Review: Mapei – The Cocoa Butter Diaries
Mapei’s Cocoa Butter Diaries is an interesting mix of hip hop, jazz, and house music. The Swedish rapper combines her cleverly astute rhymes with technotic hip-hop beats. It’s definitely something you could jam to at a rave. But it also makes you think, with lyrics like, “We can say what’s on our minds/But if we say what’s on our minds we might get fined/One hit two hit, push a man please/If we don’t push units we then we might push trees.” Mapei uses rhymes that are in no way simple, like much of hip hop today. She comes up with verses that most rappers would never even think of. Even when she discusses sex in her music, like in Leader of the Pack, as can be expected in rap music, it does so in a brilliantly metaphorical way. Mapei is a true individual and a great musician.
