Serbian and Montenegrin hip hop started in the late '80s, with groups such as Cool Green Posse, Who Is The Best and Robin Hood. The music spread slowly until 1995, when the first significant album was released: Da li imaš pravo? by Gru. This release marked the beginning of the first wave of Serbian hip hop, which reached its peak in 1997-98, when many new groups started to break out from the underground: Voodoo Popeye, Full Moon, Straight Jackin, Sunshine, Bad Copy, Monteniggers, Belgrade Ghetto, CYA, 187. Just as the scene was taking off, the flood of new talent slowed to a trickle, probably due to the economic effects of the Kosovo War of 1999, which resulted in only a few hip hop albums released in 1999-2001. However, in 2002 the silence was shown to be temporary with the founding of the Bassivity label, which made Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian hip hop widely available in record stores. Their first release, VIP - Ekipa Stigla, was one of the two albums which marked the beginning of the second wave of Serbian hip hop. The other was BSSST...Tišinčina by the Belgrade group Beogradski Sindikat. The same group also released the highly controversial political single Govedina in late 2002, which greatly aided the popularisation of hip hop in Serbia. Bad Copy are a popular hip-hop group from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, known for their humorous lyrics and catchy slang. ... The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts (a civil war followed by an international war) in the southern Serbian province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia), part of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ... Bassivity Music is a music label which specialises in hip hop, based in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. ... Ekipa Stigla (Serbian Cyrillic: Екипа Стигла) is the title of an album released by the Serbian hip-hop group V.I.P. in 2002. ... BSSST...TiÅ¡inčina (Serbian Cyrillic: ) is the title of an album released by the Serbian hip-hop collective Beogradski Sindikat (Serbian Cyrillic: Београдски Синдикат) in early 2002. ... Beogradski Sindikat (Serbian Cyrillic: Београдски Синдикат, en: Belgrade Syndicate) is a popular eight-member hip-hop collective from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. ... The cover of Govedina Govedina is a single released in 2002, by the Belgrade hip hop group Beogradski Sindikat. ...

Since 2002, Bassivity Music has released many more records and Beogradski Sindikat have followed up their debut with 2005's Svi Zajedno, having founded their own label, Prohibicija, due to their dissatisfaction with Automatik Records. One of the group's members, Škabo, has also released several solo albums. Svi Zajedno (Serbian Cyrillic: Сви Заједно) is the title of an album released by the Serbian hip-hop collective Beogradski Sindikat (Serbian Cyrillic: Београдски Синдикат) in 2005. ... Å kabo (born BoÅ¡ko Ćirković) is a rapper, beatmaker and producer from Belgrade, Serbia. ...

See also

• List of Serbian and Montenegrin hip hop musicians
• List of Serbian and Montenegrin hip hop albums

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External links

• 1389 Records (English)
• 96.co.yu : Serbian Hip Hop Portal (Serbian)
• BalkanXL (Serbian/English)
• Baron (Serbian)
• Bassivity Music (Serbian)
• Beogradski Sindikat (Serbian)
• Beton Liga (Serbian)
• Black in White
• Blokovski (Serbian)
• Carski rez (Serbian)
• Demonio (Serbian)
• Edesi.org (Serbian)
• Fast-Flowz (Serbian/English)
• Gru Official Site (Serbian)
• Hip-HopRS.com from the Serb Republic (Serbian)
• Hip-Hop Serbia (Serbian)
• Marčelo (English)
• Resident Sound Familia (English/Serbian)
• Sizzerb (English)
• Sizzerb Productions (English)
• Škabo Official Site (Serbian)
• Undaground Stage (Serbian)
• The Coming Show (Radio station based in Podgorica(English)