Radical, clever, complex: pop artist KABEAUSHÉ’s performance is a big, joyful game. The singer, rapper, and producer creates a positively overwhelming and utterly captivating maelstrom of styles and references. From his hometown of Nairobi to his current home in Berlin. From French baroque music to soundtracks and rock to hip-hop and pop. All of this is jarring and yet, at the same time, makes sense when he lets a wide variety of influences from music, film, and painting escalate within his extravagant pop-cultural Gesamtkunstwerk.
UNTITLED 1981, an homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s and Jean-Michel Basquiat's series of paintings. The song itself, a mix of rap and deconstructed gospel, transfers directly to the body when you listen to it.
Words: Birgit Reuther / Biggy Pop,
Translation: Jennifer Mand
