The list of Norwegian rappers or hip hop acts who have found even modest success is short. There’s Madcon, the Paperboys, and then there’s, well, let’s just move on.

Made up of Tshawe Baqwa (Kapricon) and Yosef Wolde-Mariam (Critical), Madcon has released two albums. The second (2007′s So Dark the Con of Man) was bolstered by a cover of a song originally performed in 1967 by The Four Seasons. I started to characterize the duo’s sound myself, but then thought I simply can’t do any better than how Madcon would classify their own music: “[It's] the kind of shit you wanna hear in your speakers.”

This same track is often misidentitifed as the background music in the Adidas 60th Anniversary commercial (below), but that is actually a different Pilooski re-edit of the same cover song by the Four Tops.

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