, and the flow is almost identical. It’s immediately apparent that Young Ivy is already more polished than Kanye.
The song could become a club hit. It’s about getting crazy and taking off your shirt even though you’re skinny, and defying security until all the other dudes take their shirts off and all the ladies strip down to their bras.
My favorite part of this discovery is Blänk’s autobiography:
In Luleå we like to party. This last weekend Klas hooked up with his two friends Micke and Jonas and had a few imported 40:s. Then we saw the movie “Menace 2 society” and went out to get som Miami-looking girls. Unfortunately, here around the arctic circle, the girls dont look much like Miami. But then you just pretend for a while. And maybe have another 40. It usually works.
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Its small here too. Not much people and nobody really cares about us. Except the european union (EU) - they give us a lot of free money. Cause were like so far from everybody else in the world, and they are worried that we will feel sad and stop producing iron and hockey-players for the NHL. But we dont complain. We dont do that up here. But we dream, oh yes we do. And when the dream of Miami became too painful for us, we started a band.
