History
According to some accounts, the roots of Slovenian hip hop can be traced back to 1978, but all rappers from that time were forgotten or disappeared. What remains of this early history is preserved in little-circulated album releases. The mid-1980s were marked as the breakthrough of rap music in Slovenia. Hip hop dancing in Slovenia is sometimes called "Čefur" dance (derogatory term for southerner Slavic people). Ali-En released the first rap album, that immediately became a classic, in 1994.
In 1997, rap duo Dandrough released Ko pride Bog ('when God comes'). The next few years there was a small hole in the hip hop scene, with only a couple of albums released up until 2000. Hip hop culture was heavily popularized by Slovenian Olympic champion skier Jure Košir, who also released an album Kartelova teorija (eng: Cartel Theory) with his crew Pasji Kartel (eng: Dog Cartel) in 1998. Klemen Klemen released one of the most influential mainstream Slovenian hip hop albumsTrnow Stajl (eng: Trnovo Style) on Menart Records. At about the same time, Radyoyo: Za narodov Blagor - 5'00" of fame, the first compilation of Slovenian hip hop music was released, including various new and unknown rappers on the scene.
Jure Košir is a former Slovenian alpine skier.
Menart Records is a slovenian full-service record label with partner companies also in Croatia and Serbia.
In 2001, the first Slovenian freestyle rap championship was organized, launching rapper 6pack Čukur, who placed 2nd, into the mainstream. The competition became a tradition and has been held every second year since then. The next year rap duo Murat & Jose released V besedi je moč, which became one of the most successful rap albums in Slovenia and Southern Europe. The following year's freestyle championship spawned 2 champions - Trkaj, an alternative rapper and N'toko - who both went on to release albums through Nika Records.
Slovenian Freestyle Battle Championship, commonly called just National Championship in Freestyle Battle, is a competition in Slovenia bringing rappers from all over the country to compete in freestyle battles. There is also an additional version of such competition that runs concurrently and has a longer history, but instead of using classical insulting battles, rappers are tested with various topics, given words, hidden objects and character plays that must all be inserted in their rapping.
Murat & Jose are a Slovene hip hop duo of writers, producers and MC. Both were born in 1978 in Ljubljana, Slovenia where they still live. Together with Nikolovski they performed for some time under the name Nedotakljivi. Together they published one of their first releases on the first Slovene hip hop compilation 5'00" of Fame za narodov blagor.
Trkaj is a rapper from Slovenia. He is a student of Theology. He won the Slovenian Freestyle Championship back in 2003 along with fellow rapper N'toko.
The most productive years for Slovenian hip hop were 2004–2006, spawning more albums than all years before that together. Though the quality oscillated from album to album, mostly because of the unofficial releases - noting that the demo scene produced better tracks.
Dutch hip hop or Nederhop, is hip hop music created by musicians in the Netherlands and Flanders.
Latin hip hop or Latin rap is hip hop music recorded by Latin American artists in the U.S. and Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean, Central American and South America.
West Coast hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originate in the West Coast region of the United States. The gangsta rap subgenre of West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records.
Salt-N-Pepa are an American hip-hop trio from New York City, New York. The group, consisting of Cheryl James ("Salt"), Sandra Denton ("Pepa") and originally Latoya Hanson, who was replaced in 1987 by Deidra Roper, was formed in 1985 and was one of the first all-female rap groups. The group won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. They are also one of the first female rap groups.
Korean hip hop, also known as K-hip hop, is a subgenre of hip hop music from South Korea. It is widely considered to have originated in the late 1980s and early 1990s and has since become increasingly popular, both in Korea and abroad. In 2016, the Korea Foundation cited Korean hip hop as a new trend in the Korean Wave.
Eyedea & Abilities was an American hip hop duo from Saint Paul, Minnesota, consisting of rapper Eyedea and DJ Abilities. The duo was founded in 1999 and became a prominent figure of the underground hip hop scene, becoming known for Eyedea's philosophical and socially conscious lyrics, along with DJ Abilities' dynamic experimental fusion of stylistic elements from both rap and rock, as well as electronic music. The group was active until Eyedea's death in October 2010.
