Rap Meets Indie-Rock, the Metermaids

Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Not since the Beastie Boys has there been another rap group to combinedrock and hip-hop with a touch of old school Motown funk to deliver a much needed change of pace in this cliché rap world. With that said I’d like to introduce you all to the Metermaids.

Unconventional by today’s hip-hop standards, Swell and Sentence’s musical fusion of mash up rock n’ roll alongside gritty break beats and heartfelt lyrics have keep their album Nightlife in the top 20 of the CMJ Hip-Hop chart for five consecutive weeks and have spent nine weeks on the Hip-Hop chart.

With songs like the synthesizer-laced “Feel Alive” and “Funk Terrorist” on their new album Nightlife the duo is establishing quite an underground buzz for themselves.

Listen for yourself. Here’s the video for “Funk Terrorist”

www.metermaidsnyc.com

"Funk Terrorist"