Rapakan - The Hip Hop Adventure
Rapakan - The Hip Hop Adventure
Rapakan - The Hip Hop Adventure
The World's 1st and Only Hip Hop Adventure
The World's 1st and Only Hip Hop Adventure
‘Rapakan – The Hip Hop Adventure’ is a musical project based on the award-winning children’s adventure rhyme ‘Kamakan The Vampire Slug’. A fast-paced, rip-roaring tale fusing tricksy, edge-of-the-seat rhyming with hip hop vibes, scratching, original songs and crazy sound effects.
Brilliantly fusing the worlds of children’s literature, hip hop, rap and rock, ‘Rapakan – The Hip Hop Adventure‘ takes the original rhyming epic and creates a musical experience like no other.
This monster tale has seen its way from illustrated book to live stage show, and is now an adventure like no other. Welcome to ‘Rapakan – The Hip Hop Adventure‘.
It's a great story and everyone loves it, but why Hip Hop?
It's a perfect fit. Being a rhyming story it can be rapped. In fact, it works brilliantly well. It's also quite dark and can be extremely silly so the tone of hip hop suits perfectly.
A demo is available on request. The demo covers the 1st part of the story and is approximately 8 mins long. It's not complete, but it gives a very good impression of how Rapakan can work and it showcases the rapping and sounds effects, and great music. The full musical version of Rapakan will come in at about 60 minutes long. The demo was produced with jazz composer & performer Neil Yates and Wales' leading beat boxer Ed Holden, a.k.a Mr Phormula.
I am trying to find a record label or producer who would like to realise the vision of this project and create something new and extraordinary. You may like an initial trial of the work; call in some rappers and give it a go to see if it has real merit, or, as I truly wish, you really understand the concept, decide to get right behind it and create something truly innovative.
You can email me at authorhuw@gmail.com. I'd be very happy to talk the concept through and see how wild you think Rapakan could be.
See below for an extract from the book for your to rap...
Book Extract
Book Extract
Here's a short extract from the book. Try rapping it and see what you think.
Kamakan Spies Jonni - uh ohhhhhh!
Kamakan Spies Jonni - uh ohhhhhh!
But there’s something rotten at the bottom.
No creature dare go right down there.
It’s purple and green.
It’s nasty and mean.
It’s favourite treat is children to eat,
with a chomp and a slurp,
a gargantuan burp
and a grin so wide you could fall right inside.
It’s worse than any snake or bug,
It’s Kamakan, the Vampire Slug.
Oh not Kamakan!!
That slimy, stinking, rotten fellow
with evil eyes and fangs all yellow,
a stomach a big he could swallow a pig
and it would be just like I had eaten a fly.
Yes the favourite feast for this ravenous beast
is tender and sweet kiddies to eat.
It didn’t matter a jot to him
if they were too fat or a tad too thin,
he’d gobble them down in two seconds flat
and that would be the end of that!
And what indeed was the terrible plan
Of fat old fiendish Kamakan?
To fly around the world stealing kiddies of course,
then boil them all up in a hot squiddie sauce
with earwigs and maggots and termites aplenty
and slurp from the pot till it was totally empty.
That’s the dastardly plot that this villain was scheming
high in the sky above Jonni Jones’ ceiling.
His black wings unfurled against the full moon,
he soared through darkness and into the gloom.
Sweeping around, watching and thinking.
When he suddenly spied a telescope blinking.
Kamakan’s mouth formed a hideous smile.
It dribbled a trail as long as a mile
of green slimey dribble with flies in the middle
which rained down on cars and restaurants and bars,
burning through bricks with its terrible heat,
making its way towards Mortimer Street.
Jonni gazed through his telescope up at the skies.
His face was awash with fear and surprise.
As he watched the black shape getting bigger and nearer,
poor Jonni’s tummy has never felt queerer.
It jiggled and joggled and told him to run,
it said, ‘Trouble’s here Jonni, shout for your mum.’
But Jonni was frozen with fear so he couldn’t.
He stayed where he was though he knew that he shouldn’t.
Then a huge ugly face appeared in his scope.
a big yellow eye full of evil and hope
fixed upon Jonni alone in his attic,
a little boy frightened, standing totally static…….
Kamakan won the Undiscovered Authors competition for fiction in Wales in 2005
