God Knows Limerick hip-hop is thriving

Is this the best hip-hop album of 2014, midway through the year?

Since its release, at the beginning of the summer, Rusangano/ Family was acclaimed ‘underground’, until it reached the ears of Snoop Dogg, who invited its performers, God Knows and mynameisjOhn, to support him at his recent date in Dublin. However, God Knows and Mynameisjohn have localised ambitions.

“This is very much where music is in Limerick right now at the moment, or even the west of Clare, and all the people that are around us, we’re all into the same type of music. We’re all pushing towards the same direction,” says Mynameisjohn, the alias of beat junkie and producer, John Lillis.