Two artists share the name
Timbuktu.1) A rapper from Sweden.2) A rapper from London, Ontario.1) Jason Diakité (born 11 January 1975 in Lund, Sweden), known under the stage name
Timbuktu, is a Swedish rapper.He is from Scania, the southernmost part of Sweden, and raps with a slight scanian accent. Having released four studioalbums and a live album he has firmly established himself as a political rapper, borrowing influences from folk music, American blues as well as music from West Africa and Jamaica. A Tribe Called Quest was
Timbuktu's favourite rap group when he was a kid.
Timbuktu started rapping in the early 1990s, and quickly became very popular in the hip hop scenes of Malmö, Stockholm, and Copenhagen. I...
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