When the world cup final kicked off in Japan, it was followed intensely all over Roskilde Festival. An estimated 40.000 saw it in front of the Orange Stage, but the percentage of hip-hoppers watching the game was way lower than usual. The reason for this was Malk De Koijn‘s concert on the Green stage at the exact same time. The self-proclaimed greatest group in the world has moved from making demo-tapes to being if not the biggest, then certainly among the biggest hip-hop groups in Denmark.
The difference between Malk De Koijn and the rest of Denmark’s rap-music
is the creation of their own universe of persons, words and locations, placing their rhymes somewhere between fantasy and reality. But fantasy or not, Malk De Koijn are among the top rhymers, beatmakers and performers in this nation so you have to take them seriously at least when it comes to skills.

With a new album out they’ve been touring the country heavily, and with gigs on all the big estivals, it was almost public demand that they’d play Roskilde. I don’t know why they received the utterly crap show-time, but the tent in front of the stage was filling up nicely in advance, and it was easy to see that Malk De Koijn have fans way beyond the normal definition of hip-hoppers, having created something of a cult-following among the youth across musical boundries.

Reinventing themselves with brand new alter-egos, Tue Track is Pappa Puckæg, Blæs B is Piskeben Dødsfjæs and Geolo G is Kong Geo, they started out by playing exclusively songs from their “Zneglzilla.” The new album has gotten love in both the media and amongst the hip-hoppers, but while some people long for a sequal to their classic “Smash Hit I Aberdeen” the group has tried to distance themselves from making follow-ups to songs they’ve already done.

The songs from “Zneglzilla” such as “Rocstar,” “Phantastisk” and “Jernskjorten” did well pleasing the audience, and walking through the rows of people I was surprised to see how many already knew the songs word by word. The MC’s in Malk each have their individual style, but what they share is a charisma that tells the audience what they’re seeing is special, and that noone can do what they do.

If folks weren’t already body-moving they received strict instructions from the stage when the group shouted: “Du sku’ tage at bevæge noget” as Tue T did his booty-dance displaying the ass hours on the gym’s butt-master built during the chorus for “Musclebundt”. One of the improvements on Malk’s live show is how well they’ve learned to interact and help eachother out. They got smooth transcisions from rapper to rapper, constant back-ups and both Tue T and Blæs ran behind the turntables to do live-scratching, and though Tue’s always been an elite DJ it was really fun to see him and Blæs do a turntable session together. As the group anounced that they and the audience were leading the world cup by 10-0 Malk went into their classic material and did great versions of “Lone har en kæmpestor røv” and “Kosmisk kaos” getting the already live crowd-members even hyper, since they were now hearing what they came for.

Malk finished off their show with an encore of four songs that went way back to their early work like “Til De Folk,” and even though big screens showed Brazil close to winning the championship the audience still stayed clapping and shouting ’til long after the group had dissapeared.

The show wasn’t without flaws, they forgot lyrics once or twice, the introduction
of their caracters from “De rigtige Mckoys” didn’t work as good as usual, and maybe they shouldn’t have waited so long with the older material.
None of that seemed to matter that Sunday afternoon when Malk De Koijn closed the hip-hop section of Roskilde, showing the world that they’re large enough to make several thousand people miss the world cup final just to see a rap concert.

Fotos af Klaus Heinecke © RapSpot.dk

Malk De Coijn @ The Green Tent, Roskilde Festival, June 30th, 2002
performance:	Malk De Koijn doing what they do better than anyone	OnPoint faktor: Phantastic
underholdningsværdi:	funny, talented and crowd-pleasing
spillested:	big, but proved just the right size – show-time still sucked
stemning:	everybody was into it applauding louder than a MF’er
street cred.:	Geo got shot once, by three narkomoner. Really!	set af: ptas

sådan læser du karaktergivning: 7 x = On Point! 3 x = Nice Shot

6 x = Almost Bulls Eye 2 x = Target Practice

5 x = Heavy Hitter 1 x = Not Even Close

4 x = Hit Potential 1 x = Greatest Miss

Skrevet af ptas 30.06.2002 arkiveret under LiveSpot |