Jason Diakité (born 11 January 1975), known under the stage name Timbuktu, is a Swedish rapper. He is from Skåne, the southernmost part of Sweden, from a city called Lund, and raps with a slight Skåne 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 africaand Jamaica. A Tribe Called Questwas 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.
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