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Encyclopedia > Swiss hip hop

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].


See also

// Crews and rappers from the Romandie (French-speaking part) LAge Béni Attaque à Main Armée Averse de Soleil Brotherhood of Creation Double Pact Stress Esprit de Family Legal Sens Unik Dynamike Silent Majority Crews, rappers, DJs and producers from the German-speaking part Anna Baze Big Zis Black...

External links

  • http://www.realhiphop.ch/pages/groupesa.htm
World hip hop

African - Albanian - Algerian - American - Angolan - Arabian - Asian - Australian - Austrian - Azerbaijani - Bahraini - Belgian - Bosnian and Herzegovinan - Botswana - Brazilian - British - Bulgarian - Canadian - Cape Verdean - Chinese - Congolese - Cuban - Czech - Danish - Dominican - Dutch - Egyptian - European - Filipino - Finnish - French - Gambian - German - Ghanaian - Greek - Greenlandic - Guinean - Hong Kong - Hungarian - Icelandic - Indian - Indonesian - Irish - Israeli - Italian - Ivoirian - Japanese - Kenyan - Korean - Latin American - Lebanese - Malagasy - Malaysian - Malian - Mexican - Moroccan - Native American - Nepalese - New Zealand - Nigerian - Nigerien - Norwegian - Polish - Portugese - Puerto Rican - Romanian - Russian - Rwandan - Senegalese - Serbian - Singaporean - Slovak - Slovenian - Somali - South African - Spanish - Swedish - Swiss - Taiwanese - Tanzanian - Togolese - Turkish - Ugandan - Ukrainian - Zimbabwean Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music. ... Hip hop music has been popular in Africa since the early 1980s due to widespread American influence. ... Arabic hip hop is the hip hop music and culture originating in the Arabic-speaking world. ... Hip hop is quite a new style of music for Bosnia and Herzegovina, but it has nevertheless proven very popular. ... The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinsasha, has long been a major home for pan-African styles of popular music like rumba, soukous and kwassa kwassa. ... Ivoirian hip hop is a major part of the popular music of Côte dIvoire, and has been fused with many of the countrys native styles, such as zouglou. ... Latin rap is not a homogeneous musical style but rather a term that covers all hip hop music recorded by Latinos, as in Chicano Rap, Hip Hop Latino, and Hip Hop en espanol. ... Native American hip hop is popular among Native Americans in the United States and the First Nations of Canada. ... Portuguese hip hop (Hip hop português) mostly known as Hip Hop Tuga is the Portuguese variety of hip hop music, although different because it is mixed with African music from Lusophone Africa and reggae. ... Serbian and Montenegrin hip hop started in the late 80s, with groups such as Cool Green Posse, Who Is The Best and Robin Hood. ... Artists Dog G L.A. Boyz MC HotDog Machi TTM Categories: Music stubs | Taiwanese music | World hip hop ...


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Swiss hip hop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (184 words)
Swiss hip hop is not a genre of hip hop music, but covers all hip hop 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.
Swiss - Taiwanese - Tanzanian - Togolese - Turkish - Ugandan - Ukrainian - Zimbabwean
Cuban hip hop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1059 words)
The change in both attitude towards hip hop 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 hip hop 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 hip hop "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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