Taconafide is a duet of two Polish, young and really capable rappers. Taco Hemingawy, Quebonafide and their recipes for success. Combined forces create Soma 0.5 mg, signed with the same alias Taconafide. Reliable, solid, calculated robot.
I feel like a millionaire from the ghetto / Because my little town is a favela, says Quebonafide. Well, that you have no money / Because you would spend everything on clothes - says Taco Hemingway. Szok, a millionaire from a mongrel a year, a millionaire from a mongrel in a year. I live as if I won a lottery - they both add to it. They're always on hajsach, but is there anything weird about it?
Not really, considering that in the recent years gentlemen have grown up quite quickly - all Taco releases listen to young pelicans, and Quebonafide sold the most records in the Polish music business last year. Along with the cash register came more problems, as you can hear from the texts contained on the Soma 0.5 mg disc, although in the final end they admit - I like the life you live in, I do not pray for a miracle, oh no.
Well, if such a rap life, Soma 0.5 mg must emanate wealth.
But this is only one page. The record tells about the dark sides of success, the loss of anonymity, the countrymen, who now, when you have money, are nice to you, about loneliness, about depression. Taco reports in a characteristic way, Quebonafide adds a note of melancholy.
The promotion of the Soma 0.5 mg album, with 4 singles and two pretty music videos, was exemplary. Among young listeners, tacomania turned into taconaphidomania, in the home market it is in vain to look for an equally attractive duo (in the musical sense, it is not about the camera). Then it turns out that thanks to a clever treatment, the guys will get a lower VAT rate. The album, or rather a "collaborative publishing house", took the form of a book.
The guys are winding about the box office, they are playing in high-budget music videos, and on the album they have a piece called "Ekodiesel". With the same slogan their concert tour is signed, which will start in April.
Case? Of course, I do not think so.
Here, I start to wonder how much this album is an artistic work / artistic message (as he called, so he wrote, delete unnecessary), and how much a meticulously thought out and planned marketing creation. And not to be - I do not criticize. It's good that Polish musicians are looking for more ways to monetize their work - sponsors, product placement, etc. Such practices are not popular in other countries. The only problem I have is that Soma 0.5 mg, despite its hit, somehow does not quite convince me.
Maybe it's the accumulation of trivialities and truisms that I can still hear in my head.
I know, I know you do not want to know me, I know / I'm following you in dreams again, but you're gone, there's no room in my heart, I do not have a chance, and there's an autotune. However, there is nothing to complain about - the whole is very pleasant to listen to, all the more so because a whole range of talented producers has been involved in the production, diversifying the individual numbers with individual accents. Still - too much cold calculation here, too little imaginativeness.