Timbuktu

Artist Name: Timbuktu
Genre: Fusion
Country: Sweden


Jason Michael Robinson Diakité (born 11 January 1975), known under the stage name Timbuktu, is a Swedish rapper and reggae artist. He was raised in Chile and Sweden. He sings primarily in Scanian Swedish, and occasionally in English. He has released four albums and is firmly established as a political rapper, frequently borrowing influences from folk music, American blues as well as West Africaan and Jamaican music.Timbuktu began rapping in the early 1990s, and quickly became very popular in the hip hop scenes of Lund, Malmö, Copenhagen and Stockholm. In the mid-90s he formed the group Excel with a Danish rapper. In 2000, his first album, T2: Kontrakultur ("T2: Counter Culture"), was released, produced by Breakmecanix. The double album includes one disc with tracks in English and the other in Swedish. While recording T2, Timbuktu toured with Petter and Thomas Rusiak. He has also recorded with members of Looptroop and Snook.