Rap mongol (which means "retarded rap" in French) is a term coined by the Peruvian-Quebecer rapper Ugoboss (also known under his Frenchified alias Ugolepatron) to describe his crew GANGSTER & GENTLEMAN RECORDS INC.'s sound, doing a reference that people make fun at them very often, to the point that they're being part of the French Internet culture. The instrumentals are weird and threatening, the influences are queens rap (Roi Heenok used to live in the Queensbridge projects and even made an instrumental for Imam Thug on an early DJ Whoo Kid mixtape), and early g-rap, and even arab traditional music, like George Wassouf and Umm Kulthum. Common subjects are Frenchification (bling-bling = brille-brille, bitch nigga = pute nègre), occultism, satanism, foreign dictatorships ("Should I import more cocaine, more cocaine, like my friend Hugo Chavez?", "Saddam Hussein, I love the way he walks backwards, this is my dream", "Israelite, Arab and Nazi, and if I were French I would vote Nicolas Sarkozy" "I'm supporting the Iranian nuclear programm", etc., but you can't really tell they have a clear political line, being often contradictory). Some French people consider trap muzik as rap mongol, or even Morsay and his Truand 2 La Galère crew, but these artists don't really share anything in common with rap mongol, except the gangster subjects, and the "retarded" spirit. The closest rappers to Gangster & Gentleman's sound are Maze Le Patron (who is in beef with G&G), Alkpote, Seth Gueko, 25G and maybe Butter Bullets. Not to confuse with cocaino rap music, a term coined by Roi Heenok to describe his sound while rapping over 80's influented beats (he sampled Boy George and Michael Jackson as well as Joy Division and Phil Collins), "cocaino" being a reference to the 80's being called the "cocaine decade", as well as a reference to his lyrics subjects.
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