Pete Philly and Perquisite

Let's set the scene for this eclectic hip hop group I just discovered: On vacation last week I was cursing with a girl friend and she had Pete Philly and Perquisite in her CD player. She lives in Minneapolis, not a place known for hip hop. Pete Philly and Perquisite call the Netherlands home, also not a place known for hip hop. For some reason their music spoke to the moment. It's not super upbeat, but not down tempo either. Basically the group sounds like Outkast if Outkast listened to a lot of Latin and World music.

Pete Philly and Perquisite are interesting because their hip hop comes from many musical canons. When listening you hear a lot of influences, which is not the case in mainstream hip hop. It's a sad but exciting day when two dudes from the Netherlands create better hip hop music than most artists in American, the birth place of the genre.