Currently listening to this…
… and thought i’d start this thread to talk about what your listening to or if you have any recs. Figured it better to do this away from the standard hip hop thread so it doesn’t get lost in the mix.
I’d definitely rec that SCHA DARA PARR album, excellent 90’s Japanese hip hop album.
Kinda cheating but I loved these guys back in the day, had some verses in German in some of their tracks:
Loved this Hindi rap album from earlier this year. Pitchfork reviewed it favourably and said
On his debut full-length, RUAB, the 25-year-old rapper borrows heavily from the genre’s various incarnations—the raucous hard funk of James Brown, the smooth, portamento synth leads of West Coast G-funk, even the mongrel psych-funk of iconic Bollywood composers Kalyanji-Anandji and R.D. Burman—to create the perfect cinematic backdrop to his absurd, off-the-rails rhymes. Propulsive basslines slouch and swagger in lockstep with tightly syncopated drums and bright horns spar with keening synths, all filtered through the dusty, sepia-toned lens of 1970s Indian parallel cinema. RUAB sounds like the background score for a Blaxploitation-meets-Hindi-film-noir movie, with Dhanji and his hometown of Ahmedabad as the main protagonists.
Which sounds about right to me.
Sin Cortar from DJ Muggs and CRIMEAPPLE was 
Keny Arkana from a while ago, but pertinent.
A couple of albums that have really grabbed me this year:
Polish
Brazilian
She was randomly shown in the crowd at a WWE show in Italy last week and thought i’d check her out. Fun pop rap/trap.