RapVerse.com Community - K Illa, you are right.. Hip Hop is black music only dude..

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I don't expect you to read it all, but just skim through and you will see what point I am trying to make to this dick.

In Asia, the Philippines is said to have developed the first hip hop scene in all of Asia and the Pacific islands. The birth of Filipino hip hop music, or Pinoy Rap, occurred in the early 1980s with songs by Dyords Javier ("Na Onseng Delight") and Vincent Dafalong ("Nunal").

In Seoul, the Korean hip hop scene has expanded into a form of cultural phenomenon. Some fans assert that Korean hip hop artists possess skills that can rival their U.S. counterparts. Notable performers include Jo PD, Drunken Tiger, Psy, and Epik High.

New Zealand is said to have one of the best hip hop scenes in the world. It was one of the first countries after the USA to have success in hip hop. New Zealand hip-hop scene has an unwritten, though generally apparent rivalry with it's Australian counterpart. This rivalry is highlighted by the annual (but discontinued) Australia Vs New Zealand: MC Battle For Supremacy.

Israel's hip hop grew greatly in popularity at the end of the decade, with several stars emerging from both sides of the Palestinian (Tamer Nafer) and Jewish (Subliminal) divide; though some, like Mook E., preached peace and tolerance, others expressed nationalist and violent sentiments.

The first rap group to become well known in Iceland was Quarashi.

In the late 1990s many hip hop artists were gaining an underground following including Roots Manuva and Blak Twang. Since the year 2000 acts such as The Streets, So Solid Crew, Dizzee Rascal, Goldie Lookin Chain, have enjoyed mainstream success. The popularity of garage musicand grime which also feature emceeing have helped to boost the growth in popularity of UK hip hop. Other notable UK rappers include Lady Sovereign, Braintax, Jehst and Sway.

Hip hop first appeared in France in 1979, just as the genre was achieving some success in the US. By 1982, a number of hip hop radio stations had appeared, including Rapper Dapper Snapper, and the future star DJ Dee Nasty made his first appearance. That same year saw the first major hip hop concert, the New York City Rap Tour, sponsored by Europe 1 and featuring Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmixer DST, Fab 5 Freddy, Mr Freeze and the Rock Steady Crew.

Germany, for example, produced the well-known Optik Army and it's frontman Kool Savas as well as several other rap combos like Aggro Berlin, Ersguterjunge, Fettes Brot, Amstaff or Shok Muzik. Also several solo artists like Samy Deluxe or Azadare known across Europe.

Swedish hip hop emerged in the mid 1980s and by the early 1990s a lot of "ethnic Swedish acts" like Looptroop, "immigrant acts" like The Latin Kings and mixed acts like Infinite Mass switched from English to rapping in "Rinkeby Swedish", a pidgin language of sorts, when they were making records for the domestic market.

In Ireland the most famous rapper is DJ Collie along with Craz-e, B-Wonder and groups like Man against machine. Ireland also has its own hip hop magazine called "Rap Ireland", which is owned by Kev Storrs alongside DJ Frank Jez of FM104 and Tim Dogg. Also on the urban brand are DJ Ahmed, DJ Tando and DJ Mo-K.

In Poland hip-hop is among the most popular music styles and artists such as Kazik and Liroy who emerged in the early 1990s has been at the forefront of Polish music business. Nowadays, hip-hop has diversified and came out of the shadow to take a larger chunk of the mainstream music scene with rappers such as OSTR, WWO, Vienio, Gural, Pezet, Tede, Pokahontaz, Abradab and independent music labels producing different sounds in hip-hop in many Polish cities.

The Netherlands' most famous early rappers were The Osdorp Posse, an all-white crew from Amsterdam, and The Postmen, from Cape Verde and Suriname. In recent years, hip hop artists of Moroccan ancestry such as Ali B and Raymzter have been both commercially successful and highly culturally influential.

Italy found its own rappers, including Jovanotti and Articolo 31, grow nationally renowned, while the Polish scene began in earnest early in the decade with the rise of PM Cool Lee. Opee has recently emerged into the French-speaking world as a major star from Romandy (French-speaking Switzerland).

In Romania, B.U.G. Mafia came out of Bucharest's Pantelimon neighborhood, and their brand of gangsta rap underlines the parallels between life in Romania's Communist-era apartment blocks and in the housing projects of America's ghettos.

Albania and Kosovo have been a revolution in the hip-hop industry in Europe. Rap bands like The Bloody Alboz, Etno Engjujt, WNC, 2Po2, Double G Army, Tingulli 3, DMC, Rudi and others have striven to portray the real Albanian attitude of today.

Serbia is one of the better known rap states in Europe, thanks to the rap group Beogradski sindikat (The Belgrade syndicate). They, first of all, represent their neighborhood Dorcol (Gornji, Donji Dorcol, Sipka (uCAzaKInje), Maj), and Belgrade, as one of the biggest cities in Europe.

Bosnia has famous rappers like Edo Maajka, Frenkie, Univerzalni Vojnici, etc. Edo Maajka is the one of best known rappers from the Balkans. He has a lot of songs about the Bosnian-War and about the situation in Bosnia now. Frenkie is a nationalist rapper in Bosnia and is a member of BH Fanaticos. In Croatia, rap became very popular in the late 1990s with the rise of Tram 11, Bolesna Braca and other rappers who focused on social issues.

Bulgaria during the late '90s saw the formation of the crews "Amnistia" and "Rubber Heads" (Gumeni Glavi), the latter of which included Misho Shamara, Dreben G, Konsa and more. "Rubber Heads"'s label was called R'nB and was very popular. They even had their own clothing line. In 2000 another Bulgarian hip hop label was created and it was called Sniper Records, including famous names like Spens, DJ Stancho, Slim, Shosho and more.

Neighbor Greece caught on the Hip Hop train by the early 90s, too. These days, groups like Goin' Through dominate the mainstream (being signed to the legendary hip hop label Def Jam), while Thessalonian pioneer Sifu VERSUS is among the top names of the underground (notably being one of the very few Greek hip hop artists to expand his career out of Greece).

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So yeah, in closing K Illa.... SUCK DICK and stop talking about shit you have no clue about you simple minded tit.