During the later part of 90s stakkkato and pukkka was hooked up to the sound of various old school hiphop acts. They listened to local artists such as death threat, francism, denmark, andrew e, rapasia, sun valley crew, and out of the scant money in their pockets they were able to get copies of casette tapes of 2pac, notorious B.I.G., Bone thugs n harmony, the roots, and jay-z (hova!). inspired by the groove and eloquence of hiphop they tried to create their own music. They wrote rhymes and recorded their songs over a looped homemade recorded drumbeats sprinkled with melodic tunes of their younger cousins synthesizer.
On the year 2002, the duo performed on a college party and was applauded by the overwhelmed audience and among them was the eager wakkko. He was invited to record a freestyle track which the duo was reconstructing and the sound came out good. From that point, the trio named theirselves as..tantanananannn!....Karrraba.
Yes we do, though not on a regular basis.
Where?
Aside from our own shower room, we rock the house by taking part in several underground hiphop joints especially those organized by the infamous rap unit of the P.I.s 5th region the B.R.O.
Any special moments?
The first time our song got a live broadcast on a local radio station and was interviewed live. That was one of our illest moments and to top it all the disc jockey read the mobile phone numbers of karrraba members on air and hundreds of texters came rushing through our units. Some wanting to get laid. Haha!
the influence is eclectic. our tracks are inspired by the different music genre we listen to and the different events in our lives. well, we look up to the following artists as influences:
Jay Z P Diddy 2pac Bone thugs n Harmony busta Rhymes Francism Linkin Park Sun Valley Crew Talib kweli Lito Camo [?], anO kamo?
Pentium 4 PC / cakewalk proaudio9 but now turned to cakewalk home studio / any found nuggets of melody, drumbeats and sound effect that can b looped and constructed as a song.
Maraming salamat sa panginoon.