Popular Hungarian hip hop is popular among the inner city/urban population in Hungary. Performers include a gangsta rap pioneer, Ganxsta Zolee, his local fellow Dopeman, L.L. Junior and Sub Bass Monster.
The hip hop scene in Chicago, Illinois, has produced many artists of various styles. Famous rappers in Chicago include Twista, Lupe Fiasco, SEVENSIXX, Bump J, Rhymefest, Chief Keef, Chance the Rapper, Lil Durk, King Louis, Da Brat, Shawnna, Kanye West, Noname, Fredo Santana, Common, G Herbo, Lil Bibby, Crucial Conflict, Do or Die, Jeremih, Juice WRLD, Psychodrama, Juice, Saba and Lud Foe.
Serbian hip hop refers to all genres of hip hop music in the Serbian language. The term is also sometimes used to refer to any hip hop music made by Serbs, including instrumental hip hop, as well as rap songs by members of the Serbian diaspora, often in languages other than Serbian. Beogradski Sindikat is considered to be the greatest Serbian hip hop group, along with others like VIP, Sunshine, CYA. Popular solo artists include Skabo, Ikac, Reksona, Juice, Gru, Struka, Ajs Nigrutin, and Marchelo.
Midwest hip hop is a regional genre of hip hop music performed by artists from the Midwestern United States. In contrast with its East Coast, West Coast and Southern counterparts, Midwest hip hop has very few constants in style or production.
Scottish hip-hop is the regional manifestation of the British hip hop culture in Scotland, comprising the five elements of MCing, DJing, beatboxing, graffiti and b-boying.
European hip hop is hip hop music created by European musicians. Hip hop is a style of music developed by African American and Caribbean communities in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. Due to this success, it has gained worldwide popularity, especially in Europe where many diverse and unique styles of hip hop have been created. This diversity is especially apparent in the forms of hip hop music and culture emanating from settler communities from Europe's former colonies and peripheries.
Asian hip hop is a heterogeneous musical genre that covers all hip hop music as recorded and produced by artists of Asian origin.
Miha Blažič, better known by his stage name N'toko, is a Slovenian rapper and lead vocalist of Moveknowledgement.
He is well known for his socially critical lyrics, which gave him acclaim in the underground Slovenian hip-hop scene. He is also one of the best freestylers in Slovenian scene, yet he freestyles and writes in English as well, what is more, he is known to never have lost a battle, whether it was in Slovenian or English. Later ability comes from lifetime experiences, since he lived in United States during his youth.
Pakistani hip hop is a music genre in Pakistan influenced heavily from merging American hip hop with Pakistani poetry. The genre was initially dominated by English and Punjabi, but in recent years has expanded to Urdu, Sindhi and Pashto. The lyrical expression of cultural identity, with lyrics addressing Pakistan's political and social problems, make hip hop a popular and growing genre in the country.
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the late 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, and rhythmic beatboxing. While often used to refer solely to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.
The term Hip hop as used to define the music genre came later, nobody including the African American pioneers who invented the art, the music, the rhymes and the dances in the Bronx, New York in the beginning were calling it Hip hop, in the Bronx people used to call it B-Beat Music that depended also on where in the Bronx you lived.
PackFM is an American Underground hip hop artist and producer from Brooklyn, New York City. As a teenager in the mid-1990s, PackFM began his battle career, winning numerous prestigious freestyle titles. These wins include the 88HipHop MC Battle Champion, where he was inducted into their Hall of Fame after four undefeated months, Braggin Rites tournament in 1999, Everlast Harlem Lyricist Championship in 2003, and three undefeated months in the 24 Hour MC Battle sponsored by TDK.
Mišel Ristov, better known by his stage name Amo often prolonged to Amo Socialec, is a Slovenian rapper, writer, slam poet actor and an entrepreneur from Ptuj, Slovenia.
Croatian hip hop is a genre of music, and a culture that covers a variety of styles of hip hop music made in Croatia. Croatian hip hop was originally influenced by the American hip hop scene and introduced to Croatia in the mid 1990s. Croatian hip hop, particularly that originating from Rijeka and Zagreb in the 1990s, was mainly concentrated on social issues due to the corruptive system of government at the time. In the 2000s, Croatian hip hop started becoming more mainstream and it spread to Split developing its own hip hop style.
