Gatas Parlament

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Gatas Parlament
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Background information
Also known asKveldens Høydepunkt
Origin Oslo, Norway
Genres Hip hop
Years active1993 to present
LabelsTee Productions
MembersElling (Elling Borgersrud)
Jester (Alex Molkom)
Past membersAslak Borgersrud
Don Martin
Website Homepage

Gatas Parlament (English: Parliament of the Street) is a Norwegian group of rap artists. It currently consists of artists Elling Borgersrud and Jester. The group was the first to release a hiphop-recording in their native language, Norwegian. [1] [2] All current and former members have strong left-leaning political views, and make their feelings on many things, including American president George W. Bush, a common motif in their lyrics.

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Elling Borgersrud has stood for national election as a minor political candidate for the Red Electoral Alliance. [3]

History

Gatas Parlament started out in 1993, taking the name Kveldens Høydepunkt (Highlight of the Evening). Don Martin did not take to the name, however, and thus it was dropped. Later, they attended a public speech by Carl I. Hagen, the chairman of the right-wing party Fremskrittspartiet, where they threw eggs and rotten fruit at Hagen. This caused Hagen to comment that gatens parlament ruled the country, and the three rappers stuck with the name (the riksmål-wording of gaten was dropped for gata, more fitting for their sociolect).

The band caused controversy in Norway with their video "Antiamerikansk Dans" (Anti-American Dance) together with the Swedish rap artist Promoe and their website killhim.nu ("Kill him Now"), which claimed to collect money for a bounty on the head of George W. Bush. The campaign caused the American embassy in Norway to react, and prompted a Secret Service and Norwegian Police investigation into the band. [4] The website was subsequently shut down. The case was dropped after months of controversy in Norwegian and European media.

During 2007 Gatas Parlament launched a collaboration with Hopalong Knut, a ska band from Trondheim which uses trønder dialect. When the two groups perform together, they call themselves Samvirkelaget (English: the workers' cooperative).

In 2011 founding member Aslak Borgersrud (brother of Elling Borgersrud) quit the band to pursue other interests and was replaced with Jester (Alex Molkom), who had been working as a producer and guest rapper for the band for years. Don Martin left the band in 2015 with some controversy after a period focusing on solo projects.

Solo projects of members

Discography

Albums

EPs

Street records

Singles

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References

  1. ↑ Parlament, BeatZone-Gatas. "Gatas Parlament - BeatZone.eu". beatzone.eu.
  2. ↑ Rockheim. "Gatas Parlament « Norsk pop- og rockleksikon (2013) « Rockipedia". Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  3. ↑ Statistics Norway (2005). "Storting Election 2005. Official electoral lists, by county". Storting Election 2005. Archived from the original on 2007-07-02. Retrieved 2007-04-17.
  4. ↑ "Gatas Parlament vs George W Bush". 7 October 2016.
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