Music Task

I will explain my experience about, what I think to be one of the most famous style of music among young people in Finland, Finnish rap. In this case, I will talk about the Finnish Rap group of Nost3 & Protro.

To introduce the band, Vilho "Nost3" Ihaksi and Tero "Protro" Vesalainen are from Kouvola in the southern of Finland, one hour and a half from Helsinki with car. They became famous from publishing their songs in Youtube, those had an ironic humor, after that they started gaining importance and they made songs with another famous singers of Internet. Nowadays, in their Youtube channel they have videos with more than five milion views.

My story started the night of Tursajaiset, it was on a Wednesday and I have been participating during all the afternoon in few activities around Kokkola organized by COPSA (a organization of students in Centria university). The activities went from trying to make a photo in which a list of objects should appear to making a performance that made any sense. After that, they organized a party in the Calle Night Club and there they would say the winners of the Tursajaiset.

After giving the awards, the Finnish Rap group started the concert. All the Fins in the club knew, or at least had heard of Nost3 & Protro before, but for me, like an exchange student, I didn't know who were these two youngsters. I didn't understand any word of the lyrics because they only sing in Finnish but I could enjoy the music and the rhymes. After that night I could find the group on Internet and some songs of them in Youtube and I could understand that some of their songs talk about the climate changing or the homophobia.

In conclusion the group was really nice and I had a lot of fun that night although I didn't understand any of their songs.