Song of the day – Feb. 24
You gotta wonder what it is about hip-hop music that makes young people from every nation on earth (save perhaps the Vatican), embrace and claim it as their own.
Today’s case in point is Mongolia. Admittedly, Ulan Bator, Mongolia’s capital, is probably not the first place you would go looking for young disciples of Run DMC. You’ll be happy to hear, however, that the city hosts two dozen radio stations that broadcast nothing but hip-hop all day, and that even a perfunctory Youtube search reveals that all sub-cultures associated to the genre – from Mongolian c-walking to graffiti are alive in well on the Mongolian steppes.
Yeah, sure, the vocals are a bit different from say, Young Jeezy, and the beats are at times a bit “soft“, but as you chuckle to yourself, just remember that these dudes are descendants of the big bad Genghis Khan and that not two generations ago, they were living on horseback and toughing it out on the steppes, only just occasionally letting their guard down long enough to party a little and get tipsy on ayrag, fermented mare’s milk. Now that’s gangsta.