Timbuktu: The Musician

Jason Michael Robinson Diakité's stage name is Timbuktu, after the west African ancient city. He is a prolific young Scandinavian rapper and reggae artist. Born in 1975 in Lund, Sweden of African-American and Swedish parents, Timbuktu started making music in the early 1990s. Influenced by his birth country of Sweden, as well as time spent in New York, and in Chile, he has released 8 culturally rich albums. He has won Grammy Awards in Sweden and Gold Record Awards in both Norway and Sweden. 

"His music borrows from African rhythms, blues, folk and Jamaican sounds while it still retains an energy and a spontaneity quite unusual on the international hip-hop scene," said Arnaud Danielou, writing for the Groovalizacion publication (27/09/09). 

This is a great song (below)...I think. Most of his music is in Scanian Swedish, with some in English. An African Swedish rapper or the deconstruction of Babel. In either case, all is well. His videos are highly creative productions. Black history heroes -- whether in scholarship, business, politics, the sciences, or the arts -- always changing the game on a positive vibration.

>via: http://blackhistoryheroes.blogspot.com/2010/06/timbuktu-musician.html

Timbuktu - The Botten Is Nådd

• Ryll30

  6 months ago 124 

  cant understand a damn word, i aint swedish, but the music is total ownage ;D

• zomgreturpant

  6 months ago 17 

  Basically how he wakes up with a hang over and regret over what he did when he got too drunk last night. The title translates to "The lowest point is reached".

  Search for "Timbuktu - The Botten Is Nådd lyrics" and then paste that lyrics into google translate if you want to know the exact words. It wont be very accurate or currect be you will atleast get some kind of idea of what hes saying.