looptroop rockers - hårt mot hårt (with cleo)

as mentioned before looptroop was in the making of releasing a new record and if "fuel" was the starting point for the english album then "hårt mot hårt" is the first outing in swedish. officially this is the first looptroop song released in their own native language and it is one of the best yet. not shy from delving into the difficult topics whether it's social inequality, rasism or police brutality with this song it's about social issues. feminism and genderroles is the main topic at hand but it also talks about encouraging people to rise from the social situation and break free of the norms at hand.

embee created a really trotting beat with a strong backbeat and halftime feel where it's made to fit the screwed down sample of kapten röd's "1.000.000 nollor". over the bassheavy rhythm cosm.i.c., supreme and promoe is on their usual high point in their lyrical game and flow. but the song is stolen by cleo, the guest on the track, who also happens to be one of the best rappers in sweden and one of my favourite emcees.

i've even mentioned that fact before but hearing also cleo in swedish is in another light as i think in most cases, rappers and artists cause the most effect in their native tongue or at least the language they speak regularly. cleo goes off hard about the desire for a more equal society but also an less sexist field of music and not ever wanting to hear things like: "being good for a girl" or the likes. the key point in the song is in the transition between promoe to cleo and this is also where the song intentionally gets stolen by cleo.

promoe starts on a small rant about women should not be judged by their gender and mentioning that they do twice the work and get less paid. alluding to if the difference in salaries between genders but also counting domestic labour which is unpaid and in most cases harder. here cleo interrupts promoe and sets it straight and goes straight off the bat about how she is sick of men keep on trying to be the spokesperson for women. after that it's straight up murderous in lyrics and delivery and once again proves who reigns on top of the swedish rapgame.

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