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Playdoe

D. Boone, the late lead singer of The Minutemen, a 1980s punk band from Southern California, once said, “punk is whatever we made it to be.” That music can be more about attitude than sound may also be said of Playdoe, a South African hip-hop group from Johannesburg.
Playdoe is difficult to describe in standard hip hop terms. The group lacks the gangsta bravado of NWA, and has none of the political urgency of Public Enemy. There’s no Wu-Tang Clan brashness and little of the slick, polished production of Jay-Z or Kanye West. Don’t expect smooth lyrical flow like Common, or DJ mastery at the level of Mix Master Mike or DJ Premier.
Their music is best described as techno-rap with a little Crunk and Miami Bass thrown in for good measure. It’s fresh, celebratory and fun, not unlike the dance-ready rap sounds of the mid-80s, but re-tooled for the global, internet generation. They describe themselves as “Neolectro Afrobotic Ethnotechno Mamas Boys”.

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