Swiss hip hop is not a genre of hip hop music, but covers all hip hop music from Switzerland. Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music. ...
As French, German and Italian rap, Swiss rap started in the early nineties. Early Swiss German rappers started rapping in English, but after the bilingual track "Murder by Dialect" by P27 featuring Black Tiger, rappers switched to their native Swiss German dialects. Rappers from the French-speaking part (where the traditional dialects died out in most parts) and from the Italian-speaking part (where most people mix dialects and Standard Italian freely) only rap in the standard languages. P-27 are a Swiss rap group from Basel, Switzerland. ... Black Tiger was a videogame developed by the japanese company Capcom at 1987. ...
The European Music Office's report on Music in Europe claimed that Switzerland's hip hop scene is "particularly innovative and advanced", featuring Unik Records (the first European indie rap label) [1].
Swisshiphop is not a genre of hiphop music, but covers all hiphop music from Switzerland.
Early Swiss German rappers started rapping in English, but after the bilingual track "Murder by Dialect" by P27 featuring Black Tiger, rappers switched to their native Swiss German dialects.
The change in both attitude towards hiphop and the move towards home grown expression was in part facilitated by the involvement of Nehanda Abiodun, a U.S. Black Liberation Army activist in political exile in Cuba.
Cuban hiphop takes place within the context of Fidel Castro's maxim "within the revolution everything" which allows for critical debate as long as it isn't seen to be counter-revolutionary.
Fidel was so impressed that he called hiphop "the vanguard of the revolution" and was even seen rapping alongside the group Doble Filo at the opening of a baseball game.
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